Witches
- Created by: mattisrenee
- Created on: 18-01-15 13:57
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- Witches
- Daemonologie, written by James I, supports the practice of witch-hunting.
- famine
- looking for a scapegoat
- women over 50
- increase of printing press
- social change= more people falling out
- Matthew Hopkins 'Witchfinder General' accused witches from 1645-47
- The Bible portrays women as 'manipulated as the devil'
- 'Swimming test': Sink=innocent Float=guilty
- 1200-Pope Gregory IX authorised killing of witches
- had familiars that sucked blood
- mainly women
- economic problems
- workship devil
- no men to protect women-English Civil War
- bad harvest
- torture was illegal so Matthew used sleep deprivation
- Henry VIII made witchcraft illegal
- Hopkins released a book in 1647 called 'The Discovery of Witches
- media
- women were below men in society
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