Witches Context
- Created by: dan.aviss
- Created on: 14-10-17 13:54
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- Misconceptions of witches in Shakespeare's time.
- Never burned, only hanged.
- No torture during interrogations.
- Witch Hunts directed mostly at elderly women, not young women.
- Confession rarely about sex with daemons but focused on relationship with familiars.
- Familiars are apparently drawn to the lower half of the body
- By LMB giving up breast milk she is refusing to feed her child, virtually murdering in Shakespeare’s time.She imagines feeding something else, her familiar perhaps?
- Familiars are apparently drawn to the lower half of the body
- Didn’t use herbal remedies but charms drawn from old catholicism.
- Two well known charms of Shakespeare’s time were the Longinus Charm and The five wounds charm.
- Macbeth reconfigures all charming to be deceptive.
- Charm always means magic,the quasi-****** magic of bewilderment, sleep or reverie.
- Macbeth reconfigures all charming to be deceptive.
- Two well known charms of Shakespeare’s time were the Longinus Charm and The five wounds charm.
- Witches did magic with their bodies.
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