Witches Context

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  • 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?
    • 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.
    • Witches did magic with their bodies.

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