Why did witch trials increase in the 16th and 17th centuries?
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- Economic problems
- Why did witchcraft trials increase in the 16th and 17th centuries?
- Mass Hysteria
- Witch hunts began in 1640's
- Matthew Hopkins=Witch finder general
- Witch hunts began in 1640's
- Misogyny
- Women seen as inferior
- Old women seen as a bruden
- Old women often isolated, widowed and poor
- Old women seen as a bruden
- Women seen as easily tempted by the devil
- Easy target
- Women seen as inferior
- Old women seen as a bruden
- Old women often isolated, widowed and poor
- Old women seen as a bruden
- Women seen as inferior
- Easy target
- Women seen as inferior
- Religious change
- 1500's lots of religious change
- Huge belief in the devil
- Good life=Heaven
- 1500's lots of religious change
- Good life=Heaven
- Puritans took the bible literally
- Good life=Heaven
- Good life=Heaven
- Printed material
- Ideas spread easier
- Many more leaflets about witches
- Political change
- Tudors wanted good law and order
- War of the Roses
- Disagreeing would seem suspicious
- Tudors wanted good law and order
- Mass Hysteria
- Increases suspition
- Enclosures
- Envy
- Rising prices
- Envy
- High unemployment
- Why did witchcraft trials increase in the 16th and 17th centuries?
- Tudors wanted good law and order
- War of the Roses
- Insecure monarchs
- Henry VIII (1507-47)
- People followed the crowd
- James I (1603-25)
- James I had a personal interest in witches
- He wrote a book about witches
- James I had a personal interest in witches
- James I (1603-25)
- People followed the crowd
- James I (1603-25)
- James I had a personal interest in witches
- He wrote a book about witches
- James I had a personal interest in witches
- Political change
- Disagreeing would seem suspicious
- Henry VIII (1507-47)
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