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Witch Trial Phenomena. In important respects, the great witch hunts began with the
invention of the stereotypical witch in texts by professional demonologists. ...
... New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials, by ... The fast trial for witchcraft
was held in June ... Carlson writes, "create explanations for phenomena they do ...
... people were not given a fair trial until months ... During the witch trials, children
are acting unusual and ... An example of this phenomena is when Marry Warren is ...
... social values; to explain or control terrified phenomena; to give ... from 1450 to 1700
was know as the witch craze ( Eliade ... Women and men, put on trial once had a ...
... the record of the witchcraft phenomena at Salem ... Using contemporary accounts and the
trial documents, Hansen ... problem, hysteria, attributed to the witch trials. ...
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In important respects, the great witch hunts began with the invention of the stereotypical witch in texts by professional demonologists. Prior to the publication of these texts, there was already widespread belief in magic both harmless and malicious. But not until the practice of magic became a religious warfare between God and his enemy the devil did community concerns about the practice of magic evolve into the desperate, sadistic trials that occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the idea that witchcraft was a reality rather than a myth suddenly made a comeback. Trials of individual witches in early modern Europe always began with specific accusations brought against a supposed witch by one or more of her neighbours.
When the printing press was invented, writings could be distributed around Europe. The first and most significannot
written ideas of witchcraft available to a majority of people was the Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) written by Sprenger and Kramer in 1486. The document made an important contribution to the widespread witch hunt. Sprenger and Kraemer proclaimed that not believing in the reality of witches was heresy. Sprenger and Kramer informed secular authorities to fight witches by any means necessary.
It was followed by other texts that described, often in great detail, the alleged practices of witches, or that outlined the procedures for conducting a trial of a witch. These texts created some of main aspects of wild beliefs of witches that permeated Europe for two centuries: that witches had deviant sex with one another and with the devil, that they interfered in natural reproduction, that they caused death and disease and other natural occurrences such as storms and that they turned away from their Christian faith. In short that they threatened every form of religious and secular order.
Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the seven deadly sins had...
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