Witchcraft of the 1600

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Witchcraft of the 1600s
Harry August Steve Elkington Sam Capolongo
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Background Info

• Even though witchcraft as such was practiced
  mainly by experienced old women, men also
  practiced it.
• Witches were the mediators between the human
  beings and the mysterious super powers such as
  spirits and angels
• The witches prayed to the higher powers or the
  spirits for help and guidance in resolving the
  problem by performing certain rituals and the
  whole process was called witchcraft.

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More Background Info

• Witchcraft, an earth based religion, was
  practiced in almost all the societies and
  cultures across the world according to local
  beliefs and traditions.
• It dates 40,000 years back to Paleolithic period,
  proved by the discovery of cave paintings which
  are estimated to be 30,000 years old.
• The word Witchcraft has been derived from the
  word Wicca which means the wise one.

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•  Witchcraft has been seen as a magical
  phenomenon, a pagan worship or religion, sorcery,
  and others, at different periods in Witchcraft
  History.
• People suspected as witches were usually burned
  at stakes, and those pleading their innocence
  were either stoned to death or even sometimes
  thrown in water to prove their innocence. 
• Witches usually faced severe and painful deaths
  or punishments.

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Decline of Prosecutions

• Legal treatment of witchcraft, both the laws and
  court procedure, became extremely harsh and most
  of the time fatal.
• Amount of physical suffering in a society and the
  methods prescribed by that society to deal with
  it too many deaths.

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Decline of Prosecutions

• Changes in medical knowledge (how unfortunate
  things happen. Ex. Diseases and such)
• To blame a witch was to explain misfortune in
  personal terms. As such it competed with other
  explanations.

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A Johann Albrecht Adelgrief Agnes Olmans Marigje Arriens B Angéle de la Barthe Mary Bateman Agnes Bernauer Bessie Dunlop Merga Bien Lasses Birgitta Bridget Bishop Giovanna Bonanno Sidonia von Borcke George Burroughs C Anne de Chantraine Michée Chauderon Nyzette Cheveron Elizabeth Clarke Giles Corey Martha Corey Helena Curtens D Jean Delvaux (monk) Elizabeth of Doberschütz Dorothee Elisabeth Tretschlaff Thomas Doughty (explorer) Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis E Mary Eastey Anna Eriksdotter F Pappenheimer Family Matteuccia de Francesco G Jeane Gardiner Gilles Garnier Gertrud Skomagers Ann Glover Peronne Goguillon G cont. Anna Göldi Sarah Good Urbain Grandier Bertrand Guilladot H Walpurga Hausmannin Katharina Henot Henry Gardinn Adrienne d'Heur Ann Hibbins Janet Horne Elin i Horsnäs Elizabeth Howe J George Jacobs, Sr. Johanne Jensens Johanne Thomes John Fian Margaret Jones (Puritan midwife) Märet Jonsdotter Johannes Junius K Ursula Kemp Kirsti Sörensdotter Anna Koldings Kolgrim Christenze Kruckow L Leatherlips Leonora Dori M Margery Jourdemayne, "the Witch of Eye" Margherita di San Rocco Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau Susannah Martin Malin Matsdotter Petronilla de Meath La Voisin N Northamptonshire witch trials Rebecca Nurse N cont. Lisbeth Nypan O Ole Nypan P Anne Palles Alice Parker (Salem) Mary Parker Maria Pauer Anne Pedersdotter Pendle witches Elisabeth Plainacher Polissena of San Macario John Proctor Ann Pudeator Marketta Punasuomalainen R Wilmot Redd Catherine Repond Roger Bolingbroke Jón Rögnvaldsson S Agnes Sampson Anna Schnidenwind Soulmother of Küssnacht Gyde Spandemager Maren Spliid Stedelen T Mechteld ten Ham W Agnes Waterhouse Thomas Weir Sarah Wildes John Willard Witches of Belvoir Witches of Warboys Y Alse Young Z Barbara Zdunk Zhang Liang (Tang Dynasty) Anna Zippel Brita Zippel
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Demonstration of Accusations