THE EUROPEAN WITCH HUNTS OF 1550-1650 by Hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4 INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS en-us 2016-06-19 17:25:20 UTC 2026-01-09 18:37:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png WHICH TYPE OF WITCH BELIEFS DID EUROPEANS HOLD? nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115079977 They believed that there were different types of witches such as:

The Village Witch are part of a community which offers their services to their local area, whether that be creating good or bad spells which cause misfortune to local people. (LOCAL RIVALRIES)

The Demonic Witch is known to be the most violent and vile ones as they worshipped the devil. They were also known to bring natural disasters, and murder well-known people through their magic. They would meet in groups to plot someone's demise often resorting to flying away to faraway places. 

The Folklore Witch is only known through the village peoples' stories. Not much is known about them as they are only in tales of fantasy. Its a way in which the ellites controlled the poor]]> 2016-06-20 18:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115079977 WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BELIEFS HELD BY THE ELITE AND COMMON PEOPLE AND WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR THE DIFFERENCES? nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115080601 The main difference between the elite and common people was regarding the type of accusation of witchcraft they were accused of. The common people tended to accuse wise women, who's acts stemmed from Paganistic practices which was gathering powers from the Earth to help in their practises. Wise women were main figures in their villages and were highly valued in society, though soon this all changed, these women removed impurities, they took off sorcery, they dealt with infertility and even had cures for impotency.   Whereas the elites made accusations based on diabolism which was worshipping the devil. However, the way the elite viewed witches had been casted down to the common people through the arts and printing of books ('Malleus Maleficarum'), soon even the common people believed that witches had links to the devil. ]]> 2016-06-20 18:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115080601 WHERE DID ALL THESE IDEAS REGARDING THE PACT WITH THE DEVIL, THE SABBATH AND THE ABILITY OF WITCHES TO FLY COME FROM AND HOW WERE THEY FUSED INTO 'THE CUMULATIVE CONCEPT OF WITCHCRAFT?' nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115080830 (The answer is somewhere from the site below)]]> 2016-06-20 18:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115080830 WHAT WAS THE SCEPTICAL TRADITION, WHAT WERE ITS MAIN SOURCES AND WHY WERE THEY NOT ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGE WITCHCRAFT BELIEFS UNTIL THE LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY? nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115081250 2016-06-20 18:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115081250 nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115083607 MALLEUS MALIFICARUM]]> 2016-06-20 18:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115083607 nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115084046 PENDLE EXECUTIONS]]> 2016-06-20 18:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115084046 nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115084399 PENDLE WITCH CHILD]]> 2016-06-20 18:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115084399 SALEM WITCH TRIALS nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115085262 (Apparently, neighbors would accuse each other and some/many would act in certain ways as though they were being possessed/attacked during the trials.)]]> 2016-06-20 19:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115085262 COMMON FORM OF EXECUTION nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115085407 2016-06-20 19:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115085407 BEWARE OF WITCHES nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115085474 2016-06-20 19:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/115085474 ANSWER: jayjayb https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/119015566 Scepticism about witchcraft was just as old as the belief in witchcraft itself. 

There were five main sources of the sceptical tradition. 

The first was classical texts, such as The Golden Ass of Apuleius, and the odes of the Roman poet Horace. These works helped to create a stereotype of the witch, but at the same time they never treated the witch as a real threat. 

Secondly, there was the Canon Episcopi itself, which certainly raised doubts about the reality of nocturnal flight. 

A third source was the writings of Renaissance humanists, who were openly contemptuous of the scholastic mentality 
that gave support to many witch beliefs. Renaissance humanists also revived many of the classical philosophical texts that denied the possibility of human beings attaining any certain knowledge at all. 

Another source of scepticism was a theological tradition that became especially strong among Protestant clergymen which insisted that God Himself, rather than a witch operating with demonic assistance, was the source of all misfortune. 

Finally, in the seventeenth century, a number of philosophers claimed that nature operated like a machine in accordance with immutable laws of nature, thereby excluding any supernatural intervention in the natural world.

" Most theologians, jurists and local magistrates subscribed to the conventional belief in the reality and the danger of the crime. As long as the educated elite believed that the Devil could exercise power in the world, the arguments of the sceptics could be answered. Only in the late seventeenth century did a new breed of sceptic, reflecting new philosophical currents that found no place for the Devil in the natural world, begin to win the day."

]]> 2016-08-20 15:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/119015566 Furthermore... jayjayb https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/119018365 The Malleus Maleficarum
 is one of the most famous medieval treatises on witches. Its main purpose was to challenge all arguments against the existence of witchcraft and to instruct magistrates on how to identify, interrogate and convict witches.

]]> 2016-08-20 16:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/119018365 jayjayb https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/119018409 2016-08-20 16:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/119018409 WITCH EXECUTIONS nawaz_hifza https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/124204980 2016-09-15 20:22:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/124204980 https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/486362632 2020-04-01 11:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nawaz_hifza/ozqtyohiuot4/wish/486362632