Witch Craze Research Paper

Dyanna Nunez
History 121Midterm
Professor Lauri The Witch Craze in Europe has to do with multiple things, Dominican Order, Malleus Maleficarum, Witches Sabbath, The Inquisition and many other things. The Witch Craze is when you have some type of magical power, a magical power that was not human, it came from either God or the Devil, and it came from the Devil these people made a pact with Devil. These so called witches attended Sabbaths; they got to there by traveling at night in their broomsticks. Once when the pact was done the witches had the power to commit evil actions against either humans or animal. What occurred during the Sabbath the witches had large sexual component in which sexual intercourse occurred between the devil and

In the short reading assigned to the class, The Hammer of the Witches one story elucidated how a midwife had killed over forty children by "sticking a needle through the crowns of their heads into their brains as they came from the womb." The Catholic Church was not as strong in these areas as opposed to other territories in Europe. Many people were executed between 200,000 to 500,000 people, these people were beheaded, hanged, drowned burned tortured to death (thumbscrews, racks, leg vices, and many other) and even burning at stake. Witches were described mainly in three different types 1. One that injures but can 't cure, 2. One that can cure, but they need to have a particular pack with the devil, but cannot injure 3. One that simply does both cure and injure and a specific witch that can do everything, and these witches were the most dangerous ones that eat other species and humans. There are different views to witches: "Antiquity: Sought after by the ruling class and others to acquire knowledge of the future. Middle Ages: Witches were neither evil nor demonic in nature; rather they only served specific material ends. Early Modern Period: Witches were interpreted as directly undermining society as to usher in a new age of demonic