Witchcraft - Chapter 1

Question 1

Heresy

Answer 1

religious crime - punished through burning at the stake
- Christianity = dominated 12/13th cent - removal of Cathards and Lollards in inquisition
- Pope John XXII named Witchcraft Heresy

Question 2

Devils Pact

Answer 2

notion that witches enter a pact with the Devil
- sabbat - witch sects
- sexual practice with Devil for material gain

Question 3

Demonic Posession

Answer 3

1569 - 26bn Devil aiding Demons believed to exist

Question 4

Diabolism

Answer 4

Witches seen as conspirers with the Devil against Christian society

Question 5

Papal Bull - Denouncing witchcraft

Answer 5

Pope Innocent VIII
= Summis Desiderantes affectibus = lift all limitations on torture to seek out witches
= 1484

Question 6

Literature

Answer 6

= Sprenger and Kramer - Malleus - 1487 - reprinted 13x by 1660
- notions of typical witch traits / women / sodomy / heresy

Question 7

Societal concern over witchcraft

Answer 7

• French wars on religion - Prot Huguenots (1562-98)
• Thirty Years War (1618 - 48)

Question 8

Decline in Witch hunting

Answer 8

Renaissance Humanism = Erasmus / Agrippa questioned malleus / hunters - claimed to be fantasy