Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Witch Hunt Final
History
| Term | Definition | Historical Significance |
|---|---|---|
| Henrich Kramer | A judge (Dominican) who wrote 95% of the Maleus; went on a speaking tour to promote the book | Wrote a majority of the book; helped to define witchcraft |
| Jakob Sprenger | Renaissance professor at the university of Cologne; more academic, did not play a huge role in the writing | Gave merit to the Maleus due to colognes acceptance of it as catholic theology |
| Germane Greer | "Female Unich:" claiming that women are equal hman beings, but women need to act as equals to be treated as equals | Start of Women's History; women are not just property to men |
| Thenotte | Celebrated Healer who used Folk magic in a christian setting and was not accused of being a witch | Defined how magic was not necessarily the defining factor in the accusation of witches-can be good magic? |
| "Old Demdyke" | A woman who died in prison and was suspected of being brutally beaten; most likely just being old--lead to the accusations of others | Showed how scapegoating occurs and formulated evidence is created |
| Midwifery | Dangerous occupation given 40% of all babies die before the age of 2; blamed for the death of the babies | Since people have no idea why the babies died, they blame it on the midwife- finding meaning in bad things; only logical reason is the Devil |
| Johannes Junius | A man who was accused, tried and executed for being a witch; writes a letter to his daughter saying he is innocent | Breaks the stereotypes of just women; shows how often legal procedure is not followed |
| Ana Papenheimer | A poor woman who marries a Latrine cleaner; the Duke orders his guards to find a witch and they accuse her and her whole family of witchcraft. Her body is mutilated in order to show power | Shows how there is no crime terrible enough for witches; they do the worst thing that they can, to de feminize and emasculate |
| Nicholas Remey | Boasted of executing over 2,000 people; retires from being a judge and writes a book on how people become witches for money, power, and sex. Claimed that witches cant use power against judges | Showed how witches cant use their powers against judges; gave reasons why people would want to be witches |
| Urban Grandier | Accused of possessing a group of nuns-causing them to cough up pins and scream; he was tortured and burned alive. The court formulated evidence against him including a pact with the devil signed in latin in blood. | Breaks the stereotype that just men were accused of witchcraft; adds to the crime of witchcraft-includes possessing others |
| Barbra Buvee: | A female abbess who was elected to her convent for life, but accused of molesting and evoking feelings in the women of the convent-not found guilty but the accusations ruin her career; | Added a sexual component to witchcraft and suggested Lesbianism |
| Pierre De Lancre | Royal government judge who writes a book containing illustrations of the sabbath- royal government eventually pulls him out of France | Local control leads to more accusations than central government |
| Cotton Mather | Bad reputation in the community-fascinated by witchcraft; scrutinized the witches that were tried-claims that they can not recite the lords prayer; if they did they were still killed | Shows how the evidence is not as important as a confession or the words of others; even if they could recite the lords prayer it didn't matter |
| Elizabeth Paris | 8-9 year old girl who is the principal accuser of Tituba in the first execution at Salem | Shows how children simply point out the prominent members in society; persuaded by others |
| Sarah Good | Tituba accuses Sarah of being a witch; executed | Shows how naming names results in death |
| Rebecca Nurse | Old and Ill outstanding member of the society; accused by the girls, acquitted and then tried again only to be executed | Shows how the legal procedure is often not followed; shouldn't have been tried again |
| Elizabeth Francis | One of the chelmsford witches; owner of the cat Satan, accused of being a practitioner of witchcraft, suspected for her husbands death | Those who are different are often accused; catholics who spoke Latin |
| Alice Samuel | English witch accused of making a family ill after begging at their home | Represents a victim of social conditions in england; project blame onto those who beg due to fear |
| Matthew Hopkins | Suspected of executing 80-100 men via knowledgeable fraud; charges people by the head to discover "witches;" used tormentum insomnia | As anxiousness increases, the legal system begins to disappear; didn't follow legal procedure |
| Goody Hall | Acused of Sorcery after a man who didnt give her alms fell ill | Supports McFarlane's hypothesis of projections |
| Matthew Hopkins | Executed 80-100 men and women; committed conscious fraud in order to make money; used tormentum insomnia | Instituted tormentum insomnia; showed how the legal system becomes less important as panic rises |
| John Cunningham | Earl of bothwell; accused of creating a storm in the north sea; James VI was afraid that he was trying to take over the throne so he has him executed as a witch | Represents how people hunt those that they don't like |
| James VI | Hunted his enemy because he felt threatened; tortures and does not follow legal procedure | Authority does not follow legal procedure; had no evidence |
| Ana Pedersdotter Absalon | Scandanavian wife of a pastor; accused of being a witch but acquitted due to husbands status; killed after he died | Scapegoating- attack people who are though of as untouchable |
| Peter Pallidius | Scandinavian protestant who targets Catholics | Targets people not based on guilt but based on Religion |
| The legend of Blakulla | Mountainous region of Sweden; "Blue Hill," known site of evil and magic, told via folklore | Many children refer to this area as testimony; only based off of what they know and hear not off of evidence that they observe |
| Absolutism | More centralized and efficient manner of government; improves court systems and re-opens old cases | Pulled power away from the local government-75% of all witches acquitted when they are not tried by local government |
| Johann Weyer | Physician who was associated with saying that witches were melancholy; says women are weak and prone to depression; suspected that the bible did not intend to use the word witch | Calls into question scholasticism; if the bible does not actually say there is a witch, do they exist? |
| Renigald Scot | Forefront in the age of reason; brought about doubt regarding torture and obtaining the truth | Brought into question all of the trials involving torture and if the confessions obtained were real |
| Rene Descartes | Believed in Deductive reasoning; start with the truth and try to work down from there | Presents a new way to look at nature; more to it than simply your area of expertise |
| Michel de Montaigne | Believed that truth doesn't come from history or from force, but from doubt; we should doubt everything in order to establish the truth | Shatters Scholasticism as it is based on the truth in History |
| Balthazar Becker | Netherlands Calvin church progressive- says that god is about love and he would never hurt us by allowing the devil to do the things that he is suspected of doing | Witches can not exist because God would never allow the devil to hurt us in this way |
| Red Scare | Soviet union built an atomic bomb, causing fear within the government-lead to a modern witch hunt since Nixon called in all suspected officers in order to determine if there were any spies; McCarthy questions the army and is then brought down | Shows how modern day witch hunts are not very different; based on fear |
| Compendium Maleficarum | A book by Guazzo describing the evils of witches complete with pictures | Allowed those who were illiterate to see what witches looked like and did so that they could pass on the word |
| Dominican Order | Catholic Religious order founded in order to combat heresy | Assisted in the views of the writers of the Maleus Malleficarum |
Created by:
LauraGray
Popular World History sets