witch craze

Come and explore the fascinating puzzle of the witch craze.

As with the European witch crazes, it was one book which set the panic in motion.

So what had caused this witch craze?

Hornæus was ordered to perform an investigation by order of the special commission which had been created to deal with the suddenly erupted witch craze.

In England, the worst witch craze took place during the English Civil War.

The proceedings against the Quietists thus only narrowly escaped the greater dangers of the lingering witch craze.

This talk describes the events which unfolded at Belvoir Castle four hundred years ago, during the witch craze.

Witch crazes were grass-roots phenomena that broke out more readily where the authorities were weak.

The witch craze also represented an unconscious but compulsive revolt against a repressive religion and an apparently inexorable God.

Jonson's use of witches in the anti-masque is an interesting commentary on the witch craze of the era.

The title was "Witch Craze versus Christianity."

The Witch Craze has been described as a collective fantasy, shared by men, women, and their inquisitors throughout Christendom.

Outside ufology, the European fairy cult is of increasing interest to historians researching the European witch craze.

Although the theoretical legal punishment for this offense was death, nobody was convicted under it until a minor witch craze reached Iceland in the 17th century.

The cause of the European witch craze, responsible for the death of many older women in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, is one such area of research.

One pamphlet, the 1935 The Christian Witch Craze, claimed that the witch-hunts were an attempt to exterminate "Aryan womanhood".

The intellectual and spiritual tensions erupted in the Early Modern witch craze, further reinforced by the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation, especially in Germany, England, and Scotland.

The Canon Episcopi has received a great deal of attention from historians of the witch craze period as early documentation of the Catholic church's theological position on the question of witchcraft.

Many of the allegations made by child and adult 'survivors' of satanic ritual abuse, both here and overseas, have been no less preposterous than those of the medieval witch crazes of five centuries ago.

Indeed, the "great witch craze" did not even occur in the Middle Ages, as is almost universally believed by lay people, but in the Renaissance (see, e.g., Norman Cohn's Europe's Inner Demons).

Estes, Leland L. Reginald Scot and His "Discoverie of Witchcraft": Religion and Science in the Opposition to the European Witch Craze, Church History, Vol.

The witch craze of the 1620s was not confined to Germany, but influenced Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comté: in the lands of the abbey of Luxueil the years 1628-30 have been described as an épidémie démoniaque.

Doktor Johann Weyer, ein rheinischer Arzt, der erste Bekämpfer des Hexenwahns, (1885, second edition 1896) - Doctor Johann Weyer, a Rhenish physician, first fighter of the witch craze).

Mainstream historiography sees the reason for the witch craze in a complex interplay of various factors that mark the early modern period, including the religious sectarianism in the wake of the Reformation, besides other religious, societal, economic and climatic factors.