Witchcraft Flashcards
What were two features of the 1736 repeal of witchcraft legislation
Fraudulent cases would be punished with a one year prison sentence
Magic and witchcraft were declared non-existent
Who was the first person to be found guilty of false accusations of witchcraft in 1701?
Richard Hathaway
What are 4 statements that reflect how publications had an impact on Judicial Scepticism.
- Questions around ‘proof’ and evidence began in the late C16th
- There was a notable change in acceptance of evidence from shortly before Bacon’s work to after it
- An increasing number of judges and jurors aware of the logic and rationality behind ideas from people like Hobbes
- There was a shift in accusing people of witchcraft, to finding the accusers guilty
When was the second witchcraft act implemented
1563
When did John Locke publish “Essay concerning human understanding”
1690
When did Reginald Scot publish “The Discoverie of witchcraft”
1584
When did Francis Bacon publish “Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning Divine and Human”
1605
When did Thomas Hobbes publish “De Corpore”
1655
When did Isaac Newton publish “Principia Mathematica”
1687
When was the Pendle Swindle
1634
What did John Holt do during the trial of 1701?
He asked an expert on the ‘scientificity’ of the evidence whether it was possible for someone to survive 2 weeks without eating
Who wrote “Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcraft” (1594)?
George Gifford
What was the name of the Lord Chief Justice who was prepared to convict on ‘presumptions’ rather than proof
Edmund Anderson
Which fraudulent case takes place in 1662?
The demon drummer of tedworth
When did Copernicus publish “Revolution of heavenly spheres”
1543
When did Samuel Harsnett publish “Fraudulent Practices of John Darrel”
1599
When was the Royal Society founded
1660
When was Sir John Holt appointed Chief Justice
1689
When was Balthasar Bekker’s “Enchanted world” published
1691
When was the Jane Wenham case
1712
What method of torture is questioned for its use in obtaining evidence during the Pendle Swindle trial?
Sleep deprivation
What two statements that best summarise the Malleus Maleficarum
- It was a book that argued women were more likely to be witches because they were impressionable and had “slippery tongues and feeble minds”
- It was a book that selected specifically chosen parts of scripture to justify the unusual legal proceedings in witchcraft trials
What three statements that summarise George Mackenzie’s beliefs about witchcraft.
- Witchcraft might be possible but most of the people accused were not genuine witches
- True witches deserved punishment, judges who didn’t fulfill their roles and sent innocent people to their deaths should also be blamed
- Witches were people who had been deceived, but were not necessarily evil, and therefore undeserving of harsh punishments
What was the name of the witch who was found innocent in 1682 and who was the judge of her case?
Joan Buts, Matthew Hale
