Witchcraft Flashcards

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Mobility hypothesis

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More frequent and patrilineal sedentary societies women are seen as threats to father-son transmission of property. Also in period of social stress

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Malleus witch hunt

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Published by two Dominican they warned about witches is having intercourse with the devil and giving their soul over to him thousands the wishes witches where burned at the stake because of this around the 15th and 18th century

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Salem witch hunts

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A craze spread to American Puritan . In Salem around the 1690s a black slave teaching local girls root charms and this led to the witches Hysteria some cases due to revenge

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Wiccan

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Believe they practice modern witchcraft misunderstanding Wicca is not the devil but the antler horned master of hunt
the pentagram is not a symbol for the devil but the five elements
they don’t do Black magic due to karma

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Evil eye

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To have a gaze or evil eye that can cause crops to wither children to stillborn and even death

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