Witches Flashcards
What did the wise women do?
They went to small villages and they would use herbs to make medicines and to cure and illnesses
How much was known about health in the mid 1400
Little
People would be suspicious of who?
Women that talked to animals
What were the people told at church?
Evil, hell and the devil
Six things that people knew that she was a witch
She may have a ‘familiar’ (animals like cats, birds or toads) to help with evil work
She may have a witch’s mark where she feeds her familiar with her own blood
She cannot say a Lord’s Prayer without making a small mistake
Her hair can’t be cut
She makes curses that work
She doesn’t have a shadow
Who was Matthew Hopkins?
A witchfinder general
To an old legend, it said that Matthew Hopkins’s was responsible for how many deaths?
More than 300 women
How much money would Matthew Hopkins received by the parliament, each time he found a witch?
20 shillings per witch
What was one of Matthew Hopkins methods of killing a person without shedding any blood?
Sleep deprivation
What would happen if you are found guilty that you are a witch?
Resulted in a death sentence by either drowning, hanging or being burnt at the stake
How did Matthew Hopkins die?
In 1647, he was forced to give one of his own tests and was given the river floating test, he floated so he was sentenced to death
Why did the people believe that if a person floats in the river, they were a witch?
They were sacred of baptism so therefore the water would reject the body
