Witches case studies KEY OK Flashcards
Bamberg - German trends OK
Reformation - 1548 / Carolina under Charles V (1532)
waves = Offenburg 12 (1627) 7 more 12 years later
1585 Rottenburg = 2 villages 1 woman
Mainz = 1800 under 3 PB
Wurzburg = 900 executed
Trier = poor 1580 harvest - PB struggle with Trier Council - Dr Flade blamed
Secular states less likely to hunt eg. Calvinist Electoral Palatinate at Heidelberg.
Bamberg CS OK
Aschhausen 1609 - PB = persecute prot min.
- fined parishes not convert / restricted wood supply / placed troops / made magic illegal 1610 (same year as bohemian Prot uprising) (82% women)
- early hysteria (Lena Pantzerin 1612) 1619 = 182 dead
Dornheim 1623 Hexenbischof - Forner theologian - textual just. (72% women)
- Hereditary guilt JJ / property confiscation
- Malefiz house (Flock 1630)
England - trends OK
sporadic - endemic - high acquittal rate
trends (rose 1560 - peaked 1580 - fell 1630s - 1630s/40s rose)
legislature = capital 1542 / repealed 47’ / 1563 act - 1st no harm = prison 2nd = death - harm = capital / 1604 act - 1st offence = capital
Lit = Scot = Discoverie - Calvinist suspicion
socioecon = 10,000+ parishes - south east = econ 1530/1630 5-10m pop inc.
Margery Jourdemayne - treason Henry VI //1612 Pendle 10 dead
England CS OK
1642 - CW = East Anglia - Puritan Hotspot
Manningtree trials (Clarke acc. by John Rivett) Stearne given warrant by JP - MH joined - 1645
30 women accused across Grimston jurisdiction
Chelmsford trial - EoW - 15 ex. 1 day largest in E
Lowes clergyman executed - swum - banned since 1215
Suffolk = 150 men / women across 50 villages
Isle of Ely final hunt
- paid - £8 for MH / £15 for trial -1645 – Ipswich levied a tax to pay hunters
opposition to MH
- July 1645 = appeal at Parliament concerned over Suffolk
- Sept 1645 = concern in P newspaper
- March 1646 – 9 pardoned in Essex
- Preacher campaign against hunters in Huntingdon
Prosecution relied on pre-existing justice system – not just MH – 250 trial – 100 at least executed – characterised by Civil War
Salem - New England Trends OK
Puritan Persecution - 1630-42 10,000 migrated
- 1607 Jamestown - 1620 Massachusetts
- 1632 CofE est. - theocratic colonies
- 1641 M law = W = capital - Alice the Young of Windsor
- 1688-8 = Boston Case - Goodwin - possessed children
- 1685 Royal Charter ran out - Puritan theoc.
- 1689 - Andros Charles II consolidation - CofE imposition - Boston revolt / Glorious Rev. - 1691
91-2 = King Williams war - Maine
Salem local politics OK
Putnams - subsistent farmers / Porters - merchants
wanted to appoint own church minister - 600 residents
- 1689 - new minister Parris.
Salem CS OK
Betty Parris - 9 / Ann Putnam jr / Mercy Lewis 19
- 1692 - girls convulsing - Hale = possession
- Good / Osborne / Tituba
- Essex county Hawthorne / Corwin
- devil conspiracy
- Nurse acc. feuded with Putnams
- Quakers / Baptists persecuted
May = 62 in custody
Phips = 62 custody = Oyer / Terminer = end hunts - war in Maine = win - 1693 - Superior court of Judicature - ends hunts
- - 1692-3 = Salem – 14 W / 5 M / 2 Dogs
