Mr. Turner's English



English 11

J. Turner

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

PLEASE ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS AS WE READ THE HANDOUT

1. What did the books of Exodus and Leviticus say should be done with Witches?

2. According the author, who did the word “witch” probably refer to at that time?

3. What reason did Saint Augustine give for the non-existence of witches?

4. What did the Cathars believe about Satan?

5. How did Pope Innocent the third try to discredit the Cathars?

6. Who started the tradition of believing that the world is full of demons trying to tempt people into a life of sin?

7. What did the demons he spoke of do to men and women as they slept?

8. Opinion question: where do you think he got that idea?

9. Why did the Cathars start to tell Catholic investigators that they flew on polls and animals to go to meetings with Satan, and other such details?

10. When did witchcraft begin to exist as a specific crime?

11. What was the name of the first full report on witchcraft?

12. Who commissioned that report?

13. What activities did the book accuse witches of?

14. Name one of the techniques the book suggested investigators use to inspect witches.

15. What change did judges make to investigation procedures in the 1500s when the public started to panic about the possibility of witches in their midst?

16. About what percentage of the people executed for witchcraft were women?

17. What caused King James VI of Scotland (who was later King James I of England) to allow the torture of suspected witches?

18. How did King James kill witches?

19. During this time, Shakespeare wrote a play called Macbeth. What did the Witches do in that play?

20. What events in the 1600s seemed to go along with Witch trials?

21. What year (or about what year) was the last woman executed as a witch in England?

22. What brought the witch-hunts to an end?

23. What is “The Enlightenment”?

24. What reasons did Enlightenment thinkers give against the witch-hunts?

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