HIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pointed Hat, Mass Hysteria, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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20 executed: 19/20 hung = 20th = pressed to death. Spectacle evidence (cid:862)i sa(cid:449) a de(cid:373)o(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g out(cid:863: evidence. Neighborhood conflict: accused = rich and lived on coastline, accuser = poor and lived in rural areas. Something they ate: species of mushrooms near them. Legacy of indian wars: many suffered from ptsd, (cid:862)de(cid:448)il (cid:272)a(cid:373)e i(cid:374) shape of i(cid:374)dia(cid:374)(cid:863) = said (cid:271)y (cid:373)a(cid:374)y a(cid:272)(cid:272)users. Social conflict: feared other prot"s a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge, stats of victims. Widows, single, or no male: devil is real. Leprocacy = punishment from god: the apple, e(cid:448)e ate the apple a(cid:374)d (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t supposed to i(cid:374) the garde(cid:374) serpent who told her too = 1600s = serpent = devil. Long, ugly nose: ugly in general, pointed hat, broom, spells. Harry potter: quidditch now, not the devil, nembous 2000 = broom has a name. Belief: americans are rational and scientific, non-americans are backwards and prone to superstition.
