SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Catholic Church, Black Death

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

Western occultists differ between two streams of magik: low and high: low magik: Folk magik, magik of the people: high magik: Life spent in study of the occult very ritualised (clear steps) Certain actions, done in a certain way at a certain time any set of repetitive actions routinized. Ritual does not need to be religious- can be secular (taping the goalies pad in hockey) Connection an action to an outcome (wearing a ring = good day) *in the west, the colour red is associated with love through ares the greek god of war. Christians considered them (wisewang) witches and worshippers of the devil. Witch as healer, of nature etc. (see them as evil satanist) Our ideas begin of witches to the renaissance (witch craze) Women lost power due to the dark stereotypes. Witches come from anglo-saxon meaning to bend and shape. People who weren"t against the church charges with heresy. Between 15th and 17th century they were burned alive.