HIST 201 Lecture Notes - Salem Witch Trials, Amniotic Sac
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Every culture in the world has divination: herbalism herbal medicine, this crosses over with empiric practitioners, this isn"t some sort of official position, they are part of normal society, pre-christian folklore, benendante. These people are born with the amniotic sac still wrapped up in them, considered these people to live half in the world of the living, and half in the world of the dead. On a particular evening every year, your spirit leaves your body and goes with the rest of the benendante to fight evil spirits who wins this determines the growth of the fields that year. Considered themselves christians: folklore-ish ideas brought by people who have not been education, in the thirteenth century, europe is doing great. Seeing expansion in several areas, religion forming, church trying to keep lid on creativity, start to see the growth of organized heresy: heresy hunters.
