HI114 Lecture Notes - Salem Witch Trials, Jacob Sprenger, Heinrich Kramer
Document Summary
Salem witch trials: the nature of witchcraft, winter 1692, salem girls accused 3 female neighbours of bewitching them, other accusers join in, before long the whole village was engulfed in a witch crisis, October of the next year, 14 women 5 men killed, 1 crushed to death, 156 in prison, 4 died in prison: puritans: religious dissenters who leave england between 1620-1640 to go to. They do this to get more land. Want to establish a new holy commonwealth in new england. They see the church in england as morally corrupt. They hope this will reform the church back in england. When they travelled they brought a lot of beliefs, values and ideas with them. Devil"s pact, trying to overthrow christianity: believed in jewelistic universe, the material world and the invisible world. Death and serious injury: children and women were vulnerable to this. Affect animals: make your cow wander off, sheep drown, pigs top producing.
