The Elizabeth Era is known for the persecution of witchcraft and the ones who practices it, know as witches. The people during this time strongly believed about supernatural creatures and things and the most of the cases women were the ones who where more accused. The Elizabethans in England believed that witchcraft was involved with the devil and was something to cause harm, when in that time people were very superstitious for explain why things happened in the way it happened.
The Elizabeth Era occurs in the Tudor period of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, know as the Virgin Queen, daughter of Henry VIII, which is named because of her. The era is also called as the Golden Age and the Elizabethans were any person, especially a …show more content…
Catholics believed that the pope and a priest had the power to forgive any sin and the Protestants believed that only God had the power to forgive sins. The Catholic Church did not believed in superstitions because they used to think that all supernatural things were evil and wicked. In that time there wasn’t a real explanation for things, so when something unexplainable happened people would blame those events on witches.
The Elizabethan medics was very simple and basic and the Black Death al oat killed one third of the population. They didn’t know the cause of that disease who caused a lot of deaths, and the fear and anger that people felt had to be directed at someone, in this case to the witches. Women were often more accused for being witches than men were. They would blame witches for almost everything bad happened, like deaths, houses burned down, or death of animals.
The women who were accused were generally old, poor, unprotected, singles or windows. And they were two types of witches, the withes and black ones. The withe ones were known for healing and the black ones for harm
The Elizabeth Era occurs in the Tudor period of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, know as the Virgin Queen, daughter of Henry VIII, which is named because of her. The era is also called as the Golden Age and the Elizabethans were any person, especially a …show more content…
Catholics believed that the pope and a priest had the power to forgive any sin and the Protestants believed that only God had the power to forgive sins. The Catholic Church did not believed in superstitions because they used to think that all supernatural things were evil and wicked. In that time there wasn’t a real explanation for things, so when something unexplainable happened people would blame those events on witches.
The Elizabethan medics was very simple and basic and the Black Death al oat killed one third of the population. They didn’t know the cause of that disease who caused a lot of deaths, and the fear and anger that people felt had to be directed at someone, in this case to the witches. Women were often more accused for being witches than men were. They would blame witches for almost everything bad happened, like deaths, houses burned down, or death of animals.
The women who were accused were generally old, poor, unprotected, singles or windows. And they were two types of witches, the withes and black ones. The withe ones were known for healing and the black ones for harm