Henry Hunt

“Three Sovereigns for Sarah” is an amazing and historically accurate film about the Salem witch trials.The Salem witch trials were a number of hearings and prosecutions of people falsely accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The Salem witch trials resulted in 19 people hanged, one crushed to death. Five others, including two infant children, died in prison before they could be hanged for their crimes of dealing with sorcery and witchcraft. In this movie we…

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England by Elizabeth Reis(1999) is a book on the witch panic in colonial New England and why women were so heavily considered the targets. This panic spread through out the Puritans and in this book Reis tries to discover and explain why this might of happened and the changes it caused. Many or all of the points Reis makes in the book have to do with the outlook of females and the female soul in the Puritan settlements. Reis described the…

In these few weeks of class we began reading through articles with different topics. Two of the articles that got my attention was “ Witchcraft, justice, and Human Rights in Africa: Cases from Malawi” by Adam Ashforth and “Rape as Weapon of War in the Eastern DRC? The Victim 's’ perspective” by Anna Maedl. For each my peers and I have different reactions to what the author is trying to say in their perspective. In Adam Ashforth article, I disagree with the idea that witches do not exist in real…

In the book, ‘Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640-70, the author, Frederick Valletta, writes about the political and moral struggles that the English people were facing before, during and especially after the English Civil War in 1651. He claims that the social upheaval caused by the war, together with the collapse of censorship provided ample opportunity for the emergence of various religions sects and cults. Running parallel with the social and religious upheaval was an…

Mass hysteria has been occurring since the 1600's. Even today in the twenty-first century there has been mass hysteria such as, 2012 when the world was going to end, and there were many reasons and resolutions to 2012 hysteria. In 2012, a mass hysteria surged through the public in the United States. The entire public panicked thinking the world was going to end. A smiliar public hysteria occurred during the 1600's when the town of Salem believed that Lucifer walked with them and that…

opinion concerning meaning of witchcraft had being mottled and indefinite. According to Aristotelian scholars of middle ages, magic can only be conducted with support of demons, that’s why witchcraft was considered work of devil. According to book witch-hunt in early modern Europe by Brian P. Levack, when Europeans mentioned word ‘witchcraft’, they were referring to two types of…

Article Review In the article “The Devil’s Tongue”, the author looks to answer two questions; How did the epidemic gather so much speed, and how did it come to involve a satanic plot? Both of these answers lie in an Indian slave named Tituba. In early 1692, many young women started to act differently. “They contorted violently; the complained of bites and pinches. They alternately interpreted sermons and fell mute…” The local people had no great explanation for all of this so, the women were…

Witchcraft is the term usually used in the social science literature but the practices which it refers to can be found in the all communities. In the past it was a lots of debates about the similarities and dissimilarities between witchcraft and sorcery. The scholars generally assumed that both terms can be used interchangeably, but it is important to explain a particular way of use each of them. Since the dawn of time people was always interested in the magic and supernatural powers. Topic of…

As part of the infamous “swimming test,” accused witches were dragged to the nearest body of water, stripped to their undergarments, bound and then tossed in to to see if they would sink or float. Since witches were believed to have spurned the sacrament of baptism, it was thought that the water would reject their body and prevent them from submerging. According to this logic, an innocent person would sink like a stone, but a witch would simply bob on the surface. The victim typically had a rope…

The Legend of Witches Los brujos o brujas are mischievous individuals who practice evil around their neighbors or people they envy. Often for little or no cause generally it is on their enemies witches practice the evil doings which they are able to perform. No one is born a witch. Witchcraft is some kind of science a kind of learning which may be learned from other witches, In New Mexicans, they speak of a witch as being in agreement with the devil young people such as old have a terrible…