Huitch Hunt
Between 1450 and 1700, a million of people were accusing of practice witch-craft, almost all women’s, was burn or torture. All start in Europe and continue in France, Italy and England.Before the 1450 the witch-craft are okay, the people considered the witches more like doctors or “curanderos” in steed of satanic persons. The witches used to venerate the nature, not the devil.Went the witch hunt started, the early Christians started to said the heresy and the witches was persons who talk with the devil and they have to killed because in the bible said “You can not let a witchlive”. In 1484 the witch hunt turn more, the people begging to used the witch hunt for kill his enemies. The idea of the government was make the people have fear of the other persons in the village.Went somebody accuses another person of witch-craft, they need evidence.
In 1486 go to the public MALEFICARVM, the first book about witches.
The methods to see if a person is a witch or not was:-Naked the women’s to see if don’t have marks or “witch teeth”.
-They drown the persons; they said that the water was pure, so the water makes the witches float.
-Torture for confession.
Do heresy orwitch-craft was a capital crime, and was punishing with death.
In 1629 a group of “Puritans” and started a village name “City of the Hill”. They were a really extreme Christians. The priest of thePuritans have 2 daughters and his wife, who always was sick, so they leave the daughters with they maid “Tituba” who was an Indian person that practices voodoo and see the future. The maid tells thegirls about her magic experiences and she teaches the girls how to see her future husbands through a cup with water and eggs. The rumor spread between the girls in the village, and then became 8 girls.All the girls stared to have epileptic attacks, in that time that means someone have sent a course to the girls. Went the priest ask the girls, hers fingers pointed to Tituba, she accept to be a...
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