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HST560A: AP World History | Unit 6 | Lesson 07: Economic and Religious Controversies
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Hunting Witches
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Witch hunting hysteria grew heated in Europe in the late fifteenth century. Accused witches were
thought to have made agreements to worship the devil in exchange for supernatural powers. They
were conveniently blamed for virtually any misfortune – from lost livestock to deadly hailstorms.
Over the next century and half, some 60,000 “witches” were put to death in Europe, the great
majority of them women from the fringes of society.
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Read the following three documents, and use them to identify reasons for the accusation of witchcraft and the
persecution of those accused in Europe from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. For each
document, provide answers to the following:
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What is the point of view?
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How does social position affect the point of view evidenced in the document?
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Who is the intended audience of the document?
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What is the intended outcome of the document?
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Offer one reason for Europe’s witch hysteria revealed by the document.
DOCUMENT I:
Walpurga Hausmannin has, upon kindly questioning and also torture … confessed her witchcraft and admitted
the following. [When] she had become a widow, she cut corn for Hans Schlumperger … Him she enticed with
lewd speeches and gestures and they convened that they should … meet in her … dwelling, there to indulge in
lustful intercourse. [ But] it was not the said bondsman who appeared unto her, but the Evil One [the Devil] in the
latter’s guise … He made her many promises to help her in her poverty and need, wherefore she surrendered
herself to him body and soul … For food she often had a good roast or an innocent child, which was also roasted,
or a suckling pig. [The Evil One] also compelled her to do away with and to kill young infants at birth … This she
did as follows: A child of the Governor here [that] she had so infected with her salve that he died within three
days. Three years ago she had sucked out the blood of [citizen] Kung’s child, a twin, so that it died … She had
also rubbed a salve on a beautiful son of the … Chancellor … this child had lovely faire hair and she had given
him a hobby horse so that he might ride on it till he lost his senses. He died likewise.
— Testimony against a licensed midwife at Dillingen, Germany, burned 1587.
DOCUMENT II:
I suffered terribly from fear of Hell and the devils, whom I thought I saw [everywhere] … and sometimes with great
rolling flaming eyes like saucers, having sparkling firebrands in one of their hands, and with the other reaching at
me to tear me away to torments. Oh the leaps that I have made, the fright that I have had, the fears that I was in.
— From the diary of a young Protestant boy, late 16th century, from E. Rogers, Some Account of the Life
and Opinion of a Fifth-Monarchy Man, 1867.
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DOCUMENT III:
That childish old hags called witches can do anything to harm men or animals … I fight with natural reason … My
object is also medical, in that I have to show that those illnesses, whose origins are attributed to witches, come
from natural causes … Since witches are usually old women of melancholic nature and small brains [women who
get easily depressed and have little trust in God], there is no doubt that the Devil easily affects and deceives their
minds by illusions and apparitions that so bewilder them that they confess to actions that they are very far from
having committed … From consideration of their age and sex, Christians should be less ready to throw these poor
mindless old women into dark, black, stinking prisons unfit for humans and inhabited by evil spirits that torment
the prisoners.
— Johan Wier (a Belgian physician), De Praestigiis Daemonum, 1563.
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