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Inspired by ethnographically recorded witch trials that anthropologists observed happening in non-European parts of the world, various historians have sought a functional explanation for the Early Modern witch trials, thereby suggesting the social functions that the trials played within their communities. [117]
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This darker, more twisted, version of Diana was the early leader of witch craft in the Middle Ages, and was another projection of women during the time period. [6] When looking at the witch trials themselves, the accused were often female and made up a large chunk of the total witches from early witch trials. [7]
Woodcut image from Newes from Scotland (1591) depicting the devil with Agnes Sampson, one of the witches detailed in the survey [1]. The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft is an online database of witch trials in early modern Scotland, containing details of 3,837 accused gathered from contemporary court documents covering the period from 1563 until the repeal of the Scottish Witchcraft Act in 1736. [2]
In Peter Elmer's novel Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and politics in early modern England [32] he argues and provides evidence for the fact that many of England's great witch trials occurred at times when political parties and governing bodies felt that their authority was being threatened. During the years of 1629 to 1637 no trials occurred in ...
Witch-hunts increased again in the 17th century. The witch trials in Early Modern Europe included the Basque witch trials in Spain, the Fulda witch trials in Germany, the North Berwick witch trials in Scotland, and the Torsåker witch trials in Sweden. There were also witch-hunts during the 17th century in the American colonies.
This tale of the jailer's postmortem examination has been widely quoted in modern scholarship, for example with reference to the animal/human divide, [9] the "sado-erotic fascination of the witches' teat", [10] and particularly in feminist interpretations of the Early Modern witch trials. It is also cited by writers such as Lynn Picknett. [11]
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft trials (1563 to 1736) around Alloa. The persecution of the Alloa witches began in Stirling on 19 May 1658, in Commonwealth times. [1] On this date, the presbyter Matthias Symson (1625-1664) met with George Bennett, minister of Saint Ninian's, to confer with the persons there apprehended for witchcraft and to try to bring them to confession.