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This 10 page report (which includes a 2 page annotated bibliography) discusses the witch hunt that took place in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Religious issues, the status of women, and the hysteria of the “common” people are discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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larger cities. All were concerned about the ever-increasing power of the devil to endanger Christian society. In fact, the late medieval church had lost the optimism it had
enjoyed in its early existence and after the calamities which had hit Europe over the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, plague, war and their consequences, churchmen were constantly struggling with dualism
(the timeless struggle between Good and Evil personified in God and the Devil) and were now becoming fearful that the Devil was winning (duBarry at ~greywing/Malleus.htm).
In 1486, two Dominican monks, Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer penned their famous work, the Malleus Malificarum or "Hammer of Witches" (which served as the Christian
Church-blessed inquisitors manual for the hunting of witches), as the "carnal source of all evil" (Eisler 140). The Devil, they believed, was constantly being helped by increasing numbers
of human beings who devoted their lives to his cause - namely witches. The Malleus was not the first such treaties on witchcraft but the scholastic origin probably imposed a
uniformity on witchcraft belief, by placing hundreds of separate beliefs, the results of hundreds of inquisitions, under the one cover as it were, thus the Malleus conveyed a seal of
orthodoxy on the fact of "witchcraft" (duBarry at ~greywing/ Malleus.htm). In the second half of the fifteenth century there appeared a number of writings
establishing the reality of a diabolical conspiracy against Christendom and literally thousands of witch trials were held from Switzerland to Scotland. The witches of the time were most often women
who used peasant sorcery of spells and charms as part of this apparently well-organized and exceedingly diabolical conspiracy over Christendom. Kramer and Sprenger, drawing from their sources (and probably from
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