Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What were typical
beliefs about witches?
- Old women
- Needed charity
- Kieth Thomas
- Vulnerable
- Due to illness
- Unable to work
- 87% over 50
- Wise Women
- Cannot have children
- Seen as jealous if a baby or
mother died during childbirth
- Blamed for deaths
- If remedies did not work
- If remedies worsened
the symptons
- Illness
- Lack of knowledge about
mental illness
- Dementia
- Thought to have cursed others
- Widowed and single women
were executed first
- Why no husband?
- Against female stereotypes of the time
- Attacked idea of
womenhood
- 'changing the norm'
- No male protection
- Killed husband?
- Kent- 73% widowed or single
- Toul-63% widowed or single