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What were typical beliefs about witches?
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UG lectures (The Witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America) Mind Map on What were typical beliefs about witches?, created by Holly Bamford on 17/06/2016.
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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
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