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?
  1. Old women
    1. Needed charity
      1. Kieth Thomas
      2. Vulnerable
        1. Due to illness
          1. Unable to work
          2. 87% over 50
            1. Wise Women
              1. Cannot have children
                1. Seen as jealous if a baby or mother died during childbirth
                2. Blamed for deaths
                  1. If remedies did not work
                    1. If remedies worsened the symptons
                  2. Illness
                    1. Lack of knowledge about mental illness
                      1. Dementia
                        1. Thought to have cursed others
                    2. Widowed and single women were executed first
                      1. Why no husband?
                        1. Against female stereotypes of the time
                          1. Attacked idea of womenhood
                            1. 'changing the norm'
                            2. No male protection
                              1. Killed husband?
                                1. Kent- 73% widowed or single
                                  1. Toul-63% widowed or single
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