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witch hunting: clerical pastime
European witch hunting. How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for two centuries? How could Europe’s educated laity, those lawyers, scholars and philosophers in the age of Erasmus cave in to such monkish phantasmagoria? The confessions of the so-called witches … Continue reading
witch hunting: clerical pastime
European witch hunting. How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for two centuries? How could Europe’s educated laity, those lawyers, scholars and philosophers in the age of Erasmus cave in to such monkish phantasmagoria? The confessions of the so-called witches … Continue reading
witches brew: the intellectuals surrender
Witch hunting in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for two centuries? It is quite clear that witchcraft, as a systematic cult, was not discovered; it was invented by the inquisitors. The Church … Continue reading
BEDEVILED OF COMMON SENSE
Torture and mythology, the pincers and the book, these were the essential machinery of the European witch craze. Out of hallucination and suggestion was created a terrible empire of darkness which then acquired a life and momentum of its own, … Continue reading
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Tagged Clouddragon, Colbert, Edward Gibbon, Francesco Maria Guazzo, H.C. Lea, H.C. Lea History of the Inquisition, Henry More, John Selden, Matthew Hopkins, Nicolas Remy, Salem Witch burning, Sir Francis Bacon, Spanish Inquisition, Witch burning, Witch Persecution, witch torture
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