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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
dark ages: maybe not that dark after all
It seems ironic that the Renaissance and later the Enlightenment should be the periods associated with the persecution of witches, a kind of phenomenon, a systematic cult that was invented out of thin air. it was the persecution of women, … Continue reading
BEWITCHED OF REASON
Vampires of the Vanities, and bonfires of insanity. It was not the medieval world that produced the witchcraft delusion. Surprisingly, it was the age of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. The dark ages were perhaps not all that dark after … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Gibbon, Girolamo Cardono, H.C. Lea, H.C. Lea History of the Inquisition, Ingmar Bergman, Saint Boniface, Saint Thomas Aquinas, The Seventh Seal, The Witches of Eastwick, witchcraft, witches
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