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Trier Witch Trials
European Witch Trials
40,000-100,000 people executed
1581-1593
Western Germany
Johann
von Schonenberg
Archbishop of Trier
Salem Witch Trials
Salem, Massachusetts
1692-1693
1400s-1700s
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Thesis:
The Trier Witch Trials of the 16th century occurred because of the over-zealous attacks on outsider groups by Archbishop Shonenberg in the hopes of gaining wealth, power and recognition from the Catholic church which was at the time in the process of a counter reformation to strengthen the faith and root out heretics. The large number of other witch trials occurring in Europe at the time as well as depopulation brought on by the plague and famine all led to the targeting of midwives who possessed knowledge of birth control which the church and government were attempting to eradicate. As a result of the Trier Witch Trials and others like them, hundreds of people were executed, the majority of them women. Witch hunts also succeeded in criminalizing birth control throughout much of Europe and contributed to a population explosion in early modern Europe.
INDIA
1995-2010
est. 2,500 "witches" killed
in lynchings, suicides
Modern 2012
Saudi Arabia
witchcraft is a crime punishable by death
RURAL GHANA
2010
MODERN WITCH HUNT
3,000 BANISHED TO WITCH CAMPS IN GAMBAGA
FAMINE+ PLAGUE= DEPOPULATION
The Spanish Inquisition 13th century
Attempts to eradicate birth control
Catholic Counter Reformation
Between 368 and 1000 people of all classes and genders executed in the archdiocese of Trier for witch craft
Criminalization of
Birth Control
Male domination of Gynecology
2 villages in the Trier Archdiocese were left with only 1 woman in each
Population Explosion of
Early Modern Europe
Causes and Effects
Trier Witch Trials