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Elizabethan Witches
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Elizebethan Witches
Oscar Jarman
Beliefs And Superstions
Beliefs and Superstitions
- Nearly all people were christian.
- Henry VIII broke England away from Catholocism, people became Protestants.
- Being the wrong religion could get you killed.
- Spain started a war against England over religion
- Playwrights had to be careful about mentioning religious topics in plays.
- Jews had to pretend to be christian because no one liked them.
Witches
Witches
- Witches were people who made a deal with the devil to gain supernatural powers.
- Any extra hardship like crops not growing was blamed on witches.
- Were usually poor, old, single women
- They might have a familiar, like toads or birds
- Familiars were thought of as demon advisors.
Witch Trials
Witch Trials
- If someone was accused of being a witch, they would go through a trial.
- This was usually being tied to a log and thrown in a lake.
- If they sunk, they would drown an innocent person.
- If they floated, they were taken out and burnt at the stake.
- King James I was so superstitios about witches that he wrote a book about them.
- Shakespeare wrote Macbeth at his request, which featured three witches as the main antagonists.
The Body
The Body
- Medicine at the time was based on the theory of humours.
- If someone was sick, you would alter the amounts of certain humours in them.
- The amounts of humours also was believed to affect your personality.
- If you had lots of blood, you would be fat and jolly.
- If you had lots of yellow bile, you would be short tempered, ambitious, and most likely red haired.
- If you had lots of phlegm, you would be slow, pale, and lazy.
- If you had lots of black bile, you would be very worrying, and quite thin.
The Great Chain of Being
The Great Chain of Being
- The Great Chain of Being was the belief that God had a plan for everything, and everyone.
- Social standing and the monarchy were backed up by this idea.
- Disobeying it would be classified as a sin.
- Everyone and everything had been put in its place for a reason; this probably disuaded uprisings at least somewhat.
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