Also the root of the villain in Sleeping Beauty
Women were targeted (especially middle-aged, spinsters, never married, divorced, or widowed women)
Man's fear of women throughout modern times
Picture page 475 in Kagan's The Western Heritage
Reading, page 477, "Why More Women than Men Are Witches" by Malleus Maleficaron
misogny- hatred of women
mis- relates to hate, -gyny- relates to women
Reading, The Hammer of Witches (1486)
credulous- believing something without much concrete evidence
- comes from credibility
Women in Scripture
- Eve (Genesis)- Adam was left out of blame, he was in charge
- Mary Magdellan (Luke)
- The whore of Babylon (Revelation)
- Dellilah (Sampson)
proclivity- conversion
carnal- worldly
End of witch hunts contemporary with Enlightenment