Abnormal Psychology / Criminology/ Sociology / Cultural Archaeology
The 'Witch' Craze / weaka
Stuporstition...
The Witch Craze demonstrates christian lunacy if it goes unchecked. The classic account of the European hysteria and the Salem Witch Tryals.
To those under the delusion that children do not lie {if 'Michelle Remembers' & Wenatchee, WA are any indication}, this film accurately portrays the self-righteous, hypocritical, corruption besetting the peasantly christians at that Puritanical tyme, with all its stuporstitious finger-pointing & paranoiac insanity, demonstrated by three little girls who, in order to avoid punishment, begin creating lies about several townspeople who are subsequently hanged at the gallows, & for a tyme, caused an hysteria wherein neighbors accused neighbors, for more spiteful reasons & jealousy issues, than actual diabolism.
So what was the true evil occurring in Europe and Salem? christian repression & false accusations fostered by children. The peasants needed some sort of excuse to break free of their doldrums, so the first thing that came along - the "crime of witchcraft" - became a venue to express all those sublimated desires of bloodlust - they needed to see & experience some sort of excitement , & so of course, they turned to The Devil for it. In this case, again, as representing all their sublimated animal desires.
Repression / Abstinence only leads to aberrant behaviour; as is evidenced in that era in history, as well as modern-day priests who molest altar boys & preachers who turn to prostitutes for an outlet.
Nowadays, the christian crutch must still preserve its fearful hold on its sheeple, but it is done in more covert means, while still maintaining guilt-inducements based on fear.
Also, within various documentaries, and studying books on the subject which have been available for three centuries now, it is plainly related that no real witches were ever burned at the stake, hanged, or given "the test" {that is, thrown into a lake to see whether she floats or sinks} - but rather, these crimes were perpetrated against the common folk - so, weakans, as common as they are, have no basis in fact claiming the so-called "burning times" as relative.
As a matter if fact, the Magistrates themselves could even be seen as rather `satanic' characters - that is, they formed their own realities to enforce their particular views & gratify their lusts. I would rather have been an Inquisitor, or Magistrate, than a peasant any day! They were the ones who held the power, influence, the law-makers who were the directors of people's fates. The veritable Pontius Pilates of the period. And as we know, the true witches were sleeping with them!
So Abigail Folger was the major instigator, primarily accusing poor Tutuba, the well-meaning black slave woman, along with a slew of others, just so that she would not be blamed. Surely, a practice in self-preservation, but without acknowledging personal responsibility, blaming `the devil' in classic christian style.
Now, the naughty herdlings exhibit pretentious neo-paganized Christianity called "wicca". Bead-wearing, crystal-gripping, watered-down pop-culture pseudo-occultnik hippies, or "wippies" assume they are 'witches', and has even become a rather benign societal trend; but these are essentially xians in black, or 'sheep in wolf's clothing'. These beieve in the dualities of 'white' and 'black' witchcraft, whereas the true witch and warlock realize that these are one in the same, be it used to help or hinder.