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Also known as ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, The Witch’s Hammer was a book, arguably one of the most infamous books ever written, by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. The actual translation of it is “Hammer of Witches”. It was published in the year of 1487. During the Inquisition, it served as a guidebook for Inquisitors and was designed to aid them in the identification, prosecution, and dispatching of Witches. It came to be widely regarded as irrefutable truth and are held today by a majority of…

Anh Nguyen Research paper The Salem Witch Trials Religions have long been not only a controversial topic among societies, but it also played an important role as a foundation of the early North American social as well as religious life. As their main belief was that God should be involved in aspects of one’s life and worshiped constantly, any behaviors or motivation going against his will were all considered as sins, thus, they must be punished. One of the great way to envision…

In the annals of American religious history, spiritualism sits uncomfortably alongside fundamentalism and other conventional forms of religion that command largest portion of scholars’ attention. Ann Braude’s Radical Spirits was one of the first narratives written that documents this important but slighted movement. To the surprise of both nineteenth-century observers and contemporary scholars alike, spiritualists were consumed by the prospect of communication with the dead. Braude provides…

Witchcraft is the manipulation of powerful substances or words through magic to cause harm (McGarry, Karen. 2016. Manipulating the spiritual: witchcraft. Lecture given in Anthropology 1AB3, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, January 25th). Witch accusations and sorcery aren't new among the highlands and small villages in Papua New Guinea, there is a connection with religion and this topic. Africa is largely known for witchcraft and sorcery which gives this stigma to it, most cases of…

Try Rosalyn Schanzer’s Witches!The absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem. This happened in 1690. There religion was Puritan which was not a flashy religion. The trials were not fair because of the use of spectral evidence, the defendant's prosecution, and the the use of false evidence. The trials were not fair because of the defendant's prosecution. Everyone who was a defendant in that court before spectral evidence was banned was condemned to death. The defendants were always presumed…

Introduction In 1663, Brunswick, Germany was “swamped with refugees [which led to] overcrowding, brought disease and exacerbated outbreaks of the plague” compounded by multiple bad winters which caused additional social stress, anxiety, and hardships (Morton & Dähms, 2006, p. xv). Brunswick was a “fortified, medium city [that was] “predominately Protestant” of practicing Lutherans (Van Heyst, n.d., p. 113). Religion, “popular beliefs and common social characteristics of witches…[which] were…

The Devil wears Prada. As the saying goes, the demonic figure does not take the form of a scary, disfigured being but uses a disguise (such as high-fashion) to hide their desires. The people of Salem are portrayed the same way. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the powerful role of female characters such as Abigail Williams, Tituba and Mary Warren portray their own example of McCarthyism, proving that their actions shape the plot of the play. Abigail Williams plays the role of accuser as she uses…

Background Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, also known as the “Lady Al-Qaeda,” is a mother of three, trained neuroscientist and a legend in the world of terrorism. As the only female to have been placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, Siddiqui’s case has been shrouded in secrecy, intrigue and conspiracies. Throughout the many articles, court records and stolen diplomatic cables, it is difficult to understand what is fact or fiction or to pinpoint when and if her radicalization occurred. “The US…

In the early 17th century names like Francois Viete and Bartholomeo Pitiscus were still ringing through the mathematical community’s ears. Viete had blown everyone away with his book Canon Mathematicus in 1579. The book contained a collection of trigonometric formulas and tables. Viete was also responsible for trisecting an angle and the construction of the regular pentagon. Bartholomeo Pitiscus had coined the term trigonometry in the title of his 1595 book, Trigonometria. This book was split…

To answer the question if witch hunts are justified or not, yes they are. The people during this time were very religious. They followed what the bible said and what they thought was right to do so that they can enforce what they went to church every day for. Although this wasn’t a humane thing to do, it was going with what they worshiped and believed in. There were various reasons to see why this was wrong to do but they honestly believed that witchcraft was the devils work. The bible outlines…