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“And, of course, such self-righteousness and entitled aggression created the perfect atmosphere in which to hunt witches: the ultimate, devil-loving heretics.”
“That will matter in the story of the witch hunt.”
“And in the 17th century, such events were explained as God’s punishment.”
“It was a mood that had been brewing since the Reformation movement took hold in Britain around a hundred years earlier.”
“Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials is her most recent work.”
“Beyond wanting reform of existing religious options, these various sects differed greatly from each other.”
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“Pregnant women and mothers were especially unwelcome.”
“The Reformation saw Protestantism become the favored religion across England and Wales, replacing the Catholicism that had preceded it.”
“The self-assured neighbors of these people would often target them at their lowest ebb to try to force compliance, frequently involving the confession of sin.”
“Poorer women were extremely vulnerable if they were judged to have sinned like this.”
“Poorer folk and women were especially firmly regulated by religion in this 17th-century world—people like Alice Cooke of Hempnall.”
“And during the civil wars between King and Parliament that raged across Britain in the 1640s, such ideal stasis was impossible to preserve.”
“When it was closed down in 1539, its treasures, books and relics were seized and its lands and buildings sold off, some to local nobles and gentry, some to the town authorities of Bury.”
“Castles and stately homes were blown up, towns put under siege and their walls razed, churches stripped.”
“This, the perfectly decent people of Kettleborough reasoned, was a natural and godly rebuke for Susan and Cuthbert’s sin.”
“In September 1644, Suffolk housewife Thomasine Stott was arrested for refusing to go to her state church.”
“Worst off were those displaced from the parish of their birth, driven out by conflict or condemnation.”
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“__________________________________ Excerpted from Witchland: A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain .”
“They could be jailed, denied church charity and excluded from the congregation to which they’d belonged.”
““Samuel Wharton, son of Robert Wharton (a beggarman),” “Mary Wharton, daughter of Robert (a beggarman)” and “Robert Wharton (a beggarman)” were all buried in Manningtree in Essex on 3, 8 and September 28, 1624.”