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This book critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. The book shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors analyse ideas about witches and witch prosecution as gendered artefacts of patriarchal societies under which both women and men suffered. They challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies by applying crucial insights from feminist scholarship on gender to a selection of statistical arguments, social-historical explanations, traditional feminist history and primary sources, including trial records and demonological literature. The authors assessment of current orthodoxies concerning the causes and origins of witch-hunting will be of particular interest to scholars and students in undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern history, religion, culture, gender studies and methodology.

Witchcraft --- Warlocks --- History. --- literature --- gender --- witchcraft --- Demonology --- Early modern Europe --- Early modern period --- Torture --- Witch-hunt

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This book critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. The book shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors analyse ideas about witches and witch prosecution as gendered artefacts of patriarchal societies under which both women and men suffered. They challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies by applying crucial insights from feminist scholarship on gender to a selection of statistical arguments, social-historical explanations, traditional feminist history and primary sources, including trial records and demonological literature. The authors assessment of current orthodoxies concerning the causes and origins of witch-hunting will be of particular interest to scholars and students in undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern history, religion, culture, gender studies and methodology.

Witchcraft --- Warlocks --- literature --- gender --- witchcraft --- Demonology --- Early modern Europe --- Early modern period --- Torture --- Witch-hunt --- History. --- History. --- literature --- gender --- witchcraft --- Demonology --- Early modern Europe --- Early modern period --- Torture --- Witch-hunt

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This text looks at why witch-trials failed to escalate into ""witch-crazes"" in certain parts of early modern Europe. Using the legal records of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, the book explores the social and psychological conflicts behind the making of accusations and confessions of witchcraft.

Witchcraft --- History --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- 291.33 --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- germany --- folklore --- witchcraft --- witches --- Defamation --- Early modern period --- Lutheranism --- Torture --- Wettringen (Münsterland) --- Witch trials in the early modern period --- Witch-hunt --- Würth --- History. --- European history. --- HISTORY / Europe / Germany. --- History & Archaeology

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Recent witchcraft historiography, particularly where it concerns the gender of the witch-suspect, has been dominated by theories of social conflict in which ordinary people colluded in the persecution of the witch sect. The reconstruction of the Eichstätt persecutions (1590-1631) in this book shows that many witchcraft episodes were imposed exclusively ‘from above’ as part of a programme of Catholic reform. The high proportion of female suspects in these cases resulted from the persecutors’ demonology and their interrogation procedures. The confession narratives forced from the suspects reveal a socially integrated, if gendered, community rather than one in crisis. The book is a reminder that an overemphasis on one interpretation cannot adequately account for the many contexts in which witchcraft episodes occurred.

Sex role --- Trials (Witchcraft) --- Witchcraft --- 133.4 --- 133.4 Occulte werking. Magie. Toverij --- Occulte werking. Magie. Toverij --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Religious aspects --- History --- Germany --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- German Uls --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- ХБНГУ --- Германия --- جرمانيا --- ドイツ --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Germany (East) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- Social conditions --- Religious aspects. --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Gėrman --- Герман Улс --- Witchcraft - Germany - Eichstatt (Landkreis) - History - 16th century. --- Witchcraft - Germany - Eichstatt (Landkreis) - History - 17th century. --- Trials (Witchcraft) - Germany - Eichstatt (Landkreis) - 16th century. --- Trials (Witchcraft) - Germany - Eichstatt (Landkreis) - 17th century. --- Sex role - Religious aspects. --- Early Modern History --- Eichstätt --- Interrogation --- Witch-hunt

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In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government. As historian of religions David Frankfurter listened to these sinister theories, it occurred to him how strikingly similar they were to those that swept parts of the early Christian world, early modern Europe, and postcolonial Africa. He began to investigate the social and psychological patterns that give rise to these myths. Thus was born Evil Incarnate, a riveting analysis of the mythology of evilconspiracy. The first work to provide an in-depth analysis of the topic, the book uses anthropology, the history of religion, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, to answer the questions "What causes people collectively to envision evil and seek to exterminate it?" and "Why does the representation of evil recur in such typical patterns?" Frankfurter guides the reader through such diverse subjects as witch-hunting, the origins of demonology, cannibalism, and the rumors of Jewish ritual murder, demonstrating how societies have long expanded upon their fears of such atrocities to address a collective anxiety. Thus, he maintains, panics over modern-day infant sacrifice are really not so different from rumors about early Christians engaging in infant feasts during the second and third centuries in Rome. In Evil Incarnate, Frankfurter deepens historical awareness that stories of Satanic atrocities are both inventions of the mind and perennial phenomena, not authentic criminal events. True evil, as he so artfully demonstrates, is not something organized and corrupting, but rather a social construction that inspires people to brutal acts in the name of moral order.

Good and evil --- Ritual abuse --- Conspiracies --- Demonology --- Public opinion --- History. --- Public opinion --- History. --- Public opinion --- History. --- Public opinion --- History. --- Alien abduction. --- Angel Heart. --- Angra Mainyu. --- Anton LaVey. --- Apocalyptic literature. --- Apologetics. --- Armor of God. --- Backbiting. --- Blasphemy. --- Blood libel. --- Cannibalism. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Catharism. --- Child abuse. --- Child sacrifice. --- Child sexual abuse. --- Christian fundamentalism. --- Compendium Maleficarum. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Counterculture. --- Crime. --- Daeva. --- Deal with the Devil. --- Debbie Nathan. --- Demon. --- Demonic possession. --- Demonology. --- Devourer. --- Disgust. --- Dismemberment. --- Ethnic violence. --- European witchcraft. --- Evocation. --- Exorcism. --- Expurgation. --- Falsity. --- Familiar spirit. --- Gluttony. --- God. --- Heresy. --- Incest taboo. --- Incest. --- Indication (medicine). --- Individual terror. --- Infanticide. --- Jacob Frank. --- Judensau. --- Maleficent. --- Malleus Maleficarum. --- Manichaeism. --- Martha Corey. --- Mass hysteria. --- Matthew Hopkins. --- Michael Langone. --- Michelle Remembers. --- Mind control. --- Murder. --- Necrophilia. --- Obscenity. --- Onoskelis. --- Orgy. --- Parody. --- Perversion. --- Pierre de Lancre. --- Pornography. --- Posttraumatic stress disorder. --- Promiscuity. --- Proscription. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychotherapy. --- Rape culture. --- Religion. --- Rite. --- Robert Calef. --- Sacrilege. --- Salem witch trials. --- Satanic ritual abuse. --- Satanism. --- Sexual inversion (sexology). --- Sexual violence. --- Social criticism. --- Spiritual warfare. --- Spitting. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supreme crime. --- Tanya Luhrmann. --- Theistic Satanism. --- This Present Darkness. --- Torture chamber. --- Torture. --- Totem and Taboo. --- Traditional witchcraft. --- Trickster. --- Ventriloquism. --- Violence and the Sacred. --- War. --- Warfare. --- Witch trials in the early modern period. --- Witch-hunt. --- Witchcraft.