Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Supernatural
deviants and
witches
Naomi Pullin
n.r.wood@warwick.ac.uk
Aims of today
Lycanthrope /
Lycanthropy
werewolf/ism
James VI Scotland
- Demonologie
(1597)
Jean Bodin -
Demonomanie des
sorciers (1580)
Bodins Demonomanie
To throw some light on the subject of
witches, which seems marvelously strange
to everyone and unbelievable to many.
Michel de Montaigne
(1553-1592)
Malleus Maleficarum
(The Hammer of
Witches) (1486)
Attributed to
Heinrich Kramer
Malleus Maleficarum
Matthew
Hopkins
(c.1620-1647)
gains
prominence in
Essex in 1640s
Witchfinders
Nicholas Rmy
(1520-1616)
gains prominence in
Lorraine and the
French Comte in the
1580s
Andrea Dworkin,
Woman Hating
(1974)
The persecution of
a whole sex
Jean Bodin
Witchcraft persecutions of
the sixteenth- and
seventeenth- centuries
remain the most hideous
examples of misogyny in
European history.'
Loudon Possessions
Urban Grandier sentenced 1633
Gender-related but not gender
specific