SH+P3+Witchcraft

Audience- Grant Williams Historical- Alex Colpo Aim- Johnny Wilson Culture- Joey Giola

Audience- Grant Williams The audience of the 19th to the 20th century has proven itself to have many different and strange features including witchcraft. Witchcraft has been a belief for hundreds of years, though in the 19th and 20th centuries, others began to believe it to be a practice of evil. This practice of sorcery and spells has caused much fear for people involved in and associated with witchcraft. The idea of witchcraft has also been a major reason why so many women were killed for beliefs that were not entirely confirmed by their killers. Accused witches were tied to a steak and often burned to death by the towns people in order to cleanse the evil from the town. “The concept of witchcraft as harmful is normally treated as a cultural ideology, a means of explaining human misfortune by blaming it either on a supernatural entity or a known person in the community” (Witchcraft 1). People were not entirely sure why the witchcraft occurred, so they often blamed the events on the supernatural evil within the witches. The audience that experienced these events were often people that had quick judgement and quick beliefs. People dealing with witchcraft were often confused or had a solid belief of the situation. Witchcraft fooled many, though some saw through the tricks and illusions to come to the conclusion that witchcraft was simply evil.

Works Cited- Harland, John. Wilkinson T.T. "Witchcraft in the 19th century." Lancashire Folklore. 16 Nov. 2012. Web. Wikipedia contributors. "Witchcraft." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 16 Nov. 2012. Web.

Historical Alex Colpo-

Witchcraft became rampant in the late 19th and early 20th century. People were accusing women of witchcraft, and these women would be put through horrible trials and terrible tests to test if they were a witch. It was believed by most that witchcraft meant that the women were in league with the devil. This caused them to be seen as terrible people and that they deserved to burn at the stake. It is claimed that, "around 50,00 witches burned at the stake," (Howstuffworks.com). These women were not witches either. These women were people that had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time and had been accused as being a witch. When they were accused of being a witch, the trials they had to go through usually killed them. Witchcraft greatly affected our ancestors because it killed a lot of people that had no reason to die.

Works Cited Douglas, Mary. //Www2.kenyon.edu//. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012.Obringer, Lee. ""How Witchcraft Works"" //HowStuffWorks//. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. .

Culture Joey Giola-



Witchcraft has influenced modern culture by creating a new genre for entertainment. Books have been written such as Harry Potter that use witchcraft as the main focus of the series. Pretty much anything that has to do with magic, is based of witchcraft. This would include anything that had to do with mages, wizards, witches etc. "It was not until the end of the Medieval Period that a definition emerged of the witch as a person in league with the devil."(Kenyon). After the 1500 hundreds, the stories started showing up about witches and people started to get killed over being accused of being a witch. It wasn't until about the 1900s where fictional stories started appearing that had witches and wizards. And how did witchcraft affect modern culture? It affected the modern culture by creating book series, video games, movies etc. An example of a movie would be "Lord of the Rings" Gandalf is a wizard and often preforms magic spells. The same goes for Harry Potter, he speaks magic words and spells coming shooting out of his wand. As well as the stereotype of wizards and witches using brooms comes up in the book series. The term witchcraft has affected modern culture by ushering in tales of magic.

Works Cited 1. "Witchcraft." // Kenyon //. Kenyon Edu. Web. 16 Nov 2012. .2. Wikipedia contributors. "Witchcraft." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 16 Nov. 2012. Web.

Aim: Johnny Wilson The purpose of witchcraft was to put fear in to human beings. That was the case in the Salem Witchcraft Trials; “nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging” (Linder). As shown in the quote the nineteen people were hanged for witchcraft, which was concluded by the Salem Witchcraft Trials. The trials were conducted because of the fear that had been installed during that time period. The trials were conducted because Great Briton had been having a paranoia over witchcraft as citizens were scared straight. Those witches would be persecuted for Witchcraft as those beings were thought to be witches. In court, “Priests and ministers used biblical warnings about witches to back up the allegations” (The horrors of the 17th Century witch hunts). As shown in the quote, the witches would be put into court and charged for their Witchcraft. At the time the country was so scared of Witchcraft that they were using information from the bible that wasn’t very reliable to back up their claims when charging the witches. In a time were Witchcraft was dreaded and frowned upon, the aim of Witchcraft was to put fear in humans.

Work Cited Linder, Douglas O. "The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692." //The Salem Witchcraft Trials// //of 1692//. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2012. .

"The Horrors of the 17th Century Witch Hunts." //BBC News//. BBC, 15 Sept. 2010. Web. 17 Nov. 2012. .