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Source: National Geographic
A royal obsession with black magic started Europe's most brutal witch hunts
In the 1590s, King James I of Scotland's fear of witchcraft began stirring up national panics, resulting in the torture and death of thousands.
BY JULIAN GOODARE | 17 OCT 2019
Scotland was not alone in falling victim to witchcraft panics in the late 16th century and first half of the 17th century. Witch-hunting plagued Europe, beginning in the 15th century when the idea that witches worshipped the devil began to take hold. Burgundy, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Scandinavia all endured outbreaks of witch panics during this time. After the Reformation divided Europe into Protestant and Catholic in the early 16th century, both sides hunted witches. During this period of religious reform, rulers wanted to prove their godliness. They perceived the unholy and evil as the source of unrest and disorder. (See how Satan and his punishments were depicted in the Middle Ages.)
Witch-hunting could be seen as an extension of the Protestant Reformation as parish ministers and government authorities sought to create a "godly state" in which everyone worshipped correctly, and sin and ungodliness were wiped out. In numerical terms, Scotland's witch hunts were severe. Between 1590 and 1662, five intense panics erupted across Scotland: 1590-91, 1597, 1628-1631, 1649-1650, and 1661-62. (Watch an animated history of Martin Luther's starting the Reformation.)
As a result of these panics, out of a population of roughly a million people, about 2,500 accused witches, most of them women, were executed – five times the average European execution rate per capita. Scotland's susceptibility to widespread panic over witches and witchcraft was, in part, determined by the role of one man: the Scottish ruler King James VI, who, following the death of Elizabeth I, became King James I of England in 1603.
Please go to National Geographic to continue reading.
Source: National Geographic
A royal obsession with black magic started Europe's most brutal witch hunts
In the 1590s, King James I of Scotland's fear of witchcraft began stirring up national panics, resulting in the torture and death of thousands.
BY JULIAN GOODARE | 17 OCT 2019
Burning witches alive was common in Germany and other parts of Europe, but in Scotland the convicted were usually strangled before their bodies were burned.
PHOTOGRAPH BY AKG, ALBUM
During the late 1500s Scotland believed the devil was at work in the land. Locals talked about his ability to raise storms, kill livestock, and spread deadly illness. Satan sought to undermine human society from within and was recruiting secret agents to do his bidding. Those diabolical actors were witches, and the authorities believed they had to be eradicated for the sake of the kingdom.
PHOTOGRAPH BY WELLCOME COLLECTION
Scotland was not alone in falling victim to witchcraft panics in the late 16th century and first half of the 17th century. Witch-hunting plagued Europe, beginning in the 15th century when the idea that witches worshipped the devil began to take hold. Burgundy, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Scandinavia all endured outbreaks of witch panics during this time. After the Reformation divided Europe into Protestant and Catholic in the early 16th century, both sides hunted witches. During this period of religious reform, rulers wanted to prove their godliness. They perceived the unholy and evil as the source of unrest and disorder. (See how Satan and his punishments were depicted in the Middle Ages.)
Witch-hunting could be seen as an extension of the Protestant Reformation as parish ministers and government authorities sought to create a "godly state" in which everyone worshipped correctly, and sin and ungodliness were wiped out. In numerical terms, Scotland's witch hunts were severe. Between 1590 and 1662, five intense panics erupted across Scotland: 1590-91, 1597, 1628-1631, 1649-1650, and 1661-62. (Watch an animated history of Martin Luther's starting the Reformation.)
As a result of these panics, out of a population of roughly a million people, about 2,500 accused witches, most of them women, were executed – five times the average European execution rate per capita. Scotland's susceptibility to widespread panic over witches and witchcraft was, in part, determined by the role of one man: the Scottish ruler King James VI, who, following the death of Elizabeth I, became King James I of England in 1603.
Please go to National Geographic to continue reading.
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Has anyone checked lil' thunder, we mean, Thunberg recently? Seems she is a little pissed off at the west. This is one profoundly psychotic little girl.
Greta Thunberg Calls For 'Annihilation of the West' To 'Save the World'
Has anyone checked lil' thunder, we mean, Thunberg recently? Seems she is a little pissed off at the west. This is one profoundly psychotic little girl.
Greta Thunberg Calls For 'Annihilation of the West' To 'Save the World'
Only the globe trotting elite get to fly then accuse you of using too much carbon. You get to stay in your unheated little house and feed insects to your children as a source of protein.
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People will go along with attacking and persecuting likely even killing carbon burners...
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