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Of Bookish Things Oct 19, 2024

We Now Know What May Have Caused the #SalemWitchTrials

- A new study purports to have discovered the source of the “#WitchCraze” that led to witch hunts across Europe and America in the 15th through 17th centuries.

- New ideas about #Witches—casting them as a “conspiratorial activity against godly society” — came from a #Book called #MalleusMaleficarum

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We Now Know What May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials

Thanks a lot, Johannes Gutenberg.

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Shantell Powell Mar 2, 2023

While looking for something completely different, I happened across this amazing article about how Mi’kmaq were perceived as witches in what are now the Atlantic provinces of Canada. This is a treasure trove about racism, witch hunts, and colonialism. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ethno/2008-v30-n2-ethno2776/019949ar/ #WitchHunt #Witchcraft #Superstition #Racism #Mikmaq #Acadian #ColonialHistory #Canada #Indigenous #History #WitchCraze #Sorcery #Mikmaw #Wabanaki #Newfoundland #NewBrunswick #Colonization #Folklore #Appalachians #Magic

Native Witchcraft Beliefs in Acadian, Maritime and Newfoundland Folklore – Ethnologies

An article from Ethnologies, on Érudit.

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