Witchcraft in depth study lmao
How to use: split into several sections, the first topic is in two tables with subheadings in bold,
the coming of science and reasoning is split in a similar way and individual cases within the
depth study are seperate.
Fraudulent cases
Fraudulent cases
Boy of Aged 14, Thomas Darling Gooderige, aged 60 was held Eventually the Bishop of The case gained
Burton, went hare hunting with his in Derby prison and later canterbury got involved attention for its
1596- 97, uncle, Robert Toone, when confessed/ during the trial and the case was looked fraudulent ways as it
and the 1599 he claimed to have been she died of a choking fit and into / it led to a canon was concluded that the
publication bewitched - he was taken Darling had 37 violent fits/ a drawn up by the Bishop of accusations were
home and a doctor saw few years later Darrell, the Bancroft in 1604 based on personal
him - he read out the New same person who claimed to forbidding clergymen to pursuits not witchcraft
Testament / they perform an exorcism on practise exorcisms
concluded it must have Darling, did so on Somers /
been Alice Gooderidge suspicions arose around Also a pamphlet war
them
The Pendle The same place were the The boy waited three months The two Robinsons and 5 S. Armitage draws
Swindle, 1612 trials happened, a before pushing the case women were called to the attention to how
1634 young boy Edmund forward, 25 were accused council, William Harvey accusations could be
Robinson claimed he was and 17 trialled, but John and several other nurses easily abused -
bewitched and taken to a Starkie and Robert checked them for devil’s Webster also
witches coven - S. Shuttleworth felt the evidence marks and concluded responded to the case
Armitage argues he was was dubious and sent it to the nothing suspicious about it stating that when he
likely aware of the previous privy council - Margaret Johnson tried to speak to the
case confessed but not to the boy he was hastily
same charges taken away
Demon This case took place in The case resulted in masses Webster, however, had a Referred to by both
Drummer of Tedworth/ JP and of attention being drawn to greater response and he Webster and Bekker
Tedworth, landowner John his house, including visits stated in his 1677
1662 Mompesson who lived in from people like Charles II, literature that if witches did
the Wiltshire- Hampshire Glanvill and Webster (who do harm it was through
and had experience as later criticised the case) - natural means and had no
country militia confiscated Glanvill in particular wrote his assistance from the Devil -
William Drury’s drum as he 1668 literature urging the RS this received responses
was trying to raise alms to look into witchcraft through from Seth Ward, John
scientific reasoning Wilkin and Henry More
Jane This was one of the last Walkern was a town of After her case he This, followed by the
Wenham fraudulent cases that dissenters and it is possible demanded a pardon for 1751 case with Ruth
case, 1712 revolved around Walkern, that the clergy accused her to her and got one, Osborne and the
near Stevenage/ Jane was exert their power- furthermore Whig 1690s case of Alice
accused by 16 people - 3 nonetheless, her judge, John politician William Cowper Molland were the last
clergymen Powell was sceptical gave her a cottage to stay few cases before the
at until 1730 - her death end of witchcrazes as
a whole
, Sceptical publications
Sceptical publications and influential judges
Sir George Mackenzie - Believed witches Sir John Holt - C. Hole argues John Powell was also
Lord Chief Justice/ suffered from Hutchinson - 11 he was massively sceptical in the Jane
represented Maevia - an melancholia, to 12 cases/ all influential, Wenham case
accused witch were not tools of acquitted/ alongside such
the devil but famous case of judges, in the
deceived/ did not Sarah Murdoch end of beliefs
deserve to be he threatened to due to the rise in
tortured - critical put her accusers science and
of Hopkins on trial/ reason
extremely
influential
Ady’s The Discoverie of Believed witches Felt they used Samuel Led to a pamphlet war
Witchcraft, 1584 / were suffering natural means/ Harsnett’s The which ultimately went
influenced by Johann from believed in the Discovery of the towards questioning the
Weyer (1563) and Canon melancholia/ supernatural Fraudulent role of exorcisms and the
Episcopi were tools of the unknown - Practises of legitimacy of it
Devil/ disagreed undiscovered John Darrell,
with far fetched elements 1599 / argued
accusations casting out the
Devil was God’s
deed
Thomas Ady’s A Candle Compelled to He recites what Webster’s The He argues that witches did
in the dark, 1656 / used write the book Ady said as he Displaying of not have supernatural
Bible as his only source due to wrongful argues people Supposed powers/ Hugh Trevor
accusations/ no forgot his witchcraft, 1677 Roper argues he was not
mention of teachings/ He / nonconformist/ significant
familiars in the mentions hocus intended to rebuff
Bible and notes pocus junior and Glanvill/ received
Catholics were the links between attention by
first to kill for magic Oxford
religion academics
Bekker’s The Enchanted He recited what Attfield accounts
World, 1691 / accepted Scot said but 131 Dutch
fellow of the RS after his used the Bible to responses to it/
death do so/ sold 4,000 K. Joseph argues
copies and was he was influential
translated into but Hugh Trevor
many European Roper disagrees
languages
How to use: split into several sections, the first topic is in two tables with subheadings in bold,
the coming of science and reasoning is split in a similar way and individual cases within the
depth study are seperate.
Fraudulent cases
Fraudulent cases
Boy of Aged 14, Thomas Darling Gooderige, aged 60 was held Eventually the Bishop of The case gained
Burton, went hare hunting with his in Derby prison and later canterbury got involved attention for its
1596- 97, uncle, Robert Toone, when confessed/ during the trial and the case was looked fraudulent ways as it
and the 1599 he claimed to have been she died of a choking fit and into / it led to a canon was concluded that the
publication bewitched - he was taken Darling had 37 violent fits/ a drawn up by the Bishop of accusations were
home and a doctor saw few years later Darrell, the Bancroft in 1604 based on personal
him - he read out the New same person who claimed to forbidding clergymen to pursuits not witchcraft
Testament / they perform an exorcism on practise exorcisms
concluded it must have Darling, did so on Somers /
been Alice Gooderidge suspicions arose around Also a pamphlet war
them
The Pendle The same place were the The boy waited three months The two Robinsons and 5 S. Armitage draws
Swindle, 1612 trials happened, a before pushing the case women were called to the attention to how
1634 young boy Edmund forward, 25 were accused council, William Harvey accusations could be
Robinson claimed he was and 17 trialled, but John and several other nurses easily abused -
bewitched and taken to a Starkie and Robert checked them for devil’s Webster also
witches coven - S. Shuttleworth felt the evidence marks and concluded responded to the case
Armitage argues he was was dubious and sent it to the nothing suspicious about it stating that when he
likely aware of the previous privy council - Margaret Johnson tried to speak to the
case confessed but not to the boy he was hastily
same charges taken away
Demon This case took place in The case resulted in masses Webster, however, had a Referred to by both
Drummer of Tedworth/ JP and of attention being drawn to greater response and he Webster and Bekker
Tedworth, landowner John his house, including visits stated in his 1677
1662 Mompesson who lived in from people like Charles II, literature that if witches did
the Wiltshire- Hampshire Glanvill and Webster (who do harm it was through
and had experience as later criticised the case) - natural means and had no
country militia confiscated Glanvill in particular wrote his assistance from the Devil -
William Drury’s drum as he 1668 literature urging the RS this received responses
was trying to raise alms to look into witchcraft through from Seth Ward, John
scientific reasoning Wilkin and Henry More
Jane This was one of the last Walkern was a town of After her case he This, followed by the
Wenham fraudulent cases that dissenters and it is possible demanded a pardon for 1751 case with Ruth
case, 1712 revolved around Walkern, that the clergy accused her to her and got one, Osborne and the
near Stevenage/ Jane was exert their power- furthermore Whig 1690s case of Alice
accused by 16 people - 3 nonetheless, her judge, John politician William Cowper Molland were the last
clergymen Powell was sceptical gave her a cottage to stay few cases before the
at until 1730 - her death end of witchcrazes as
a whole
, Sceptical publications
Sceptical publications and influential judges
Sir George Mackenzie - Believed witches Sir John Holt - C. Hole argues John Powell was also
Lord Chief Justice/ suffered from Hutchinson - 11 he was massively sceptical in the Jane
represented Maevia - an melancholia, to 12 cases/ all influential, Wenham case
accused witch were not tools of acquitted/ alongside such
the devil but famous case of judges, in the
deceived/ did not Sarah Murdoch end of beliefs
deserve to be he threatened to due to the rise in
tortured - critical put her accusers science and
of Hopkins on trial/ reason
extremely
influential
Ady’s The Discoverie of Believed witches Felt they used Samuel Led to a pamphlet war
Witchcraft, 1584 / were suffering natural means/ Harsnett’s The which ultimately went
influenced by Johann from believed in the Discovery of the towards questioning the
Weyer (1563) and Canon melancholia/ supernatural Fraudulent role of exorcisms and the
Episcopi were tools of the unknown - Practises of legitimacy of it
Devil/ disagreed undiscovered John Darrell,
with far fetched elements 1599 / argued
accusations casting out the
Devil was God’s
deed
Thomas Ady’s A Candle Compelled to He recites what Webster’s The He argues that witches did
in the dark, 1656 / used write the book Ady said as he Displaying of not have supernatural
Bible as his only source due to wrongful argues people Supposed powers/ Hugh Trevor
accusations/ no forgot his witchcraft, 1677 Roper argues he was not
mention of teachings/ He / nonconformist/ significant
familiars in the mentions hocus intended to rebuff
Bible and notes pocus junior and Glanvill/ received
Catholics were the links between attention by
first to kill for magic Oxford
religion academics
Bekker’s The Enchanted He recited what Attfield accounts
World, 1691 / accepted Scot said but 131 Dutch
fellow of the RS after his used the Bible to responses to it/
death do so/ sold 4,000 K. Joseph argues
copies and was he was influential
translated into but Hugh Trevor
many European Roper disagrees
languages
