Witches: A Chronicle of 13 Trials
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Witches: A Chronicle of 13 Trials
14.99 €
In 1590, Edinburgh tried women accused of witchcraft. The trial, which began as a local trial, has become a nationwide event. King Jacob himself came to trial. In 1692, a quiet Puritan colony was shaken by unprecedented events – the locals were accused of having a connection with the devil. They were to be tortured and executed, and the name of the city will be forever inscribed in history: Salem. In the 1730s, Marie-Cathrin Cadier accused a priest of seducing her. Rumors spread everywhere like a plague. By the beginning of the proceedings, both Marie-Kathrin and the priest were suspected of witchcraft. The young girl is destined to become the heroine of one of the most loud and important processes of the XVIII century. Heroine and victim. Covens and folk healing, Hammer of Witches and treatises on Satanism, medieval Scotland and witch murders in the 1940s. Who were all these women and men whose names we know only in connection with witchcraft? What surrounded them, what they lived for? What do witches look like today?
“Witch trials are exercises of power over other people: they can be hurt, silenced, condemned and killed. If we do not feel their pain, if we do not resent their fate, then we will not understand all the illegality, all the blatant wrongness of persecution. If you don't feel, how do you fight? ?
Marion Gibson
“Witch trials are exercises of power over other people: they can be hurt, silenced, condemned and killed. If we do not feel their pain, if we do not resent their fate, then we will not understand all the illegality, all the blatant wrongness of persecution. If you don't feel, how do you fight? ?
Marion Gibson
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