They Burned Women, Not Witches : A Global Guide to Witch Hunts from Antiquity Through Today.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamphier, Peg A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witch hunting--History.

Witch hunting.

Trials (Witchcraft)--History.

Trials (Witchcraft).

Women--Violence against.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

A global examination of the persistence of witch hunts, from antiquity to present day, with a focus on their gendered dimensions and impact on women's lives and their communities.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Chronology of Witch Hunts

Chronology of Witchcraft Texts and Laws

Introduction: Why Witch Hunt History Matters

The History of the History (Historiography)

Narrative Structure

Part One: The Framework of Witch Hunts

1 A Witch, A Witch!: The Language of Witch Hunts

Which Witch?

You Shall Know a Witch by Her Deeds

Witch Hunts, Real and Fake

Patriarchy and Its Kin

Further Reading and Listening

2 "Behind Every Witch Is a Woman Wronged": Gender and the Victims of Witch Hunts

Who Were the Accused Witches?

Socioeconomic Status and Witchcraft Accusations

Healers and Midwives

How Many Died? The Numbers Game and Best Guesses

What About the Men?

Why Mostly Women?

3 Here There Be Monsters: Witch Hunters and Their Critics

Heinrich Kramer and Ulrich Molitor

Reginald Scott, Johann Weyer, and King James IV

The German Prince-Bishops and Friedrich Spee

Mathew Hopkins, John Sterne, and John Gaule

Helen Ukpabio and Leo Igwe

4 In the Face of Pain There Are No Heroes: The Violence of Witch Hunts

What Is Torture?

A Short History of "Witch" Torture

Why Torture?

Implements and Methods of Torture

Sexual Violence and Sexual Sadism

Further Reading

Part Two: Witch Hunts through History

5 An Early Warning System: Witch Hunts in Antiquity to 1400

Ancient North Africa and Middle-East (3000-300 bce )

Ancient Greece and Rome (1100-146 bce , 510 bce -476 ce )

Early Christianity (100 bc -1000 ce )

The High Medieval and Late Medieval Period (1000-1300 and 1300-1500)

Conclusions

6 The Mother of Witch Hunts: Germany.

Historical Context: Germanic States, the Reformation, and Counter-Reformation

The Trier Witch Hunts

The Fulda Witch Hunts

The W ü rzburg, Mergentheim, and Bamburg Witch Hunts

Exceptions and Endings

7 Three Weird Sisters: The Scottish Witch Hunts, Danish Connection, and the Gaelic Exception

James VI and the Danish Connection

The First Great Scottish Witch Hunt: New Berwick Trials, 1590-1

Later Scottish Witch Hunts

The Gaelic Exception

Contemporary Views on Witch Trials

8 More than Salem: Witch Hunts in Colonial Connecticut and Virginia

New England , Not New England

The Connecticut Witch Hunts

Witch Hunts in Colonial Virginia

The Two 1692s and the Salem Anomaly

Not Your Parent's Old World Witchcraft Beliefs

9 Religion Matters: Slavic Witch Hunts and Gender Exceptions

Russian Witch Trial History

Gender and Slavic Witch Trials

Iceland, the Baltic States, and Werewolf Trials

The Polish and Hungarian Exceptions

Conclusion

10 Shapeshifters, Raven Mockers, and Brujas: Witch Hunts among Indigenous Americans

Witch Hunts in Eastern and Central North America

Witch Hunts in Southern North America

Witch Hunts in Colonial Mesoamerica

11 A Postcolonial Paradox: Witch Hunts in Sub-Saharan and West Africa

Accused "Witches" in Africa

Why Witch Hunt?

Witchcraft Beliefs: Vampires, Cannibals, and Zombies

South Africa: A Case Study

12 Witch Hunts in the Asia-Pacific: India, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia

Magic Beliefs and Witch Hunting in Colonial India

Witch Hunting in Modern India and Nepal

Witch Hunting in Papua New Guinea

The Javanese Anomaly.

Further Reading and Listening

13 They're Eating the Dogs: Witch Hunts without Witches

McCarthyism and The Crucible

Anti-Semitism and the Dreyfus Affair

Lynching and the "Scottsboro Boys"

Satanic Panic, the McMartin Preschool Case, and Pizzagate

Italian Earthquakes and Science Witch Hunt

14 Cast into the Wilderness: Scapegoating, Victim Blaming, and Real Monsters

Scapegoating and the Scapegoated

Victim Blaming and the Real Monsters

15 There's Always More Witch Hunts: An Addendum

Austria

Basque Country

Bohemia (Moravia)

Denmark

Finland

France

Italy

Norway

The Ottoman Empire: Hungary and Romania (or Transylvania and Wallachia)

Portugal

Saudi Arabia

Spanish Netherlands (Belgium)

Sweden

Switzerland

Part Three: Primary Source Documents

Canon Episcopi (Tenth Century)

Summis desiderantes (1484)

Malleus Maleficarum , Excerpt (1486)

Question VI Why Superstition is chiefly found in Women.

Chapter VII How, as it were, they Deprive Man of his Virile Member.

"Legend of the Black Sabbath"

"An Act against Witchcraft" (1604)

Macbeth , Act 1, Scene 1 and Scene 3 (1606)

"The Discovery of Witches," Excerpt (1647)

A Quer. 6.

Answ.

A Confession of Witchcraft Explained (1668)

"A Witch Trial at Mount Holly" (1730)

A Witch Trial at Mount Holly

W.I.T.C.H. Manifesto (1968)

Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill (2007)

Chapter 6 OFFENCES

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's Apology (2022)

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9798765126400