Allegations of both Male and Female Witches in Early Modern Europe

Witch hunting in modern Europe was widespread and extensive. Christina Lana, professor of sociology at the University of Glasgow and a powerful magical historian, provided valuable insight into the early European witch trial in her article "Witch Hunting Woman - Hunting?" Larner wrote that magic is related to gender, but not gender-specific (Larner, 2002). Women account for about 80% of the defendants, and it can not be denied that in early modern Europe, gender plays a major role in witch hunting (Larner, 2002).

In the 3 rd century of the early modern European history, various societies consumed for the witches panic between them. Especially magic in Central Europe brought trial, torture and execution of tens of thousands of victims, of which approximately three quarters were women. An adult woman in Europe is not subject to such massive atrocities before and after that. Hunting in early modern Europe was done against the background of rapid changes in society, economy, and religion. As can be seen in the following modern case studies, this common pressure - including epidemics and epidemics of natural disasters - is almost always the center of this type of large hysteria outbreak. The analysis of Jenny Gibbons links witch hunting to other "panic" in modern Europe.

In the modern witch trial, a series of witch hunts were performed across modern Europe from the 15th to the 18th century, and in some European North American colonies malicious devil witches were active. As an organizational threat to the Christian world. People accused of magic were drawn as devil worshiper and the devil was engaged in witchcraft at a gathering called a witch's Sabbath. Many people were later criticized as witches and different penalties were applied in different areas and at different times and sinned.

Early modern Europe and its North American colonies were full of faith in the reality of magic and magic. People who practice beliefs and wicked magic for witches are not strangers in contemporary Europe. The witches appear in literature - the most famous is the character of Circe of Homer 's "Odyssey" - indeed, many people write curses on the pencil of the Roman Empire. In a part of Europe in the early Middle Ages, the witch was believed universally and permanently when riding the goddess such as Diana, Herodias, Holder, Percia, but in Canon · Episkopi the Roman Catholic Church actually I believed it would not happen, instead it was the superstition caused by the devil.