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What questions can the source help me answer? Which can not?

Cannot: How did the 'witches' feel about how they were being treated?

Can: Why did people believe that the outsiders were the ones who were bad omen?

Cannot: Were the people that were blamed actually witches?

Whose perspectives are omitted/questioned/challenged?

Outsiders and woman were being accused of witchcraft

They were being questioned because they showed "signs of witchcraft"

What ideas are left out?

Perspective of the 'Witches' or the accused

What are the big ideas?

Witchcraft was a serious threat to a lot of people

Who wrote it? Why?

The book outlines process of becoming a witch, signs, and effective methods of killing them off the community

'The Malleus Maleficarum was written by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

Designed to help Christian authorities find and prosecute witches

Did primary source reveal attitudes/beliefs of era?

80% of people blamed were woman

Sprenger and Kramer believed woman were inherently sinful

Outsiders were mainly targeted

blamed for bad fortune of the community, thus accused of witchcraft

ex. scapegoats, midwives, lower class women.

Shows how people thought "witches" were a danger to the world

Whose perspective does it reflect?

Christians, Catholics, and Protestants

Did primary source result in change?

raised a lot of awareness

caused people to start accusing more people

How does the author communicate ideas?

Informative summary of the Malleus Maleficarum

What does it look like?

Image was provided, which showed the numerous ways witches were punished (mutilate hand, removal of eye)

"The Malleus Maleficarum" book from the time period

talked about ways to kill witches, how to hunt and spot them, signs and symptoms