Europe: 1450-1750 Malleus Maleficarum

I think this shows how many people in the past were more interested in just agreeing with whoever had the most power and cared less about the facts. I say this because these two monks put out this book and many people jumped onto the bandwagon and people who thought that believing in witches was a sin, joined the hunts as soon as they lost their following.

This is a well crafted book, there was a lot of thought and meaning put into this.

Two German monks named Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger wrote the book because they believed that witches were a serious threat to our society and needed to be stopped before they took over the world.

From the excerpts I had available thee authors communicated their ideas through paragraph structure to provide evidence as to why women are bad and most are witches, but they also use a list that provides instructions how to properly give a witch trial.

This primary source tells us a lot about the structure of society at the time. Women were seen not only as lesser, but as mainly sinful creatures. I believe the authors were less worried about actual witches and were more concerned about what would happen if women were equals.

The obvious result was the witch trials, but the actual impact of these trials is hard to track because there were many other reasons why people died in this time and there is many different recorded numbers foe how many witches had trials.

This source can help me answer why they prosecuted witches in such manner, why witches seemed to be women, and why the prosecutions started. However, this source does not answer what caused them to write this book and why people were originally found as witches.

The perspective that is omitted is from the Catholic church that not only didn't believe in witches, but found it a sin.

The book reflects the perspective of the witch believers, a very small collection of the Catholics.

The ideas that are left out are that there were no such thing as witches and that magic isn't real.