Weather magic
Weather magic was primitive mans meteorology and a way for them to fortell the future
http://momo.essortment.com/weathermagic_rmqf.htm
The Little Ice Age in Europe
"Western Europe experienced a general cooling of the climate between the years 1150 and 1460 and a very cold climate between 1560 and 1850 that brought dire consequences to its peoples. The colder weather impacted agriculture, health, economics, social strife, emigration, and even art and literature. Increased glaciation and storms also had a devastating affect on those that lived near glaciers and the sea"
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia ... e_age.html
The witch hunt as a culture change phenomenon
Reprinted in B. P. Levack (Ed.). (1992). Articles on witchcraft, magic and religion. Vol. 1: Anthropological studies of witchcraft, magic and religion (pp. 337-362). New York: Garland
http://www.lclark.edu/~schoen/culturetext.html
WITCHCRAFT (BBC Radio 4) Audio Stream 43:00
"Why did practices that had been tolerated for centuries suddenly become such a threat?"
Weekly Roundtable: Contributors
Alison Rowlands, Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex
Lyndal Roper, Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, University of Oxford and author of Witch Craze (Yale University Press, 2004)
Malcolm Gaskill, Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/ino ... time.shtml
Malleus Maleficarum (1486)
This is the best known (i.e., the most infamous) of the witch-hunt manuals. Written in Latin, the Malleus was first submitted to the University of Cologne on May 9th, 1487. The title is translated as "The Hammer of Witches". Written by James Sprenger and Henry Kramer (of which little is known), the Malleus remained in use for three hundred years. It had tremendous influence in the witch trials in England and on the continent.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/mm/
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