Advice to female Witches
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Advice to female Witches
mid 1500s England Witch trails.
Research during that time frame shows the number of witches indicted show the majority were female. The males numbered only about 20 to 25% of the female number accused. The indictments showed a total of 336 in all with 206 found guilty, 111 not guilty, Bill not endorsed 16, Unknown 2, and no verdict 1. For those found guilty 58 were executed. Another 2 were sentenced to hang but died of plague before being hanged. 3 were sentenced to hang but the sentence changed to life in prison. Bill not endorsed means the case was dismissed or thrown out.
Did women perform a different type of witchcraft from men? Did it show the type of power that females had to men? A chart showing the different type of witchcraft shows that despite a female witch's curses and muttering, she did not practice invocation and sorcery whereby 25% of male indictments were for those two distinct forms of witchcraft. This comes from the Assize records for the period of the mid 1500s.
I propose she should have practiced invocation and evocation and sorcery. Females would have fared much better and not gotten caught as often. hehe.
Research during that time frame shows the number of witches indicted show the majority were female. The males numbered only about 20 to 25% of the female number accused. The indictments showed a total of 336 in all with 206 found guilty, 111 not guilty, Bill not endorsed 16, Unknown 2, and no verdict 1. For those found guilty 58 were executed. Another 2 were sentenced to hang but died of plague before being hanged. 3 were sentenced to hang but the sentence changed to life in prison. Bill not endorsed means the case was dismissed or thrown out.
Did women perform a different type of witchcraft from men? Did it show the type of power that females had to men? A chart showing the different type of witchcraft shows that despite a female witch's curses and muttering, she did not practice invocation and sorcery whereby 25% of male indictments were for those two distinct forms of witchcraft. This comes from the Assize records for the period of the mid 1500s.
I propose she should have practiced invocation and evocation and sorcery. Females would have fared much better and not gotten caught as often. hehe.
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