Witchcraft

People living during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continually experienced changes in their personal lives as well as in their societies. During the sixteenth century, people were affected by scholars such as Martin Luther and John Calvin. These scholars were instrumental in the developments of the Protestant Reformation, which pinned the traditional Catholic ideology against the arising Protestant ideology. In the seventeenth century, people witnessed the developments of the Scientific Revolution that was advanced by …

…that they were possessed by the devil. Because they could not explain these hallucinations, they repeated stories that they may have heard about other accused witches. With the case studies and the arguments set forth, the reader can easily accept the idea that the peasants of the sixteen hundreds had succumbed to the hardships of theirs lives. Their continuous battle with starvation, malnutrition, and disease, unfortunately left them suffering in a state of mental disorder.