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What is NOT true about witchcraft in Medieval Europe?
1) It wasn’t considered a deadly crime until 1563.
2) It was considered heresy until 1563.
3) It was condemned as a deadly crime by Pope Innocent VIII.
4) Between the 15th and 18th centuries, over 200,000 witches were tortured in
Western Europe.Witches in Britain
Witchcraft was not made a capital offence in Britain until 1563, although it was deemed heresy and was denounced as such by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. From 1484 until around 1750 some 200,000 witches were tortured, burnt or hanged in Western Europe.
Most supposed witches were usually old women, and invariably poor. Any who were unfortunate enough to be ‘crone-like’, snaggle-toothed, sunken cheeked and having a hairy lip were assumed to possess the ‘Evil Eye’! If they also had a cat, this was taken as proof, as witches always had a ‘familiar’, the cat being the most common. Many unfortunate women were condemned on this sort of evidence and hanged after undergoing appalling torture. The ‘pilnie-winks’ (thumb screws) and iron ‘caspie-claws’ (a form of leg irons heated over a brazier) usually got a confession from the supposed witch.
Witch fever gripped East Anglia for 14 terrible months between 1645–1646. The people of these eastern counties were solidly Puritan and rabid anti-Catholics and easily swayed by bigoted preachers whose mission was to seek out the slightest whiff of heresy. A man called Matthew Hopkins, an unsuccessful lawyer, came to help. He became known as the ‘Witchfinder General’. He had 68 people put to death in Bury St. Edmunds alone, and 19 hanged at Chelmsford in a single day.
Much of Matthew Hopkins theories of deduction were based on Devil's Marks. A wart or mole or even a flea-bite he took to be a Devil's Mark, and he used his ‘jabbing needle’ to see if these marks were insensitive to pain. His ‘needle’ was a 3-inch-long spike which retracted into the spring-loaded handle, so the unfortunate woman never felt any pain. There were other tests for witches. Mary Sutton of Bedford was put to the swimming test. With her thumbs tied to opposite big toes, she was flung into the river. If she floated, she was guilty, if she sank, innocent. Poor Mary floated!
The last reminder of Hopkins’ reign of terror was discovered in St. Osyth, Essex, in 1921. Two female skeletons were found in a garden, pinned into unmarked graves and with iron rivets driven through their joints. This was to make sure a witch could not return from the grave.
Though many of the Acts against witchcraft were repealed in 1736, witch hunting still went on. In 1863, an alleged male witch was drowned in a pond in Headingham, Essex, and in 1945 the body of an elderly farm labourer was found near the village of Meon Hill in Warwickshire. His throat had been cut, and his corpse was pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. The murder remains unsolved, however the man was reputed, locally, to be a wizard.
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This in “Many unfortunate women were condemned on this sort of evidence and hanged after undergoing appalling torture” (paragraph 2) refers to ...
1) magical tools.
2) "witchy" symbols.
3) tools of torture.
4) magic powers.Witches in Britain
Witchcraft was not made a capital offence in Britain until 1563, although it was deemed heresy and was denounced as such by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. From 1484 until around 1750 some 200,000 witches were tortured, burnt or hanged in Western Europe.
Most supposed witches were usually old women, and invariably poor. Any who were unfortunate enough to be ‘crone-like’, snaggle-toothed, sunken cheeked and having a hairy lip were assumed to possess the ‘Evil Eye’! If they also had a cat, this was taken as proof, as witches always had a ‘familiar’, the cat being the most common. Many unfortunate women were condemned on this sort of evidence and hanged after undergoing appalling torture. The ‘pilnie-winks’ (thumb screws) and iron ‘caspie-claws’ (a form of leg irons heated over a brazier) usually got a confession from the supposed witch.
Witch fever gripped East Anglia for 14 terrible months between 1645–1646. The people of these eastern counties were solidly Puritan and rabid anti-Catholics and easily swayed by bigoted preachers whose mission was to seek out the slightest whiff of heresy. A man called Matthew Hopkins, an unsuccessful lawyer, came to help. He became known as the ‘Witchfinder General’. He had 68 people put to death in Bury St. Edmunds alone, and 19 hanged at Chelmsford in a single day.
Much of Matthew Hopkins theories of deduction were based on Devil's Marks. A wart or mole or even a flea-bite he took to be a Devil's Mark, and he used his ‘jabbing needle’ to see if these marks were insensitive to pain. His ‘needle’ was a 3-inch-long spike which retracted into the spring-loaded handle, so the unfortunate woman never felt any pain. There were other tests for witches. Mary Sutton of Bedford was put to the swimming test. With her thumbs tied to opposite big toes, she was flung into the river. If she floated, she was guilty, if she sank, innocent. Poor Mary floated!
The last reminder of Hopkins’ reign of terror was discovered in St. Osyth, Essex, in 1921. Two female skeletons were found in a garden, pinned into unmarked graves and with iron rivets driven through their joints. This was to make sure a witch could not return from the grave.
Though many of the Acts against witchcraft were repealed in 1736, witch hunting still went on. In 1863, an alleged male witch was drowned in a pond in Headingham, Essex, and in 1945 the body of an elderly farm labourer was found near the village of Meon Hill in Warwickshire. His throat had been cut, and his corpse was pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. The murder remains unsolved, however the man was reputed, locally, to be a wizard.
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What was the mission of Matthew Hopkins?
1) To sniff out any hint of Catholicism.
2) To be a lawyer for the accused women.
3) To help against supernatural forces.
4) To seek and punish those who practised witchcraft.Witches in Britain
Witchcraft was not made a capital offence in Britain until 1563, although it was deemed heresy and was denounced as such by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. From 1484 until around 1750 some 200,000 witches were tortured, burnt or hanged in Western Europe.
Most supposed witches were usually old women, and invariably poor. Any who were unfortunate enough to be ‘crone-like’, snaggle-toothed, sunken cheeked and having a hairy lip were assumed to possess the ‘Evil Eye’! If they also had a cat, this was taken as proof, as witches always had a ‘familiar’, the cat being the most common. Many unfortunate women were condemned on this sort of evidence and hanged after undergoing appalling torture. The ‘pilnie-winks’ (thumb screws) and iron ‘caspie-claws’ (a form of leg irons heated over a brazier) usually got a confession from the supposed witch.
Witch fever gripped East Anglia for 14 terrible months between 1645–1646. The people of these eastern counties were solidly Puritan and rabid anti-Catholics and easily swayed by bigoted preachers whose mission was to seek out the slightest whiff of heresy. A man called Matthew Hopkins, an unsuccessful lawyer, came to help. He became known as the ‘Witchfinder General’. He had 68 people put to death in Bury St. Edmunds alone, and 19 hanged at Chelmsford in a single day.
Much of Matthew Hopkins theories of deduction were based on Devil's Marks. A wart or mole or even a flea-bite he took to be a Devil's Mark, and he used his ‘jabbing needle’ to see if these marks were insensitive to pain. His ‘needle’ was a 3-inch-long spike which retracted into the spring-loaded handle, so the unfortunate woman never felt any pain. There were other tests for witches. Mary Sutton of Bedford was put to the swimming test. With her thumbs tied to opposite big toes, she was flung into the river. If she floated, she was guilty, if she sank, innocent. Poor Mary floated!
The last reminder of Hopkins’ reign of terror was discovered in St. Osyth, Essex, in 1921. Two female skeletons were found in a garden, pinned into unmarked graves and with iron rivets driven through their joints. This was to make sure a witch could not return from the grave.
Though many of the Acts against witchcraft were repealed in 1736, witch hunting still went on. In 1863, an alleged male witch was drowned in a pond in Headingham, Essex, and in 1945 the body of an elderly farm labourer was found near the village of Meon Hill in Warwickshire. His throat had been cut, and his corpse was pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. The murder remains unsolved, however the man was reputed, locally, to be a wizard.
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Which of the following is NOT mentioned by the author as one of the devil marks to identify a witch?
1) A mole.
2) Jabbing needle.
3) A wart.
4) A flea-bite.Witches in Britain
Witchcraft was not made a capital offence in Britain until 1563, although it was deemed heresy and was denounced as such by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. From 1484 until around 1750 some 200,000 witches were tortured, burnt or hanged in Western Europe.
Most supposed witches were usually old women, and invariably poor. Any who were unfortunate enough to be ‘crone-like’, snaggle-toothed, sunken cheeked and having a hairy lip were assumed to possess the ‘Evil Eye’! If they also had a cat, this was taken as proof, as witches always had a ‘familiar’, the cat being the most common. Many unfortunate women were condemned on this sort of evidence and hanged after undergoing appalling torture. The ‘pilnie-winks’ (thumb screws) and iron ‘caspie-claws’ (a form of leg irons heated over a brazier) usually got a confession from the supposed witch.
Witch fever gripped East Anglia for 14 terrible months between 1645–1646. The people of these eastern counties were solidly Puritan and rabid anti-Catholics and easily swayed by bigoted preachers whose mission was to seek out the slightest whiff of heresy. A man called Matthew Hopkins, an unsuccessful lawyer, came to help. He became known as the ‘Witchfinder General’. He had 68 people put to death in Bury St. Edmunds alone, and 19 hanged at Chelmsford in a single day.
Much of Matthew Hopkins theories of deduction were based on Devil's Marks. A wart or mole or even a flea-bite he took to be a Devil's Mark, and he used his ‘jabbing needle’ to see if these marks were insensitive to pain. His ‘needle’ was a 3-inch-long spike which retracted into the spring-loaded handle, so the unfortunate woman never felt any pain. There were other tests for witches. Mary Sutton of Bedford was put to the swimming test. With her thumbs tied to opposite big toes, she was flung into the river. If she floated, she was guilty, if she sank, innocent. Poor Mary floated!
The last reminder of Hopkins’ reign of terror was discovered in St. Osyth, Essex, in 1921. Two female skeletons were found in a garden, pinned into unmarked graves and with iron rivets driven through their joints. This was to make sure a witch could not return from the grave.
Though many of the Acts against witchcraft were repealed in 1736, witch hunting still went on. In 1863, an alleged male witch was drowned in a pond in Headingham, Essex, and in 1945 the body of an elderly farm labourer was found near the village of Meon Hill in Warwickshire. His throat had been cut, and his corpse was pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. The murder remains unsolved, however the man was reputed, locally, to be a wizard.
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What does the author say about Mary Sutton of Bedford?
1) She was put to the test in the river and found guilty.
2) She was considered innocent because her body floated.
3) She was considered guilty because her body sank.
4) She was thought to be a witch because her toes floated.Witches in Britain
Witchcraft was not made a capital offence in Britain until 1563, although it was deemed heresy and was denounced as such by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. From 1484 until around 1750 some 200,000 witches were tortured, burnt or hanged in Western Europe.
Most supposed witches were usually old women, and invariably poor. Any who were unfortunate enough to be ‘crone-like’, snaggle-toothed, sunken cheeked and having a hairy lip were assumed to possess the ‘Evil Eye’! If they also had a cat, this was taken as proof, as witches always had a ‘familiar’, the cat being the most common. Many unfortunate women were condemned on this sort of evidence and hanged after undergoing appalling torture. The ‘pilnie-winks’ (thumb screws) and iron ‘caspie-claws’ (a form of leg irons heated over a brazier) usually got a confession from the supposed witch.
Witch fever gripped East Anglia for 14 terrible months between 1645–1646. The people of these eastern counties were solidly Puritan and rabid anti-Catholics and easily swayed by bigoted preachers whose mission was to seek out the slightest whiff of heresy. A man called Matthew Hopkins, an unsuccessful lawyer, came to help. He became known as the ‘Witchfinder General’. He had 68 people put to death in Bury St. Edmunds alone, and 19 hanged at Chelmsford in a single day.
Much of Matthew Hopkins theories of deduction were based on Devil's Marks. A wart or mole or even a flea-bite he took to be a Devil's Mark, and he used his ‘jabbing needle’ to see if these marks were insensitive to pain. His ‘needle’ was a 3-inch-long spike which retracted into the spring-loaded handle, so the unfortunate woman never felt any pain. There were other tests for witches. Mary Sutton of Bedford was put to the swimming test. With her thumbs tied to opposite big toes, she was flung into the river. If she floated, she was guilty, if she sank, innocent. Poor Mary floated!
The last reminder of Hopkins’ reign of terror was discovered in St. Osyth, Essex, in 1921. Two female skeletons were found in a garden, pinned into unmarked graves and with iron rivets driven through their joints. This was to make sure a witch could not return from the grave.
Though many of the Acts against witchcraft were repealed in 1736, witch hunting still went on. In 1863, an alleged male witch was drowned in a pond in Headingham, Essex, and in 1945 the body of an elderly farm labourer was found near the village of Meon Hill in Warwickshire. His throat had been cut, and his corpse was pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. The murder remains unsolved, however the man was reputed, locally, to be a wizard.
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What was the point of the terror made by Hopkins with iron rivets?
1) To set a record for the number of witches murdered.
2) To get a revenge on the women.
3) To become the most terrifying "Witchfinder".
4) To ensure the witches could not rise from the dead.Witches in Britain
Witchcraft was not made a capital offence in Britain until 1563, although it was deemed heresy and was denounced as such by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. From 1484 until around 1750 some 200,000 witches were tortured, burnt or hanged in Western Europe.
Most supposed witches were usually old women, and invariably poor. Any who were unfortunate enough to be ‘crone-like’, snaggle-toothed, sunken cheeked and having a hairy lip were assumed to possess the ‘Evil Eye’! If they also had a cat, this was taken as proof, as witches always had a ‘familiar’, the cat being the most common. Many unfortunate women were condemned on this sort of evidence and hanged after undergoing appalling torture. The ‘pilnie-winks’ (thumb screws) and iron ‘caspie-claws’ (a form of leg irons heated over a brazier) usually got a confession from the supposed witch.
Witch fever gripped East Anglia for 14 terrible months between 1645–1646. The people of these eastern counties were solidly Puritan and rabid anti-Catholics and easily swayed by bigoted preachers whose mission was to seek out the slightest whiff of heresy. A man called Matthew Hopkins, an unsuccessful lawyer, came to help. He became known as the ‘Witchfinder General’. He had 68 people put to death in Bury St. Edmunds alone, and 19 hanged at Chelmsford in a single day.
Much of Matthew Hopkins theories of deduction were based on Devil's Marks. A wart or mole or even a flea-bite he took to be a Devil's Mark, and he used his ‘jabbing needle’ to see if these marks were insensitive to pain. His ‘needle’ was a 3-inch-long spike which retracted into the spring-loaded handle, so the unfortunate woman never felt any pain. There were other tests for witches. Mary Sutton of Bedford was put to the swimming test. With her thumbs tied to opposite big toes, she was flung into the river. If she floated, she was guilty, if she sank, innocent. Poor Mary floated!
The last reminder of Hopkins’ reign of terror was discovered in St. Osyth, Essex, in 1921. Two female skeletons were found in a garden, pinned into unmarked graves and with iron rivets driven through their joints. This was to make sure a witch could not return from the grave.
Though many of the Acts against witchcraft were repealed in 1736, witch hunting still went on. In 1863, an alleged male witch was drowned in a pond in Headingham, Essex, and in 1945 the body of an elderly farm labourer was found near the village of Meon Hill in Warwickshire. His throat had been cut, and his corpse was pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. The murder remains unsolved, however the man was reputed, locally, to be a wizard.
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Why does the author mention the two murders committed after 1736?
1) To show people still believed in the existence of witches.
2) To point out there were also wizards.
3) To indicate the hunt continued despite anything.
4) To prove wizards were treated the same way as witches.Witches in Britain
Witchcraft was not made a capital offence in Britain until 1563, although it was deemed heresy and was denounced as such by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. From 1484 until around 1750 some 200,000 witches were tortured, burnt or hanged in Western Europe.
Most supposed witches were usually old women, and invariably poor. Any who were unfortunate enough to be ‘crone-like’, snaggle-toothed, sunken cheeked and having a hairy lip were assumed to possess the ‘Evil Eye’! If they also had a cat, this was taken as proof, as witches always had a ‘familiar’, the cat being the most common. Many unfortunate women were condemned on this sort of evidence and hanged after undergoing appalling torture. The ‘pilnie-winks’ (thumb screws) and iron ‘caspie-claws’ (a form of leg irons heated over a brazier) usually got a confession from the supposed witch.
Witch fever gripped East Anglia for 14 terrible months between 1645–1646. The people of these eastern counties were solidly Puritan and rabid anti-Catholics and easily swayed by bigoted preachers whose mission was to seek out the slightest whiff of heresy. A man called Matthew Hopkins, an unsuccessful lawyer, came to help. He became known as the ‘Witchfinder General’. He had 68 people put to death in Bury St. Edmunds alone, and 19 hanged at Chelmsford in a single day.
Much of Matthew Hopkins theories of deduction were based on Devil's Marks. A wart or mole or even a flea-bite he took to be a Devil's Mark, and he used his ‘jabbing needle’ to see if these marks were insensitive to pain. His ‘needle’ was a 3-inch-long spike which retracted into the spring-loaded handle, so the unfortunate woman never felt any pain. There were other tests for witches. Mary Sutton of Bedford was put to the swimming test. With her thumbs tied to opposite big toes, she was flung into the river. If she floated, she was guilty, if she sank, innocent. Poor Mary floated!
The last reminder of Hopkins’ reign of terror was discovered in St. Osyth, Essex, in 1921. Two female skeletons were found in a garden, pinned into unmarked graves and with iron rivets driven through their joints. This was to make sure a witch could not return from the grave.
Though many of the Acts against witchcraft were repealed in 1736, witch hunting still went on. In 1863, an alleged male witch was drowned in a pond in Headingham, Essex, and in 1945 the body of an elderly farm labourer was found near the village of Meon Hill in Warwickshire. His throat had been cut, and his corpse was pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. The murder remains unsolved, however the man was reputed, locally, to be a wizard.