Religious catalysts and triggers

What was the impact of the Reformation on witch hunting?

• Caused the witch hunt

• Had no effect on witch hunting

• Reduced the occurrence of witch hunting

• Catalyzed the witch hunts

What did both Luther and Calvin raise consciousness about?

• Witch hunting

• Diabolical activity

• Religious tolerance

• Pagan rituals

What was the main concern of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation regarding religious practice?

• Preserving paganism

• Eliminating superstition and magic

• Promoting love magic

• Encouraging divination

How did the role of religion change in relation to witch-hunting by the end of the period?

• Religion promoted superstition

• Religion inhibited witch-hunting

• Religion had no impact on witch-hunting

• Religion encouraged witch-hunting

What was the primary impact of the Council of Trent on the Counter-Reformation in Southern Germany?

• Encouraging witch-hunting

• Appointing new bishops

• Founding the Society of Jesus

• Promoting Protestantism

What was the role of the Society of Jesus in the Counter-Reformation and witch-hunting

• They were primarily involved in witch hunting in the prince bishoprics.

• They were instrumental in fighting Protestantism

• They sometimes employed children to identify witches - e.g. in Trier.

• They promoted paganism

What of the following was not a religious cause of witch-hunting

• Prayer

• Increased sense of personal sanctity and guilt

• Increasing awareness of diabolical activity

• Increasing sense of the approaching apocalypse (millenarianism)

Another key reason why religious change catalysed witch-hunting was due to

• The invention of the printing press

• The scepticism of reformers like Erasmus

• Biblical literalism

• The decline of the inquisition in Northern Europe.

Places like Bamberg and Massachusetts had the following in common:

• They were theocracies

• They employed torture

• They had experienced conflict between protestants and catholics

• Their religious leaders had millenarian tendencies.

How did predestination contribute to wtich-hunting?

• Fear that sin was a sign that one was not elect.

• Blaming others for one's sin to alleviate feelings of guilt

• The need for religious and moral certainty.

• The desire to prove that you were one of the elect.