1. Enquiry: Why was Matthew Hopkins able to become so successful?

8. How did the Catholic Church Help Kick Start the Witch Craze?
Recall the key points of the Malleus Maleficarum.
Trace back the religious origins of many witch stereotypes.
Explain how the Catholic Church helped to start the European witch craze.

9. Fill __ the ______.
gaps in

10. Title?
Until the late _________ century the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church was that people who believed in witchcraft simply held harmless ___________. This changed after 1488 when two monks published a book called the _________ ___________. The _____ gave this the official backing of the Church and made it official policy to hunt down witches. However, there was generally still more towards witches in England compared to the rest of ________. It was believed that most witches practiced_____ magic, which meant that they only wanted to do good, for example, creating ______ to heal people.
Europe 1400s Malleus Maleficarum Familiars White Pope Potions Harmless

11. The Church supports the ‘Hammer of Witches’
What should be written here?
The Church supports the ‘Hammer of Witches’
People become more paranoid about witches
Write ideas on wipe boards maybe?

12. The Cleverness of Hopkins and other witch finders
Society
Rulers
Church
The Cleverness of Hopkins and other witch finders
Students try to think of reasons why Hopkins was successful that fall into the above four categories. This should be a recurring plenary. The notes made here will help them to answer their assessment.

13. RESOURCES

14. 1. Rejecting Christ and using Christian symbols in the wrong way, such as placing the cross upside down. Some witches were are even able to recite the Lord’s Prayer backwards.

15. 2. Witches killed children and used their fat to make up magic potions.

16. 3. They would fly on a broomstick at night
3. They would fly on a broomstick at night. They used the broomstick to fly to witches meetings called a sabbat. The sabbat would have thirteen members, as a way of mocking Jesus and the last supper.

17. 4. They summon demons to help do their evil bidding
4. They summon demons to help do their evil bidding. A male demon is called an incubus, and a female demon is called a succubus. These demons could take human shape if needed.

18. 5. They own a possessed pet, called a familiar
5. They own a possessed pet, called a familiar. These take the shape of small animals and help the witch do her evil deeds. A witch feeds her familiar with her own blood.

19. 6. A witch has the power to destroy crops, raise storms, kill people or animals and cause many other disasters.

20. 7. Witches were mostly women, because women were easier to corrupt then men. This is proven by the story of original sin. In the story of Adam and Eve, it was even that gave into the Devil’s temptation and took a bite of the apple first.

21. 8. Witches can control the minds of men, making them fall in love with someone they didn’t even like.

23. Until the late _________ century the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church was that people who believed in witchcraft simply held harmless ___________. This changed after 1488 when two monks published a book called the _________ ___________. The _____ gave this the official backing of the Church and made it official policy to hunt down witches. However, there was generally still more towards witches in England compared to the rest of ________. It was believed that most witches practiced_____ magic, which meant that they only wanted to do good, for example, creating ______ to heal people.
Europe 1400s Malleus Maleficarum Familiars White Pope Potions Harmless