Question

‘The most important factor in explaining witch hunts in the year c1500-1700 was religion’ [16 Marks]

Answer 1

Yes I agree that religion was the most important factor that was used in the explanations that was done in the Witch hunts in the period mentioned.

I agree to a very great extent on this.

What role did religion play in the Witch hunts?

Religion was the factor that was used to explain the behavior of the people at the time that had hysterias that was classified as witch craft.

These people were tried and then declared as guilty using Biblical terms and laws as the basis of doing so. A lot of these women lost their lives in the process because they were staked.

The religion that was known to be common with this belief was Christianity at the time. Both the Catholics and the protestant Christians.

This is likened to what had happened at the Salem witch trials were women were accused of being witchjes and they were killed for this fact.

Hence we would say that religion is a factor that played out in the Witch trials that happened in this period of time.

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