In Shakespeare’s time people believed in witches. They were people who had made a pact with the Devil in exchange for supernatural powers. If your cow was ill, it was easy to decide it had been cursed. If there was plague in your village, it was because of a witch. If the beans didn’t grow, it was because of a witch. Witches might have a familiar – a pet, or a toad, or a bird – which was supposed to be a demon advisor. People accused of being witches tended to be old, poor, single women. It is at this time that the idea of witches riding around on broomsticks (a common household implement in Elizabethan England) becomes popular.
There are lots of ways to test for a witch. A common way was to use a ducking stool, or just to tie them up, and duck the accused under water in a pond or river. If she floated, she was a witch. If she didn’t, she was innocent. She probably drowned. Anyone who floated was then burnt at the stake. It was legal to kill witches because of the Witchcraft Act passed in 1563, which set out steps to take against witches who used spirits to kill people.
King James I became king in 1603. He was particularly superstitious about witches and even wrote a book on the subject. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth especially to appeal to James – it has witches and is set in Scotland, where he was already king. The three witches in Macbeth manipulate the characters into disaster, and cast spells to destroy lives. Other magic beings, the fairies, appear in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Elizabethans thought fairies played tricks on innocent people – just as they do in the play.
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I personally beleive that the invention of the car is greater than the invention of the telephone because of the oppurtunities cars give us today. While both cars and telephones have evolved so much over the past several years cars give people the oppurtunity to commute faster to plces, and visit people and places. Whereas a phone may help you keep in contact electronically but can not get you anywhere physically. Then again as far as which invention is more beneficial overall I would say the telephone because it doesn't contribute to global warming like car gasoline does and has revolutionized the ways people keep in contact with each other. Anyways, I hope this helps!
Odysseus promises to go burn elpenors body and to leave a moment to him then he had an encounter with anticela who is a ghost and also his mother who had past away
