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.
Im going with c only because that answer seems logical
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a thesis is similar to an umbrella because an umbrella covers everything it protects, in the same way a thesis should cover the entirety of a text.
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Answer: B Gilmore's role in the Civil Rights Movement grew over time, as she inspired others and became well-known by activists.
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Georgia Gilmore was an amazing woman who helped the Montgomery Bus Boycott more than most will ever know. In-between working and caring for her six children she managed to raise funds for the movement to ensure that the boycott continued for over a year.
When she lost her job, she used her house as a makeshift restaurant that fed so many. This meant that her role in the movement kept increasing and this inspired others. She became well known by activists and by others as well because even Governor Wallace who had championed segregation, ate at her restaurant.
