IDS 400 ( week 3)

For your response posts, address the following:

1. How does your peers' understanding of the article inform your understanding of seeing a same historical moment from more than one perspective?

Remember, this assignment is graded on the quality of your initial post and at least two response posts to your classmates. If you refer to any sources, be sure to include an attribution (or citation) to the resource.

To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric.

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Kathleen Carter

Hello Class,

Reviewing the article "This Map Shows the Scale of the 16th- and 17th-Century Scottish Witch Trials", what stands out to me is the clear gender discrimination within a male dominated society. Women of this time period were to be seen and not heard. Men held all of the power, and women were easy disposable targets used during the religious power struggle between the Protestants and Catholics, inciting fear within communities. In the words of historian Steven Katz, Europe’s witch hunts stemmed from “the enduring grotesque fears [women] generate in respect of their putative abilities to control men and thereby coerce, for their own ends, male-dominated Christian society."

References

Solly, M. (2019, September 26). This Map Shows the Scale of 16th- and 17th-Century Scottish Witch Hunts. Smithsonian Magazine; Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-visualizes-scale-16th-and-17th-century-scotti sh-witch-hunts-180973226/

Parable. (2021, March 23). The Witch Trials of Britain: King James I's Vendetta| War on Witches [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0pONVbIFsE&t=1345s

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Elizabeth Smith

Hello, everyone!

When reading the article, "This Map Shows the Scale of the 16th- and 17th-Century Scottish Witch Hunts," the words "odd magical characteristics," "witch-pricker," and "Devil's mark" stuck out to me the most (Solly). I think they stuck out to me because I have never heard of those phrases when I had learned about the witch hunts in the past. Those words, or phrases, explain the witch hunts at that time. Furthermore, the phrase "Devil's mark" explains that anything outside of their beliefs wasn't a part of the Christian ideology during this time (Solly). The article goes into saying how the witch hunts in Europe stemmed from a male-dominated society. The women were wanting to control men. The article states, "Ultimately that hysteria claimed as many as 4,000 lives in Scotland—double the execution rate seen in neighboring England" (Solly).

Solly, M. (2019, September 26). This Map Shows the Scale of 16th- and 17th-Century Scottish Witch Hunts. Smithsonian Magazine; Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-visualizes-scale-16th-and-17th-century-scotti sh-witch-hunts-180973226/