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15 ώρες πριν · The growing fear of witches in the 16th century included increased anxiety about them joining together in a coven. Increasingly witches were depicted in a group, as in a painting of the witch’s sabbath by Frans Francken. Francken picked up his brush at a time when the Spanish Netherlands experienced a growing panic about witches.
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS. One of the ways in which owners, occupants and visitors to buildings sought to ward off evil was by carving protective symbols, as graffiti, into the structure’s fabric. In doing so, they sometimes turned to ancient folk beliefs and pseudo-theology for inspiration.
24 Οκτ 2021 · Witch-hunts spread through Europe like an epidemic and one of the most significant fuels of this was the societal misogyny of the epoch between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Misogyny played a role in almost all aspects of witch hunts, from conviction, to trial, to the archetype of people executed.
26 Φεβ 2019 · These strange wall markings scratched on the inside of a cave in the British Midlands are thought to have been ‘anti-witch’ devices, designed to ward off evil and malign spirits. The cave contains a huge collection of the ritualistic protection markings, left by countless individuals over a period of hundreds of years.
According to Gerald Gardner, who popularised Wicca in the twentieth century, the religion is a survival of a European witch-cult that was persecuted during the witch trials (sometimes called the Burning Times), and the strong element of secrecy that traditionally surrounds the religion was adopted as a reaction to that persecution.
In this resource there are several examples of modern images of witches who were women, often riding on broomsticks with a pointy hat: the image that we most associate with witchcraft today....
Learn about the mysterious markings our ancestors carved into doorways, fireplaces and joists and why they used witch marks to ward off evil.
