yeah

both periods were quite misogynistic in their own ways um the early modern period was i suppose a bit more sort of flagrant about it sometimes the development of the idea of the witch happens at the same time as more misogynistic ideas are coming in I don't think that they were completely tied together.

For example, that sort of adage that witch hunting was women hunting or women hating, that doesn't seem to be true, partly because we do have a lot of male witches that turn up in the early modern period.

Nobody ever argued that witches were solely women.

That's a misconception.

Even Heinrich Kramer, who wrote the Malleus Maleficarum, which is possibly the most misogynistic text of the late medieval, early modern period, still accepted that witches could be male.

I think one of the major changes in the sort of liminal space between the medieval and early modern periods was a stronger idea of the devil having more active roles in the world.

How did they deal with this idea that there was magic from other things? Was it all fully integrated?

Yes.

Yes.

Excellent.

Okay.

So very grumpy guy, called himself the Witchfinder General, had a very big hat.

Um, and he also happened to drive the largest witch hunt in English history.

Um, about 300 people were accused.

Was there an event that triggered the witch hunt? Like, was there like a specific event that all of a sudden was like the Pope said, or, you know, the Protestant religion, the Queen said, or was there an event that caused this chaos or this scare?