{"id":46692,"date":"2020-09-11T12:28:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T10:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/?page_id=46692"},"modified":"2020-10-07T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T09:49:53","slug":"the-witch-hunt-burning-of-witches","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/en\/interesting-facts\/the-witch-hunt-burning-of-witches\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witch-Hunt &#038; Burning of Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-1nirlvv-0636e28f5d464bc34ce28583da00ef34 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-46692'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-11cyr9n-97afebbc7b0c38586a1b20a9339f8044\">\n.flex_column.av-11cyr9n-97afebbc7b0c38586a1b20a9339f8044{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-11cyr9n-97afebbc7b0c38586a1b20a9339f8044 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kfz7nist-1c5c26428d055dd5ea9a105a45ea695a\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kfz7nist-1c5c26428d055dd5ea9a105a45ea695a{\npadding-bottom:30px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kfz7nist-1c5c26428d055dd5ea9a105a45ea695a .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kfz7nist-1c5c26428d055dd5ea9a105a45ea695a .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kfz7nist-1c5c26428d055dd5ea9a105a45ea695a av-special-heading-h1 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >The Witch-Hunt <span class='special_amp'>&amp;<\/span> Burning of Witches<\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jjzj53cr-393fc06092c0d951ee6f2830b982c7c9 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The keyword witch-hunt scores 4.370.000 results on Google. Regarding this extent, the more people get\u00a0disappointed when they cannot find as much research results. The data, facts and especially interpretations of historians are distinguishing drastically. Nevertheless. they\u00a0only agree in the point, that the witch-hunt was one of the most terrible historic phenomena.<br \/>\nThis insane period left its mark: Approximately 9 million people fall victim to it. The population of Europa back in 1600 is estimated to be 110 million. In terms of figures this means that almost every tenth European was a victim of this insanity. As you see there is a very high chance that people of your family also were affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8222;The Embarassing Questioning&#8220;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The dissemination of witch burning in cities and regions was irregular. In some regions compared to others there were less processes and partially even with acquittals. In turn other regions were suffering from it. It was not a rarity to wipe out farmsteads with complete families. The swabian city Erlangen is just one of many examples for such devastations. In Erlangen every second woman and every sixth man got\u00a0executed. The process, the so called embarrassing questioning in fact were terrible methods of torturing. So, the questioning was just a cover of the torture.\u00a0Being a victim of torture at the same time determined the death. Only seldom the hunter acquitted people. This is often just interpreted as a short interruption of an unsuccessful questioning.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lt0ktn-103e66352d153bf1ae1afdc60334ca2f\">\n.flex_column.av-lt0ktn-103e66352d153bf1ae1afdc60334ca2f{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-lt0ktn-103e66352d153bf1ae1afdc60334ca2f av_one_half  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_four_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-jjzj6s0u-07241ee7937cc8616d920ce18695798d\">\n.avia-image-container.av-jjzj6s0u-07241ee7937cc8616d920ce18695798d img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-jjzj6s0u-07241ee7937cc8616d920ce18695798d .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-jjzj6s0u-07241ee7937cc8616d920ce18695798d av-styling-no-styling av-hover-grow avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-5  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-47649 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-47649 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hexe-gross.jpg\" alt='' title='Hexe-gross'  height=\"500\" width=\"383\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hexe-gross.jpg 383w, https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hexe-gross-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hexe-gross-153x200.jpg 153w, https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hexe-gross-291x380.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-jj8aj0hv-7a04de3d653ee9521c60b57fc13d1b1f\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-jj8aj0hv-7a04de3d653ee9521c60b57fc13d1b1f{\nheight:30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-jj8aj0hv-7a04de3d653ee9521c60b57fc13d1b1f hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_image  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jjzj6c7d-e5d2ed590497a751771544a5cb71ea9c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: Wikipedia, Author: Holt, Ardern; T. T.; E. Meyerstein, Litho., March 1884<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-11cyr9n-97afebbc7b0c38586a1b20a9339f8044\">\n.flex_column.av-11cyr9n-97afebbc7b0c38586a1b20a9339f8044{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-11cyr9n-97afebbc7b0c38586a1b20a9339f8044 av_four_fifth  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-jjzj53cr-393fc06092c0d951ee6f2830b982c7c9 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thereby the church was supporting the witch-hunts. Pope Innozenz VIII issued the papal bull \u201cSummis desiderantes affectibus&#8220;. So he legitimated the persecution of all heterodox people. Therefore, the Dominican monk Heinrich Kr\u00e4mer, published his book \u201cHammer of witches\u201d (Malleus Maleficarum) in 1487. This literature was an instruction of hunting witches. Unfortunately, it was one of the first bestsellers in the just a half century old history of printing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1755 the last stake in Germany burnt and 1944(!) the last witch-process was lead on English territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":46708,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46692","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Witch-Hunt &amp; Burning of Witches - Pro Heraldica<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pro-heraldica.de\/en\/interesting-facts\/the-witch-hunt-burning-of-witches\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Witch-Hunt &amp; 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