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Empowering Popularity: The Fuel Behind a Witch-Hunt
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Konyar, Grace Elizabeth
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1490710757496863
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2017, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, History.
Abstract
Isolated accusations of witchcraft were not uncommon in early modern European society, but very rarely escalated into widespread witch-hunting crazes. As the catalysts behind the two largest witch-hunts in English Atlantic history, Matthew Hopkins and Cotton Mather are central to understanding the role an individual could play in turning a uncertain societal situation into a large-scale witch-hunt with a few words. These two men sought to exploit times of uncertainty for their own prestige and gain. Public backlash to their actions resulted in the strengthening of laws surrounding witchcraft trials and legal methods of extracting confessions, making future prosecutions of witchcraft accusations less likely and more difficult.
Committee
Sarah Kinkel, PhD (Advisor)
Pages
102 p.
Subject Headings
American History
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European History
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History
Keywords
Witchcraft
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Matthew Hopkins
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Cotton Mather
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Salem witch trials
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Suffolk witch-hunts
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Konyar, G. E. (2017).
Empowering Popularity: The Fuel Behind a Witch-Hunt
[Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1490710757496863
APA Style (7th edition)
Konyar, Grace.
Empowering Popularity: The Fuel Behind a Witch-Hunt.
2017. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1490710757496863.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Konyar, Grace. "Empowering Popularity: The Fuel Behind a Witch-Hunt." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1490710757496863
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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