Bryn Hammond’s Reviews > Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs and Disease: An Anthropological Study of the European Witch-Hunts > Status Update
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is on page 264 of 344
His conclusion: a 'regime of terror' for 'social control'.
"But the fact that witches were being created by the very procedures employed to locate and obliterate them totally eluded the perplexed witch-hammerers."
— Apr 25, 2016 06:01PM
"But the fact that witches were being created by the very procedures employed to locate and obliterate them totally eluded the perplexed witch-hammerers."
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Bryn Hammond
is on page 208 of 344
"In Rottenburg, Germany, in 1530, authorities obtained confessions from three women suspected of witchcraft, who had resisted a total of 186 applications of the strappado, through the administration of a special potion... Likewise, an accused werewolf from Westphalia, who resisted twenty applications of torture, finally confessed after being forced to imbibe an intoxicating draught."
— Apr 24, 2016 08:39PM
Bryn Hammond
is on page 144 of 344
In his section on torture. Pretty detailed.
He's determined not to admit grounds/excuses/any reality to the accusations. He is against the 'mentalists' who seek a mental explanation -- even mental illness -- for what was confessed.
— Apr 21, 2016 07:39PM
He's determined not to admit grounds/excuses/any reality to the accusations. He is against the 'mentalists' who seek a mental explanation -- even mental illness -- for what was confessed.
