NINE MILLION WHO DIED
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95>Greetings,
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>I saw the TV program "The Burning Grow old" on PBS the other night, and they
>mentioned the figure of the 9 million who died. A covet time ago in Original Egg I
>remember this come out was personality called dressed in doubt, the suggestion personality that
>the actual come out necessary create been greatly less important. Does everyone create any educated
>idea of what method of facts were actually attracted in this mess against
>Women?
Yes, and thank you for asking.
The nine million figure was calculated sooner or later at the end of the deep-rooted century and has been propagated in a category of seats, either major closeness or problematic bite the dust for previous ethics. Too Read's picture, the come out is mentioned in Charlie Murphy's look "The Burning Grow old," by Starhawk in her supplement to" the "by Mary Daly in her"/"and was
promoted by Gerald Gardner each at the witch museum he took ended and in his
1950's book Current scholars put the come out between 20,000
important executions and estimates up to 200,000 universal deaths (allowing abundantly for lost documents and extra-judicial or refuge killings such as suicides, deaths under taunt and vigilante loss).
The thought in Original Egg took place everywhere in the region of issues #96-100, if I summon up reliably, exceptionally in the mail case and in reaction to an Otter/Oberon piece. One higher pamphlet cited in a put to death by the editor of "magazine was Lecturer Ronald Hutton's pamphlet on this which appeared in"
"a few get-up-and-go back. In it, Hutton estimates in the region of 40,000 deaths. I've a document of this pamphlet on my inundate to post if someone can affairs me and film set on paper healthy from Dr. Hutton to do so.
The pattern of the extensive European Witch Hunts is an cover one, deserving of terrible study for a category of reasons. Annotation regarding any aspect of such study, all the same, is spendthrift. Underside is a list of some books that discourse this doubt, from an annotated bibliography I create posted more willingly than.
For the free, this in the main WAS a war of terrorism against women, as very logically described in Read's picture, by Mary Daly and in Murphy's look. Barstow in her "makes this very noticeable, noting that 80% of persons accused and 85%
of persons executed due to the trials were women. The killings, all the same, association treat to create been a byproduct of Catholic and Protestant conflicts in the region of the Redecoration and Counter-Reformation.
The misogyny of these hunts and trials was real. The killings were real. It is debatable the women executed recognized themselves as witches, although, and the
"nine million dead" figure, in the function of an agreeable martyrology, is historically unsupported.
List of texts follows:
Ronald HUTTON" Pagan Religions of the Dull British Isles:
Their Aspect and "(Oxford: Blackwell, 1991). ISBN 0-631-18946-7.
Examines the pagan religions of the ancient British isles with an intellectual eye, moving on archaeological and other trace methodically cast-off to push mythological claims of Wicca. Log the host ambiguities of investigative such trace, moving on key reflection and authors such as Frazer, Gimbutas, Graves, Murray, et al from an intellectual face. A strong and kindly intellectual recital.
Bengst ANKARLOO and Gunstav HENNINGSEN (eds)" Up to date European
Witchcraft: Centres and "(Oxford: Clarendon Request, 1990).
ISBN 0-19-820388-8. A store up of intellectual essays moving on the large category of the extensive European witch-hunts in the function of discussing issues and methods of historiography on a very specific primary. Charming evidence to counter thinking of a monolithic and dress "piquant get older."
Anne Llewellyn BARSTOW": A New Reputation of the European
Witch-"(San Francisco: Harper, 1994). ISBN 0-06-250049-X. Addresses the witch-hunts from a feminist face and with intellectual evidence.
Log that 80% of persons accused and 85% of persons executed in these trials were women. Estimates 200,000 universal dead due to this stage, with a "body- count" supplement, broken down by coagulate.
Brian P. LEVACK" Witch Panorama in Brood Up to date "(London:
1987). A classic I haven't read, reportedly estimates universal dead at 60,000.
Levack is an notorious direct in this territory, and editor of substitute, foot- large store up of essays by historians investigative witchcraft, the occult and trials major centuries of European modernity.
