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A Point of View : The greatest challenge to the churches that ran society was an increase in knowledge, Ironically brought about by its own position as the bearer of the knowledge of man. The results of enlightenment with all of its bumps and warts so to speak would eventually topple the life and death hold that it had over the people most of whom were illiterate and completely uneducated. So dedicated was the Catholic church to the ignorance of the ordinary man that it did its mass in Latin to make sure that there was a minimum amount of thought. There are however people in every society Both male and female that stand out Either through their ability to deal with the philosophical implication of an argument or the ability to see nature for what it is ie, the Earth revolves around the Sun. or any number of understandings about the mathematical and scientific order of things. There is a fact of life and that is that in any powerful organization the hardest nut ends up at the top of the heap, and they fear the truth. They depend on ignorance for their continued authority. So those that would oppose the church was marked a heretic or witch. So I suppose the mark of the witch would be closely associated with one that wishes to find a the path to enlightenment. The basis for the classic "witch hunts" were to purge the "church" of those that did acts that the church did not condone. These acts were predicated on the verse in Deuteronomy that reads... De 18:10 "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, Now the "witchcraft" translation that was common among the English of the 1500's was not the same thing that the Hebrew word means. The Hebrew word means a "mediums" so popular a couple of years back..those who commune with the dead. Wicca today is more of a nature worship, complete with it's own set of rituals and solomn events. This "mark of the witch" is superstition developed by the hierarchy of the Church for their own purposes. There is no physical mark distinguishable on the practitioners of Wicca.
Betty Wilderman
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How were witches identified in the 1600's?
they have a mark
What was the name of the town where 20 people were hanged for being witches question mark?
in salem and in 1692
What is the name given to scar or blemish on the body of person who has made contract with the devil?
Witches mark or devil's mark; natural blemishes or patches of nerve deadened skin.
How were witches in the seventeenth century identified?
=In History, my teacher told us according to King James I witches were identified by having a mark on their body (the mark of the devil) of any sort, if you had familiars (a pet which followed you around wherever you went, mainly a cat), if you made models of your victims, lived alone, old or if you were a woman.=
What is the apostrophe of witches?
It should be witches'. Example: Witches' brooms
What are a group witches called?
what are a group of witches called
How did the Tudors know who were witches and who wasn't?
To tell if they were a witch or not in the Tudors there would have been a unusual mark or something differant about them- Physically or Mentally. Hope that helps
Female witches are called?
there are called witches same goes for male witches.
What is the word for a group of witches?
witches
Who was the book the witches based on?
witches
How are called group of witches?
Coven is the term given to a group of witches.
How did Matthew Hopkins find witches?
The swimming test (in which ropes were used to prevent drowning, a little known fact) pricking them with a needle to see if any spots did not bleed (the witches mark) searching for witches teats ("nipples" found on various parts of the body supposedly to feed evil spirits) and forms of soft torture (physical hard torture was illegal in England) to get them to confess.
