I like how you highlight the importance of education in places like Salem and Scottland. (Don't get me wrong, I love Halloween fun.) It’s so easy to turn the page of a history book when something unpleasant happens. But we need to know the full story and how it relates to today.
James became King of England as well as Scotland on Elizabeth I's death, and his influence spread widely into the era's popular culture. The negatively portrayed witches in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" are just one example.
I like how you highlight the importance of education in places like Salem and Scottland. (Don't get me wrong, I love Halloween fun.) It’s so easy to turn the page of a history book when something unpleasant happens. But we need to know the full story and how it relates to today.
'The notorious command “thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” was absent in the Bible until James prepared his translation.'
In fact you can find the identical line in William Tyndale's 1526 translation: "Thou shalt not suffre a witch to lyue" (Exodus 22:18)
https://biblehub.com/tyndale/exodus/22.htm
thanks for sharing this, so many great resources and so fascinating. Aligns with my own recent post : toil and trouble https://therollingladder.substack.com/p/toil-and-trouble
thanks for writing!
James became King of England as well as Scotland on Elizabeth I's death, and his influence spread widely into the era's popular culture. The negatively portrayed witches in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" are just one example.