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The PROCESS: Group 3--Witchcraft

Answer the following questions about and create a picture file for witchcraft.

1. Describe maleficium and theological witchcraft.
2. Explain the early legal concepts of witchcraft.
3. Which type of person was most likely to be considered a witch?
4. How did property ownership contribute to accusations of witchcraft?
5. Explain ergotism and its relation to  the unusual behaviors displayed by those possessed.
6. Explain how stress and clinical hysteria could account for some of the unusual behaviors observed.
7. In what forms does witchcraft exist today?
8. How are modern day witches treated?


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