Magical Theory (Monday, 5/1/2005, 5th Period)

[romanywitch]

"Your presentations are due this week," said Jenny. "Either today or on Thursday--your call if you want them in and over with now, or later."

OOC: Feel free to handwave if you want, though I'd love to see what you guys come up with. And let me know what grade you think your character deserves for the final paper/project, and the class.

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Re: Final Presentations - Magical Theory, 5/1

[demonbelthazor]

Bel gives his presentation on the medieval witch hunts, comparing and contrasting with the Salem witch hunts that they'd gone over in class. He went over the typical victim of the medieval hunts (75% of the accused were women, usually older than 40, poor, single (widowed or never married), and some kind of "non-conformist" like a healer or someone who lived alone), and the legal (such as allowance of torture to get confessions), social, and religious changes that made the witch hunts possible. From there he went into how actual witches during the times did not fit so easily into the stereotype, and how the victims were largely innocent people or at most mere dabblers in the mystical arts. The hunts, however, forced people with real skills to keep them secret, which annoyed the demon world to no end because it made them harder to find.

Re: Final Presentations - Magical Theory, 5/1

[romanywitch]

"Good job, Belthazor," said Jenny. "And working the persecution of non-magical humans and the persecution of magical humans together was a nice addition."