After reading and annotating the Witchcraft Hysteria Excerpt, answer the following question in MEAL paragraph format:
In what ways did socio-economic status influence outside (perceived) identity during the witchcraft hysteria?
Once you have completed the MEAL paragraph, respond to at least one other student's paragraph. Your response to another student’s paragraph should include an opinion based reflection and a follow up question for the student to reflect on.
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ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status not only affects our inside identity (self-described identity), but it affects outside (perceived identity). An example of socio-economic status' influence on history is evident in the witchcraft hysteria that occurred across Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. According to Spielvogel, it was the "common people-usually the poor and those without property" that were accused of witchcraft. During the witchcraft hysteria, poverty was a major determining factor in which people were accused of witchcraft. The people accused were considered unholy and "unclean" (Lagen) in the eyes of the affluent in European societies. One has to wonder if it is the "witchcraft" that resulted in the perception of the accused being "unclean" and unholy or if it was the affluent's perception of these individuals to begin with due to their socio-economic status.
ReplyDeleteWhen looking into witchcraft hysteria and how socio-economic status tied into identity - I too agree with your statement that poverty was a determining factor of those accused of witchcraft during this time period. When looking deeper I also think about how common people (gaps of social classes), gender, and religion have all been key factors that have caused major disruptions in society throughout history. Let me leave you with this to think about - Were socio-economic tensions during the 14th - 17th centuries responsible for witchcraft hysteria in the first place?
DeleteSocio-economic status had an important role during the witchcraft hysteria that took place in the 16th and 17th century. Your social class could actually help you verify if you were a witch or not. According to The WitchCraft Hysteria, “Common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” This excerpt explains why many upper class people were not accused of witchcraft. Thus backing up the claim that your socio-economic class was of importance during this point in history.
ReplyDeleteYou are off to a good start, but the question was how does it influence the outside identity. It looks like you touched on it, but you didn't fully explain. We were suppose to write a MEAL paragraph and it looks like you started one, but wrote a summary. It is good other than you need to explain some more about how it influences the identity of the outside. Along with that, think of how and why the identity is influenced by this. You are to a good start, but could use some more explanation. How and why does it influence the identity?
DeleteWithcraft came to those of “no power” or “no good”. If you were not wealthy or had power, you were thought of as bad and accused of being a witch. You may have been a great person, but looking at poverty, your gender, or religion gives people “the look on you”. This is not fair at all, however it was life back then. Women/female were favored for being accused of withcraft or being a witch for whatever reason. The poorer people got the bad talk because they didn't have good housing, didn’t dress well, and were just pretty low because of economic status. Does not mean they were a bad person on the inside or that their actions were bad, but the more wealthy people were “better” so they wanted to put all the blame on those who were not as fortunate, and they were believed because, what good guy with power would lie for? So looking back, the ones that people may have believed because they were better, may have been the ones doing all the dirty grim in the first place, but getting covered up with it.
ReplyDeleteI agree, with your statement about how the "lower class" people were looked down upon because of their socio-economic status and were being falsely accused based on their wealth. Think about this when this topic comes to mind, Did they start these "witch" accusations just to get rid of the lower class and people in poverty?
DeleteI agree that witchcraft was pointed to those of low wealth and had a bad reputation in society. Yes, the women were accused more often then men (mostly single or widowed women that is the age of 50 and up). The poor was the most picked on by this by how they dressed and were usually accused by more wealthier folk. They did it cause they didn't match them and maybe thought it was funny. Do you think the rich cause the start of this?
DeleteAshleigh, you gave an overall good response on the relationship between Socio-economic status and witchcraft. Witchcraft came to those of “no power” or “no good”. If you were not wealthy or had power, you were thought of as bad and accused of being a witch.-This is two great sentences to show deep understanding of the conflict and compared two different economic statuses. Women/female were favored for being accused of witchcraft or being a witch for whatever reason.- In this sentence you just say Women were accused but you don't develop a clear understanding about it for the reader.
DeleteSocio-economic statuses can influence the outside identity in many ways during the witchcraft hysteria. One of those ways was how the people dressed. If they dressed weird then it would make others think they are a witch. This influence of the way they dressed could rub off on others and then make the community think that a witch turned that person. Along with that the way the person acted could influence the outside identity by changing how others act. The witches could be caught in many ways also. One of the ways that probably won't be forgot will be throwing them in the river to see if they float. Even weighing them to a duck will make them a witch if the weight was the same. Aside of that these things can influence the identity by having the people change and want to dress like a witch (not knowing that person is one.) Then it would get them accused and it would most likely turn bad because the ruler would say they are mocking them and could die. There are many other things that deal with socio-economic status influences. What do you think influences the identity of the outside?
ReplyDeleteIn regard with the fact that comparing their weight to that of a duck, I agree that the smallest, most unreasonable things could lead to an innocent person's conviction. I also agree with your statement about the way that they dress being a factor to the suspicion of witchcraft, because the poor people had no better clothes and no means to get any, so there was no way for them to really prove their innocence. They could only offer their confession, whether they were truly a witch or not.
DeleteSocio-economic is our interaction of social and economic factors. Socio-economic allows us to have the ability to perceive others based on their “social class.” Therefore that is how we may interpret others on their outside identity. When looking at the clothing on a person, we can often determine their social class, whether they may be rich or poor. Throughout the 14th and 17th century many people were being accused of witchcraft. People who were mostly being affected were the poor. Those people were classified as “common people,” as spielvogel recalled. These people who were accusing many innocent men and women, used their perception on how you look to determine if you were a witch. Although this does not seem right, this is how it was. As you can tell, perception and socio-economic had a huge roll back then.
DeleteWhy was there this perception of witchcraft during these times? Well it can mostly be explained because of the new found belief and/or religion of magic or witchcraft. Due to people worrying about witches people wanting to get rid of any witches possible, and because of the amount of fear of witches everyone would overreact to little differences and would classify them as a witch. So essentially anyone who looked weird or did anything weird in anyway was labeled a witch. Because of this new found folktales and beliefs of magic and witchcraft people thought anyone that is found different in any weird or strange way would be labeled as a witch, sadly thousands were murdered or their lives were ruined for silly reasons due to major overreaction of fear of witches.
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DeleteI agree with you on the subject of the matter,but what does fear have to do with how people dress,act,eat. The reason people was killed was because they where almost bullied into it even if the jury thought they where innocent the jury would almost have to say it or they would die themselves.
DeleteOne’s socioeconomic status during the witchcraft hysteria could determine if they were accused of being a witch. Most of the people accused were “common people” says Spielvogel. This means that not very wealthy or powerful people were more likely to be accused. How much power you had, or how big of an influence you made in society was a major factor in the accusations made. Therefore, the lesser empowered and less wealthy were less protected from accusations, due to their lack of influence on society.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said about the power. If you don't make much or don't hold much power you got or still get treated different from people with money or power. How did this roomer that the poor and less powerful people are different or evil in some way get started?
DeleteSocio-economic status not only affects our inside identity (self-described identity), but it affects our outside (perceived identity) identity. One example of this is through the witchcraft hysteria. This event happened between the 14th and 17th centuries and shaped the world we know it today. When you were accused of being a witch people perceived you with a certain feature or practice; for example, if you had a mole or physical feature on your body that witches have, then you were considered a witch no matter what you said. Also they put you through a test to see if you were a witch. One test they would do is to tie you up, throw you in the river, and if you floated or survived you were considered a witch. Through intense torture, most woman confessed to being a witch and confessed to the things/practices that you have done.
ReplyDeleteThe socio-economic status I agree with along with the outside identity like the characteristics of a witch and the physical aspects on the body could have been a reason to accuse somebody.
DeleteA woman (or man’s) socio-economic status influenced their perceived identity. If one was accused of being a witch, many factors came into play when the jury determined their fate. If one was old, sick, or poor, the jury would not rule in their favor because it would be so easy for them to say they were a witch without a strong government to balance out the power.If one also had no family, no property, and no social value, the jury would not rule in their favor because they are of no use to the higher social statuses in the country, they were seen as taking up space and wasting resources. If two people were accused and they came from opposite ends of the social hierarchy, the lowest would would be accused first and would be more likely to be stated guilty because their power causes no real threat to society if they’re proven innocent, and if proven guilty the lack of their power doesn’t offset the balance of things. These factors and many, many more influence the perceived identity of all those accused of being witches.
ReplyDeleteSocioeconomic status affects our outside and inside identity. A very good example of this is the witchcraft hysteria in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this time, it is believed that around 100,000 people were accused of being a witch. Most of the people accused were common people. According to Spielvogel, “Common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” They live in a rickety house with not a lot of money, nothing special like the people that were rich and/or had power. If it were a higher up socioeconomic person being accused, the people would be in favor of them, saying there is no way they could be a witch because of their position in society, even if they actually were practicing witchcraft. Socioeconomic status affected life or death during the witch trial. And, if you were a common person and you admitted to being a witch and were eventually released, your socioeconomic status will drop even lower, since they believe you have forever lost your soul and your family will have abandoned you. Socioeconomic status affects lives now and in the past more than you may think.
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DeleteI also agree with your statement about how people higher in society would have others say there is no way they could be a witch, even if they were, just because of their position in society. On top of that, I too agree with your claim that poverty was the main factor in how people would be seen during the witchcraft hysteria and that the identity of one another also affected the witchcraft hysteria. For further thought, do you think how we identify with each other in present day could cause a hysteria like this to happen again?
DeleteSocio-economic status affects both inside identity (self described) and outside identity (perceived) During the sixteenth and seventeenth century people started to believe witchcraft was real. That people wanted to seek vengeance on those that have hurt them. Anyone was able to be accused of witchcraft (mostly women who are single or widowed that are the age of 50 and up). These people were considered to be “unholy”, “unclean”, and “sold their soul to the devil”. During this time period religion was everything. That’s how the towns and stuff ran cause all governmental stuff, like currency ran through the church. People often accused people of being a witch. If you try to say that their not a witch you would usually be put up for trial next under thought that you’re a witch too. Most people were accused because they were poor and maybe a rich person wanted to have fun or people saw them doing something out of the ordinary. Even how you dress could get you arrested. Basically if you don’t match everyone else you were considered a witch.
ReplyDeletei agree with you on this because they did think that witchcraft was unholy and unclean.
DeleteSomeones socio-economic status had a big part in being accused of being a witch or having some involvement in witchcraft. Let’s say you're in the lower class and you're being accused of witchcraft, the jury that comes to your trial most likely will not be in your favor just because you're poorer and may be sick or just have a virus. Therefore, it being easy to convince the people in your community that you're a witch. When it comes to having more money than the average person or being in the “upper class” it’s a whole different story. The jury has about a 50/50 chance being in your favor or not, depending on the reason of accusation, the reason being is because since you have more money and may not be as dirty or sick as the lower class male or female the jury will believe that you’re not a witch or have involvement with witchcraft so there’s a higher chance you’ll get off with no charges.
ReplyDeleteYour paragraph is very insightful, but i feel that the witchcraft is just acknowledged by the jury. The entire community feels certain ways based on peoples identities. Usually people are accused of witchcraft based on their outside identity; they usually accused people if they were in poverty, and were usually women over the age of 50 that could possibly be widowed. Their health or illnesses doesnt have much to do with the bigger problem. The problem is that people are in fear of being around witches who could possibly harm them, and the jury has all the say if a person is apart of the witchcraft or not. How do you feel they (the jury) should have handled the witchcraft situation?
DeleteSocio-economic status has affected our identities, not only inside but outside as well. A great example of this is the Witchcraft hysteria that took place from the 14th-17th century. Identity took a big part in this event, and has affected peoples lives. More than a hundred thousand people were charged with witchcraft, as more and more people were getting accused of being a witch, more people became afraid. According to Spielvogel, “More than 75% of people who were accused were women who were over the age of 50 years old and widowed”. Poverty had a big role in this event because people usually assumed that the poor were apart of the witchcraft. People that were being tortured tremendously usually “admitted that they had sworn allegiance to the devil and attended subbats, night gatherings using evil spells and special ointments to harm their neighbors.” All of these elements led people to believe that they were apart of the witchcraft due to peoples socio-economic status.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree on how poverty played a huge role in the witchcraft hysteria and how poor people were mostly accused of being "witches". Not only were poor people being accused but so were women. Therefore, to leave you something to think about, would their identity be totally changed if they had money but were still a widowed women over the age of 50? Would they still be accused of being a witch or not?
DeleteI feel that some perspectives on outside identities would change immensely, especially if they were rich or middle class. I feel that people find other people who are in poverty more suspicious, and by being rich all their suspensions would be gone. They may be questioned, but all in all i feel that their outside identities will be changed and perceived in a different way.
DeleteSocio-economic status is based off how much money you have and the groups that people are put in because of the amount of money they make. Some may not want to believe that people are judged by this but people are in history and todays life society has always had some sort of separation because of socio-economic status. The one thing different about today and history is that people took their outside perceptions and turned them into something unnecessary. In Europe during the 14 and 17th century people were put on trial, people were hung because what somebody thought about them, a persons identity is not exactly like the next persons. The fear of normal society caused people to take extreme measures, assume and accuse people, make up lies and stories about people, none of these things are right to do.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement that says, "Socio-economic status is based off how much money you have and the groups that people are put in because of the amount of money they make." because they were the ones normally accused of being witches. Something to think about is, if the women did have money, but were still widowed and over 50 years old, would they still be accused of being a witch?
DeleteI agree.I think many people were often classified based on their "wealth." However someone perception could have had an effect on the way they classified them as well.What if making up lies was how people survived and was their way of life?
DeleteSocio-economic status not only affects our inside identity, but it also affects our outside identity, and how we are perceived from others. The Witchcraft Hysteria is an event that occurred in the 14th and 17th centuries and it shows how your socio-economic status influences you and how others judge you. “More than a hundred thousand people were charged with witchcraft”. The question is, were some people who were innocent charged with acts they didn’t do based on their appearance? For example, the people who were mostly accused of witchcraft were “usually poor and those without property” and “75% were women, most of them were single or widowed and over 50 years old”. They chose to pick on the poor people who could not buy their way out of it and because they weren’t the same as others. To my knowledge, the widowed women might have been easy to pick on being single with no man to protect and validate that she wasn’t a witch. All in all, your socio-economic status affects you because how you are perceived from others is how they will treat you.
ReplyDeleteI think that your are right about how the single women would be easier to accuse of being a witch. Especially since they would have no man to stand up for them. Plus no one else would probably stand up for them because they to might be accused of being a witch.
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Socio-economic status has influenced our outside identity for years. Back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries during the witchcraft hysteria socio-economics played a big part in who they accused as witches. “Common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft”. During this time of witchcraft people with very little would be the most commonly accused for making deals with the devil and using magic to cures and harm their neighbors. This is just one part of history that shows how socio-economic status mattered in how people see your identity and how they might treat you.
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ReplyDeleteThe witchcraft hysteria was the from brutality to thousands of people, just over the identity of others way of life. In The 14th and 17th century of the earth the conflict of the accusing people of witchcraft. In a way of having beliefs in witchcraft and the fear of the people that were supposedly to be harm from accused to be witches. The average total of the accused were female, “75% of females either single or widowed even over 50 years old” even the poor or the people that had no property were accused as well. As people fear of being harmed the fear of witches expanding including being accused of being a witch. From the text of the reading explaining the confessions of others, “by being tortured intensely usually the accused would confess of having the sworn allegiance to the devil, even taking part in gatherings and sabbats including the use of evil spells to harm their neighbors”. From the time period the fear of the use of magic was thought to have been evil in cases but the identity from the evidence that either the poor or the homeless were accused to be witches over the way they live or their suspicious act of not being normal so called in today's society. The socio-economic aspect of the trials possibly been over their social interactions and their category that the fall under (poor.medium,high class economic).
ReplyDeleteOutside identity is something that surrounds the planet. Even from the past days of the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. People tend to judge people on the value of their looks, or what they hear. A large example that surrounds this thought is the historically strengthened “Witchcraft Hysteria” of hundreds years in the past. The hysteria occurred across European land, and involved judgement towards the act of possible witches. They say that 75% accused were women, as well as the poor and homeless folks, who were prosecuted as a so called “witch”. In the time, over 100,000 people were suggested of being a witch. This is dividing multiple groups of people. Socio-economic status is, basically, ranking between the poor and the rich. This explains in exactly what way socio-economic status affected the hysteria. People went after the less wealthy people and treated them as if they were a beast; this destroys identities and makes people seem different. The witchcraft hysteria was generally a time where people took the lower class and weakened them even more by lying and believing in something, down in themselves, that they knew was not true.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that most of the people killed were women that were poor and and homeless. Good job adding facts and quotes but one question i have why were men not accused as much as the women were?
DeleteSocioeconomic status influences both outside and inside identity. The witchcraft hysteria that occurred between the 14th and 17th centuries is a perfect example of people using this to their advantage to single out the people they deemed as less important and get rid of people they didn’t like or thought were different. Possibly 100,000 or more people were charged with witchcraft during this time. ¨A majority of the people that were accused of being witches during this time were poor, single or widowed women over 50 years old.¨ These people were some of the least important in socio economic status and would be least likely to be defended by anyone that they were not witches, also no one would stand up for these people for fear of also being accused of being a witch themselves. The link between the people lower in socioeconomic status being most of the amount of people that were put to trial for being witches is evident and shows people being picked on because of their status.
ReplyDeleteGood job putting a quote in your response, and also good vocab! But one question, what would make people think someone was a witch or wizard? The way they dressed? How they acted? And what made people point figures.
DeleteWhat is socio-economic status? Socio-economic status is someones social and economic position in relation to others. For example, a person who went to college and is not a high paid doctor, has a higher socio-economic status than a highschool dropout working at a gas station. In the Witchcraft Hysteria we read about, it says “common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” I believe the reason the poor were more likely accused with witchcraft was because they couldn't afford to bribe their way out of a bad situation. If someone who has more money and was more wealthy was accused with a crime, more than likely they could bribe their way out of it. Poorer people didn't have this option to bribe the accuser with money, because they didn't have money to bribe.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you that the poor were accused more but not for that reason. I think they were accused more because of their personal features such as clothing,personality, and being unclean. When do you think they would have time to bribe the jury when all the other "accusers" are around?
DeleteIn the 14th and 17th centuries, European societies were paranoid about the use of witchcraft amongst the people in their villages. They felt like they could trust no one because the people accused were usually “common people,” said Spielvogel. The accused people were homeless, or had a cottage that was in very bad shape. They were lower class citizens, usually older women that were widowed or single. Perhaps people thought these women could not find or keep a man because of their evil doings. When these women were convicted, many of them confessed to attending night gatherings. They sworn allegiance to the devil and attended sabbats, which are witch festivals. They also admitted to casting evil spells and particular ointments to harm others. After they suffered intense torture, they were hanged. This tells me that people were accused and judged because of their socio-economic status, not because they weren’t godly and holy. If they were higher class, no one would’ve thought about accusing them. To conclude, I must restate the importance of the accusations. We can infer that socio-economic status played a role in who was accused of being a witch and who was not.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, but what did the ¨common people¨ do to be accused?
DeleteSocio-economic status was a big deal during the time of witchcraft and determining percent of people who were accused of it. Poverty was was common in this time era; and I think majority of the people that were accused of witchcraft were in poverty. I can infer because if someone doesn't have a home or food then they would probably like to go to a place where you have a roof over your head and they feed you food. If you had plenty of money, food, and you had a roof over your head, then you had no reason to go to jail or have anything to do with witchcraft. The difference is that socio-economics did have something to do with the percent of people accused of witchcraft.
ReplyDeleteYes,I agree with you there accusing common people.
DeleteSocio-economic status affects outside (perceived identity) due to how we look at people and predict how they live. This happened to thousands Europeans between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. They were accused of witchcraft and sentenced to trial. The ones most often accused of witchcraft were usually poor people and those without property. If you were poor or looked poor, you were automatically a witch in their minds. Poverty was a big factor in determining if you were a witch or not. If you were accused of witchcraft, you would be considered unholy in the minds of many European societies. This is a prime example of how socio-economic status influences how people look at you.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying. What kind of people were called witches, explaining how it has to do with socio-economic status, all of that is there. Explaining poverty as being apart of you being a witch or not. But a question that I want to ask you is that could you still be accused of being a witch if you had none of these traits? Like instead of being poor, you would be rich. Or if you were a women that had a husband and maybe even had kids. Would you still be accused of being a witch or not?
DeleteIn what ways did socio-economic status influence outside (perceived) identity during the witchcraft hysteria?
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status influenced outside (or perceived) identity in the witchcraft hysteria because during the witchcraft hysteria, people were accused mainly because of who people thought they were. People thought that if you were unholy or don’t get out much and stuff, you were a witch. Witchcraft was a major thing in European societies between the 16th and 17th centuries. The people that were mainly accused were women that were over 50 years of age and were single and/or widowed. Some people who were poor or didn’t have any property were even accused. Because people didn’t know them personally, and didn’t know what they were like, they were accused of something that they may or may not have done. People may have died during that time period because no one knows their socio-economic status and just guessed at it. A terrible time it was for those people accused.
I agree with your idea about confusion of someone's identity. Have you also considered how someone may have their higher social status used against them?
DeleteOur socio-economic status affects our everyday lives in many ways as well as how we see ourselves and how others see us, known is self-described identity and perceived identity. During the 14th and 17th centuries, as well as the time between, a witchcraft hysteria occurred causing people to get falsely accused of sorcery, put on trial, and some even hung. Based on Spielvogel’s work, “common people- usually the poor and those without property- were the ones most often accused of witchcraft. More than 75% of those acused were women. Most of them were single or widowed and over 50 years old.” The people who were making the accusations, were taking into consideration their wealth and value to the community. They were basing whether or not the accused was a witch on the identity they have created for them, not on what their internal identity is. Meaning, the outside identity process was detrimental to their trial. Their socio-economic status was the key to why these people were accused of witchcraft.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement how poverty played a role in witchcraft. Your last couple sentences really connected me with seeing this is a more open view. Not only were poor people being accused but it was mainly women and the ones accusing them were considered wealthy and higher up in the community. Should money, wealth, or "higher" up in the community really matter on identity?
DeleteI agree to what you are saying. People did base their decision off of their wealth and value to the community.
DeleteSocio-economic status not only affects our inside identity but our outside identity as well. In Europe, between the 14th and 17th centuries, witchcraft was evident when dealing with socio-economic status. According to the passage we were given. “common people-usually the poor and those without property were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” During this time, poverty was a major determining factor when accusing people of witchcraft. These people were tortured and considered “unclean”. After being tortured, the accused would normally confess to practicing witchcraft and sworn their allegiance to the devil. Was it the “witchcraft” that made people seem to be “unclean” or was it the influence from others? Individuals shouldn’t be affected by one's socio-economic status.
ReplyDeleteI don't like how they were considered "Unclean". I like how you put the sentence about them confessing to their witchcraft after being tortured.
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ReplyDeleteSocio economic influenced people by having one person come up with something that would scare everyone and that person believed and when he told someone else they thought the same way and it continues.When religion came into this situation then they thought the devil was the reason for this to happen so they knew the one of them was a devil but couldn't tell.Then someone started doing something out of the ordinary and people called them a witch and went to court and got a sentence guilty or not guilty.Once they was accused of being one they was put on trial they put you in a lake if you floated you're a witch if you did not float your not a witch. So that person died either way.This mostly happens to women 75% of the time because back then people women were weaker than men.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status not only affects our self-described identity, but our perceived identity as well. These identities play an important role in determining how we are different from others. An example of a socio-economic influence in history, is the witchcraft hysteria that took place in the 16th and 17th centuries. According to the article, The WitchCraft Hysteria, “Common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” This quote directly shows that one’s socio-economic status was what their identity was based off of. For example, poor people were thought to be witches while wealthier people were less accused of witchcraft. In conclusion, many peoples’ self described identity and perceived identity are based on their socio-economic status.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and I like how you explained your reasoning and you gave an example.
DeleteSocio-economic status does not just affect us on the inside, it can affect us on the outside. An example of this is gender, “ More than 75% of those accused were women.” Gender plays an important part in the trial, they say women because they could be widowed and over 50 years of age. This is because women were considered weaker and more susceptible to the devil’s influence. Some might disagree to the idea of mostly women being accused, but all we can base it on is off of research and evidence.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statements, Where's the other examples?
DeleteSocio-economic status affects both inside and outside identity. An example of these identities would be the witches using witchcraft. During the 14th and 17th century most all the women were accused of using witchcraft and was found guilty. This witchcraft could make the family/village look bad if there was a women doing witchcraft in their community. “Common people-usually the poor and those without property.” That sentence states that the rich people or the people with nice property doesn’t get accused of witchcraft.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you! I like how you gave an example. With the women case, why do they just accuse the women ?
DeleteI feel like the women are mostly the ones doing witchcraft, but there might also be men. Good question!
DeleteIn the 14th and 17th centuries, a witchcraft hysteria occurred across Europe. They felt like they could trust nobody because people would usually accuse “common people,” such as people who are poor or those who are without a property. Also, over 75% of the people who were accused were women who were single, widowed, or over the age of 50. Maybe the reason they thought that it was the women who were single because they couldn’t keep a man because of her evil doings towards the man? Many say that they sworn allegiance to the devil and also attended subbats. They would sometimes even attend night gatherings to use evil spells and special ointments so they can harm their neighbors. If they were higher class, nobody would be accusing anybody. Nevertheless, I must restate that accusations that the socio-economic status played a role on who was being accused of being a witch and who was not being accused of not being a witch.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your conclusion; that accusations in the 16th and 17th centuries were based on the socio-economic status of those being accused. But why do you think that many of th accused actually admitted to attempting sorcery?
DeleteYou jump from Main Idea to Evidence back and forth instead of listing all your Main Ideas, and then giving examples. Great information, but needs to be organized.
DeleteI agree with your conclusion as well. That during this time the accusations were based completely on socio-economics. You gave evidence and is well organized. But why do you think they based it on socio-economics?
DeleteSocio-economic status influenced from a very stereotypical-single story standpoint. Due to the people economic stature (poor); they would also pick out women, due to the, then prominent, mens authority over women issue. People automatically assumed that they were bad people because they were different. So they would accuse them of witchcraft, and have them killed, to make the world more ‘pure’. It was a sort of bullying But even though they lost trial doesn't mean they were real witches. 75% of these people accused were women, also, as the fear of witches in the village increased, many people were scared of being falsely accused as a witch, meaning that several people knew that innocent accusations had been made. This suggest that socio-economics played a huge factor because economically they were accused of witchcraft, but socially they knew that in a lot of cases it was injustice. But they still accused, even for that reason, because stereotypes were still in place in most villages.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the points that you provided, and I also believe that having a lower socioeconomic status increased your chances of being accused of witchcraft. Do you think that the rich created the idea of witchcraft to try and get rid of the poor?
DeleteYour first line makes no sense, you hit so many ideas that I lost track of what you were talking about. And why would they choose the women you never finished the explanation. Why do you think that the witches were different.?
DeleteOur socio-economic status affect our inside identity (How we describe ourselves) and outside identity (how others perceive who you are). A great example of socio-economic status is when the event of the witch hysteria during the 16th and 17th centuries. In Europe rumors started to spread about witches who have the appearance of a normal person, according to Spielvogel, “common people-usually the poor” were the ones accused of witchcraft. The poor without houses where a big playing factor in this because they were considered unholy. In my opinion I think that the upper class saw the people living in the streets and thought that no human could live that way and assumed that there was a dark magic at play. Thats how socio-economic status ties into this people who didn’t have houses and money were thought as not human and that is how people perceived them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement; But how do you you know people don't see them as a human.
DeleteI agree with your passage but how do you know what the common people did to be accused of being a witch?
DeleteSocio-economic status plays a big role in outside (perceived) identity. For example, during the witchcraft hysteria between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe, socio-economic status was a factor. The article ‘The Witchcraft Hysteria’ says that “Common people- usually the poor and those without property- were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” This shows how much socio-economic status affects how people perceive someone and shapes their opinion about that person. Common people were usually seen as dirty, mischevious, and untrustworthy. This lead to many common people being falsely accused of witchcraft just because of stereotypes about their social class.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100%. If someone looked or acted different than the "normal" people, they were accused of being a witch. They didn't take the time to actually try to prove their innocence or even the fact that the person was guilty. They just accused and sentenced.
DeleteOne’s socioeconomic status affects how others will perceive them, or more specifically, their identity. Take the witchcraft hysteria in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries for example. Most of the people who were convicted of witchcraft were single or widowed women over the age of 50, but the most interesting part is that the majority of the accused were people who lived in poverty. Based on the stereotype for lower class people, any and all upperclassmen saw the poverty stricken populace as unholy or simply downright evil. This caused a mass hysteria against the lower class, which forced the elite people to become suspicious of the poor men and women. From this further altered stereotype, high-born citizens took any skeptical behavior as the mark of a witch, and offered no mercy when turning them in and formulating stories against them to further prove their crime. When you bring it down to the basics, the nobles automatically assumed that the poor harvesters were witches because of their unholy, unclean lifestyle. Their socioeconomic status as a lower class people brought them ill fortune in terms of accusations of witchcraft, and even with the greatest resistance, that couldn’t be changed.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you talk about the stereotype of the lower class people. I agree that their low socio-economic status had them looked down upon by the richer people. Also that there was no mercy given to them which is sad, but true. I wonder what would happen if a higher class person was accused of witchcraft? Would be a huge deal or would they just dismiss it?
DeleteYour socio-economic status had a major part in considering if you were to be accused as a witch or not during the 14th-17th centuries. If you didn't know already, witchcraft is the belief that you work with the devil to try and cast evil spells on people to harm them. To the outside community, if you were considered to be poor, your chances of being accused were significantly higher than someone who was wealthy. Also, your gender had a major impact on the decision considering “75% of those accused were women”. (Spielvogel) You would need to hope that you were a man and considered wealthy to have a chance of not being questioned. The court would go straight for the poor and homeless because they knew that their chances of proving themselves otherwise were slim to none. In conclusion, your socioeconomic status was the base of deciding if you had previously performed witchcraft.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely. Not only was socio-economic status important, but so was gender. My question is, why did gender matter so much?
DeleteSocio-economic status not only affect the inside identity but the outside community as well. Witchcraft Hysteria occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the intense hysteria affected many Europeans. The people that were accused of doing the witchcrafting was the people without property. The common people. It is only these people because they are on the lower level of the tower. Since they are not rich and don't have any property so the towns people believe they are practicing spells and magic.” A belief in witch crafting is magic.” Mostly women are what gets accused over the age of fifty. “More than 75% of those accused were women, Most of them were singled or widowed and over 50 years old.” These people considered to be witchcrafting are unholy or unclean. Some say that the witchcrafting is what makes them unholy or unclean. While another person would say that it is just the person there self.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you statement but how do you know if they were human or framed as being a witch
DeleteOh yeah, I believe that too! It almost seems as if you just read it out of an article. Be more formal.
DeleteSocioeconomic status is the measure of a persons or group of peoples work experience, how they are perceived by others, and their families economic position compared to others (high class, middle class, low class). How one is perceived by others is a really important part of how well they will be able to socially encounter with people. During the witchcraft hysteria many people were homeless or poor, the victims of the witches would go after anyone who looked as if they were poor. In most witchcraft cases, the status and sex of the witch had much to do with who was accused. (Trask) Now the big question is left for you to answer; is witchcraft real? Or did the accusers just kill innocent people. If witchcraft isn't real then why would so many of the ones accused of witchcraft say that they were witches and they made a pact with the devil. If witchcraft is real then are there still more witches out there? Are you one of the witches?
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DeleteI agree with this paragraph. you moved around between ideas too much. Stay on one idea the whole paragraph, you only change topics if you have more than one paragraph. I like your final position if witchcraft is real, but i wouldn't understand this paragraph unless I read the article. You did almost exactly what bradley did
DeleteSocio-economic status doesn’t only affect our inside identity, but also our outside identity. An example of socio-economic status influence is witchcraft hysteria that happened in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. “More than a hundred thousand people were put on trial and charged with witchcraft”, common people known as poor people and those without a home to live in were the ones most often accused of using witchcraft. Most of the people that performed witchcraft were mostly women, and most of them weren’t married and were over 50 years old.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on your statement, but you need to work on getting more details in you writing work. ( hi )
DeleteSocio-economic status affects both our inside identity and our outside identity. For example Socio-economic status has affected our world in the past like during the witchcraft hysteria during the time span between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. According to The Witchcraft Hysteria “Common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” this excerpt explains that the poor were more likely to be accused of witchcraft then what the wealthy would. The people that were accused were said to be unholy and unclean and that is how they were seen in the eyes of their neighbors. Sometimes you just have to think about if someone really was accused of witchcraft if their Socio-economic status would change or if people would view who they are different.
ReplyDeleteI agree that most people accused were poor and did not contribute much to the community much. People would wrongfully accuse lower class people for witchcraft. Think about what things the lower class people did to be accused?
DeleteThe Witchcraft hysteria let to hundreds of thousands of deaths. The problem with this, those were unreasonable deaths were caused by prejudice and proof of this lies in the victims lives. Socio-economic caste systems never fully focused on just one person. In turn they focused on a group of lowly people, such as farmers, ranchers, and those who just never had the chance to make it ‘big’. This means anyone that were in the lower class system were more at risk for the accusations and lies that were used to pin the crime of being a witch. Over 75% of these people were those that were over 50 years of age. That places another part of the accusations on the older part of the socitorial section. I believe that the fairytales of the witches led to this in the sense that most of the evil witches in the stories were older. Now, that does not mean that any of the younger members of one of the higher caste systems were not charged with witchcraft. Normally with the members of the lower caste systems had fast, inaccurate and in deliberated or under deliberated trials, but when it came to someone who was in a higher caste system, the trial was much more intense. Normally the trials were deliberated on to a high and, while it may have been inaccurate, thought out trial. Not only that, but the trials would last longer and would raise more suspicion and uproar from the crowd.
ReplyDeletethat if you were a witch and you told them that you were one then you would have to tell them who else is a witch and you will get to live but if you did not tell them who else is a witch but yet you have no life because no one is going to talk to you had innocent people killed for you to live your life on and if you were not a witch and got accused of being one you would still be hanged for it
ReplyDeleteThe Witchcraft hysteria was led to many deaths because the society was just saying "regular" people were witches/ wizards when they had no clue. But, an upper-class person wouldn't ever get accused of being a witch. Why would they? They are rich, they have power over most of the people. The society thought if people dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, or wore top hats, they were a witch. The society could call someone a witch just based off their hobbies. Say they liked drawing, fingers would be pointed. Socio-economic status affected this situation big time. It's like people were getting blamed for being a witch when they were just playing their role in their community. But, they had no way to prove this because I mean the society couldn't prove they were a witch. So they assumed and killed people pointlessly.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status dealt with who had the most justifiable reasons for power and who ever had the better image in the eyes of the public. People throughout this time of life had two sections of a social category, you were either rich and full of power or you were a poor commoner. If at this time you were rich you had power. It was because of this you could do what you wanted freely without having people be suspicious of you. You would have all the say in a matter of this argument, If you wished to say someone was a witch you could have them executed. To be determined as a witch was most always a person of the lower class. If you were poor, lived by yourself as a widow or had never married people would most likely have determined something about your life to be off. It was the fact that if you were liked to help heal people through herbal remedies or personally loved nature in a secluded lifestyle people reffered to you as a witch. It was these kind of acts that caused injustice in this day and age.
ReplyDeleteThe Witchcraft Hysteria was a time when people were believed to be practicing witchcraft and using it on others. A factor that was evident to me was their Socioeconomic status. People that were in the lower class would have been selected more than people who were active contributors to the society. Most of the time suspicious women would be charged for witchcraft, if they were over 50 and single it played a big part in if they were accused or not. I think these trails were unfair and caused unneeded conflict between classes.
ReplyDeleteSocioeconomic status influences how people look at others and what they think of them. In the witchcraft hysteria, many of the accusers claimed that the poor and dirty people were witches. “Common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft. More than 75% of those accused were women.” This shows that even way back in the early 14th and 17th century people were influenced by how others looked, acted and their place in hierarchy. The people who were dirty, unkempt and had little to no property or power, were often seen as the most diabolical and witch-like.
ReplyDeleteSocio-Economic Status made an enormous difference during the witchcraft hysteria. People who looked different, wore different clothes, didn't own a house, acted different, was a women, and even your age, these are all examples of things that would make your odds even higher to be chosen to go to trial. And, most of these examples are just being a “Common Person”, and if your were just a “Common Person” you had a chance of being hanged for being accused of something you're not.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economics influenced the people accusing others of witchcraft a lot during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Typically if you were were poor, and didn’t own a lot of land then you would have a high likelihood of being accused. Women of the age 50 or older that were single or widowed also had a high chance of being accused. 75% of the 100,000 people accused during this time were women. Usually if you were in the upper class of the system you wouldn’t worry about being accused, but if there was something suspicious about you they would accuse you. And typically the ones that were accused admitted to being a witch after they were tortured. These people would admit to having sworn allegiance to the devil, and attending night gatherings using evil spells to harm their neighbors.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic is our interaction of social and economic factors. Socio-economic allows us to have the ability to perceive others based on their “social class.” Therefore that is how we may interpret others on their outside identity. When looking at the clothing on a person, we can often determine their social class, whether they may be rich or poor. Throughout the 14th and 17th century many people were being accused of witchcraft. People who were mostly being affected were the poor. Those people were classified as “common people,” as spielvogel recalled. These people who were accusing many innocent men and women, used their perception on how you look to determine if you were a witch. Although this does not seem right, this is how it was. As you can tell, perception and socio-economic had a huge roll back then.
ReplyDeleteOnes socioeconomic status determined a lot of things and how ones life would be lived or how they would die. The witchcraft hysteria that went on between the 14th and 17th century was the factor that separated the lower class and the higher class in the justice system. There was believed to certain acts or things that a witch would do to separate herself from others. A big role in my opinion was power and how you contributed to society to make it a better place. Contributing showed you were there for help but say you were a lower class citizen and contributed as much as you could, but there was a higher class that did more, the lower class would be pushed out and just put up for being a witch because she didn’t do as much as the others. The women were more of a target to because the men did more than others. Over 100,000 people were executed between the time period that this was going on. “75% of the people or witches that were killed were women.” So therefore it was on who you were that determined if you lived or died.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status not only affects our inside identity but it affects our outside identity also. An example of this would be witchcraft hysteria back in the 14th and 17th centuries. It seems as is if you were poor then you were usually accused of a type of witchcraft. This is because i’m sure back then more poor people kept to themselves and wore different clothing which made them come off as different. Also i believe that them being poor they were unclean which came off as un-natural. So in my opinion, your socio-economic status determined whether you were guilty or not guilty in witchcraft.
ReplyDeletePeople in the 16th and 17th centuries were very superstitious. If anyone acted differently than normal, others would point the finger at them and claimed that they were a witch! These “witches” were mainly common people and over 75% of the accused were single or widowed women over the age of 50. The people that were accused probably dressed differently than the “normal people” and were punished for it. Why is it that mostly poor or middle class people were accused and high class people weren’t?
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status not only affect the inside identity but the outside community as well. The intense witchcraft hysteria affected many of the Europeans lives. The ¨lower people” of the Europeans were usually the ones who got accused of being a witch. Due to the ¨lower people¨ not being rich and not having property is why the townspeople believed that they were doing witchcraft. Witchcraft was usually performed by women, they were mostly over 50 and not married.
ReplyDeleteDuring the 16th and 17th centuries when witch trials were most abundant, I believe it is obvious to say that one’s socioeconomic status did in fact play a large role in if you were to be accused of being a witch or not. The largest number of those accused were poor, elderly, widowed women that were thought to contribute the least to society. Those who landed higher in the status of wealth were less often accused due to being more liked and beneficial people. Also if there was someone who was commonly disliked in a community may have been more often accused because the people saw it as a simple way to dispose of those that were less than desirable. Lastly another reason of accusations being made were through tradition. Through decades of killing “witches” it began to be just a way of life, something that was commonly done and not thought about. Is it not to to say that some people that were murdered did in fact participate in satanic practices? Absolutely not. But I am for certain it is for these reasons listed that brought upon more trials than simply saying, “all witches did in fact participate in practices of the devil”.
ReplyDeleteIn seventeenth-century, New England, most people shared a strong belief in witchcraft. Socio-Economic status played a very important role during Witchcraft Hysteria. Your social class determines whether you’re a witch or not. Common people, who were either the poor or lower middle class and they were the ones who were normally accused of witchcraft. “More than 75% of those accused were women. Most of them were single or widowed and over 50 years old.” The socio-economic status was the key to why those people were accused of witchcraft.
ReplyDeleteOur socio-economic status not only reflects upon our inside identity, but it also impacts our outside (perceived) one as well. An example of its influence way back in history includes the certain people who were accused of being witches. Back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, people who were poor or without property were displayed on trial as a witch. The fear of witches grew in a great abundant as well as the number of people who had been accused. This suggests that the poor, even if innocent were still murdered under such accusations. The way these people were perceived drastically affected how they were identified.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status played a major role in the witchcraft hysteria. Poorer and common people were often accused of practicing witchcraft, as well as being allegiances with the devil. These classes were easier targets because they had less to offer than the higher class. Wealthier people could contribute more to the community, thus making them less likely to be target as witches. These perceptions were all made due to one’s position on the social scale or their wealth.
ReplyDeleteSocio economics was one of the main tell tell signs of a “witch” but were the witches just normal people? The Normal people were targeted more than the rich people or the poor. Then the women are most targeted gender would have been female. The socio economic standpoint in this shows how if you act,dress,eat and talk weird you will be accused of being a witch.
ReplyDeleteThis event happened between the 14th and 17th centuries and shaped the world we know it today. When you were accused of being a witch people perceived you with a certain feature or practice; for example, if you had a mole or physical feature on your body that witches have, then you were considered a witch no matter what you said. Also they put you through a test to see if you were a witch. One test they would do is to tie you up, throw you in the river, and if you floated or survived you were considered a witch. Through intense torture, most woman confessed to being a witch and confessed to the things/practices that you have done.
ReplyDeleteWitch craft has been known for many years. It is known to be a mess of people accusing one another of being a witch based on socio-economic statuses. People over years are killed based on what they do, how they do things or even simple things such as having a mole on their body because these are “signs that symbolize that they are a witch.” “More than a hundred people die of witchcraft” is shown from another passage, more than half of these people are more than likely innocent. Mistakes and certain actions could lead to life or death situations. Fear of being killed for stupid things was very common years ago. Imagine living life back then where one wrong thought or action could lead to your death.
ReplyDeletePeople shouldn’t be accused of being witches based on small things such as moles, mistakes, or what others think. People are jealous and will do evil things to one another just based off jealousy. People also make mistakes but just because of a mistake or of a mark should not symbolize that they are a witch. Even if they were a “witch” I believe there could be good witches also. Not all are bad and deserve to die. I think these periods of times were crazy and unfair. Witch craft is a crazy time of life and hopefully does not become major again.
Socio-economic states has a lof of outside just like it does in the inside. The poor people didn’t have a very good chance to the rich people because everyone knew the rich people and always wanted to be around them. With the pool people not a lot of people knows them because they are mostly out trying to get money to survive on. The rich people have there own building to get money without working. No matter what everyone will know the rich and not the poor. The people that are average, they have the best chance to be with anyone they want because they are in the middle and the poor people will have to learn about the average people. The middle age has the most targeted. The whole thing is a sharing process because you can’t be born rich unless someone in the past has the money.
ReplyDeleteI agree what u said definitely when u said the middle people are the most to be with anyone because it makes sense what you said. Poor people is the most targeted and you stated that and its correct in my opinion, Great work
DeleteI agree with how people were accused.I also agree with your quote" with the poor people not alot of people knows them because the are mostly out trying to get money to survive on".And i agree that the rich people will be more known that the poor people.
DeleteWitchcraft was mostly pointed to poor people. These people were pointed to because they didn’t have as much property as other people. 75% of the people that was accused were women and they were single and over 50 years of age. Most of them confessed about a number of practices. They also attended night gatherings using evil spells. They also used special ointments to harm their neighbors. Most of the people accused were from Europe.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that witchcraft was pointed at poor people. I see you put in your option about the poor side of the people but what about the rich side of the people?
DeleteIn what ways did socio-economic status influence outside identity during the witchcraft hysteria?
ReplyDeleteI think your socioeconomic status did affect peoples identity back then. For example say there are two men one rich and one poor. Back then the poor man would not be as liked as the rich man one people thought differently of the two people. In the witchcraft hysteria that was talked about in the story the author said “common people usually the poor and those without property were the ones often accused” what this is saying is just because many different people were poor and not as wealthy as others or not like the others the poor people were more likely to be accused as being a witch just because they were different. Also rich people were almost never accused of being part of witchcraft because they had more money and were liked more by the community. In conclusion the poor people were accused of being part of witchcraft because they were poor and unliked while the rich people were hardly ever accused because they had more money and liked by many people.
I agree, with your statement about how " Also rich people were almost never accused of being part of witchcraft because they had more money and were liked more by the community." because it was almost always that the poorer people was being accused of witchcraft.
DeleteSocio-economic status influenced not only inside of our identity but also outside of our identity, during the witchcraft hysteria which took place between the 14th and 17th centuries. During this time more than 100,000 people were accused of witchcraft or magic, 75% of people who were accused of magic was women who were single, widowed, and over the age of 50. With being accused of witchcraft you would be sent to trial, then tortured into confessing or even believing that you was a witch.
ReplyDeleteBetween 14 and 17 centuries witchcraft hysteria was a major issue. Normal people were accused of being witches, and possibly executed just for people believing they were witches. Identity really affected what people believed. You’re socio-economic status is what made people believe if you were in witchcraft, or not. If you appeared to be “unclean” or “not into church” it made the possibility higher of you being a witch. But in the end it’s not just about how others saw you, but also how you saw yourself. The jury was mainly the ones who sentenced your punishment, but what if it was anyone else? People often create stereotypes so they might believe you were a witch for being unholy. How life is now, is similar to how it was back then; if people had a lot of money they would most likely not be in trouble, or was able to get out of the punishment. What if an innocent poor old women didn’t go to church because she couldn’t walk? Would she be accused? What if it was you? Are you the witch?
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status has an affect on both our inside identity as well as our outside identity. One example of how socio-economic status has affected the lives of many is the witchcraft hysteria that took place in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. According to Spielvogel, it was often “common people-usually the poor and those without property” that were accused of being a witch. Also, women who were singled or widowed and over 50 years of age were accused the most. It is evident that people who were living in poverty or were social outcasts were accused of having a sworn allegiance to the devil. Being different from the rest of the village made someone a target for being accused of witchcraft and most likely being convicted and punished. After analyzing the information about those were most likely to be accused, it is not difficult to wonder if the accusations had anything to do with witchcraft and evil at all, or if it had more to do with the way that others perceived the socio-economic status of an individual.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economics status not only affects our inside identity , but how others look at us based on socio-economic status. Back in the 14th century people who were accused of witchcraft , were people who were poor. Why? Because of the rich , the wealthy had the power and the resources to get people to be on their side. The reason 100,000 people were accused guilty was because of the people who had the socio-economics status to do so. Those 100,000 people were mostly poor. In europe your socio-economic status was very important. It was how people looked at you and how they judged you. Say this happens , a woman is accused of killing her husband but , she didn’t do it , had no money to afford a lawyer to prove her innocence and the person who called her out was the family of the husband who had money and power. On the trial day the family has a well known lawyer and fake witnesses , but on the other the woman had nothing but herself and she told the judge that she didn’t do it. Is the judge supposed to take her word for it? No, the family who has a lawyer and fake witness wins the case and the woman is found guilty. Why? It is because of their socio-economic status back then people with more money usually won the trial. Even in todays modern society we are stilled judged based on your status. And in most cases the rich always win.
ReplyDeleteSocio-Economic status is basically how much money you make, and with the witchcraft hysteria the people who was accused with witchcraft was people with little money and low on the socio-economic ranks. Although the people was common people, many different people would think common people means people that was well known and people knew who they were, and honestly thats what I would say; common people can be described in many ways but for right now its people who is well known. All of this witchcraft stuff took place in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe. Europe executed over 100,000 people for using witchcraft and using magic, As people kept using more and more witchcraft it started to get even more intense and strict. Is witchcraft real well we will never know unless you lived in europe and in the 16th and 17th century.
ReplyDeleteYou have a good reply but you need to explain more about when you said about the common people. That would help a lot because you didn't take about them in the passage until there. What do the common people have and what do they need to work on?
DeleteSocio-economics affects everyone in two ways. The way you perceive yourself, and the way others perceive you. Back in the day when the witchcraft hysteria was going on, it was all about how you were perceived. Socio-economics has a vital role in how you are perceived, and back then, whether or not you were a witch. According to Spielvogel, it was the “ Common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the most often accused of witchcraft.” The poor were mostly targeted for being witches. So having a low socio-economic status made them more likely to be perceived as witches, tampering with their true identity. It was very easy to accuse the poor, they had no power, they were poor, and/or no one would stand up for them. If you had a high socio-economic status than people would never think to perceive you guilty of witchcraft. The reason for this is because they would have people to stand up for them, or people would be afraid to accuse them due to the power they have with their money. Socio-economics has a huge role in identity, it can make, break, or even kill you.
ReplyDeleteYou did great at explaining how socio-economic status can perceive you and how others perceive you. You really showed what you were talking about when rich people wasn't never accused, great work
DeleteI agree that they targeted the poor for being responsible for witchcraft. I also agree that they had no power. But why wouldn't a higher class person be practicing witchcraft?
DeleteSocio-economic status affects your whole inside and outside identity.An example of this witchcraft is in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Many people were clamed to being a witch and most of these people were common people.Usally the poor people or single wemon either widowed or over fifty years of age were commanly accused.Perhaps more than one hundred thousand people were charged with witchcraft.As more and more people were being charged the fear of witches also grew and so did the fear or being accused of witchcraft.
ReplyDeleteWitchcraft hysteria had a big impact on the outside identity back when it was a popular topic. Witchcraft started out with one person who had tried it, than more and more people around the European countries got into witchcraft as well. As witchcraft progressed, more people who was doing witchcraft got caught. It finally started to get out of hand when people would spread the word that the person they disliked did witchcraft. It finally got to the court system that was around back then and “they didn't have a fair trial back then”, so If you were been called a witch by most of the people where you live than you was most likely accused of bing one. You didn't even have to be one just someone need to tell a lie about you and the court would sentence you to hang. Some people on the other hand actually got sent free. The reason most likely behind that is because people were good friends with you and you was well known in your town that you lived in. Your friends would go to your trials and would try to get you off the hanging list. But if you was set free than 9 times out of 10 “you would go home to a abandoned house and no family left.”
ReplyDeleteDuring the witchcraft hysteria, many of innocent people were accused of being witches based off their socio-economic status. “Common people, usually the poor and those without property, were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” So people would think because this person had no money to own land or dress differently than everyone else, they are odd, so they are a witch. “More than 75% of those accused were women. Most of them were single or widowed and over 50 years old.” They were accused because their old and by themselves. When you picture the image of what we think is a witch, we most commonly see a older lady who is alone. They are many ideas of what a witch would be, and because maybe someone had one of those qualities, people didn't allow their innocence. This is all based on the socio-economic status, so they are accused because of their way of life.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you put how we recognize a witch and how they testified people who were similar to them.
DeleteThe witchcraft hysteria had been a belief of a traditional village culture for centuries. The socio-economic status had a lot to do with you being a witch or not back then (circa 14th through 17th centuries). The most common of people that were accused of being a witch were those that were poor and the ones without property. More than 75% of the people accused were women that were single or widowed and were over the age of 50. These people who were accused of being witches and of the practice of “witchcraft” were severely tortured till they confessed. Most of the “witches” (innocent people) confessed to have sworn allegiance to the devil and attended sabbats (night gatherings using evil spells and special ointments to harm their neighbors. If they did not confess they were hung at the gallows, but if they did confess they were put in prison and were made to help the law find other “witches” and then they would be set free but be looked down upon by the towns folk and run out of town by these citizens. This proves that their socio-economic status has a say so in what others think about you.
ReplyDeleteWho knows, you might be a witch too.
I agree with on that. I also like the details of the text in your meal paragraph.
DeleteI agree with your statement about socio-economic status affecting how others perceive you. I also really like the examples you provided about stereotypes that people form based on someone's socio-economic status. You also did a great job of explaining why these stereotypes were put into place. One thing that you can think about is how the trials usually went. Were most of those accused proven innocent or were they convicted based on how others testified against them?
ReplyDeleteThere are many things that influence everything we are, have, do, say, etc. One of these things is known as “socio-economics.” Socio-economics deals with the way someone’s social ranking is affected by their economic standpoint, and vice versa. During the Witchcraft Hysteria which occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries, everyone was in a panic that there was many witches around them, and many innocent people were accused of being a witch; while in the same sense, many actual witches were convicted of witchcraft, which was illegal due to religious reasons. The people who were generally accused were people with low economic, and/or social statuses. According to Spielvogel, “common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” What this portion of the text describes is that people who were low economically and socially were often accused because they were just “common”. Basically, people who were accused weren’t high on the totem pole of socioeconomic success because they were easy targets.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status affects the way we perceive ourselves and the way others perceive us. The witchcraft hysteria during the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe is a good example of how others saw different socio-economic statuses,and the outcome that these assumptions can produce. Spielvogel explains that the people most targeted during these times of mass hysteria were the poor,those who did not own land,and a great percentage of women,it is written that “most of them were single or widowed and over 50 years old”. This was because those who were poor were seen as lesser compared to those who owned land and could steadily provide for themselves, another reason that these people were prime candidates to be accused of practicing witchcraft was because they were different from how they were expected to be, such as women who were older and not married. The witchcraft hysteria shows how people judge based on socio-economic status, whether it be themselves or others, and how those around them start to react to the stereotypes put in place.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status can affect your identity in two ways, it can affect inside identity (the way you perceive yourself), and outside identity (the way others perceive you). For example, someone who is low in their class ranking however, they rank themselves higher than what they truly are, which could make someone believe that you were greedy and full of yourself. Socio-economic status flourished around in the 14th century, whenever Europeans were being accused for the magic of witchcrafting. According to the article, “The WItchcraft Hysteria”, “more than a hundred thousand people were charged with witchcraft”, and almost every single one of them were “common” people. However, in this time period, “common” people were the poor and those who were without property. If you were living in poverty, with absolutely no money, you were going to be accused of being a witch. Then,you’re found guilty, you’ll have an intense, harsh punishment compared to those of a higher class who were accused of witchcraft. Not only that but, “More than 75% of those accused were women. Most of them were single or widowed and over 50 years old.” Which means that if you were unmarried or widowed, that people thought you would be so angry that you would want to destroy everyone, never leaving your house, making them accuse you of being a witch. All these perceptions were made based off other’s social class, not based on who they really are.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status has influenced us since the very beginning, kings were admired and slaves were pitied. Socio-economic status judges how much money you have and your social ranking. During the time of the witchcraft hysteria it is obvious the people with low socioeconomic status were picked out and accused of taking part in witchcraft. In the article, The Witchcraft Hysteria, its states most people who were accused were poor and had no property. Not only were these people low in status but a third of them were women, which were widowed or single and over 50 years old. I think the communities picked out women during this time because women weren’t well respected, so their opinions were not listened to when innocent. Many were tortured until they confessed of joining the allegiance to the devil. I believe the tormentors stopped when they were pleased with the result of confessions; So the accused would tell them what they wanted to hear in order to stop their agony. People in the low socioeconomic status were not powerful or reverenced. When they testified it was the judge and jury, more powerful and wealthy, against them and they would most likely be charged guilty. Socio-economic status impacts how serious you’re taken and impacts how others perceive you.
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status can affect not only our inside identity, but also our outside identity. But first, what is socio-economic status? Socio-economic status is an individual’s or group’s position within a hierarchical social structure. With that being said, The Witchcraft hysteria that occurred in Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries would be a good example of how socio-economic status has affected and shaped us throughout history in both inside and outside identities. According to Spielvogel, it was the, “Common people-usually the poor and those without property- were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” So, the poor were the ones that were getting blamed for the situation. More than 75% of these people getting accused were women. Most of them were either single or widowed and over 50 years old.” (Spielvogel). With all this being said, this could’ve went relatively in two ways; did they accuse them because they actually thought they were doing witchcraft, or just because they were “dirty, unclean” poor people?
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic statuses affect our daily life inside and out just like it did in the 16th and 17th century. Our looks, our identity, the way we go about living, everything we do. Only in the old days did it have extreme affect. Witchery was known all over Europe. Most of time the accused were older divorced or widowed women. According to Spielvogel ‘More than 75% of those accused were women. Most of them were single or widowed and over 50 years old.’ Women would usually confess or say that theyŕe witches, after a brutal beating. People just wanted to believe that older women were witches when its just age, not powers.
ReplyDeleteOutside identity was influenced by socio-economic status during the witchcraft hysteria. It was common that "the most people were usually poor or did not own property." It was also common that most of the people accused were women, and widowed women. "Poverty was also a large determining factor in which people were accused with witchcraft." These pieces of evidence show us that what social class you were categorized as could highly determine if you were or not accused with witchcraft. Even gender could potentially be the deciding factor in who was put on trial to be charged with witchcraft. This shows that outside identity was a major influence in socio-economic status during the witchcraft hysteria in the 14th and 17th centuries.
ReplyDeleteCaroline Lorch & Trevor Mcguffin OCHS:
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status affects our inside and outside identity. During the witchcraft hysteria socio-economic status mainly affected poeple accused of witchcraft. The accused were accused based on different factors that they had no control of. Some of these factors included age, marital status, gender, looks and wealth. If accused of witchcraft there were different ways to detect a witch from a human. One of these ways was called "Trail by Water" which involved tying the "witches" to a heavy boulder and throwing them into water. If they rose to the surface they were a witch, if they sunk they were human and died at the bottom of the river. No evidence shows that any witch floated up. Therefore these unharmful citizens who were accused of witchcraft had no chance of surving because they used unfair tatics. This goes to show that you can't judge a book by its cover.
Benjamin Cook OCHS
ReplyDeleteThe socio-economic status influenced the percieved appearance of people which caused the many accusations of people bein witches. Older, widowed women and strange looking people were mostly accused of being witches. The strange and unusual activities of lower class people made it easy for people of higher classes to accuse them of practising witchcraft. The more normal that people looked and acted and the more good that they did made it harder for people to want to accuse those people as being witches. The ways in which people acted, the social class that they're in, and the way that people looked influenced how people percieved others and accused them as being witches.
Our socio-economic status can affect our inside identity, but the main impact it has on our live is the perseptions it gives other about us. In better words it can change how our outside identity looks to others. A great example is that of the Witchcraft hysteria in the 17th century. People were accused as witches due to many reasons during the witchcraft hysteria, such as gender, age, and marital status, but they usually all had a common factor. Their Socio-Economic status. According to Spielvogel it was most often the "Common people- usually the poor and those without property" who were accused of being witches. Witches were veiwed as unclean, and unholy during that time. Some now wonder if it was "witchcraft" that caused the perception of being unclean, or the perception that was caused already by the accused's socio-economic status.
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ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status doesn’t only label our inside identity and who we identify ourselves as, but it also labels our outside reputation. For example, back in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries, witchcraft came about and helped develop society’s ability to discriminate against people of lower social classes. According to the reading about “The Witchcraft Hysteria” that we read in class, “Common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft.” These people were already looked down on in society because they were poor, dirty, old, widowed, etc, so adding these things to their plate would be really easy, and it seemed like a good way to get rid of the “lower class”. So, witchcraft was the beginning of discrimination of the social classes during the 14th and 17th centuries in Europe.
Thomas Williams OCHS: Socio-Economic status was a huge role in witchcraft hysteria. In the Old world they had nobles and peasents, nobles always had more rights and privelages than peasents. So any decision between the two classes, the nobles were always sided with. Just likie how during witchcraft hysteria people with less money were usually accused more than people with money because anyone with money was known to be in charge or higher than everyone else. Also sometimes the richer people looked better than the un-wealthy or poor so they would frame them because of their un-attractiveness. Showing that socio-economic status affected many low-class people during the witchcraft hysteria.
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ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status played a huge role in the witchcraft hysteria. Poor people were usually accused of practicing witchcraft. This was usually because poor people would stay home and secluded. People without property usally were poor and judge as witches. Wealthier people could contribute more to the community, this was making them less likely to be target as witches. The socio-economic status was the key to why those people were accused of witchcraft.
Gavin Harris
ReplyDeletesocio economic class was importent to the witch craft hysteria. because the lower class was mostly persucuted as witches. the rich people were more protected because the could afford nice clothes and houses and food. the witchess were mostly poor females who couldnt affrod much
Sarah Funaro OCHS
ReplyDeleteAll across Europe during the seventh-century, there were hunts, trials, and executions of accused witches. This was known as witchcraft hysteria. This brutal and harsh time was influenced majorly by your location on the social scale, or socio-economic status. The majority of accused witches were older, widowed women and men. Why? Simply because of their perceived identity. Because the lower classes had less to offer to the community, higher-ups believe there would be no negative effects if they were targeted and executed, unlike the upper-class, who had many things to offer to their community. Many were also targeted because of marital-status, personality, behaviour, or simply because, as a whole, they were unliked or considered undesirable by the community. These lower class men and women were innocently killed because of accusations based on their perceived identity.
OCHS- Kayla Miller
ReplyDeleteDuring the 16th and 17th centuries witchcraft hysteria affected the lives of many Europeans. Common people, usually the poor and those without property were the ones most effected and accused with witchcraft. those accused with this were brutaly punished and most often times killed. this hysteria was a horrific thing, just because one was diffrent ther "percived" identity was not to the 'usual norm' they were punished.
Teresa Navarro OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status affects everybody and depends on what you can afford and can't and maybe even the way people look at you. Which impacts our inside and what we think of ourselves because of other people and some people might stereotype things just like they did in the 16th and 17th century. Poor people were the most common to get accused and also women mostly the one's over 50 year old and the people that were killed during that time for witchcraft was women and poor people. Once you were accused you couldn't do anything because either you were going to die and no one could defend the accused person and of course wealthier people were never suspected. If your poor you are most likely to steal and do bad things to people, older ladies were always suspected probably because they did or said something unusual so your socio-economic status does really affect in society and what people think or say about you.
Tyler Hatchell-OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-Economic Status made an enormous difference during the witchcraft hysteria. People who looked different, wore different clothes, didn't own a house, acted different, was a women, and even your age, these are all examples of things that would make your odds even higher to be chosen to go to trial. And, most of these examples are just being a “Common Person”, and if your were just a “Common Person” you had a chance of being hanged for being accused of something you're not.
Sydney Scarborough and Kaley Birchfield OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-Economic status greatly influenced the perceived identity of a person. The average person accused were of a lower economic class. 75% of people accused were women, either single or widowed, and over the age of 50. People of a higher class were more respected than those of a lower class when it came to accusations. Accusations were purely based on appearance, social status, and perceived identity.
Chris Whitmer OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status not only affect the inside identity but the outside community as well. a example of this is during the witchcraft hysteria.if there was someone who was commonly disliked in a community may have been more often accused because the people saw it as a simple way to dispose of those that were less than desirable. Contributing showed you were there for help but say you were a lower class citizen and contributed as much as you could, but there was a higher class that did more, the lower class would be pushed out and just put up for being a witch because she didn’t do as much as the others. The women were more of a target to because the men did more than others. Over 100,000 people were executed between the time period that this was going on. “75% of the people or witches that were killed were women.” So therefore it was on who you were that determined if you lived or died
Caitlyn Hacker OCHS
ReplyDeleteAlong with socio-economic status influencing our inside indentity, it also had an affect on our outside indetity or the way others percieved us. In the seventeenth-century witchcraft was a big deal and was beleived by many. One major way that witchcraft hysteria reflected the outside appearance of humans was how the poor or those who lacked property were the ones who normally got accused of this. In the text it says "More than 75% of those accused were women. Most of them were single or widowed and over 50 years old." Nowadays this seems totally unfair and even back then the way someone looked or appeared to everyone was how they judged wether they were apart of witchcraft or not. Its quite obvious that the way someone was told to be "unholy" or allegiances of the devil was mainly because of the way others percieved them not because of "witchcraft".
Preston Burton OCHS-
ReplyDeleteSocio-econimic status influenced outside identity during the witchcraft hysteria by the way you looked, lived, and acted. say if you looked odd or did something out of the ordinary people that saw these actions they would ju\mp to the conclusion that you were a witch. If you lived in a run down house away from the ain of society, people would get suspicious and accuse you of being a witch. the more that people got called to to courthouse, the more people got suspicious. older women especcialy because of the way they looked. people in the lower classes were accused the most because they are less sophisticated than the higher classes. the upper class has power and money to buy out of the trial and go free if they were accused.
Sabrina Wilbert OCHS.
ReplyDeleteIn what ways did socio-economic status influence outside (perceived) identity during the witchcraft hysteria?
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the socio-economic status influence lots of people. The witchcraft hysteria happened across Europe between the 14th and the 17th centuries, it was the “common people-usually the poor and those without property” they were the ones who were accused of witchcraft. People also accused someone of witchcraft if they were old or widowed, also even just by acted different. More than 75% of those accused were women, and most of them were single and over 50 years old.
The witchcraft that took place during the 16th and 17th century was responsible for over 100,000 deaths. Socio-economic status played a large factor in the kinds of people that were targeted for trials and killed. If you were a woman, over the age of 50, widowed, or poor than you were more likely to be charged with heresy. These groups of people contributed less to there societies and therefore were easier to target because they didn't have any status to sway there case. Vise versa, the upper classes had a lower chance of being targeted because they could not contribute to society with their wealth if they were killed. Some of these groups were also targeted (the poor, over 50) because they were viewed as unhealthy or unclean, and this fits the stereotype of a 16th or 17th century witch. Overall these groups of people were targeted because they lacked status, wealth, or even health.
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Deletekelley duvall and Jared Grantz OCHS:
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic identity had a big impact on the societies during the witchcraft period. Witchcraft was a very strong belief to many people during the seventeenth centruy, therefore they wanted to believe many people were witches. Everyone could easily be targeted as witches. Accuasations of witchcraft were easy to make and prove. Social staus had a stong influence on whether or not you were percieved to be a witch. For example, a homeless begger would be more likely to be accused because of peoples reputation and status in society. I believe that at the time, the more spirutally evolved you were in religion and god and reguarly attending church, the less likely you would be accused of witchery. The puritian groups contiributed more to society during this time because of their faith. If you were apart of the church and you spoke out against original accusations, you set yourself up as a possible source of witchcraft. Being a member of the church as a status in society did not secure your safety of not being accused of witchery. Anyone within a society was capable of accusing others for witchcraft, but depending on who you were in your society, it could easily be turned against you. I agree that even being in the considered lower class, can be dependent on your image that others see of you, depicting your place in witchery.
Payton Sarno OCHS
ReplyDeleteYour socio-economic status greatly impacted the way you were perceived during the witchcraft hysteria. Witchcraft is the practice of magic, especially black magic; it's the use of spells and the invocation of spirits. You were accused of witchcraft depending on your socio-economic status, Women at the age of 50+ were targeted but men were also targeted. 75% were woemn. According to "The Witchcraft Hyseria" these women were of adverage and poor or without property. Many of them were widowed or single. under intense torture many of these poeple confessed to being involed in witchcraft. This evidence suggests that people were often mis-perceived, because of their socio-economic status and suffered great consequences because of it.
Sarah Blevins- OCHS
ReplyDeleteBelief in witchcraft was very popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Witchcraft was the belief in Magic. Over a thousand people had been convicted of this crime during this witchcraft hysteria. Of those accused of this crime, many were tortured until they confessed to taking apart in witchcraft. Your socio-economic status played a huge part in whether others would accuse you of participating in this crime. The poor were the ones who were mainly convited and accused, and out of that social group, the women were more likley to be accused than men. The women convicted were usually over 50 years old and single. For example if you were an old, poor women, or not very wealthy, and widowed, you would more likley be convicted of participating in witchcraft, than a middle-aged man, who had a job and belonged to the upper class.
Kevin Smith OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status influenced outside identities during the witchcraft hysteria because people that were in the majority and with others, thought that some of the social outcasts were witches, most likely because they didn't know them and wanted somebody to blame. The people accsing these innocent people were terrified of the bad things going on around them, it's also a natural instinct for some to find somebody to blame. Most of these woment were poor, and in the lower class. Many were in the lower class because their husbands had died and they had been widowed, they were also mostly over the age of 50. This proves that lower class outcasts were the main target in the witchcraft hysteria.
gabriel martin OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-Economic status identifies what social class yall are in so in turn durin the Salem Witch Trials people would identify those who are in a lower economic class or a sub-social quality as possible Witch or one who performs witchcraft. But on the other end of the social classes there are those who are rich or well known and theyre not as who arent thought of or expected to do anything of the sort because of their economic class. If you are single and older then you may be considered a suspect of witchcraft.
michael drury - ochs
ReplyDeletea defendents socio-economic identity had a larg impact of weather or not you were a "witch." many people belived that witches had special powers because they had signed the devils red book. poor people were singled out because of there aperance and tattered clothes. 75% of the convicts were women, I think this is because woman were treated as inferior to men. most of the witches were 50 or older and widowed,older people look different than others and ofthen are slightly bent over from their age this gives them a almost scary appearance. also they might suspect they killed the former spouce. witchcraft was just a scape goat for everyones problems.
Maria Gigliotti and Sam Bryant OCHS:
ReplyDeleteYour socio-economic status was majorly impacted during the witchcraft hysteria. Witchcraft was the strong belief of spirits and spells and practice of magic, including black magic. Many people were targeted as witches and this was something that people feared because of the bad associations that came with being a witch. People were judged on how they looked and then targeted. However, you were more easily targeted if you were a woman, especially over the age of 50. You were also targeted if you looked poor or were in the lower class. For example a wealthy business man was less likely to be accused of being a witch than a poor old woman. Also, your involvement with the church contributed, if you were more involved in your church you were less likely to be accused of witchcraft. Who you were in society had a major influence on how you were looked at and treated and the likeliness that you would have to be accused of witchcraft or not.
The Witchcraft Hysteria impacted outside identity during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Witchcraft is the practice of magic, the worst one was black magic. Many people were accused of witchcraft. Over time we have discovered that socio-economic status is what was used to decide if you were actually practicing witchcraft. Many people were targeted. However, according to "The Witchcraft Hysteria" 75% of the accused were women, many of whom were poor or without propperty. Many of the accused women were single or widowed and over 50 years old. Under intense torture many of the people accused of being witches usually confessed to a number of practices. For example, if a 65 year old women's husband were to die, she would be left widowed. This makes her over 50, widowed, and of course a woman. This without a doubt makes her a witch. Right? No, but according to "The Witchcraft Hysteria," it makes her a witch.
ReplyDeleteChris Harrison OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio economic status was used in the witchcraft hysteria in the 14th and 17thcenturies all across Europe. The people who were accused of this so called witchcraft were usually those who were poor and the ones who lived in poverty. If one such person was accused of this witchcraft they were frowned upon by the rest of society. The accused were considered to be not holy and unclean in the eyes of their peers and in the eyes of the rest of society. Women were the main people to be accused. Who were usually older in age.
Jasmine Bartel and Kerrigan Hayes OCHS:
ReplyDeleteSocio-economics not only affected our inside identity but also our outside identity. So many people were accusing others of witchcraft a lot during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Typically if you were poor, and didn’t own a lot of land then you would have a high likelihood of being accused. Women of the age 50 or older that were single or widowed also had a high chance of being accused. 75% of the 100,000 people accused during this time were women. Usually if you were in the upper class of the system you wouldn’t worry about being accused, but if there was something suspicious about you they would accuse you. And typically the ones that were accused admitted to being a witch after they were tortured. It wasn’t based on if you were a witch or not and accused it was on how people determined you and their perspective on you.
Jasmine Huntress OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic identity greatly impacted your life as a citizen between the 16th and 17th century. Witchcraft was a huge dispute during this time and led to many people getting exacuted. Religion was a very important thing back then and practicing witchcraft was believed to be a sin. Your socio-economic class determined whether people convicted you of this seen to be crime. The poor, the elderly (50+ years old) and women were maily targeted. More than 75% of the convictions were in fact women. More than 100,000 people were convicted of practicing witchcraft between the 16th and 17th century. There were other factors that contributed to the false accusations of witchcraft. Your job and participation in church also was seen as a sign of if you were considered a witch.
Alexis George OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status had a huge impact on many people during the hysteria of the witchcraft trails. The main target for being a witch was the poor, out of the poor community, the main target was women according to "The Witchcraft Hysteria" it states, "Common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft. More than 75% of those accused were women. Most of them were single or widowed and over 50 years old." Every person accused of being a witch was judged by their outward and economic appearance, and because of this, many died because of wrong accusations.
Clayton Duncan and Hunter Elkins OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio economic status impacted the search for witches in the witch hysteria. Witchcraft was a huge problem in the 14th-17th century. If you looked like the sterotypical witch it was a automatic suspision that you could possibly be a witch. Many times the poor old women were accused. 75% of the accused were poor women who most likely didnt own any property. After torture many of the accused confessed to being a witch.
Jacob DuBroja OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status played a huge role in whether or not you might or might not have been considered a witch. If you were of a low social class then you had a greater chance of being accused of witchcraft than those of higher social classes. Those of a high social status were usually the ones who accused the lower class people of witchcraft. Most of the people being charged with witchcraft during this time were single women around the age of 50. Just like in our world today, many of the victims of false accusations are lower class people. For example, if you were homeless then everyone assumes you have no skills and mean nothing to this world. Just like those of the "Witchcraft Hysteria" who could not defend themselves and were stereotyped and punished for something that wasnt true.
William Gitchel OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio- economic status was a major part in your life if you're male or female you always got judged by how rich or poor you were. and if you were female you had ver fewier rights and permissions and if you were considered a Witch, then you would be put on a trial and asked alot of questions by people who were accepting that you were a witch. Many of the witch cases most of the people were put to death by getting caught on fire while on a wooden stake, getting stoned (towns people throw rocks at you), or getting exicuted. If you were classified as a lower class person then you would probably be called filthy and would probably be avoided by everyone. If you're of the middle class, you would be a normal person. While still being a middle-class person if you were considered a witch and the case said that you were guilty, which many of the females back then were proven guilty, women over the age of 50 were mostly blamed of witchcraft. there was a thing called the "the witcraft hysteria" most of the time classified people (mainly women) witches.
In the 14th and the 17th centuries they were accusing people of witchcraft. the ways that they could tell they were witches the would see if they sink then they were a witch and if they floated then they were not a witch. And also they would take the pee of the women that was a witch and bake it into a biscuit and give it to the dog and if the dog said the person that they were praising or the dog would take them to her. When some of the people were condemned of witchcraft then the people would say that when they moved they were hurting them and when they would kill the witches they would hang them, smash them, or drowned them.
ReplyDeleteRachel Ford, OCHS
ReplyDeleteThe witchcraft that took place in the 16th & 17th century. Witchcraft was magic but not the good kinds like tricks that we see today it is dark magic like casting spells on people. Most of the people who were accused of being a witch were women who are single or widowed and over fifty years old. You could also be accused of being a witch based on your religion or socio-economic status. Your socio-economic satus also tells if you particpated at all in this crime back in the 16th & 17th century. Religion was a really important thing back during these times they led people to believe that witchcraft was a sin and it was a uncleaned thing to do. If you are single, widowed,and/or fifty years old you might want to know you are most likely a suspect of doing these crimes
During the witchcraft hysteria between the 14th and 17th century it had a negitive influence on the outside perseption on the socio-economic. It mainly affected the "common poor people" in a society. it was mainly those people who where put on trial for witchcraft. An estimated 100,000 people were said to be put on trial and 75% were women and over the age of 50. Ultimatly poor people were viewed as a liability to middle and high class people. And women were viewed as even lower than poor people and they were veiwed as devil worshippers.
ReplyDeleteIn the witchcraft era socio-economic status has a huge affect on people lives whether it be positive or negative. An example of socio-economic in the witchcraft hysteria would be if someone was social or not, if someone was social and had a lot of friends they might not be accused of being a witch since are not secretive with their friends. Most of the time people who were poor and who didn't have a lot of property were the ones who were accused of being a witch. In the witchcraft era if you were poor more than likely you were going to be accused of being a witch.
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ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status doesn’t only affect inside identity (how you perceive yourself) but outside identity also (what other people see you as). In Europe during the around the 14th through 17th centuries during the witchcraft hysteria socio-economic status affected what people were thought to be. People that were seen to be of the lower class of society and that didn’t own property were accused of being a part of witchcraft. This is because people that were seen as unholy were thought to take part in witchcraft. Another factor people took into consideration when judging whether someone does witchcraft was if they were wealthy or poor. Normally poor people were tried for being witches. This evidence suggests that people were more focused on someone’s socio-economic status when deciding if somebody does witchcraft rather than what they do in their spare time.
Darrah Anderson and Emily Urban OCHS:
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status greatly impacts the way others perceive you, due to the way you look, behave, and your lifestyle. The best example of this is witchcraft hysteria that occurred between the 14th and 17th century. The fear of being accused of witchcraft grew immensely during these times, due to the intense torture the accused were put through, and the death penalty placed upon those who were found guilty. According to Spielvogel, those commonly accused of being a witch were "the poor and those without property." Women, typically widowed, over the age of fifty were also accused of witchcraft. These people "didn't contribute" to the society, and were therefore easier to prosecute. They were seen as "unclean" and "unholy." Were these people really guilty of witchcraft, or were they falsly accused because of their socio-economic status?
Nick Coleman and Mackenzie Bauer
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status influenced outside identity during the witchcraft because people were accused of being witches based on their physical appearance. A majority of the people accused of witchcraft were widowed women above the age of 50. People had no specific evidence of these women committing a crime, they were charged because of the way they looked. Poor people without property of their own were accused of witchcraft as well. These people were brought to trial because of their socio-economic status.
Adam Leite OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status impacts the way you are viewed by others. This can be seen in the witchcraft hysteria. Over 75% of Women were accused, and most were 50 years or older who were poor and of the lower status, were targeted and expected to be witches. These stereotypes were dependent on if you were accused and possibly killed or not. Spielvogel says, "common people-usually the poor and those without property", this means you could be involved in the church and live the average life, but just because you are an old women that is poor, you are stereotyped as a witch. Your social status was a large determining factor in if you were viewed as a witch or not. You are viewed by society as "unholy and 'clean'", and wouldn’t be as involved in everyday life, so they expected these people of witchcraft from the stereotypes that arose between the 14th and 17th century.
I think the witchcraft Hysteria and socio-economic status goes together because people were accused on how they acted or if they did certain things, it was mostly the poor or unwealthy that got put on trial. A 100,000 people got accused but only 50,000 got proven guilty. Most of the people were women that were alone and didn't have much family or kids. People who were proven guilty were killed.
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ReplyDeletesocio-economic influenced outside identity in many ways durring the witchcraft hysteria in the 16th and 17th centuries. durring this time many people beleived in the art of witchcraft, the problem with that was that people didnt know wether or not people practiced witchcraft so they used the economic status of people to determen that. most of the poeople that were convicted were those of 50 plus age, women, widowed or single, werent part of the church didnt own property, and didnt have a steady job. in other words people of the court convicted those who werent necissarly part of the status quo.
Rachel Durbin OCHS
ReplyDeleteYour socio-economic status is the way your personal income and social standing compares to other people living in your community. Between the 16th and 17th centuries, many people, mostly women, were accused of practicing witchcraft. Determining who was witch was highly based off of one’s socio-economic status in relation to the other people in their town. Many accusations were made based off of social ranking or status in society. Those with a lower status were more likely targeted as witches and were forced to partake in a trial to prove they were not “workers of the devil”. Widows and poor women had a higher chance of being a suspected witch. People accused others based on their perception of the person, rather than using relevant evidence to verify their suspicions. If the general public of this time would have made these claims based on real experiences and concrete proof rather than observations, thousands of innocent lives could have been saved.
Payton Hamm
ReplyDeleteDuring the sixteenth and seventeenth century your socio-economic status had a big impact on how people viewed you. Superstition grew during this time and your appearance could determine if you were thought to be a witch or not. According to Spielvogel, it was the "common people-usually the poor and those without property" that were accused of witchcraft. This text suggest that stereotyping also played a big role in determining who was a witch and who wasn’t. Just because someone was poor doesn’t mean that they were a witch, but in this time of the witchcraft most poor people were thought to be witches.
Haley Springer
ReplyDeleteDuring the 16th and 17th century, the time period of the witchcraft trials, socio-economic status had an influence on how people perceived you. During these times, the intense belief of magic affected the lives of many people. Over one hundred thousand people were accused of being a witch. As more and more people were brought to trial, the fear of witches grew as did the fear of being accused of witchcraft. According to Spielvogel, "common people-usually the poor and those without property-were the ones most often accused of witchcraft." This shows that people would stereotype based on your socio-economic status. Depending on what you wore, how you acted, and how much money and property you owned depended on whether people would accuse you of witchcraft or not. This shows that based on your socio-economic status or being part of a lower class can determine whether or not you could be accused of witchcraft.
Jamie Wilson, OCHS
ReplyDeleteduring the witchcraft hysteria people where acused of being wichts and preforming wichtcraft. the towns people would deside who was a witch. they based judgement on socio-economic identity. the person they typicaly thought was a witch was a poor widow or single woman 50 years old. they were taken to trial.they were tourchered into comiting to varis acts of witch craft. people were afraid of witchs. probably hundreds of thousands died because of the witchcraft hysteria.
In the 16th and 17th century salem held witch trials. Alot of older women that were widowers and men that were lower class were being accused of practicing witchcraft. They held trials to test the men or women for being accused of witchcraft. During the trials they would test them by tying stones to the supposed witch or wizard and throwing them in a lake or river. If the floated they were a witch if they sank they were dead. A hundred thousand men and women died from being tested by the people. They would hang them or they would die from the test they were tested on. Not a lot but some people were accused not guilty and let go. If the witch or wizard said they practiced witchcraft they would be put in jail and would use them to point out other witches. The whole witch things started when young girls in salem calmed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women for performing witchcraft.
ReplyDeleteNatalia A, OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocio-economic status not only affects our inside identity (self-described identity), but it affects outside (perceived identity). An example of socio-economic status' influence on history is evident in the witchcraft hysteria that occurred across Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. According to Spielvogel, it was the "common people-usually the poor and those without property" that were accused of witchcraft. During the witchcraft hysteria, poverty was a major determining factor in which people were accused of witchcraft. The people accused were considered unholy and "unclean" (Lagen) in the eyes of the affluent in European societies.
When the wichcraft hysteria began to have a big impact on the world during the 14th-17th centuries, it was influenced by and it influenced a lot of different things. Women over the age of 50 who were widowed, poor, and didn't own land were the main culprit society had to blame. There were other people that were blamed, too, but these were the majority of the accused. Most of the people accused werent guilty, but because someone made the assumption (whether it be for an actual reason or not), they were tried and often found guilty for what they had been accused of. In conclusion, socio-economics influenced the assumptions of the citizens in almost every way, rather than having a reasonable or actual reason.
ReplyDeleteDuring the witchcraft hysteria (the sixteenth and seventeenth century), your socio-economic status had a big impact on how people viewed you. The people that were mainly accused of being witches were poor single or widowed women, poor people and people without property. The people accusing others of witchcraft had no real evidence that the people they accused were witches or not. Sterotypes played a large role in the witch craft hysteria because only the poor was accused not the rich. Fear also played a role during the witchcraft hysteria. The fear of being accused for witchcrift grew because it became common for people to get accused at random, at any given time. People had started to fear their neighbors since they didn't know who was a witch or not. Mainly it was based of your socio-econmics because you were compared to others in the town and how you differ from them and how they differ from you.
ReplyDeleteDuring the 16th and 17th century your socio-economic status played a major role and had a major impact on how other people saw and judged you. Many people judged you and said you were a witch called the witchcraft hysteria. During the witchcraft time many people believed in magic and thought magic was real. Over 100,000 people got accused and the majority of them were women over 50 widowed or single. When they were taken top trial they were tortured because they were accused of committing different kinds of acts which is the witchcraft acts. The fear of witches grew as the fear of being accused of witchcraft. During the intense torture the witches confessed about their practices and that they were a witch.
ReplyDeleteThe economic-social identity during the witchcraft was posted mainly from stereotypes on the out look or word form other people. This was because no one in the 16th or 17th century could find real evidence on the people being accused. The people who were more than likely being accused was the woman who was single or a widow, or it was people who were older than 50 years of age and was considered an outcast from the village. The people who were accused with those accusations were not guilty but the court could find no reason to why they were not guilty unless they confessed and said that they were. The only reason why some people who were accused didn't get hanged for dealing with the devil was because they had confessed. Now the others who spoke the truth and didn't lie to save themselves were the people who had died but in my opinion they died with the truth. This out burst of economic-social identity was one of the many reasons why the people of the 16th or 17th century was wiped out because of being placed as a certain was and it not being being the truth. Also one of the many reasons why people do it to this very day, they place labels on people who are not like everyone else and say things about they that is not true and considered a stereotype just because of there economic-social status in the world
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DeleteNoah Carter, OCHS
ReplyDeleteSocioeconomic status influences both outside and inside identity. The witchcraft hysteria that occurred between the 14th and 17th centuries is a perfect example of people using this to their advantage to single out the people they deemed as less important and get rid of people they didn’t like or thought were different. Possibly 100,000 or more people were charged with witchcraft during this time. ¨A majority of the people that were accused of being witches during this time were poor, single or widowed women over 50 years old.
In the 16th and the 17th century a lot of things influenced the socio-economic viewing and the witchcraft hysteria. Some of these things are when based off of the gender and physical appearance of a person. Anybody who was over the age or at the age of 50 were perceived as being a witch. Another thing that I found while reading was that “more than 75% of those accused were women”. Not only was this a huge stereotype, but it was also sexist. Along with most of the women being accused were the either “single or widowed” as well. Today looking back on this we think that it’s crazy that someone can be considered a witch just by the way that they look, or someone’s stereotype that they have told someone else. However, many people that were held responsible for being a witch were killed, either hung or burnt.
ReplyDeleteOur socio-economic status not only reflects upon our inside identity, but it also impacts our outside perceived one as well. Back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, people who were poor or without property were displayed on trial as a witch. The fear of witches grew in a great abundant as well as the number of people who had been accused. This suggests that the poor, even if innocent were still murdered under such accusations. The way these people were affected how they were identified. And was noticed by their clothes, their houses and how they acted
ReplyDeleteDuring the sixteenth and seventeenth century your socio-economic image greatly influenced the way peopled you and the way you viewed yourself. This was a time period of strong belief in faith, but also strong belief in sorcery and witchcraft hysteria. The people were very easily convinced or to put into simpler terms, gullible. They also treated people certain ways based on how they were viewed by most also known as your socio-economic image. Women were usually the ones accused of witchcraft. They were also usually single or widowed and around the age of 50 years old. Though they were never actually practicing witchcraft, they would often confess to the practices under intense torture. It was very easy to get punished for practicing witchcraft due to the system set in place as a type of court. Everyone accused never actually practiced the craft but were punished anyways unless they proved the accusation to be incorrect. These socio-economic views of women during the time are probably the reason as to why they were the main ones being accused and that is why it was such a strong influence.
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