Across
- 4. Scholar who critiques the Midwife-Healer myth and warns against nostalgic feminist history.
- 5. General term for magical harm or sorcery.
- 7. Artist famous for erotic witch images in the 1500s.
- 9. Name for the mark on a witch’s body believed to be insensitive to pain.
- 12. The everyday “ideal woman” in Luther’s teachings: God’s little ______.
- 16. Economic system that grew in early modern Europe and changed family roles
- 18. Word for harmful magic that hurts people or property.
- 19. Manual written by Kramer and Sprenger to guide witch hunters.
- 20. Salem minister whose household sparked the first accusations
- 21. Early modern Europeans believed witches attended secret meetings often in the ______
- 22. Meeting witches supposedly attended at night.
- 24. Girl trapped in a tower because her mother craved a forbidden plant.
- 26. Term for magical woman in fairy tales. Sometimes evil, sometimes helpful.
Down
- 1. Special court used during the 1692 trials: Court of Oyer and ______.
- 2. Large shift from feudal life to trade-based economy.
- 3. Enslaved woman whose confession started many of the accusations.
- 6. Animal companion believed to assist witches. Animal ___.
- 8. Girl in Salem known as a leading accuser; niece of the Reverend
- 10. Luther said women were naturally fearful and therefore more easily tempted by the ______.
- 11. The two brothers who collected German fairy tales.
- 13. Type of crime in which normal torture rules didn’t apply.
- 14. Name for a female witch in fairy tales that is often portrayed as an old, bent, scary ______.
- 15. Term for hatred or punishment of women.
- 17. Family strongly involved in accusations in Salem Village.
- 23. Author of the witch-hunting manual Malleus Maleficarum
- 25. Animal in “The Juniper Tree” that symbolizes the child’s return.