OCTOBER 22 • 2020 | 5


10.28.20 6:00p


It has been argued that the “witch craze”—
stretching from roughly the mid-15th to the 
mid-17th centuries and claiming the lives of over 
50,000 people, overwhelmingly women—was 
cultural undertaking since the eclipse of the 
and South America, to Iceland, through western 
witch trials of this period are marked by their 
historical, cultural, and religious complexity. 
What precipitated this continent-wide outbreak 
of violence? What did a witch-trial look like? 
How did so-called “witch-hunters” operate? 
Did witches even exist? How were these trials 
depicted in early printing? What did sorcery and 
magical practice actually look like in the medieval 
questions to better discover witchcraft together.


A Discovery of Witchcraft

Witches, Witch-Hunting & Magical 
Practice in Early Modern Europe

1120 E Kearsley St, Flint

The Sheppy Dog Fund, Dr. Alan 
Klein, Advisor, presents topics of 
art, religion, and history through 
its funded lecture series.


Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746–1828, Witches’ Flight, ca. 1798, 
Oil on canvas. Copyright © Museo Nacional del Prado.

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the Afterlife

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