The Satanic Temple sees Satan as a Paradise Lost -inflected metaphor who represents skepticism and the ability to challenge authority. The continued existence of two organizations that claim Satanism for two different functions highlights a point made by John M. Write to Lily Rothman at lily. By Lily Rothman. Get our History Newsletter. Put today's news in context and see highlights from the archives. Please enter a valid email address. Please attempt to sign up again.
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Authors Affiliations are at time of print publication. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Show Summary Details. Subscriber Login Email Address. When he tried to start a witch hunt in Innsbruck, Austria, he was kicked out by the local bishop, who accused him of being senile. Unfortunately, the fear of satanic witchcraft grew. The 15th century seems to have provided ideal soil for this new idea to take root.
Europe was recovering from several crises : plague, wars and a split in the church between two, and then three, competing popes. Beginning in the s, the printing press made it easier for new ideas to spread. Even prior to the Protestant Reformation, religious reform was in the air. As I explored in an earlier book , reformers used the idea of a diabolical conspiracy bent on corrupting Christianity as a boogeyman in their call for spiritual renewal.
Over time, more people came to accept this new idea. Church and state authorities kept telling them it was real. The history of witchcraft can be quite grim.
From the s through the s, authorities in Western Europe executed around 50, people, mostly women, for witchcraft. The worst witch hunts could claim hundreds of victims at a time. Salem, in , marked the end of witch hunts in New England.
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