Re: Evil Nazis

In article <ddfr-0F8F45.19543210042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> In article <IAzLj.40507$rd2.2095@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Karl Johanson" <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, there would have been cases in both directions. Good
>> point. And there would have been murderers who blamed some
>> near by "witch" for what they'd done.
>
> If you are talking as early as the thirteenth or fourteenth
> century, I don't think witchcraft would have been a major issue.
> That's more a seventeenth century phenomenon.

Does that mean that there was far less of a tendency, in 13th or
14th century England/Europe, for accusations to fly of someone
having used supernatural means to have caused another person's
misfortune (e.g., illness or accident), or just that the accusations
weren't of the same "flavor" as the cries of "Witch, witch!" of the
17th century?

-- wds