JOURNAL QUESTIONS:

Choose one question from the following and write a 550-750 word response. Your paper must be typed and handed to the professor on the date stated in the syllabus.

1. What might be some of the reasons that the court felt that witchcraft against animals was as punishable as witchcraft against people?

2. Why do you think that young children such as Jennet in the Lancashire Trials and the two boys in the Chelmsford Trials would turn in family members to the authorities?

3. As you look at the details of these two famous trials, what are some of the specifics that surprise you the most and explain why and in what ways these aspects of the trials amaze you.