DATE

TOPIC/LECTURE

READING/OTHER MEDIA

ASSIGNMENT

5/5

The Ancient World: The Witch of Endor, curse tablets, and healing magic

LIVE LECTURE @ 10 a.m.

1 – The Witch of Endor
2 – A Sorcery Trial
3 – Curse Tablets
6 – Love Magic

Complete “The Witch Quiz” (for those attending the lecture, we will do it in class, otherwise it is posted on our chatboard.)

6/5

The Creation of Satan

PRE-RECORDED LECTURE

7 – St. Augustine, “Demonic Power in early Christianity”

Questions on the “Creation of Satan” lecture are posted in the “Assignments” thread. You need to watch the video (posted later Tuesday) first.

7/5

The Middle Ages: Heretics and Ritual Magicians

PRE-RECORDED LECTURE

8 – Canon Law and Witchcraft
11 – Nicholas Eymeric
12 – The University of Paris

Write a paragraph answering the question I’ve posed in the “Weekly Assignments” discussion thread.

8/5

The Middle Ages: Demonology

LIVE LECTURE @ 10 a.m.

LIVE DISCUSSION on the week’s topics at 11 a.m.

14 – Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum

12/5

Early Modern: What did Witches Do? The Sabbat, the Pact with the Devil, and Demonic Sex

LIVE LECTURE

20 – Guazzo, “The Pact with the Devil”
21 – Bernard, “The Demonic Pact in England”
22 – Lancre, “Dancing and Sex at the Sabbath”
49 – ”The Trial of Janet Barker and Margaret Lauder”

Question will be posted on Blackboard in “Content” section at 9 a.m.

13/5

Early Modern: What did Witches Do? Maleficia and Beneficia

PRE-RECORDED LECTURE

18 – Del Rio, “The maleficia of Witches”
19 – Perkins, “Good and Bad Witches”

14/5

Early Modern: What did Witches Do? Familiars, Flying, and Demonic Possession

PRE-RECORDED LECTURE

17 – Remy, “The Devil’s Mark and the Flight to the Sabbath”
45 – ”Witches’ Demonic Familiars at Chelmsford”
56 – Boguet, “The Possession of Loyse Maillat”
59 – ”The Possessions at Loudun”

15/5

Gender and Witches

LIVE LECTURE

36 – ”The Confession of Walpurga Hausmännin”#40 – ”The Confessions of Johannes Junius”Watch “The Burning Times”, available through the library website here: https://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1909399~S3

19/5

Early Modern Witch Trials: Laws and Trial Procedure

LIVE LECTURE

27 – Bodin, “Witchcraft as an excepted crime”

28 – Boguet, “The Conduct of a Witchcraft Judge”

20/5

Early Modern Witch Trials: Proof, Torture, and Confession

26 – Kramer, “The Torture of Accused Witches”
29 – King James VI, “The Swimming and Pricking of Witches”#50-”The Matthew Hopkins witch-hunt in Suffolk”

21/5

Modern and Contemporary Witches: Film, Television, and the Harry Potter Phenomenon

Choose one of the following to watch (available via various online platforms):

The Craft (Columbia Pictures, 1996)

The Crucible (20th Century
Fox, 1996)

The Witches (Lorimar and Jim Henson, 1990)

Into the Woods (Lucamar and Walt Disney, 2014)

Hansel and Gretal: Witch Hunters (Paramount, 2013)

Any of the Harry Potter Movies“All Halliwell’s Eve”, Charmed (Season 3, Episode 4)

“Gingerbread”, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 3, Episode 11)

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (any episode)

Salem (any episode)*”Possession”, Penny Dreadful (Season 1, Episode 7)

If there is something else you would like to watch, please let me know!

22/5

Modern and Contemporary Witches: Wicca and Neopaganism

LIVE LECTURE

Watch “What is Wicca?” available through the library website here

https://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b2346562~S3