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Robert Poole

Callanish Stones I (Clachan Chalanais)

Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 2019

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Unlike the continental inquisitorial system, English law required members of a community to make an accusation against their neighbours, and required juries drawn from the community to reach the verdict. English witch trials therefore revolved around popular beliefs, according to which the crime of witchcraft was one of maleficium, Latin for evil-doing. Until Parliament amended English statutes in 1604, courts required tangible evidence of evil-doing, such as killing and maiming, or harming livestock or crops, and punished such malefactors in ways not dissimilar to other, less mysterious murderers. But in 1604 English law adopted a crime from the repertoire of elite demonology and made the mere conjuring of spirits a capital offence. Whatever James’s scepticism about particular cases, throughout his reign in England he promoted the continental view, increasingly shared by English intellectuals, that witchcraft represented a diabolic threat to the social order.

Robert Poole, from The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories

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Robert Poole

Saranac Lake

Adirondacks, New York State, USA, 1994

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Robert Poole

St Clement's Church

Rodel, Isle of Harris, Scotland, 2019

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As Stuart Clark shows in his magisterial work Thinking with Demons, diabolism fitted well with the contemporary belief that the world was constructed around opposites: hot versus cold, male versus female, heaven versus earth. The existence of God, angels, saintly believers and sacred rituals almost required a belief in the contrary reality of Satan, legions of demons, human agents and blasphemous inversions of Christian devotion such as black masses. Satan therefore gave (or seemed to give) witches wonderful powers in order to attract new followers and to harm the godly. But Renaissance demonologists turned the essence of witchcraft into a thought crime – that of belief in Satan as lord. Given the power of torture to obtain confessions of allegiance, the difficulty of refuting witnesses’ allegations, and the lack of necessity to prove any criminal act on the part of the witch, the elite model of diabolic witchcraft produced in sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century Europe explosions of cases that were indeed witch-hunts.

Robert Poole, from The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories

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Robert Poole

Window and Cobweb

St Clement's Church, Rodel, Isle of Harris

Scotland, Sept. 2019