Edexcel A Level History Paper 3 option: The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580-c1750 June 2019 question paper 9HI0/33

Study the source in the Source Booklet before you answer this question.

Assess the value of the source for revealing beliefs in the power of witches and the organisation of witch-hunts in early seventeenth-century Lancashire.

Explain your answer, using the source, the information given about its origin and your own knowledge about the historical context.

How far do you agree that it was mainly economic factors which prompted witch-hunting in Bamberg in the years 1623-32?

To what extent was the severity of the trials at Salem the result of the involvement of children?

How accurate is it to say that the work of Balthasar Bekker was the key development in the growth of scepticism in the years c1580-c1750?

5 ‘It was the influence of Lord Chief Justice Holt that was the most significant factor in changing attitudes to witchcraft in the years c1580-c1750.’

How far do you agree with this statement?