![]() ![]() Students have to understand that before the eighteenth century, people everywhere lived in a world populated by invisible supernatural forces, their presence sensed in even the most mundane aspects of life. It is important that teachers make some assumptions about the subject and convey these as givens or "facts" to the students. The lesson plan is adapted from my college-level course on the same subject. ![]() The reading material noted under "Suggested Strategies" is available in my text, Witches of the Atlantic World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook (New York University Press, 2000). Those areas in clude western Europe, England and Scotland, parts of West Africa, and American Indian groups, all of whom felt the impact of this expansion and were brought into close contact because of it. ![]() The focus is on areas that participated, either passively or actively, in the European westward expansion from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. This topic examines the beliefs about witchcraft and the nature of witch-hunts in a variety ofcultures that rim the At lantic Ocean. ![]()
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