witchcraft

By Ashley Davis

James the 1

st

James was king of Scotland until 1603, when he

became the first Stuart king of England as well as
creating the kingdom of Great Britain.
James was born on 19 June 1566 in Edinburgh
Castle. His mother was Mary Queen of Scots and
his father her second husband Lord Darnley.
Darnley was murdered in February 1567.
One of James's great contributions to England
was the Authorised King James's Version of the
bible.

James first book

In 1597 he published a book that he
had written on the subject of
witchcraft, his Daemonologie. In this
work, James put the traditional
arguments in favour of a belief in
witchcraft, and his lifelong interest in
the subject is evidenced by the fact
that he himself participated in a
number of trials of alleged witches.

Salem witch trials

The infamous Salem witch trials began
during the spring of 1692, after a group of
young girls in Salem Village,
Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed
by the devil and accused several local
women of witchcraft.

What people believed about witches

that