Age Of Fire - Witchcraft in seventh century Iceland by DR.Louise Fenton

- Voodoo witchcraft researcher - September last year and visited Iceland - Interested in the visuals -17th century witchcraft in Iceland - Survival of the landnamabook 9th century - Traditional copying - Icelandic Language mostly unchanged - Contemporary accounts of witchcraft avaliable - Irish monks first settled in Iceland as it is stated in book -left artifacts there - Scandinavians sailer in the 9th century called Iceland iceland after climbing a mountain and seeing the view and changed the country's name from snowland to Iceland - 10th cenrty it was fully populated - Parliament formed in c. 934 ad - alpingi - exicusions weren't just for witches from 1602-1750 loads of exhacusuions took place - women drowned for insest or fornication - men beheaded - 15 hangings for moral offences - 72 people were exhausted in the pond near Parliament through time - Icelanders have used magic for centuries - when witchtrials began Denmark was the main place and was ravinous during the trials and filtered to Iceland - Icelandic should forget paganism and gain Christianity - malificent malice book guidebook on how to trial a witch and identify witchcraft - demonology 1697 - Andrew Denmark - our link to Denmark - harsh winters and famine 17th century witchcraft declined - Iceland freed from Denmark 16th century - the Old ways never dissapeard from Icelandic culture - sagas are the history of Iceland and tell the story around 1200-1220 based on life from 930-1030 - norse mythology is their religion and their tradition - these are the first people to become heathens when the Christians came - women weren't capable of magic, women are of science - men are the side men or men of magic, they are only able to women are not - runes are ancient writing sets, domenant form if writing - used for protection and healing and cursing -each individually carries own power - believed oden founded runes - stave, magical symbol, originally used to strike fear within the enamy - z rune is protection - housing, lived origiannly in long housing - sparcity of trees as they are forested for industry - sod houses appeared, dug into ground - the age of fire - 200 people were charged of being in pisesion of magical artifacts - Northern area 2as late to convert to Christianity so mainly there was in the witchtrials -1652 first trial - mainly men got exhacuted - women have cats, lived alone, argumentative - law against witchcraft 1630 - elite didn't apply as their magic was permittable and not witchcraft - European methods weren't used in the Iceland trials - point a finger and your a witch was enough to start trial, then would search homes and person - runes, magical symbols and a raven feather were evidence - holmlevic, Icelandic witchcraft museum is based there but strandevier was where it was based - West fuad is where the witchcraft trials took place - isolated communities - red dots on map are where witch trials took place - the process - have to be accused, usually some misfortune, illness, death, magical objects ect.., accused had to prove innocence - find someone to swear their innocence, convince the jury of innocence, prove beyond reasonable doubt that they are not a sorcerer - not always death penulty, could be whipped, imprisoned, - many were found innocent - 21 of 200 burned - many was whipped - a man of God would then proceed the burning - the man of God is then entitled to all their material holdings - - witchcraft museum online shop! Wrecuvix National library, museum of Icelandic museum - necropants, spell to agree with a friend with on their natural death you can skin them from wait down, you will put them on, you place a coin in the scrotum, you will continuously get money.