I haven't quite got my head around that yet.
The main area of interest for me is a the young person who is accused of
being a witch. However, I believe that a significant proportion of young
people confess to this without accusation.
In the example of the Edict of Grace the psychopathology of the children who
confessed has been described as 'attention seeking.' But seeing the
confession as almost a behavioural phenotype seems to me to be awfully
simplistic and requires much greater elaboration. I feel that one would
argue against the behaviour being exclusively 'attention seeking.'
So self-definition has to be part of it somehow. I'm still musing on it.
Chris :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Caroline Tully" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 5:29 AM
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Child witches in Europe and the northern
hemisphere
> Christopher,
> Are you looking at child witches of the 'witch = malevolent magic-worker
> type' (as in children accused in the European Witch Trials, as seen in
> recent newspaper reports, and also on your blog), or child witches of the
> 'witch = fun neopagan and/or harmless fantasy figure' type?
>
> ~Caroline.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Kimberley" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Child witches in Europe and the
> northern hemisphere
>
>
>> Good question. If one were to include children and adolescents and used
>> World Health Organization criteria as the basis for an operational
>> definition the age range would be 0-19 years.
>>
>> A definition used for child labout is 5-14 years old.
>>
>> For my purposes I think a broader definition is better because child
>> soldiers are usually defined as being under 18 years old.
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Chris
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Morgan Leigh" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Child witches in Europe and the
>> northern hemisphere
>>
>>
>>> Are teenagers children? If so check out Doug Ezzy and Helen Berger's new
>>> book Teenage Witches.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Morgan Leigh
>>>
>>> Christopher Kimberley wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to build a bibliography of references to child witches. I'm
>>>> familiar to a certain extent with the Edict of Grace when
>>>>
>>>> "In the famous witch-hunt in the Basque country in 1610-14, when
>>>> witches
>>>> were given freedom to confess with impunity, more than 1300 of the some
>>>> 1800 individuals who confessed were minors"
>>>>
>>>> Levack, Brian P.
>>>> The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe. Harlow, England: Longman
>>>> Group UK Limited. 1992
>>>>
>>>> An references to child witches in other times and places will be
>>>> gratefully received.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>
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