elizabethan supernatural

elizabethan supernatural

1. witches

   • they believed it witches and witch hunts; witchhunts were when you went out searching for witches
   • they said that wtches were people working for the devil
   • theyblamed the witches for evil and all bad things that happened
   • if something bad happend to someone, for example if all your crops died in thir feild they would blame the witches for what happened.
   • they believed that all witches looked ugly
   • once you were accused of being a witch you didnt have a say you were sent to the stake straight away
   • they did a test with water if you floated you were a witch and burnt at the stake, and if you sunk you werent a witch, ut you would die anyway from drowning.
   • witches were burnt at the stake

2. ghosts

   • if you saw a ghost they thought it was a prediction of something bad was gonna happen
   • they were terrifiedof ghosts
   • the elizabethan period showed an increased intreast in ghosts
   • in shakespears plays if he brought ghosts into his plays they would be there for revenge of to show that after doing this you have put yourself in danger to death. for example banquo in the banquet scene
   • i think that the reason for sakespear putting ghosts in his play was either him saying he was fightened of them or him warning othere people about ghosts
   • in elizabethan times they were very supersticious so they would believe in ghosts and witches and all the spernatural things
   • belief that people's spirits might manifest themselves after death
   • they would have thought that ghosts were also with the devil

3. the supernatural in macbeth

   • flouting dagger
   • macbeth talking to the ghost of banquo
   • lady macbeth was from the future
   • lady macbeth talking to the devil
   • the witches that were chanting a spell
   • birds that were singing in the middle of the night
   • lady macbeth seeing the devil
   • the witches making predictions