hh_clubs | History of Magic, Term XXII, Activity 3: Midterm Exam (Reply)

Activity: Midterm Exam
Points: ~~1st/2nd/3rd/~~Participation; 50/40/30/10 points.
Deadline: Friday, March 30 @ Midnight UTC (8pm EST)
Details: It's time for every students favorite time of the semester, midterms! You must match the following people, places, and things with the correct provided definition. Unlike what all your previous professors have told you, this test is a race. The first three people to correctly match all 10 terms will rank and earn extra points for their house. You must answer all questions correctly in order to earn participation points.

1. Salem
2. Marie Laveau
3. Malleus Maleficarum
4. Grimoire
5. Alastair Crowley
6. Cunning Folk
7. Hecate
8. Logroño
9. Helen Duncan
10. Walpurga Hausmännin

A. Scottish spiritualist and medium who, in 1944, was the last person to be tried and imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act of 1735.

B. 15th-century manual used for the identification and persecution of witches.

C. Ancient Greek Goddess of Magic

D. Town in Massachusetts is known for the arrest of over 150 people, and the subsequent hanging of 19 for witchcraft between Feb 1692 and March 1693.

E. Austrian midwife executed in 1597 for witchcraft, vampirism, and infanticide who "confessed" under torture that she had sexual congress with Satan, ate babies, and attended black masses.

F. Instructional book on magic. These books often contain directions for spell and charm casting, divination, invocation, and summoning rituals.

G. Famous New Orleans Voodoo Priestess who died in 1881.

H. Controversial English occultist, poet, and novelist. A proponent of "sex magick" and the use of recreational drugs in spiritual pursuits

I. Town in Spain where more than 7,000 cases of witchcraft were pursued by the Spanish Inquisition during what is known as the Basque Witch Trials.

J. English-language term for those who practiced folk magic and healing professionally.

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