>>17985442Easy:It wasn't about witches.It was about hunting Jews pretending to be ChristiansThey dealt with an actual threat that is still alive
>>17985442Inquisition was a brutal but *legal* bureaucracy obsessed with heretical ideas. Witch Trials were hysterical mob justice fueled by superstition and neighborly hatred. One was top-down religious control. The other was bottom-up social panic.
>>17985442they weren’t allowed to draw blood so they came up with creative methodsthe puritans just burned witches
>>17985442Both Catholics and Protestants had Witch Trials. Witch Trials occurred most often in places like Germany or Switzerland where Catholics and Protestants lived very close to one another.Catholic Inquisitions differed in time and place but were generally built around various legal proceedings and evidence. That said the least corrupt inquisition was probably the Roman Inquisition because it was under the direct control of the Papal States and whose purpose was mostly dealing with heretical clergy. By contrast the Spanish Inquisition was under the control of the Spanish crown and concerned itself with New Christians, former Muslims and Jews who had converted to Christianity to continue living in Spain. A similar situation was found with the Portuguese Inquisition, however some historians have suggested that not everyone who was accused of being a Jew was actually a Jew and that the inquisition was used at times to arrest up and coming merchants whose wealth threatened the political order. The Goa Inquisition was very much a tool of the Portuguese colonial administration in India. Their overall execution count is low because so many Indians died in prison awaiting trial.
https://brill.com/display/title/7235>The Marrano Factory argues that the Portuguese Inquisition’s stated intention of extirpating heresies and purifying Portuguese Catholicism was a monumental hoax; the true purpose of the Holy Office was the fabrication rather than the destruction of "Judaizers". The caste or "race" of the New Christians was in reality synonymous with the Portuguese mercantile middle class which conservative Portuguese society would not tolerate. Most or nearly all of the New Christian Inquisitorial victims (some 40,000 between 1540 and 1765) were unremarkable Catholics who often had minimal Jewish ancestry. The Portuguese Inquisitorial procedure was not designed to distinguish between guilt and innocence, but considered any defendant, once categorized a New Christian, a Judaizer.
The Inquisition mostly targeted conversos. The witch trials targeted women.
>>17985851inquisitors were also primarily concerned with getting a person to convert/"rededicate" themselves to catholicismthey didn't want to kill you unless you were obviously never going to be a catholic and would openly work against the catholic church since if you were dead how were you going to buy an indulgence to fund the pope's sex parties?witch trials were very much about killing people the community didn't like and calling them a witch was the excuse that pretty much always worked
>>17986109>Witch Trials occurred most often in places like Germany or Switzerland where Catholics and Protestants lived very close to one another.also important to note both places with weak to nonexistent central authority. france had internal religious disputes just as fiery as germany but the french state was much stronger than the HRE by the 1500s so it was able to suppress the most violent outbursts
>>17985442The Inquisition did not have the right to actually murder people anywhere but in the Papal State and they generally thought that witch trials were dumb shit.The Protestants, meanwhile, were 100% convinced that they had barely recovered from having been turned into a Newt and took the Ten Commandments as lightly as any Atheist movement would. Especially when it came to thy neighbor's property.
>>17986992in russia and finland, witches were men
