Catholic Church doctrine at the time was literally that there’s no such thing as witches, therefore you couldn’t just go around hunting and burning witches. That only started happening with the emergence of protestantism.
Depends on how you translate the Hebrew I suppose, but it’s in the Bible, in Exodus 22:18 for example. KJV: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Or the Wycliffe Bible in Middle English, “Thou schalt not suffre witchis to lyue.”
The “witch hunt” era just repopularize the use of the term “witch”, but it was specifically women who they accused of using dark magics. The Catholic Church as well as the Jewish Temples and several other religious organizations over time absolutely burned respected women they didn’t like being respected. Maybe they called them the more general “heretic” term or some other word since this covers many languages across time, but it was still innocent women being murdered without a fair trial for being smart and/or not staying in their place.
Catholic Church doctrine at the time was literally that there’s no such thing as witches, therefore you couldn’t just go around hunting and burning witches. That only started happening with the emergence of protestantism.
The Catholic Church did burn heretics though.
Depends on how you translate the Hebrew I suppose, but it’s in the Bible, in Exodus 22:18 for example. KJV: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Or the Wycliffe Bible in Middle English, “Thou schalt not suffre witchis to lyue.”
The “witch hunt” era just repopularize the use of the term “witch”, but it was specifically women who they accused of using dark magics. The Catholic Church as well as the Jewish Temples and several other religious organizations over time absolutely burned respected women they didn’t like being respected. Maybe they called them the more general “heretic” term or some other word since this covers many languages across time, but it was still innocent women being murdered without a fair trial for being smart and/or not staying in their place.