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巫术与魔法|耶鲁大学

巫术与魔法|耶鲁大学

巫术与魔法|耶鲁大学

发布于 2026-10-22 · 时长 46:29

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0:02A group of workmen working on the highway near the village of一组工人在公路上工作 靠近村庄
0:06St. Osith, which is here in Essex in East圣奥西斯,位于东部的埃塞克斯
0:09Anglia, discovered a skeleton, and at first they thought they盎格利亚发现了一具骨架 起初他们以为
0:15had uncovered a modern crime, but it was soon established that已经发现了一起现代犯罪 但很快就确定
0:17it was very old.那时很老了
0:20And subsequently, on the basis of both之后,根据两者
0:23documentary evidence and forensic evidence,书面证据和法医证据,
0:26they identified it as being probably the remains of a woman他们确认可能是女人的遗骨
0:30named Ursula Kemp, who had been executed at St.名叫乌苏拉·肯普 在圣塔被处决
0:35Osith and buried in the highway rather than in consecratedOsith被埋在公路上,而不是神圣的
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1A group of workmen working on the highway near the village of一组工人在公路上工作 靠近村庄
2St. Osith, which is here in Essex in East圣奥西斯,位于东部的埃塞克斯
3Anglia, discovered a skeleton, and at first they thought they盎格利亚发现了一具骨架 起初他们以为
4had uncovered a modern crime, but it was soon established that已经发现了一起现代犯罪 但很快就确定
5it was very old.那时很老了
6And subsequently, on the basis of both之后,根据两者
7documentary evidence and forensic evidence,书面证据和法医证据,
8they identified it as being probably the remains of a woman他们确认可能是女人的遗骨
9named Ursula Kemp, who had been executed at St.名叫乌苏拉·肯普 在圣塔被处决
10Osith and buried in the highway rather than in consecratedOsith被埋在公路上,而不是神圣的
11ground in the year 1582.1582年时的地面
12And Ursula Kemp's crime was the alleged causing of death by而Ursula Kemp的罪行是据称 造成死亡的是...
13witchcraft.巫术
14Now, today obviously I'm going to talk about witchcraft and很明显,今天我要谈巫术
15perhaps explain how it was that people like Ursula Kemp came to也许可以解释一下 像Ursula Kemp这样的人是怎么来的
16such an end.这样的结束。
17But first of all, we need to start with a但首先,我们需要从
18little context by discussing the larger place of not simply通过讨论并非简单地
19witchcraft, a specific crime,巫术,一种特定的犯罪,
20but magic within the popular culture of early modern England.但是现代英格兰早期流行文化中的魔法
21We could perhaps define that world of magic as being也许我们可以把魔法世界定义为
22essentially a body of beliefs, a large body of beliefs and基本上是一个信仰体, 一个庞大的信仰体和
23practices regarding supernatural power which stood outside the有关超自然力量的实践
24world of formal religion and yet were widely known and helped被人们广泛认识和帮助
25people to cope with their anxieties and their人们面对自己的焦虑和
26insecurities.不安全
27It helped them to cope above all because it involved various它有助于他们应对 首先是因为它涉及到各种
28ritual means of manipulating supernatural powers so as to操纵超自然力量的仪式手段
29ward off misfortune or else to alleviate it.避免不幸 或减轻它。
30This world of magic then was essentially a world of trying to这个魔法世界 本质上是一个试图
31appreciate or to manipulate unidentified supernatural powers,欣赏或操纵不明超自然力量,
32largely for the purposes of protection and relief.主要是为了保护和救济的目的。
33It wasn't, and it's important to stress this,不是的,必须强调这一点
34it wasn't an alternative religion.这不是另一种宗教。
35It was a whole mess of supplementary beliefs and这是一团乱 补充信仰和
36practices being described by one historian as the debris of many一位历史学家将这种做法描述为许多人的残块。
37different systems of thought.不同的思想体系。
38It was regarded with some suspicion by the church but it教会对此有所怀疑,但是
39was not regarded as a threat as such,不被视为威胁,
40at least not initially.至少不是最初。
41One historian writing about popular beliefs has put it一个历史学家写道 流行的信仰, 说它
42splendidly, I'm quoting from him,我在引用他的话
43named James Obelkovich.詹姆斯·奥贝尔科维奇
44It was a large, loose, pluralistic affair是一个巨大的,松散的,多元的事情
45without any clear unifying principle.没有任何明确的统一原则。
46It encompassed superhuman beings and forces,它包括超人和力量,
47witches and wise men and a mass of low-grade magical and女巫和聪明人 以及一大批低级魔法
48superstitious practices.迷信习俗.
49The whole was less than the sum of its parts.整体比部分的总和还小。
50For it was not a cosmos to be contemplated or worshipped but a因为它不是要考虑或崇拜的宇宙,而是一个宇宙
51treasury of separate and specific resources to be used单独和专用资源库
52or applied in concrete situations.或适用于具体情况。
53That puts it extremely well.这说明它非常好。
54These means of tapping into supernatural power were very这些利用超自然力量的手段
55widely known.广为人知。
56You could say they were part of the law which was acquired by你可以说,这是法律的一部分 被收购
57every child as part of their education for life,每一个儿童作为其终身教育的一部分,
58like learning to cross the road as it were.就像学着过路一样
59But the world of magic also had its specialists and they were但魔法世界也有其专家,他们是
60those who were known as the cunning folk,他们是被称为狡猾的民众,
61cunning men or wise women.狡猾的男人或者聪明的女人
62These individuals were those who were known to have special这些人是已知具有特殊特征的人。
63knowledge over and above the average knowledge of magical超乎一般的魔法知识
64practices and who were often believed to have a special他们往往被认为具有特殊性
65inherent power, often inherited.内在的权力,经常继承。
66It was thought to pass in the blood.以为经络于血.
67The cunning folk who were pretty numerous.一群狡猾的老百姓
68One survey of known cunning folk in East Anglia suggests that对东安格利亚已知的狡猾民进行调查后发现
69there was a known cunning man or wise woman within ten miles of10英里之内 有个狡猾或聪明的女人
70any village.任何村庄
71These people were appealed to for a variety of specific这些人受到呼吁,要求采取各种具体的措施。
72purposes.目标。
73In the first place they often were appealed to for medical首先,他们经常被叫来求医。
74reasons.理由说明。
75Very often they had specialist knowledge of herbs which they他们往往对草药有专门的知识
76would administer, often accompanied by spells,经常伴有咒语
77to increase their effectiveness,提高它们的效力,
78the psychological effect of the incantation going along with咒语带来的心理影响
79what may well have been the practical effect of the herbs草药的实际效果
80they used.他们用。
81例如,Ursula Kemp就是这样一个人。
82She was known as a healer in her village.在她的村庄里,她被称为一名医生。
83She was good at curing arthritis apparently.她显然擅长治疗关节炎。
84Again, they were appealed to for the diagnosis of witchcraft.他们再次呼吁他们诊断巫术。
85If a person suspected that they might have been bewitched,如果有人怀疑他们被蛊惑了
86they might go to the cunning folk for the provision of他们或许要到狡猾的民众那里供养,
87countermagic.反魔术师。
88They might help the victim to identify who might have attacked他们可能帮助受害者 确定谁可能袭击了
89them in this occult manner and advise on counteraction.他们以这种神秘的方式,就反击行动提出建议。
90One of my favorite cunning men came from a town in the north of我最喜欢的一个狡猾的人来自北部的一个小镇
91England, Stokesley, and he was called John英国,斯托克斯利,他叫约翰
92Wrightson and he was known as Old Wrightson,莱特森和他被称为老莱特森,
93the wise man of Stokesley.斯托克斯利的聪明人
94And people went to him for help with their horses.人们去找他帮忙养马
95He was a horse leech.他是一个马粪。
96He was very good at telling whether your horse had been他很擅长告诉你的马是不是
97bewitched and knowing how to take the appropriate被迷惑,知道如何采取适当的
98countermeasures.反措施。
99People went to the cunning folk also for the recovery of lost人们去狡猾的民间 也是为了找回迷失
100or stolen goods and they went for advice and the telling of或偷盗的财物,他们去寻求忠告,
101fortunes, and to this extent the wise财富 以及如此程度的智慧
102women and the cunning men were the popular equivalent of the女人和狡猾的男子 和男人一样受欢迎
103astrologers who had a more elite clientele in this period.这段时期拥有更精英客户的占星家.
104So the cunning folk provided a variety of real services and the因此,狡猾的民俗 提供了各种真正的服务
105best of them may well have been quite skilled therapists in他们中最好的可能是 相当熟练的治疗师
106their way.他们的方式。
107One historian of medical practice in this period says we这个时期一位医学史学家说
108ought to count them amongst the medical practitioners of the他们应该算在医生中
109time.时间。
110They were cheap, they were available,它们很便宜,可以买到
111and in many ways quite knowledgeable.并且在许多方面相当有知识。
112However, the church was pretty unhappy about this kind of然而,教会对于这种
113activity.活动。
114It didn't like popular magic.它不喜欢流行的魔法。
115The official teaching of the church was that if a person教会的官方教导是,如果一个人
116suffered any misfortune it must be the result of divine遭受任何不幸 一定是神的缘故
117providence.天赐
118It was either a test of your faith or on the other hand it它不是考验你的信仰,就是检验你的信仰
119was a judgment on your sin.那是对你罪过的判决
120The only proper response to misfortune was to search one's对不幸的唯一正确反应是 搜索一个人的
121own heart for the possible causes of such divine自己的心 对于可能的原因 这种神圣
122intervention, to pray, to repent,干预、祈祷、忏悔,
123to trust in God's providential purposes.相信上帝的圣洁
124The church rejected magical means of relief.教堂拒绝了神奇的解脱手段.
125It accepted the possibility but it rejected the means.它接受了这种可能性,但拒绝了这种手段。
126God could not be commanded by spells and incantations.咒语和咒语不能命令上帝
127Therefore, if there was any supernatural response to such因此,如果有超自然反应,
128practices it must be from evil spirits.它必须是来自邪恶的心灵。
129And so, given these beliefs, we find the deeply pious of the因此,鉴于这些信仰,我们发现,
130period searching their hearts for the sins which had brought他们为罪恶而祈祷,
131misfortune upon them and sometimes finding quite他们的不幸,有时发现相当
132extraordinary answers.不寻常的答案。
133You find it in their diaries, for example.例如,你在他们的日记里找到的。
134For example, the diary of the Reverend Ralph比如拉尔夫牧师的日记
135Jocelyn, a minister in the late seventeenth century who having乔斯林,17世纪后期的一位部长
136lost a dearly loved daughter, searched his heart as to why失去一个深爱的女儿, 寻找他的心脏为什么
137God should have done this, why he should have taken her上帝应该这样做, 为什么他应该带她
138away, and came to the conclusion that it was because he had并得出结论,那是因为他有
139neglected his clerical duties because of his enthusiasm for由于他热衷于
140playing chess.下象棋时
141He had played chess too much.他下过太多棋了
142God had taken his daughter.上帝带走了他的女儿
143That's the conclusion he came to and he gave up playing chess.这就是他得出的结论,他放弃了下棋.
144This is a seventeenth century god, not a nice modern user这是十七世纪的神,不是很好的现代使用者
145friendly god.亲切的上帝。
146Little wonder then if these were the official teachings of毫不奇怪,如果这些是官方的教导
147the church that the greater part of the population preferred to大部分人喜欢的教堂
148explain their misfortunes in terms of just bad luck or their来解释他们的不幸 以运气不好或
149neglect of protective magic or perhaps the malevolence of evil忽视保护魔法 或也许邪恶的恶意
150spirits and malicious neighbors.鬼魂和恶意邻居
151Well, this world of popular magic had long existed and it这个流行魔法的世界 早就存在了
152was long to endure.已经忍了很久了
153You can find much of it still alive and well deep into the你可以找到很多它仍然活着 并深入到
154nineteenth century, and it endured because in十九世纪,它忍受了,因为
155various ways it helped.以各种方式帮助。
156But the problem of witchcraft is altogether more distinctive.但巫术问题却更为突出.
157That involved a specific kind of magic,这涉及到一种特定的魔法,
158the causing of injury or death by the malevolent and malicious造成恶意和恶意的伤害或死亡
159use of supernatural powers against another or their利用超自然力量对抗他人或
160property, and that was the practice which财产,这是惯例
161被称为 mainficium。
162That's the Latin legal term which was used for this这是拉丁语的法律术语 用于这个
163maleficent magic.邪恶的魔法。
164And concern with witchcraft in this way had a quite distinct对巫术的关心就很不同了
165chronology.编年史.
166The possibility of malevolent magic had always been there of邪恶魔法的可能性一直存在
167course, but concern with it was当然,但关心的是
168undoubtedly at an unusual height in the late sixteenth and earlier毫无疑问,在十六岁晚期和早些时候 身高不同寻常
169seventeenth centuries.17世纪.
170And the key to why that was so is perhaps to be found in what为何如此的关键可能在于
171the historian of the Spanish Inquisition,西班牙宗教裁判所的历史学家,
172Henry Cayman, has described as a peculiarly亨利·开曼(Henry Kayman), 被描述为一个特别的
173horrible conjunction in European history,在欧洲历史上的可怕联系,
174a conjunction he says between popular superstition on the one他说了流行迷信之间的结合
175hand and ecclesiastical fantasy on the other,手和教会的幻想 另一方面,
176the fantasies of churchmen.教会人士的幻想
177The popular superstitious element doesn't need any further流行的迷信元素不需要任何进一步
178elaboration of course.当然,
179It had always been the case that some individuals were一直以来,有些人是
180regarded as having this special access to occult power.被认为是拥有这种特殊的神秘权力。
181The element of ecclesiastical fantasy however,然而,教会幻想的元素,
182that was something that was peculiar to Western Christendom.这是西方基督的奇特之处
183You don't find it in the Orthodox tradition.在东正教传统中你找不到它.
184And it was peculiar to the early modern period emerging at这在早期的现代时期很特殊
185the end of the fifteenth century and growing in strength in the十五世纪末 和壮大的力量
186sixteenth.十六岁.
187Essentially it involved the belief that all witchcraft in基本上,它涉及到一种信念,即所有巫术都存在于
188fact involved worship of the devil,以恶魔盟誓,
189and as a result the elaboration of a stereotype of the witch并因此对女巫的陈规定型
190which portrayed witches not merely as dabblers in magic or不仅把巫师描绘成巫术的玩偶
191perpetrators of malefice against neighbors,对邻居施虐者,
192but as something much more serious,但作为更严重的事情,
193members of an organized, diabolical,一个有组织的、邪恶的、
194and malevolent cult, not just village wise women or和恶毒的邪教, 不只是乡村智慧妇女或
195cunning men but enemies of God.狡猾的人只是上帝的敌人
196Throughout continental Europe and indeed in Scotland also,在整个欧洲大陆,甚至苏格兰,
197the result of these beliefs was that the main driving force这些信念的结果是:
198behind the spasmodic witch hunts which can be found in the{\fn华文楷体\fs20\bord1\shad1\1cHE0E0E0\2cH000000}在斯派斯莫德女巫的捕獵后面 它們可以從
199period was probably religious zeal.那时的宗教狂热可能就是宗教狂热。
200And the great witch hunts which would be found scattered across和伟大的女巫猎杀 将会发现分散在各地
201Europe died back only when the judges came to doubt the reality欧洲只是在法官怀疑现实时才死
202of that stereotype of the witch and came to doubt the notion女巫的陈规定型 并开始怀疑这个概念
203that witchcraft was an organized cult threatening to巫术是一个有组织的邪教 威胁
204Christian society.基督教社会.
205One of the first legal jurisdictions to make that最早作出如下规定的法律管辖区之一:
206decision, that the whole thing was just a terrible error,决定,整个事情只是一个可怕的错误,
207was in fact the Spanish Inquisition.其实是西班牙的宗教裁判所
208One doesn't usually associate the Spanish Inquisition with通常不会把西班牙宗教裁判所
209progressive movements, but in 1610 they were the first1610年是第一个
210to abandon, to refuse to deal with cases放弃、拒绝处理案件
211of this kind.像这样
212The French Parliament again did so in 1640,法国议会在1640年再次这样做,
213some years later, so it gradually died away.几年后,它逐渐消失
214But throughout both Catholic and Protestant Europe,但在整个天主教和新教欧洲,
215for some time, there was a unity in the war一段时间以来,战争是团结的
216against witches as enemies of God.对抗女巫作为上帝的敌人
217Well, how far was that pattern true of England?那么,有多远的规律 英格兰是真实的?
218The usual answer is that it wasn't true of England and that通常的答案是 这不是真的 英格兰和
219was for several reasons.原因有几个。
220First of all, the authorities in England never首先,英国当局从来没有
221actually embraced the full ecclesiastical stereotype of教会的陈规定型
222witchcraft as evidence of a membership of a diabolical cult.巫术是邪教组织成员的证据
223Continental European ideas about the nature of witchcraft欧洲大陆对巫术性质的看法
224were certainly known in England.在英国是众所周知的。
225Books from Europe were read by the educated and these ideas欧洲的书籍被教育者阅读 和这些想法
226were disseminated by a number of English writers,由一些英国作家传播,
227usually clergymen, particularly from the 1580s通常是神职人员,尤其是1580年代
228or thereabouts.或者说在那边
229Gradually such notions did seep into popular beliefs and you渐渐地,这种观念 渗入了大众的信仰,而你
230would begin to find them at the popular level by the mid to late会在中晚期开始在大众阶层找到他们
231seventeenth century.十七世纪.
232But nevertheless, that notion of the nature of但是,尽管如此,这种概念的性质是:
233witchcraft didn't have much influence on English law.巫术对英国法律的影响不大.
234Witchcraft was never prosecuted as a heresy in England.巫术在英国从未作为异端被起诉.
235The first act, which was passed against it in第一个行为,它是在
2361542, made it a felony, any crime that was a felony1542年,定为重罪,任何罪行都是重罪
237carried the death penalty, made it a felony to practice将死刑定为重罪
238witchcraft for unlawful purposes.为非法目的施巫术。
239But that act was only on the statute book for five years,但该法案只写在法典上五年
240then it was repealed.后来被废止.
241After that there was actually no law against witchcraft for之后实际上没有禁止巫术的法律
242nearly twenty years.将近20年了
243Then in 1563 there was a new act.之后在1563年出现了新的行为.
244It was made a felony to invoke evil spirits and to,以恶灵为借口被定为重罪
245if they were invoked, to cause the death of another如果有人援引这些命令,而使人死亡,
246then execution was the punishment.然后处决是惩罚。
247Otherwise witches were to be imprisoned or put in the否则,女巫会被监禁或关进监狱
248pillory and face death only for a second offense.皮洛里和面对死亡 只为第二次犯罪。
249Then finally in 1604 came a third act.后来终于在1604年出现了第三幕.
250It elaborated on the 1563 act.它阐述了1563年法令。
251It made it a felony to bewitch anyone to either their death or它把欺骗任何人的死亡或
252their injury.他们的伤害。
253For lesser forms of sorcery, people faced imprisonment and对于较小形式的巫术,人们面临监禁和监禁。
254death for a second offense.为第二次犯罪而死
255But some elements of continental European ideas were但欧洲大陆的一些思想是
256beginning to creep in at last into this third act.终于进入了第三幕
257For example, it was made a felony to dig up举例来说,挖出来是重罪
258dead bodies for the purposes of practicing witchcraft.死尸是为了练习巫术
259Exactly why they were concerned with that they don't explain,这正是为什么他们担心 他们不解释,
260but that was one of the clauses of the act.但这是该行为的条款之一。
261It was also made a felony to consult with or to feed an evil与恶人协商或供养恶人也是重罪
262spirit for any purpose.精神为任何目的。
263So some elements of the notion of diabolical pacts and the因此,一些要素 的概念 邪恶的契约和
264like were beginning to creep in but not all of the kind of就像开始爬进... 但不是所有那种
265things that are in order in Scotland or in continental苏格兰或大陆的秩序
266Europe.欧洲。
267Witchcraft remains seen as not specifically diabolical,巫术仍被视为不是特别邪恶的,
268but rather, as Keith Thomas puts it,但正如基思·托马斯所说,
269an anti-social crime, a very unusual one,反社会罪 非常不寻常
270but an anti-social crime rather than a form of heresy.但是一种反社会犯罪 而不是异端
271And that characteristic, that it's treated as a和这个特征, 它被作为
272specific kind of crime, comes out in the trial具体类型的犯罪,在审判中出来
273evidence.证据。
274For example, in English witchcraft trials例如,在英语巫术试验中
275it's very rare to find any reference to making pacts with很难找到任何关于与
276the devil.恶魔
277You get the odd one in the seventeenth century but they're你得到十七世纪最奇异的 但是他们
278few, so no diabolical pacts really.很少,所以没有 邪恶的契约真的。
279No witcher's sabbats at which witchers met and feasted,没有巫师的安息日 巫师见面和宴会,
280danced with the devil and so forth.与恶鬼共舞等.
281Very little sex with devils in English witchcraft trials,在英国巫术试验中很少和魔鬼发生性关系,
282so that was a prominent feature in continental trials.因此,这是大陆审判中的一个突出特点。
283English witches didn't fly.英国女巫没有飞
284They didn't have much fun at all really.他们真的没有多少乐趣。
285English witches did however have pets.但英国女巫确实有宠物
286They had imps and familiars as they were known,他们有他们已知的内行和熟悉的,
287usually small animals, and they seemed to have been通常都是小动物,它们似乎
288part of popular beliefs in England that a witch would have英国流行的巫术信仰
289a familiar which could act on her behalf.一个可以代表她行事的熟人
290例如,Ulsula Kemp据称有4人
291familiars, two cats, a toad which was called熟人,两只猫,一只蛤蟆,叫做
292Piggin, and a lamb which was called Tiffin.还有一只叫提芬的羊羔
293What the English trials focused on first and foremost was simple,英文审判首先侧重于简单
294maleficent acts.男性行为。
295Other elements usually entered only in a handful of notorious其他元素通常只输入少数臭名昭著
296cause celebs.导致斑点。
297Witches were always condemned for maleficium and they were巫婆总是因为男性纤维而受谴责,而且她们
298hanged rather than burned.被绞死而不是被烧死
299It was a crime, not a heresy.这是犯罪,不是异端
300Secondly, particular witchcraft prosecutions were rarely第二,特定的巫术起诉很少
301instigated from above in England.在英国从上面煽动的
302That's another important difference.这是另一个重要的区别。
303There's no evidence that the authorities actually wanted a没有证据表明当局真的想要
304witch hunt.猎巫.
305One outstanding exception to this generalization was the这种概括的一个突出例外是:
306activities in 1645 to 47 of a witch finder called Matthew1645年到47年 一个巫师发现马修
307Hopkins who operated in East Anglia and to all intents and霍普金斯在东安格利亚的运营 并出于一切目的
308purposes hired himself out as a consultant for the discovery of被聘为顾问
309witches.女巫们
310That was an organized witch hunt from which Matthew Hopkins这是有组织地猎杀女巫 从马修·霍普金斯。
311personally profited.个人获利。
312But it's the only really outstanding example of such an但这是唯一一个真正杰出的例子
313outbreak in the history of witchcraft in England.在英国巫术史上爆发.
314It's made the subject of a wonderful Vincent Price movie这是一部精彩的文森普莱斯电影
315thirty years or so ago, Witchfinder General,三十年前,巫师将军
316which I do recommend.我建议你这么做
317It's got nothing to do with the history but it's a great movie.虽然与历史无关,但还是一部优秀的电影.
318Okay.摆
319So witchcraft prosecutions in England tended not to come in所以英格兰的巫术起诉往往不会出现
320these witch hunts which would bring hundreds of cases.这些巫婆的猎杀 会带来数百个案子
321They didn't come in great waves with the major exception of他们不是在大浪中来的 除了...
322Matthew Hopkins' activities.马修·霍普金斯的活动.
323They were sporadic.它们是零星的。
324They were occasional.它们是偶然的。
325They came up one or two at a time and so forth.他们一次来一两个等等。
326In addition, in English law torture was not此外,在英国法律中,酷刑不是
327used except in certain state trials when it was specially用于某些州审判的案件除外,如果是特别审判的话。
328authorized by the Privy Council.由枢密院授权。
329In day-to-day trials torture was not used whereas it was在日常审判中,没有使用酷刑,而酷刑是
330routinely used in many jurisdictions in continental大陆许多法域的惯常做法
331Europe and indeed in Scotland.欧洲和苏格兰
332As a result people were not tortured into confessing.因此,人们没有受到酷刑逼供。
333As a result large numbers of people were not implicated by因此,大批人没有卷入
334people under torture who named names.被折磨的人 谁命名。
335What you get in the witchcraft statistics from the English你从英国巫术统计中得到的
336courts is really a lot of individual prosecutions brought法庭是很多个人起诉
337from below by the alleged victims of witchcraft seeking巫术受害者从下方
338redress in the courts, just like any other crime.在法庭上获得补救,就像任何其他犯罪一样。
339So there are some important differences in the way all of所以,有一些重要的区别 在方式所有
340this was handled in the law.这是法律上规定的
341Nevertheless, England did share in the general尽管如此,英格兰确实在总体上
342European preoccupation with witchcraft even though to a欧洲对巫术的专注,即使到
343lesser extent.少一点
344Just how far it shed is not fully known.它的落下程度并不完全为人所知。
345That's because the relevant legal records don't survive for这是因为相关的法律记录 无法生存
346every area of the country.全国各地
347They survive pretty fully for the whole of the southeast and整个东南部都活得很好
348for the county of Cheshire, but for other parts of the切希尔县,但其他地区
349country they survive only from the seventeenth century,他们从十七世纪就活下来了
350a point which is relatively late in the history of this crime.这一点在犯罪史上相对较晚。
351But where we do have the evidence,但我们有证据的地方
352one of the striking features is that the trials appear to have其中一个突出的特点是,审判似乎有:
353been relatively rare except for the home circuit,相对来说,除了家电路之外,是很少见的。
354the counties around London.伦敦周围的郡
355If you look at the handout, if you look at the two graphs,如果你看看施舍, 如果你看两个图表,
356Graph A gives you the trials which took place in different图A给出了在不同的地点进行的审判
357sized circuits, and the line at the top大小的电路,以及顶端的线路
358showing the real spike is the home circuit.显示真正的螺旋是家电路。
359You can see how there are vastly more cases being heard in你可以看到,在很多案件中,
360the home circuit than in any other jurisdiction for which we家电路,而不是我们所管辖的任何其他管辖区
361have the records.有记录。
362The second spike is Matthew Hopkins operating in 1645.第二大钉是马修·霍普金斯在1645年运作.
363But the first spike, as you'll see,但第一杆,你会看到,
364was in the later years of Elizabeth.在伊丽莎白的后期
365And even within the home circuit, this area,即使在主电路,这个区域,
366the cases came predominantly from one part of it,这些案件主要来自其中一部分,
367the county of Essex to the east of London.伦敦以东的埃塞克斯县
368If you look at the second graph, Graph B,如果你看看第二个图,图B,
369there you have the different counties of the home circuit那里有不同的县 家电路
370broken down and it's clear enough that Essex is absolutely分解出来,埃塞克斯是绝对的
371outstanding in terms of the numbers of cases which came from案件数量
372that county.那个郡
373To give you some actual figures, in the whole of the reign of给您一些实际数字, 在整个统治时期
3741650, the county of Hertfordshire,1650年,赫尔特福德郡的郡,
375which is just to the north of London,就在伦敦北部
376quite a populous county, produced only twenty-four人口众多的县,只有24个
377witchcraft cases.巫术案件。
378The county of Sussex, large county to the south of萨塞克斯县,南面的大县
379London, produced only fourteen.伦敦,只生产了14架.
380The county of Essex produced a hundred and seventy-two.埃塞克斯县生产了一百七十二种.
381In fact, between 1560 and 1680,事实上,在1560年到1680年间,
382270 individuals were prosecuted for witchcraft in Essex,270人因巫术在埃塞克斯被起诉,
383whereas in comparison, taking a county of similar相比之下,一个相似的县
384size and similar population, in the period between 1580 and1580至1580年间人口规模和类似人口
3851709, only thirty-four were prosecuted1709年,只有34人被起诉
386in the county of Cheshire, for which we have good evidence.在郡郡,我们有很好的证据。
387So Cheshire, thirty-four,故契郡三十四户.
388Essex, 270.埃塞克斯,270号
389In general, most of the trials for which we have evidence took总而言之,我们掌握证据的大部分审判
390place in the last quarter of the sixteenth century,在16世纪最后四分之一,
391in the home circuit and in Essex in particular.特别是埃塞克斯
392They were at their peak between the 1570s and the early 1590s.它们在1570年代至1590年代早期处于高峰期.
393Looking at the country as a whole,从整个国家来看,
394trials become very rare everywhere after about 1620.在大约1620年后,审判变得非常罕见。
395The numbers are falling away after about 1620 with again the大约1620年后 数字正在下降 与再次
396notable exception of the activities of Matthew Hopkins in马修·霍普金斯在
397the mid to late 1640s which caused a new peak of concern1640年代中后期 引起新的关注高峰
398within a downward trend.在下降趋势中。
399Well, that downward trend, the decline of witchcraft cases嗯,这种下降趋势, 巫术案例的下降
400after around 1620, is something which historians1620年前后 历史学家认为
401have found relatively easy to explain.比较容易解释
402The decline can be explained in a number of ways.下降可以有多种解释.
403First of all, from at least the 1580s,首先,至少从1580年代,
404some of the justices of the peace and the assize judges who治安官和法官
405had to handle these cases were very worried about the不得不处理这些案件... ...很担心...
406difficulties of proving witchcraft.很难证明巫术。
407They weren't necessarily skeptical.他们不一定怀疑。
408They frequently believed that witchcraft was possible.他们经常认为巫术是可能的。
409But how could you prove in law that a particular individual was但你怎么能在法律上证明某个人
410actually responsible unless they confessed?除非他们供认不讳 否则要负实际责任?
411How could you prove that something was caused by你怎么能证明 某事是由
412witchcraft rather than by natural causes,巫术而不是自然原因,
413if for example someone died of a lingering illness?比如说,有人死于长期疾病?
414And even if it was witchcraft, who did it?就算是巫术 谁干的?
415So they were worried about the problem of proof and they talked所以他们担心证据问题,然后说
416about it.关于它。
417In witchcraft cases, normal rules of evidence could在巫术案件中,通常的证据规则可以
418not apply and this bothered them.这让他们很不爽
419Increasingly, in the seventeenth century,在17世纪,
420lawyers who were worried about all of this became very unwilling担心这一切的律师 变得非常不愿意
421to entertain cases.以娱乐案件。
422They tried to talk people into not prosecuting or they insisted他们试图说服人们不起诉 或者坚持
423upon additional evidence if a case was to go forward.如果案件要继续审理,则需要补充证据。
424In addition, from the early seventeenth此外,从第十七届早期开始
425century onwards there seems to have been an actual decline从这个世纪开始,似乎出现了实际下降
426amongst educated people in belief in the very possibility在受过教育的人中 相信这种可能性
427of witchcraft.巫术
428The conviction grew that it was a fantasy which had been人们越来越相信 这是一种幻想
429projected onto wretched people by hysterical neighbors.被疯狂的邻居 投向了可怜的人
430The conviction grew that the accused did not have the occult被告没有神秘的
431powers that were claimed even if they thought they did so.即使他们认为自己拥有权力
432They were frauds.他们是骗子。
433And in the later seventeenth century there was the growth of而在17世纪后期,
434awareness of the mechanical philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton,了解艾萨克·牛顿爵士的机械哲学,
435who regarded the universe as having been created by God and他们认为宇宙是上帝创造的
436subjected to laws which were immutable.法律是不可改变的。
437You could not tamper with God's natural laws through using你不能通过使用
438spells and the like.咒语等.
439Well, all of this probably had its influence in the course of这一切可能都影响到...
440the decline of witchcraft prosecutions,巫术起诉的减少,
441though initially it's most likely that it was the legal虽然一开始很可能会是法律上的
442concern, the unwillingness of someA. 关注和关注,包括某些人的不愿意
443lawyers and judges to handle these cases,处理这些案件的律师和法官,
444which was the main cause of the falling off noticeable by the这也是主要原因 下降的显著的
445early seventeenth century.17世纪早期.
446So in these various ways one can perhaps satisfactorily因此,通过这些不同的方式,也许可以令人满意地
447explain the decline of concern with witchcraft,解释对巫术的关注下降,
448but we still have to explain the sixteenth century rise of但我们仍然必须解释 十六世纪的崛起
449concern, and that turns out to be much担心,结果结果很多
450more difficult, much more difficult because更难 更难 因为
451this seems to have been a genuine popular concern with这似乎是人们真正关心的
452cases coming up from below.案件来自以下。
453One can't simply explain it in terms of the activities of a人们不能简单地解释它的活动
454number of bishops or judges.主教或法官人数。
455The dominant explanation was put forward some years ago by主要的解释是几年前由
456Keith Thomas和Alan McFarlane两部开创性作品
457this subject, and they explained the rise这个话题, 他们解释了上升
458of witchcraft prosecutions in terms of a detailed examination对巫术起诉的详细审查
459of the circumstances of surviving cases.幸存者的情况。
460Witches were usually women and they were frequently elderly女巫通常是妇女,她们常常是老人
461women.女人们
462Witches were usually accused of bewitching neighbors within女巫们通常被指控 欺骗邻居
463their own village, not strangers,他们自己的村庄,不是陌生人,
464always neighbors, people they knew.总是邻居 认识的人
465Witches were often poorer than their alleged victims.女巫往往比据称的受害者更穷。
466This suggested that the accusations were therefore这表明,这些指控是:
467arising from tensions between relatively marginal women in the贫困妇女与贫困妇女之间的紧张关系
468village community and better-off neighbors who might be men or乡村社区 和较富裕的邻居 谁可能是男人或
469women.女人们
470Then they looked at the known circumstances of cases,然后他们研究了已知的情况
471and the classic circumstances were more or less as follows.典型的情况大致如下。
472A quarrel would occur between neighbors,邻居之间会发生争吵
473ending in one of them, the supposed witch,在其中之一, 所谓的女巫,
474going away cursing or muttering.走开 骂人或喃喃自语。
475The victim would then suffer some form of personal受害者将遭受某种形式的个人伤害
476misfortune.不幸的发生。
477The victim would then begin to entertain suspicion that they'd然后受害人开始怀疑他们
478been bewitched.被蛊惑。
479They would talk to other neighbors,他们会跟邻居说话
480some of whom might have similar suspicions about the person they其中一些人可能对其本人也有类似的怀疑
481suspected.疑点
482A person would then be identified as a possible witch,一个人就会被确认为可能的女巫,
483as a malevolent person in the eyes of the village.成为村里邪恶的人
484It's possible that some of those who were so accused did可能有些被指控的人
485practice magic and did believe themselves to have the power to并且相信自己有能力
486harm, and to some extent they may even在某种程度上,他们甚至可能
487have used it as a form of begging with menace.曾以此为威胁乞讨的形式。
488The quarrels between neighbors which initiated cases very often邻居之间的争吵经常引发案件
489began when someone was turned away,当有人被弃绝的时候,
490having been begging or asking for a favor of some kind.曾经乞求或要求得到某种帮助。
491It's possible that some of these marginal women responded可能有些边缘女性会回应
492to being gradually identified as witches by playing the part,通过扮演角色逐渐被认定为巫师,
493by scaring their neighbors, as it were,吓唬他们的邻居,
494into meeting their needs.满足他们的需要。
495That could go on for years and often did,这可能会持续很多年 而且经常是这样
496but eventually some incident serious enough to trigger off但最终发生了一些严重事件
497an actual court prosecution would occur,实际进行法庭起诉,
498perhaps a death, something of unusual也许是死亡 不寻常的事情
499seriousness.严肃
500When that happened someone would bring an accusation,当事情发生时 有人会提出指控
501other neighbors would chime in.其他邻居会进来的
502There were lots of such accusations.有许多这样的指责。
503Alan McFarlane found that in Essex there was an average of艾伦・麦克法兰发现 在埃塞克斯有一个平均值
504four accusers for each accused witch,4个控告者 每个被指控的女巫,
505so other people would chime in with their suspicions.所以其他人会用怀疑来暗示
506Supplementary proofs might be looked for,可以寻找补充证据,
507for example, the witch's mark,例如,女巫的标记,
508the existence on the witch's body of a wart or mole or other巫婆身上有一丝毛毛 或内鬼或其他
509mark which seemed to be insensitive to pain and which似乎对痛苦不敏感
510was thought to be the place at which the witch's familiar would被认为是女巫熟悉的地方
511feed on her blood.以她的血为食
512If they found such a thing it was considered additional proof如果他们发现这样的东西, 这被认为是额外的证据
513and the witch might be found guilty.女巫可能会被判有罪
514Fine.还好
515Well, those do indeed seem to have been what one can think of嗯,这些确实 似乎人们可以想到
516as the classic circumstances, though they were by no means虽然他们根本不是
517unusual.不寻常
518Witchcraft accusations could arise in other contexts.巫术指控可能在其他情况下出现。
519They could arise, for example,例如,它们可能会产生,
520as a result of personal rivalries in local politics.由于个人在当地政治中的竞争.
521An accusation of witchcraft was something which was easy to对巫术的指控 很容易
522point at another person in order to discredit them.指向另一个人,以诋毁他们。
523So there are other circumstances.所以还有别的情况
524Not all witches were women, some were men,并不是所有的女巫都是女人 有些是男人
525though most were women, and so on.虽然大多数是妇女,等等。
526But these do appear to have been the classic circumstances.但是,这些似乎是典型的情况。
527Why then should the late sixteenth and early seventeenth那么为什么第十六届和第十七届早期
528centuries have seen a peak of such accusations?几个世纪以来,这种指控达到了顶峰?
529Because surely one could find such circumstances earlier and因为人们可以早点发现这种情况
530one could find them later.以后会找到的
531Why was that the peak period of anxiety?那为什么是焦虑的高峰期?
532Thomas and Macfarlane suggest, first of all,托马斯和麦克法兰建议,首先,
533it was partly because of the loss of the protective magic部分是因为失去了保护魔法
534which had been supplied by the medieval church.是中世纪教堂提供的
535The Church of England allowed the belief in witchcraft to英格兰教会允许巫术信仰
536continue but it wouldn't offer ecclesiastical means of继续,但它不会提供教会手段
537counter-magic and it forbade people to resort to them.反魔法 禁止人们求助于他们
538If that was the case then bringing a legal accusation,如果是这样,然后提出法律指控,
539a trial, and eventually seeking an execution would be the only审判,最终寻求处决将是唯一的
540way out of the impasse.摆脱僵局
541A second part of our explanation is that the reason我们解释的第二部分是:
542for so many late sixteenth and early seventeenth century trials如此众多的十六世纪末和十七世纪初
543was that because that period was one of unusual tensions within那是因为那个时期 内部异常紧张
544village society, within neighborhoods.村社,邻里之内.
545It was a period, as we know,这是一个时期,我们知道,
546of economic distress, one which saw a declining经济萧条 经济萧条
547position for the poor, especially perhaps the elderly穷人,特别是老年人的处境
548and marginal poor, the widowed and so forth.边际贫穷,寡居等。
549The poor laws had not yet been fully put into effect to provide贫穷的法律尚未充分实施,以提供
550for such people.对于这些人。
551Neighbors who themselves were feeling the pinch might be less邻居,他们自己觉得 夹击可能更少
552willing to show charity, less willing to help.愿意施舍 不愿帮忙
553They might feel uncomfortable about that.他们可能对此感到不舒服。
554They might feel rather guilty about that.他们可能对此感到很内疚。
555That might prey on their minds and make them sensitive to这可能会伤害他们的心 让他们对
556misfortunes which they saw as a revenge of people to whom they他们视不幸为对人民复仇
557had refused charity, people who had perhaps拒绝施舍的人,也许
558cursed them.诅咒他们。
559Accusing such a person of witchcraft was a way of指责这样的人是巫术的一种方式
560severing their responsibility, assuaging their feeling of切断他们的责任,缓解他们
561guilt, transferring it to the accused witch.将它转给被控的女巫
562All of this is an ingenious explanation which may well hold所有这一切都是一个有创意的解释 很可能是
563a great deal of truth and it's indeed widely accepted as an大量的真理 被广泛接受为
564account of the sociology and psychology of accusations.社会学和心理学 指控。
565Recently that explanation of Thomas and Macfarlane has been最近对托马斯和麦克法兰的解释
566elaborated by more focus upon the fact that most of those以更注重以下事实为解释:
567accused of witchcraft were of course women.被控巫术的当然是女性。
568The tensions within neighborhoods seem to have come邻居之间的矛盾似乎来了
569to focus upon punitive action against women above all.• 着重对妇女采取惩罚行动。
570Why was that?为什么?
571Thomas和Macfarlane表示,这只是一个产品,
572the fact that most of the economically marginal and most多数处于经济边缘和大多数处于经济边缘的国家
573of the aged in particular were indeed poor women.特别是老年人确实是贫穷妇女。
574Some feminist writers see it as more sinister,一些女权主义作家认为它更邪恶,
575as constituting an attack upon women who by their social构成对因社会原因而
576situation or perhaps their aggressive personalities stood或也许他们的攻击性人格
577outside the normal controls of the patriarchal household.在父权制家庭的正常控制之外。
578It's an important issue.这是一个重要问题。
579One has to pause I think before jumping to the conclusion that我想在下结论之前必须暂停一下
580witch hunting was in effect a form of repression of women.猎巫实际上是压迫妇女的一种形式。
581Certainly it was the case that the association of witchcraft当然 巫术的结合
582with women specifically, which was universal,特别是妇女,这是普遍的,
583derived in large part from fundamentally misogynistic主要来源于根本厌恶女性
584attitudes.态度。
585Women were seen as being morally weaker,妇女被认为在道德上较弱,
586as more prone to temptation, as more likely to use occult更容易被诱惑 更可能使用神秘
587means to revenge themselves upon their neighbors.用来报复邻居
588Spells were the weapons of the weak.拼写是弱者的武器。
589However, witchcraft prosecutions were not simply a然而,对巫术的起诉并非仅仅是一种
590patriarchal drive against marginal,重男轻女,
591aggressive or troublesome women.攻击性或麻烦的女人。
592The magistrates who heard the cases were men,审理案件的法官是男性,
593but the accusers themselves were very often other women.但控诉者本身往往是其他妇女。
594The work of James Sharp reveals how many of the suspicions that詹姆斯·夏普的作品揭示了有多少怀疑
595led to accusations actually arose in the female spheres of导致实际上在妇女领域提出了指控。
596village life.乡村生活。
597They were often initiated by other women.它们常常是由其他妇女发起的。
598Women themselves felt threatened by witchcraft and妇女本身感到受到巫术的威胁,
599were deeply involved in identifying and accusing参与查明和指控
600witches.女巫们
601And on the other hand, many of the juries,而另一方面,很多陪审团,
602universally male, who heard these cases,普世男性,谁听到这些案例,
603failed to believe them.无法相信他们
604Many accused witches were acquitted by male juries.许多被指控的巫师被男性陪审团宣告无罪.
605The gender element then is clearly there but it's complex.那么,性别因素显然存在,但它是复杂的。
606It's paradoxical.这是矛盾的。
607These issues remain far from resolved but they add further这些问题还远未解决,但进一步增加了:
608complexity to any discussion of the sociology of witchcraft关于巫术社会学的任何讨论的复杂性
609accusation.指控
610There are a number of other problems also to which I need to还有其他一些问题,我还需要
611draw your attention, problems relating not so much提醒大家注意,问题并不太多
612to the sociology of specific witchcraft accusations but to具体巫术指控的社会学,但
613the history of witchcraft as a crime.巫术的历史 作为一种犯罪。
614Two questions in particular arise in the English case.英文案件尤其引起两个问题。
615First of all, why were the witchcraft首先,为什么巫术
616statutes passed in the first place?最初通过的法规?
617And secondly, once they were passed,第二,一旦他们通过,
618why did such an utterly disproportionate number of the为什么如此之多?
619Essex县发生病例?
620Essex seems to be wholly unusual so far as one can tell.埃塞克斯似乎完全不同寻常 就人们所知
621If there were neighborhood tensions which were acute in the如果有邻居的紧张气氛 尖锐地发生在
622county of Essex leading to such accusations,埃塞克斯县导致这样的指控,
623why were there not such neighborhood tensions in the为何这里没有如此紧张的邻居
624counties of Kent or Sussex or Hertfordshire,肯特郡或萨塞克斯郡或赫特福德郡
625all of which were places which had a great deal in common with这些地方都有很多共同点
626Essex in terms of social structure,埃塞克斯社会结构,
627a local economy, and so forth?当地经济,等等?
628Why Essex?为什么是埃塞克斯?
629Well, some brief suggestions.嗯,一些简短的建议。
630First of all, as regards to the laws,首先,关于法律,
631I think it's worth considering that these laws were passed when我认为值得考虑的是 这些法律是在
632they were perhaps because of a convergence of two things.也许是因为两件事的趋同
633First of all, both of the major witchcraft首先,两大巫术
634statutes in England were passed at the beginning of new regimes,英国的法规是在新政权之初通过的,
635one in Elizabeth's Second Parliament,在伊丽莎白的第二议会,
636one in the First Parliament of King James VI and I.詹姆士六世国王和我第一次议会
637It makes one wonder whether there was an element in this让人怀疑这里面有没有元素
638legislation of symbolism that acts on this subject were passed通过了关于这个问题的象征立法;
639perhaps as part of the propaganda of a new regime,也许作为新政权宣传的一部分,
640that passing statutes of this nature in a sense conferred在某种意义上通过这种性质的法规
641legitimacy on new regimes by showing their firm stance* 通过表明其坚定立场,使新政权具有合法性
642against a particularly symbolically charged form of一种特别象征性的
643deviance.离邪见.
644To be opposed to witchcraft was in a sense a declaration of在某种意义上,反对巫术是一种宣称
645legitimacy.合法性。
646The acts may have had then a certain symbolic function when这些行为可能具有某种象征作用,如果:
647they were passed through Parliament without opposition,他们没有受到反对,
648so far as we can tell.据我们所知
649Secondly, another element of the timing of the acts is the第二,行为时间的另一个要素是:
650fact that there may have been an element of political可能存在政治因素
651contingency, specifically in the form of应急措施,特别是
652suspected threats to the person of the monarch.怀疑对君主个人的威胁。
653In 1561, two years before the 1563 Act was brought forward,1561年,即1563年法案出台前的两年,
654a plot had been discovered in which sorcery was allegedly being已经发现了一个据称是巫术的阴谋
655used against Elizabeth.用来对付伊丽莎白。
656William Cecil was horrified to find when the plot was uncovered威廉·塞西尔惊慌失措地发现阴谋
657that there was actually nothing on the statute book forbidding法律书上没有禁止的东西
658it.这个
659This may have been a contingent political reason for moving这可能是一个政治原因
660ahead with the witchcraft statute.在巫术法规之前
661It may have persuaded him to go along with one or two of the它可能说服他 与一两个
662bishops who were themselves interested in having主教们,他们自己对
663legislation on this issue.关于该问题的立法。
664That's an interpretation then which might be particularly那是个解释,也许特别
665relevant to the passage of the 1563 Act,与通过1563年法令有关,
666though the full details of its passage through Parliament但它通过议会的全部细节
667remain unknown.不详。
668The documentation is too poor.证件太差了
669The Act of 1604 is a lot clearer.1604年的法案更加清晰.
670Following the accession of James VI of Scotland as James I of苏格兰的詹姆斯六世成为
671England, he was a man with a profound英国,他是一个有深度的人
672interest in witchcraft.对巫术感兴趣
673He'd written a book about it on the subject in Scotland.他在苏格兰写了一本关于这个主题的书
674Following his accession and the union of crowns,在他的加入和王冠联盟之后,
675the witchcraft statutes of both England and Scotland were英格兰和苏格兰的巫术法规
676overhauled and revised by a committee of judges and bishops.由一个法官和主教委员会进行整顿和修订。
677This again may have been a symbolic act.这可能是一个象征性的行为。
678They decided to do it then.他们当时决定这样做。
679Why then?为什么?
680It's a new regime and a new act was passed in Scotland at the这是新政权 苏格兰通过新法案
681same time.同一时间。
682It may have been helped along again by the fact that in 16041604年,我们再次发现
683there was a particularly notorious witchcraft case in有个特别臭名昭著的巫术案件
684London itself which may have drawn attention to the problem伦敦本身可能引起了人们的注意
685once again.再来一次
686So what I'm suggesting is that these Acts of Parliament were所以我建议这些议会法案
687essentially introduced as legitimizing symbols,基本上被引入 使符号合法化,
688good and godly laws introduced by good and godly regimes.善神制度引入的善神法则.
689Yet there's no evidence that the authorities that put them on但是没有证据表明 当局放他们
690the statute book actually wanted a witch hunt.法规书实际上想要一个女巫猎杀。
691If they'd wanted one, they could have had one,如果他们想要一个, 他们本可以有一个,
692but they didn't.但他们没有。
693What they did was to make witchcraft prosecutions possible他们所做的就是让巫术起诉成为可能
694in the royal courts, and to that extent the在皇家法院,以及在这方面
695political and ecclesiastical elite had a bigger role in政治和宗教精英在
696making possible the prosecutions which took place than is oftenB. 使进行起诉成为可能
697recognized.承认。
698So one can perhaps explain why the Acts were put on the statute所以也许可以解释为什么 法令被写入法规
699book in that kind of way, but that still leaves the书是那种方式, 但还是留下
700problem of Essex.埃塞克斯的问题。
701Why Essex?为什么是埃塞克斯?
702Is it possible that Essex as a local society was peculiarly埃塞克斯作为一个地方社会 会不会很特别
703conscious of the threat of witchcraft?知道巫术的威胁吗?
704But why should that be so?但为什么会这样呢?
705It's quite clear that people might feel threatened by很明显,人们可能会觉得受到威胁
706maleficium in any part of England.在英国任何地方都有男性纤维。
707Why should they act against it so much more in the county of他们为什么要在郡里采取如此多的反对行动
708Essex?埃塞克斯吗?
709And the only suggestion I can make on that issue is that the我唯一能就此问题提出的建议是:
710use of the criminal law against witches had had terrible利用刑法对付巫师
711publicity in Essex.在埃塞克斯的宣传。
712Essex was unusual in the sense that it saw three cause celebs,埃塞克斯是不寻常的,因为它看到了三个原因celebs,
713three group trials.三次集体审判。
714They took place in 1566, only three years after the事件发生在1566年, 仅三年后
715passage of Elizabeth's statute.通过伊丽莎白的法规。
716In 1582 and in 1589.1582年和1589年两朝.
717In each of these cases an initial accusation was vigorously在每一个案件中,最初的指控都是激烈的
718pursued by local justices of the peace who happened to have a当地治安官所追求的
719particular personal concern about witchcraft.特别关心巫术
720That meant that instead of just one person going on trial,也就是说 不只是一个人受审
721small groups of women went on trial and these trials were well少数妇女接受了审判,这些审判情况良好。
722publicized in pamphlets which were written about them and以小册子形式宣传,宣传这些内容;
723which survive to this day.活到现在
724You can read them on early English books online.你可以在网上阅读早期的英语书籍。
725All of this then may have given peculiar publicity to witchcraft这一切也许都给巫术带来了特别的曝光
726as a threat and what could be done about it.威胁和可以做些什么。
727One wonders then whether a number of particularly那么,人们会问,是否有一些特别
728scandalous local cases occurring in this county had the effect of该县发生的丑闻性地方性案件产生了如下后果:
729heightening anxiety about witchcraft within Essex,增加了埃塞克斯内部对巫术的焦虑,
730enhancing the sense of threat which people felt,增强人们的威胁感,
731making it more intense than elsewhere,使它比其他地方更强烈,
732and of course providing an object lesson in how to deal并且当然在如何处理方面提供客观的教训
733with it.用这个
734So are we dealing then with a moral panic breaking out within我们是不是要面对精神上的恐慌
735a particular local society which subsequently died down in the一个特定的当地社会,它后来死于
736seventeenth century until it was artificially revived again by17世纪,直到它再次被人工复活
737the activities of Matthew Hopkins,马修·霍普金斯的活动
738the witch-finder general, in 1645?1645年的巫师将军?
739Ursula Kemp incidentally was one of the women tried in one of顺便说一句,乌苏拉·肯普是其中一名被审判的妇女之一。
740those group trials, the one of 1582.那些集体审判,1582年的一次。
741So to conclude, the whole issue of the history最后,整个历史问题
742of witchcraft, why people were so concerned巫术,为什么人们如此关心
743with it at a particular point in time,在一个特定的时间点,
744is clearly enormously complex.显然非常复杂。
745But what I'm suggesting is that first the case of England was但我建议,首先英格兰的情况是
746different to a degree from what was going on elsewhere in Europe与欧洲其他地方发生的情况不同
747at the time.在当时。
748There were no mass witch hunts to marry popular superstition没有大规模女巫猎杀 嫁给流行的迷信
749and ecclesiastical fantasy in the way one found in various和教会的幻想 以不同的方式
750parts of Europe and in Scotland.欧洲和苏格兰部分地区。
751Matthew Hopkins accepted.马修·霍普金斯接受了.
752Secondly, in England witchcraft prosecutions did come up第二,在英国 巫术起诉确实出现了
753spontaneously from below and they probably usually arose in从下而上,它们可能通常出现在
754pretty much the way Thomas and MacFarlane and James Sharp have就像托马斯和麦克法兰和詹姆斯·夏普一样
755suggested as far as individual cases were concerned,就个案而言,
756though it was an accusation which could also be used for虽然它是一个指控 也可以用于
757malicious prosecution and was so used.恶意起诉 并被如此使用。
758But thirdly, these cases could only arise但第三,这些案件只能发生
759because of the existence of laws which were perhaps essentially由于存在着一些法律,这些法律基本上或许是:
760symbolic and contingent in their origins,其起源的象征和条件,
761and that once those laws existed,而一旦这些法律存在,
762Fourthly, the cases arose only sporadically.第四,这些案件只是偶尔发生的。
763The sense we have of a definite chronological pattern in我们有一种明确的时间顺序的感觉
764witchcraft prosecutions is very heavily influenced,巫术起诉受到很大影响,
765as you've seen, by the case of Essex alone.正如你所见 仅以埃塞克斯为例
766Essex does seem to have been unique for very special reasons埃塞克斯似乎很独特 原因非常特殊
767which we may never be able to do more than to guess at.我们可能永远无法超越猜测
768Elsewhere in the country cases arose sporadically,在其他地方,偶尔出现这种情况,
769occasionally, no clear pattern beyond the偶尔,除了
770fact that they were more common in the late sixteenth century16世纪后期更常见
771than later.过后.
772And finally, there was no English witch hunt最后,没有英国女巫的猎杀
773because at the end of the day the authorities in both church因为最后两座教堂的当局
774and state didn't want one.州政府不想要一个。
775They never felt sufficiently threatened to instigate one他们从来没有感到足够的威胁来煽动
776against those they deemed their enemies.以他们的敌人对抗他们。
777The potential for a witch hunt was there and it long continued猎魔的潜力就在那里,它一直持续
778until village tensions hadn't faded.直到村里的矛盾没有消退
779The difference of the seventeenth century from the十七世纪与
780later sixteenth century was above all that the judicial16世纪以后,最重要的是,司法
781authorities not only failed to seek a witch hunt but actually当局不仅没有设法追捕女巫 而且实际上
782became active in suppressing the accusations which were brought积极制止提出的指控
783before them.在他们面前。
784So then, I suspect that overall both the rise and the fall of所以,我怀疑 总体的升降,
785witchcraft prosecution is best explained by the way in which巫术起诉的最佳解释是:
786the law first of all gave people and then later took away from法律首先给予人们,后来又从
787them the opportunity to settle a particular kind of personal他们有机会解决某种特殊的个人问题
788conflict through the use of the law and the prosecution of利用法律和起诉
789people to their deaths.人们的死亡。
790The beliefs behind all of that were very ancient and they long这一切背后的信仰 是非常古老的,他们很长
791continued, but the history of witchcraft但巫术的历史
792has very much to do with the use of the criminal law in the way与刑法的使用有关
793I've described.我已经描述过了
794The crucial issue was perhaps that for a short while,关键问题也许是,在短短的一段时间里,
795for two generations, there was indeed a conjunction在两代人之间,确实存在着联系
796of long-standing patterns of popular belief with a shorter长期流行的信仰模式
797term enhancement of the anxieties and the credulousness词性增强和可信度
798of the elite.精英阶层。
799It was they who passed the laws that made witchcraft trials是他们通过法律 进行巫术试验
800possible.也许吧
801They later repented of their folly.他们后来悔改了自己的愚蠢。
802They avoided the enforcement of those laws and eventually in他们避免了这些法律的执行,最终在
8031736 they repealed them, but that of course was about1736年他们废除了它们, 但当然,那是关于
804150 years, but that of course was about150年,当然是
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