Da criminalização católica à desligitimação protestante: as vicissitudes das noções de bruxaria europeia, mapeadas em Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), a partir da utilização do Hológrafo Social

Abstract

The conception of witchcraft has been constantly revisited and reformulated over the centuries. Thus, based on the concepts of imaginary and representation, this work aim to verify the ruptures and permanences of witchcraft notion, in the 16th-century Europe. For this, we used the English and Protestant book “Discoverie of Witchcraft” (1584), by Reginald Scot, translated into Brazilian Portuguese. As an instrument of analysis, we applied the “hológrafo social”, proposed by Waldemar de Gregori, in “Cibernética Social I” (1988). In addition, we use the “taguette” software for data organization.