What did the Elizabethan people believe about ghosts, witches and evil?
The Elizabethans believed in the reality of the supernatural, they thought ghosts existed, and witches. Ghosts were known to walk at midnight. They would nto speak unless challenged, and then only to those for whom they had a message, while the crowing of the first ****(rooster) sent them gibbering and squeaking away. Crossroads, where criminals and suicides were commonly buried, were notoriously haunted spots. In marshy places wil o the wisps would lure an unwary traveller to his doom. Numerous roads were frequented by headless horsemen or packs of demon hounds. It was believed that there were witches, people who could cause harm by the use of magic,and whow ere servants of the devil. Women were thought to be more susceptible to the lure of the devil, being spiritually weaker than men, and therefore more women than men were accused of witchcraft. Witchcraft accuasations were more likey to be made when something went seriously wrong, an outbreak of disease in humans or animals, crop fa
