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  2. Witch trials in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by ethnographically recorded witch trials that anthropologists observed happening in non-European parts of the world, various historians have sought a functional explanation for the Early Modern witch trials, thereby suggesting the social functions that the trials played within their communities. [117]

  3. Witchcraft in early modern Britain - Wikipedia

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    In Peter Elmer's novel Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and politics in early modern England [32] he argues and provides evidence for the fact that many of England's great witch trials occurred at times when political parties and governing bodies felt that their authority was being threatened. During the years of 1629 to 1637 no trials occurred in ...

  4. List of people executed for witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    Witch-hunts increased again in the 17th century. The witch trials in Early Modern Europe included the Basque witch trials in Spain, the Fulda witch trials in Germany, the North Berwick witch trials in Scotland, and the Torsåker witch trials in Sweden. There were also witch-hunts during the 17th century in the American colonies.

  5. Category:Early Modern witch hunts - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Early Modern witch hunts" ... Witch trials in the early modern period; B. The Burning Times; D.

  6. Witch hunt - Wikipedia

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    The witch trials in Early Modern Europe came in waves and then subsided. There were trials in the 15th and early 16th centuries, but then the witch scare went into decline, before becoming a major issue again and peaking in the 17th century; particularly during the Thirty Years' War. What had previously been a belief that some people possessed ...

  7. History of magic - Wikipedia

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    The trial of Joan of Arc in 1431 may be the most famous witch trial of the Middle Ages and can be seen as the beginning of the witch trials of the early modern era. A young woman who led France to victory during the Hundred Years' War , she was sold to the English and accused of heresy because she believed God had designated her to defend her ...

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  9. European witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    The word witch is over a thousand years old: Old English formed the compound wiccecræft from wicce ('witch') and cræft ('craft'). [50] The masculine form was wicca ('male sorcerer'). [51] In early modern Scots, the word warlock came to be used as the male equivalent of witch (which can be male or female, but is used predominantly for females ...