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During the 16th century, witchcraft prosecutions stabilized and even declined in some areas. [2] 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.
Anna Göldi (also Göldin or Goeldin, 24 October 1734 – 13 June 1782) [1] [2] was an 18th-century Swiss housemaid who was one of the last persons to be executed for witchcraft in Europe. Göldi, who was executed by decapitation in Glarus , has been called the "last witch" in Switzerland.
The Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2 c. 5) abolished the penalty of execution for witchcraft, replacing it with imprisonment. This act was repealed by the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 33). Enlightenment attitudes after 1700 made a mockery of beliefs in witches. The Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2 c. 5) marked a complete reversal ...
[2] [3] [4] While witch trials were generally uncommon in Europe during the Middle Ages, at least fifteen executions by burning for witchcraft are documented between 1360 and 1437, most of which in present-day Croatia. [1] The witch hunt in Hungary became more intense in the late 16th -century, but was in its most intense phase between 1690 and ...
TV movie [citation needed] Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Tibor Takács: 1996: TV movie Sabrina: Friends Forever: Scott Heming: 2002: TV movie [312] Sacred Evil – A True Story (Gehra Paani) Abhigyan Jha: 2006 [313] [314] Sacrilege: David Creed: 2020 [315] [316] Sally the Witch (Mahōtsukai Sarī) Toshio Katsuta: 1966: anime [317] Santana ...
This situation eventually resulted in one of the earliest mass witch trials in Europe: the Navarre witch trials (1525-26). On the assignment of the Navarrese authorities, a witchcraft committee was formed and a commissioner travelled the Pyrenées to identify witches. He managed to have an unknown number of people executed and their property ...
Execution of witchcraft by burning. There is a famous list of the executions in the Würzburg witch trials, published in 1745 in the Eberhard David Hauber: Bibliotheca sive acta et scripta magica. Gründliche Nachrichten und Urtheile von solchen Büchern und Handlungen, welche die Macht des Teufels in leiblichen Dingen betreffen, 36 Stücke in ...
A number of extremely large mass trials against witchcraft, which took place in the autonomous Catholic Prince Bishop-states in south-western Germany between 1587 and 1639, are estimated to have amounted to a third of all executions for witchcraft in Germany, and a fourth of all executions of witchcraft in all Europe. [2]