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  2. Chinese sorcery scares - Wikipedia

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    Chinese sorcery scares refer to a series of moral panics or mass hysteria events in Imperial China, occurring in 1768, 1810, 1876, and 1908. [1] These scares were characterized by widespread fears of sorcery practices, particularly "soul-stealing," a form of alleged magic believed to cause illness or death.

  3. 1768 - Wikipedia

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    1768 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1768th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 768th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1768, the ...

  4. Pope John Paul II - Wikipedia

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    John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century, as well as the third-longest-serving pope in history after Pius IX and St. Peter. John Paul II attempted to improve the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the spirit of ecumenism, holding atheism as the

  5. List of mass panic cases - Wikipedia

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    Chinese sorcery scares, a series of similar events that took place in 1768, 1810, 1876, and 1910. [14] Great Fear (1789) – a general panic that took place between 17 July and 3 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution. [15]

  6. List of people executed for witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    (Husband John Proctor Jr was executed for being a Witch) Elizabeth died sometime after 1703. The cause is unknown but not from Witch trials. Jeane Gardiner: d. 1651: Bermuda: Executed in Bermuda. Michée Chauderon: d. 1652 Switzerland: Confessed under torture to summoning demons and was the last person executed for sorcery in Geneva. [19 ...

  7. Journal of Occurrences - Wikipedia

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    The British ministry dispatched four regiments of the British Army to restore order. These troops began arriving on October 1, 1768. [2] The first installment of the Journal, covering the period of September 28 to October 3, 1768, was published on October 13, 1768, and was titled Journal of Transactions in Boston. Subsequent issues appeared ...

  8. List of papal bulls - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of papal bulls, listed by the year in which each was issued.. The decrees of some papal bulls were often tied to the circumstances of time and place, and may have been adjusted, attenuated, or abrogated by subsequent popes as situations changed.

  9. Witchcraft Acts - Wikipedia

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    An 1562 [1] Act Against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts (5 Eliz. 1.c. 16) was passed early in the reign of Elizabeth I.It was in some respects more merciful towards those found guilty of witchcraft than its predecessor, demanding the death penalty only where harm had been caused; lesser offences were punishable by a term of imprisonment.