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  2. List of people executed for witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    Artistic depiction of the execution by burning of three alleged witches in Baden, Switzerland in 1585. This is a list of people executed for witchcraft, many of whom were executed during organized witch-hunts, particularly during the 15th–18th centuries.

  3. Witch trials in England - Wikipedia

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    Witch trials were most frequent in England in the first half of the 17th century. They reached their most intense phase during the English Civil War of the 1640s and the Puritan era of the 1650s. This was a period of intense witch hunts, known for witch hunters such as Matthew Hopkins.

  4. Witch ball - Wikipedia

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    A witch ball on display at Whitby Museum in Yorkshire. A witch ball is a hollow sphere of glass. Witch balls were hung in cottage windows in 17th- and 18th-century England to ward off evil spirits, witches, evil spells, ill fortune and bad spirits. [1] The witch ball were used to ward off evil spirits in the English counties of East Sussex and ...

  5. Witch hunt - Wikipedia

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    A witch hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. Practicing evil spells or incantations was proscribed and punishable in early human civilizations in the Middle East. In medieval Europe, witch-hunts often arose in connection to charges of heresy from Christianity.

  6. Witchcraft Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Act applied to the whole of Great Britain, repealing both the 1563 Scottish act and the 1604 English act. [8] The Witchcraft Act 1735 remained in force in Britain well into the 20th century, until its eventual repeal with the enactment of the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 33).

  7. Real-life witches on the misconceptions they face and using ...

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    Video produced by Stacy Jackman for Yahoo Life. The world’s fascination with witchcraft is a tale as old as time. From legends and folklore to newer incarnations in film and television like ...

  8. Are witches real? Everything to know on spells, magic and more

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    TODAY talked to the experts to better understand the beliefs of modern witches, as well as breaking down the origin of witch stereotypes in pop culture. Here's everything to know on witchcraft ...

  9. Witchcraft in Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    In the Gesta Regum, an account written by William of Malmsbury, a reference was made to a witch living in Berkeley. Discussing the death of Pope Gregory VI, which occurred in 1046, he digressed to discuss the death of a witch that occurred at about the same time. According to William's account, she was "well-versed in witchcraft, who was not ...