Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On 25 August 1538 there was much discussion about witches and sorceresses who poisoned chicken eggs in the nests, or poisoned milk and butter. Doctor Luther said: "One should show no mercy to these [women]; I would burn them myself, for we read in the Law that the priests were the ones to begin the stoning of criminals." [13]
[1] Canon 3 of the ecumenical Fourth Council of the Lateran, 1215 required secular authorities to "exterminate in the territories subject to their jurisdiction all heretics" pointed out by the Catholic Church, [2] resulting in the inquisitor executing certain people accused of heresy. Some laws allowed the civil government to employ punishment.
Witch-hunts against children were reported by the BBC in 1999 in the Congo [153] and in Tanzania, where the government responded to attacks on women accused of being witches for having red eyes. [154] A lawsuit was launched in 2001 in Ghana, where witch-hunts are also common, by a woman accused of being a witch. [154]
Think of a coven as sort of a church congregation: People who share the same beliefs and regularly gather together in the spirit of prayer and community, minus the church or mosque. "They are ...
In the Nigerian states of Akwa Ibom and Cross River about 15,000 children were branded as witches and most of them end up abandoned and abused on the streets. [17] A documentary aired on Channel 4 and BBC, Saving Africa's Witch Children, shows the work of Gary Foxcroft and Stepping Stones Nigeria (now Safe Child Africa) in addressing these abuses.
Strangled; burned to death survived by 2 children moved to Singer Louisiana – Still living witch's Scalloway: Elspeth Reoch: d. 1616 Scotland: Executed in Kirkwall: Margaret Quaine: d. 1617 Isle of Man: Executed in Castletown, Isle of Man with her son, John Cubbon. Margaret's mother was also accused of Witchcraft several decades prior.
The accuser knows that the supposed witch will be killed or forced to flee, leaving the object of his jelasy—the witch’s house, possessions or land—free for the taking. “I walked away for some time, lived in another province for some time,” Monica told me, demurring when I asked how she had escaped torture.
Witches were also often thought to be able to shapeshift into animals themselves, particularly cats and owls. [4]: 264 Witchcraft was blamed for many kinds of misfortune. By far the most common kind of harm attributed to witchcraft was illness or death suffered by adults, their children, or their animals.