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[example needed] For example, it was reported on 21 May 2008 that in Kenya a mob had burnt to death at least 11 people accused of witchcraft. [citation needed] The Western region of Kenya is particularly known for witch hunts, [23] and the district of Kisii has been labeled a "sorcery belt". In this region, elders are often targeted and labeled ...
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.
Articles related to the belief and persecution of witchcraft in the modern era, from 20th-century onward. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Witchcraft is very personal and modern-day witches can use kitchen items, household tools or whatever they please to start practicing. 4. "Witches were targeted because they were evil or bad."
Throughout the medieval era, mainstream Christian doctrine had denied the belief in the existence of witches and witchcraft, condemning it as a pagan superstition. [14] Some have argued that the work of the Dominican Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century helped lay the groundwork for a shift in Christian doctrine, by which certain Christian theologians eventually began to accept the possibility ...
Norway was also home to child witch accusations in the seventeenth century, following the rest of Europe in the witch craze. [10] A specific narrative includes a group of children in the Northern district of Finnmark that were accused of witchcraft. [10] This group was made up of six girls, accused in the mid-seventeenth century. [10]
Accusations of witchcraft in Connecticut led to the first large-scale witch trials in the American colonies, predating the infamous Salem Witch Trials by nearly 30 years.
The Salem witchcraft trial of 1878, [1] [2] [3] also known as the Ipswich witchcraft trial [4] and the second Salem witch trial, [5] was an American civil case held in May 1878 in Salem, Massachusetts, in which Lucretia L. S. Brown, an adherent of the Christian Science religion, accused fellow Christian Scientist Daniel H. Spofford of attempting to harm her through his "mesmeric" mental powers.