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  2. Puritans - Wikipedia

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    The Salem witch trials of 1692 had a lasting impact on the historical reputation of New England Puritans. Though this witch hunt occurred after Puritans lost political control of the Massachusetts colony, Puritans instigated the judicial proceedings against the accused and comprised the members of the court that convicted and sentenced the accused.

  3. John Darrell - Wikipedia

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    Peter Lake and Michael C. Questier, Conformity and orthodoxy in the English church 1560-1660, Boydell & Brewer, 2000, ISBN 0-85115-797-1, chap.2; Diane Purkiss, The witch in history: early modern and twentieth-century representations, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-08762-7, p. 189; Corinne Holt Sawyer (1962). The case of John Darrell.

  4. Salem witch trials - Wikipedia

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    While Puritans and the Church of England both shared a common influence in Calvinism, Puritans had opposed many of the traditions of the Church of England, including use of the Book of Common Prayer, the use of clergy vestments during services, the use of the sign of the cross at baptism, and kneeling to receive communion, all of which they ...

  5. Newcastle witch trials - Wikipedia

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    The extension of the Witchcraft Act in 1649 sparked a intense witch hunting period. [1] This spilled into the north of England and in Newcastle. [1] 1649 saw Puritan Magistrates at Newcastle send two sergeants, Thomas Shevel and Cuthbert Nicholson, to Scotland to bring an un-named Scottish witch-finder to try witches in Newcastle. [1] [2] [3]

  6. Witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    In colloquial modern English, the word witch is particularly used for women. [35] A male practitioner of magic or witchcraft is more commonly called a 'wizard', or sometimes, 'warlock'. When the word witch is used to refer to a member of a neo-pagan tradition or religion (such as Wicca), it can refer to a person of any gender. [citation needed]

  7. John Gaule - Wikipedia

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    As a result, and to expose the methods used by Hopkins, he wrote Select Cases of Conscience touching Witches and Witchcraft, London, 1646. [7] The work was dedicated to the Huntingdonshire Member of Parliament and notable member of the Parliamentarian faction, Valentine Wauton. [4] Gaule himself followed the position of William Perkins on ...

  8. Witch trials in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    The Maryland Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Colonial Maryland between June 1654, and October 1712. It was not unique, but is a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon of witch trials in the early modern period , which took place also in Europe.

  9. John Hale (minister) - Wikipedia

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    John Hale (June 3, 1636 – May 15, 1700) was the Puritan pastor of Beverly, Massachusetts, and took part in the Salem witch trials in 1692. He was one of the most prominent and influential ministers associated with the witch trials, being noted as having initially supported the trials and then changing his mind and publishing a critique of them.