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Burning of the Templars, 1314 Burning of William Sawtre, 1401 John Badby burned in a barrel, 1410 Burning of Jan Hus in Constance, 1415 Joan of Arc at the stake, 1431 Rogers' execution at Smithfield, 1555 Burning of John Hooper in Gloucester, 1555 Burning of Thomas Hawkes, 1555. Ramihrdus of Cambrai [4] [5] (1076 or 1077) (burned)
1533 account of the execution of a witch charged with burning the German town of Schiltach in 1531 Present-day Germany executed more people for witchcraft than any other area in Europe. There were however great contrasts within Germany, where certain parts hardly experienced witch trials at all, while the most severe witch trials in Europe took ...
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.
Midwife, garrotted and burned to death during the North Berwick witch trials. Marigje Arriens: c. 1520–1591 Dutch Republic: Burned to death for sorcery. Witches of Warboys: d. 1593 England: Alice Samuel and her family; hanged. Allison Balfour: d. 1594 Scotland: Executed in Kirkwall: Gwen ferch Ellis: c.1542 – 1594 Wales
The use of torture has been identified as a key factor in converting the trial of one accused witch into a wider social panic, as those being tortured were more likely to accuse a wide array of other local individuals of also being witches. [76] Burning of three witches in Baden, Switzerland (1585), by Johann Jakob Wick The burning of a French ...
Between 1500 and 1560, 62 people were burned for heresy in the Languedoc, all of whom were convicted by the Parliament of Toulouse. [68] Between 1657 and 1659, twenty-two alleged witches were burned on the orders of the inquisitor Pierre Symard in the province of Franche-Comté, then part of the Empire. [69]
However, it was around the 15th century that the Christian church deemed witches "willing disciples" of the devil, launching a campaign of hunting and executing presumed witches in Europe and ...
In the First Burning, Four people. The wife of Liebler. Old Ancker's widow. The wife of Gutbrodt. The wife of Hooker. In the Second Burning, Four people. The old wife of Beutler. Two strange women. The old woman who kept the pot-house. In the Third Burning, Five people. Tungersleber, a minstrel. The wife of Kuler. The wife of Stier, a proctor.