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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 ...
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.
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.
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."
In the Nordic countries, the late 17th century saw the peak of the trials in a number of areas: the Torsåker witch trials of Sweden (1674), where 71 people were executed for witchcraft in a single day, the peak of witch hunting in Swedish Finland, [41] and the Salzburg witch trials in Austria (where 139 people were executed from 1675 to 1690).
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.
Witch trials in the early modern period from 1450 to 1750 and especially from 1580 to 1630.; Dancing plague of 1518 – a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518 wherein numerous people took to dancing for days.
This category is for individual (specific) trials/cases in the context of the Witch trials in the early modern period. For generic topics involving the early modern witch-hunts/trials, use Category:Early Modern witch hunts .