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In Peter Elmer's novel Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and politics in early modern England [32] he argues and provides evidence for the fact that many of England's great witch trials occurred at times when political parties and governing bodies felt that their authority was being threatened. During the years of 1629 to 1637 no trials occurred in ...
From 1645 to 1647, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne travelled the east of England as witch hunters. They harshly interrogated suspected witches (using methods such as sleep deprivation), examined them by pricking for a witch's mark, or sometimes threw an accused witch into water for a "swimming test". Local authorities paid for these services ...
Jane Wenham was among the last subjects of a typical witch trial in England in 1712, but was pardoned after her conviction and set free. The last execution for witchcraft in England took place in 1716, when Mary Hicks and her daughter Elizabeth were hanged. Janet Horne was executed for witchcraft in Scotland in 1727. The Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 ...
At least 500 “witches” are thought to have been executed in England between 1542 and 1735, when witchcraft was a capital offense, according to government figures, although historians think the ...
Category: Early Modern witch hunts. 2 languages. ... Critics of witch hunting (31 P) M. Witch hunter manuals (15 P) W. Witch trials (4 C, 3 P) Witchcraft treatises (1 ...
Since the early days of cinema, witches have haunted heroes of all ages. The classic archetype has these magical beings cooking up spells of the occult variety, often for devious purposes.
The Blair Witch Project (1999). Completed with found footage, this horror classic follows three film students as they travel to a small New England town in hopes of collecting documentary footage ...
Films about witch hunting, a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. Pages in category "Films about witch hunting" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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