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  2. Witch hunt - Wikipedia

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    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

  3. European witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    One text that shaped the witch-hunts was the Malleus Maleficarum, a 1486 treatise that provided a framework for identifying, prosecuting, and punishing witches. During the 16th and 17th centuries, there was a wave of witch trials across Europe, resulting in tens of thousands of executions and many more prosecutions. Usually, accusations of ...

  4. Witch trials in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    The Decline and End of Witch Trials in Europe by James Hannam; Research on witch trials in Scotland; Witchcraft, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Alison Rowlands, Lyndal Roper & Malcolm Gaskill (In Our Time, 21 October 2004) Caliban and the Witch — Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation, by Silvia Federici. at the Internet Archive

  5. List of people executed for witchcraft - Wikipedia

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    The myth of the witch had a strong cultural presence in 17th century New England and, as in Europe, witchcraft was strongly associated with devil-worship. [3] About eighty people were accused of practicing witchcraft in a witch-hunt that lasted throughout New England from 1647 to 1663. Thirteen women and two men were executed. [4]

  6. Witch trials in the Holy Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    A number of extremely large mass trials against witchcraft, which took place in the autonomous Catholic Prince Bishop-states in south-western Germany between 1587 and 1639, are estimated to have amounted to a third of all executions for witchcraft in Germany, and a fourth of all executions of witchcraft in all Europe. [2] The mass witch trials ...

  7. Würzburg witch trials - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary pamphlet about the Würzburg witch trials. The Würzburg witch trials of 1625–1631, which took place in the self-governing Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg in the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Germany, formed one of the biggest mass trials and mass executions ever seen in Europe, and one of the largest witch trials in history.

  8. Bamberg witch trials - Wikipedia

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    Bamberg Cathedral Engraving of Johann Georg Fuchs von Dornheim by Johann Salver. Witch prison Witch burning. The Bamberg witch trials of 1627–1632, which took place in the self-governing Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg in the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Germany, is one of the biggest mass trials and mass executions ever seen in Europe, and one of the biggest witch trials in history.

  9. Valais witch trials - Wikipedia

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    The Valais witch-hunt is the first of the systematic campaigns which would become much more widespread in the decades to come, initiating the period of witch trials in Europe. The persecutions started in French-speaking Lower Valais ( House of Savoy and prince-bishopric of Sion ) and spread to German-speaking Upper Valais and to nearby valleys ...