European witch trials in the Early Modern period, from the 15th to the 18th century, there were protests against both the belief in witches and the trials. Even...

territory. The Bamberg witch trials are among the largest Witch trials in the Early Modern period: it was one of the four largest witch trials in Germany alongside...

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Africa, India, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea. Modern witch hunts surpass the body counts of early-modern witch-hunting. Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the...

height of the witch trials. The beliefs about the mark differed, depending on the trial location and the accusation made against the witch. Use of the term...

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Sweden was a country with few witch trials compared to other countries in Europe. In Sweden, about four hundred people were executed for witchcraft prior...

of witches and their alleged pacts with the Devil solidified during the Early Modern period, resulting in the infamous witch trials. These trials marked...

documented witch trial in history in view of the executions. They formed one of the four largest witch trials in Germany alongside the Fulda witch trials, the...

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Pendle Hill The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th...

the witch, and with the witch trials in the early modern period, W.I.T.C.H. represented forerunners of various forms of feminist-oriented modern Paganism...

The Scarlet Witch or Wanda Maximoff is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee...

solidarity with the victims of the witch trials and, being witches, to consider the witch-craze to have been a persecution against their faith. There has been...

condemnation of superstition and the witch trials of the Spanish Inquisition. As with the other works in the group, Witches' Sabbath reflects its painter's disillusionment...

The same inquisitor led trials against the Waldensians in Fribourg between 1429 and 1430, and again conducted witch trials in Lausanne and Neuchâtel...

German Calvinist pastor who spoke out against the persecution of witches (witchhunts, witchcraft trials) and against torture. Praetorius was born in Lippstadt...

life of witches and trials held for witchcraft, and argues that medieval witchcraft was a righteous act of rebellion by the lower classes against feudalism...

World War, she focused her research on the witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials of Early Modern Christendom were an attempt to extinguish...

she is not a witch. Vanessa soon becomes romantically attracted to Christian. Cumberland arrives in the village to oversee the witch trials and review Albino's...

In response to these protests, Pope Gregory XI issued papal bulls in 1374 and 1377, recommending great caution in trials against members of these associations...

Indictment: The McMartin Trial, a movie based on the trials. In 2019, Oxygen produced Uncovered: The McMartin Family Trials, a documentary about the events...

Make The Final Argument In The Case Against Me? Why Can't The Defense Go Last? Big Advantage, Very Unfair. Witch Hunt!". Following the closing arguments...

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Salem witch trials of 1692, which strongly informs the city's cultural identity into the present. Some of Salem's police cars are adorned with witch logos...

period and increasing urbanisation. Social tensions were evident in witch trials and the creation of a system of poor laws. Despite the aggrandisement...

Traditional forms are also borrowed for political protests. In India, for instance, effigies in protests regularly take the form of the ten-headed demon...

had control of the islands in 1594 at the time of the initial witch trials but the early years of the 17th-century were a period of political turmoil....

abolition of witch camps as part of a movement against violence and women's rights.[citation needed] The government of Ghana has condemned witch camps, but...

belongs—the people of the world." Igwe continues to speak out against attacks on alleged witches in Malawi. According to him, recent cases of such attacks...