• The Witchcraft Acts were a historical succession of governing laws in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British colonies on penalties for the...
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  • else was practising witchcraft or in the possession of magic powers. This Act, the Witchcraft Act 1735, repealed all previous acts and ended the hunt for...
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    and the beginning of the "modern legal history of witchcraft", repealing the earlier Witchcraft Acts which were originally based in an intolerance toward...
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    European belief in witchcraft can be traced back to classical antiquity, when magic and religion were closely entwined. During the pagan era of ancient...
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    Witch hunt (redirect from Witchcraft trial)
    for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. Practicing evil spells or incantations was proscribed and punishable...
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    trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than...
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  • period, from about 1400 to 1775, about 100,000 people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and British America. Between 40,000 and 60,000 were executed...
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    Daemonologie (category Witchcraft treatises)
    response to sceptical publications such as Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Daemonologie included a study of demonology and the methods demons used...
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  • harmful witchcraft, and acts related to muti killing. "The 1957 Witchcraft Act". Quackdown. 29 August 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2012. Witchcraft Suppression...
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    Janet Horne (category Scottish people executed for witchcraft)
    town on a barrel and burned alive. Nine years after her death the witchcraft acts were repealed in Scotland. Janet (or Jenny) Horne was also a generic...
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  • The views of witchcraft in North America have evolved through an interlinking history of cultural beliefs and interactions. These forces contribute to...
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  • The belief in witchcraft in the Middle East has a long history. Belief in witchcraft as malevolent magic is attested from ancient Mesopotamia. In ancient...
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    Factory Acts (1802, 1833, 1844, 1847, 1850, 1867, 1874, 1891) Regency Acts Witchcraft Acts (various) List of English statutes List of measures of Senedd Cymru...
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    abuse of women accused of witchcraft in countries like India and Nepal. These deeply entrenched superstitions have perpetuated acts of violence and marginalization...
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  • province in South Africa leaked a draft Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill of 2007. Unlike the Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1957 (which was directed against...
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    is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1735. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of...
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  • tried for witchcraft in Essex in 1582. A village near Brightlingsea in Essex, St Osyth was home to 14 women who were put on trial for witchcraft, some of...
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    Witches' Sabbath is a purported gathering of those believed to practice witchcraft and other rituals. The phrase became especially popular in the 20th century...
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    Cunning folk (category Witchcraft in Italy)
    were known as the cunning craft. Their services also included thwarting witchcraft. Although some cunning folk were denounced as witches themselves, they...
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  • cultural picture of social control and discipline" (103) (see also: Witchcraft Acts). Scholars note that certain years exhibited "noticeable peaks" in...
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    Malleus Maleficarum (category Witchcraft treatises)
    translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise about witchcraft. It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under...
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    Witchcraft among the Zande people of North Central Africa is magic used to inflict harm on an individual that is native to the Azande tribal peoples. The...
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    punishment for and warning against crimes such as treason, heresy, and witchcraft. The best-known execution of this type is burning at the stake, where...
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    Interpretation Act 1978. The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1814, vol 2, p 39 Witchcraft Act 1735 section 2 The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland...
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    -4.692 The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, formerly known as the Museum of Witchcraft, is a museum dedicated to European witchcraft and magic located in...
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  • Memorial, to honour those, mainly women, who were persecuted under the Witchcraft Acts. In November 2020, the Saint Andrew's Society of Los Angeles invited...
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  • especially aggressive in spiritual warfare efforts to counter alleged acts of witchcraft; the NAR's globally distributed Transformations documentaries by filmmaker...
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  • This is a list of films about witchcraft. List of films about demons The 30 Best Movies about Witches, pastemagazine.com, September 16, 2021 Boucher, Geoff...
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    Bideford witch trial (category People accused of witchcraft)
    The Bideford witch trial resulted in hangings for witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards from the town of Bideford...
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  • Witchcraft is deeply rooted in many African countries and communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has been specifically relevant to Ghana's culture, beliefs...
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