Witch Hunts (A.D. 1400-1800)
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Description: Articles and essays about Europeans' heightened concern with the phenomenon of witchcraft during the early modern era, including materials about specific witch-hunt episodes in Europe and America.
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth the centuries, many Europeans developed a heightened concern with the phenomenon of witchcraft, seeing a new sect hostile to humanity. Thus, governments and society organized "hunts" for these alleged witches: accusing, torturing, and executing thousands of people. The intensity and viciousness of these hunts varied from place to place, as did their focus on particular targets, such as women. Finally, a changed world-view, informed by the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, brought an end to these hunts for threats that did not empirically exist.
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| Page title: | The WITCH HUNTS Main Page |
| Keywords: | history women's history witches witch sorcery witch trials magic, trials (witchraft), occult superstition, demons demonology witchcraft witch hunts witch-hunts witch hunt witch craze witchcraze burning times |
| Description: | Some history materials concerning the Early Modern Witch Hunts. |
| IP-address: | 205.238.205.67 |
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| Date | activated: 29-Dec-1993 last updated: 29-May-2013 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |