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A witch-hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and lynching, but in historical instances also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials. The classical period of witchhunts in Europe and North America falls into the Early Modern period or about 1480 to 1750, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 executions.
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- Related: Basque witch trials, Bideford witch trial, Christian views on witchcraft, Marie-Josephte Corriveau, James VI, European witchcraft, Execution by burning, Pierre de Lancre, North Berwick witch trials, Ramsele witch trial, Scapegoating, St Osyth Witches, Torsåker witch trials, Torture of witches, Trial by ordeal, Würzburg witch trial, Satanic ritual abuse
| The Stages of a Witch Trial The Stages of a Witch Trial www.summerlands.com/.../stages_witch_trial.htm - Web |
| 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia entry on "Witchcraft" 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia entry on "Witchcraft" www.newadvent.org/cathen/15674a.htm - Web |
| The Decline and End of Witch Trials in Europe The Decline and End of Witch Trials in Europe www.bede.org.uk/decline.htm - Web |
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| Witch Trials Witch Trials www.visualstatistics.net/.../Witch%20Trials.htm - Web |
| Dame Alice le Kyteler, convicted of witchcraft in ... Dame Alice le Kyteler, convicted of witchcraft in Kilkenny, Ireland, 1324 stevenroyedwards.com/alicekyteler.html - Web |
| Elizabethan Superstitions in the Elizabethan Perio... Elizabethan Superstitions in the Elizabethan Period www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-superstitions.htm - Web |
| Witchcraft in Scotland Witchcraft in Scotland skyelander.orgfree.com/menu13.html - Web |
