• Africa, India, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea. Modern witch hunts surpass the body counts of early-modern witch-hunting. Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the...
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  • and 60,000 were executed, almost all in Europe.[citation needed] The witch-hunts were particularly severe in parts of the Holy Roman Empire.[citation...
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    Europe, witch-hunts often arose in connection to charges of heresy from Christianity. An intensive period of witch-hunts occurring in Early Modern Europe...
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  • Witch hunts are still prevalent in India in the twenty-first century. Those who are labelled as witches are usually elderly or single women accused of...
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    Witchcraft (redirect from Witch craft)
    people'. Suspected witches were often prosecuted and punished, if found guilty or simply believed to be guilty. European witch-hunts and witch trials in the...
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  • Witch hunts in Papua New Guinea are still occurring in the twenty-first century. They are attacks launched against predominantly female victims accused...
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    sexual nature of the witch's mark examinations in the witch trials to be further evidence that the witch-hunts were, in fact, "women-hunts". English Literature...
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  • Witch hunts are still occurring in Nepal in the twenty-first century, and the persecution of marginalised individuals of the community, especially women...
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    the Salem witch trials Modern witch-hunts Salem witchcraft trial (1878) Witchcraft accusations against children Witch trials in the early modern period Colonial...
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    Goetia (category Early Modern witch hunts)
    the European Early Modern period, fears about sorcery and witchcraft rose to fever pitch and sometimes led to large-scale witch-hunts. The key century was...
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  • The rise and decline of communal violence: an analysis of the 1992-94 witch-hunts in Gusii, southwestern Kenya (PhD dissertation). Cambridge, Massachusetts:...
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  • Various feminist interpretations of witch trials in the early modern period have been made and published throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
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    Ducking stool (redirect from Witch dunking)
    Spring, 2003. Accessed 30 Sept. 2012. Behringer, Wolfgang (2004). Witches and witch-hunts: a global history. Themes in history. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 164....
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    Pricking (category Early Modern witch hunts)
    Klaits, Servants of Satan: the Age of the Witch Hunts (1985) Geoffrey R. Quaife, Godly Zeal and Furious Rage: the Witch in Early Modern Europe (1987)...
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  • witch hunts themselves had been a rarity in New England prior to the Salem Witch Trials, historians view these trials as coextensive with witch hunts...
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    witchcraft being the target of witch-hunts, in the modern era the term has taken on different meanings. In literature, a 'witch' can now simply refer to an...
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  • beliefs that the child was a witch. The sixteenth century brought forth more prevalent child involvement in witchcraft hunts and accusations, which slowly...
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  • attention in the first decade of the 21st century. The phenomenon of witch-hunts in Sub-Saharan Africa is ancient, but the problem has been exacerbated...
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  • Thurston has also written on early modern witch hunts (The Witch Hunts in Europe and North America: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North...
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    (Scottish Gaelic: buidseachd) took place as part of a series of witch trials in Early Modern Europe. In the Late Middle Ages, there were a handful of prosecutions...
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    Witch camps are settlements where women in Ghana who have been accused of being witches can flee for safety. Women in such camps have been accused of...
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    The witch-cult hypothesis is a discredited theory that the witch trials of the Early Modern period were an attempt to suppress a pagan religion that had...
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    15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan proposes that such witch-hunts may have stemmed from misunderstandings of mental or neurological disorders...
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  • smaller scale is not necessarily endorsed by wider society, such as modern witch hunts, which have been condemned in South Africa, regardless of deaths that...
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  • scepticism and was sometimes repressed. By the time of the Early Modern witch-hunts, the term segen had become ambiguous, and depending on context could...
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  • religious background. It is often treated as an exception to modern theories of witch-hunts, due to the perceived difference in scale, the gender distribution...
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    Trial by ordeal (category Early Modern witch hunts)
    trials by ordeal would continue to be used into the 17th century in witch-hunts. Ordeal by combat took place between two parties in a dispute, either...
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    witchcraft in parallel to being werewolves. Gilles Garnier Modern witch-hunts Valais witch trials Wolfssegen Werewoman References Lorey (2000) records...
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    Anja Ringgren Lovén (category Modern witch hunts)
    Stephanie. "Woman who rescues 'witch children' receives top honour". CNN. "Care worker who rescued starving 'witch child' recreates photo for his first...
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  • Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson (category Modern witch hunts)
    exterminate individuals they believed to be "witches". Consequently, the press dubbed them "the San Francisco Witch Killers." They stated that they killed Barnes...
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