Would You Have Been Accused of Witchcraft in the 17th Century?
Would you have qualified as a witch in the 17th century? Take this quiz and find out. While the Salem witch trials are the ...
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Inside Pontefract’s Counting House: Bar dates back to a time of witches trials and darkness
It’s a building steeped in history from a time when witchcraft was considered a real threat and a candle would be the only ...
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History KS3 / GCSE: Why were there witch hunts in the seventeenth century?
The explosion of witch trials during the 17th century in Europe is explored using vivid illustrations of trials and executions. Professor Malcolm Gaskill investigate how the European pre-modern ...
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Why did the Scottish witch trials end?
(Reginald Scot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) In the 17th and 18th Century ... doubts about witch hunts grew and the number of trials across Europe fell. This may be because profound ...
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Salem Witch Trials
The black, red, gray and pink design honors the thousands of individuals—mostly women—who were persecuted under the Scottish Witchcraft Act Sarah Kuta On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences ...
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Scottish villagers are hunting for the bones of a 17th century witch for this feminist reason
Fife’s local government has launched a campaign to find the remains of a 17th century witch – and it’s all in the name of feminism, believe it or not. In 1704, Lilias Adie, a woman who lived ...