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    The Salem Witch Trials started in 1692 in Salem Village‚ Massachusetts‚ and are believed to have been created by many different theories. No one actually knows why or how the witchcraft started in the early colony. The witches were girls of all ages who were caught having strange behavior. Many people started believing they were actual witches because of the way people claimed to have been hurt or affected by a witch. Some Puritans would act out to make it seem like a witch was harming them or causing

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    girls’ fits having to do with mental breakdowns and fear.11 Descriptive sermons were being given frequently about and against witchcraft around the time of the Salem Witch Trials. It is obvious to say that the girls could have felt terrified about this and the witchcraft that they would have seen throughout the village. In Witchcraft at Salem‚ Chadwick Hansen says‚ “The cause of these hysterical symptoms‚ of course‚ was not witchcraft itself but the victim’s fear of it.”12 This could definitely be

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    Puritanism Paper “I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem‚ but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom‚ and common vengeance writes the law!” (Miller’s The Crucible Act II‚ Pg. 77). The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play that revolves around the Salem witch hunts‚ which occurred during the late 17th century. The play opens in Salem‚ Massachusetts during 1692 with a group of girls who are ill‚ with the symptoms

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    Puritan Communities: Was Salem Village Unique? Salem village in 1692 is something every student learns about in their basic American history course. They learn about the witchcraft trials‚ and the hangings that followed. They learn about Increase and Cotton Mather‚ father and son on opposite sides of the issue of witchcraft. If they are lucky‚ they learn about Rev. Samuel Parris and what led some to like him and his judgments‚ and others to despise him. But they do not typically learn about the

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    Here is many witch spells are available which are most powerful and strong. Witchcraft spells are used for get power‚ money‚ success‚ happiness and to harm your enemy. Witchcraft spells may be for good work and for bad work. But there is no doubt that they are very strong. And if you have not the complete knowledge of them then‚ it will be worst for you. If you have good knowledge then you can cast it and result will be good for you. But when you have not complete knowledge about this procedure

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    The McCarthy Witch Hunts When most people come across the term‚ witch hunts‚ they have the common propensity to imagine Satanism‚ witches brewing magical potions‚ and the Salem Witch Trials. The McCarthy Witch Hunts usually aren’t the first thing to pop up in their heads. During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s while the United States of America was fighting in the Cold War against the Soviet Union with hopes of protecting its sovereignties and freedoms‚ the growing fear of Communism and rising

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    cover the height and decline of witch-hunting‚ with 1603 marking the debut of the reign of King James I. 1712 marks the last recorded case where a woman was accused of witch-craft‚ Jane Wenham. During this period thousands of people fell victim to the so called ‘witch craze’ and many historians have attempted to identify a singular theory for why witch hunting became so wide spread across Europe and North America. The feminist historian Anne Barstow claims that witch hunts were “an attack on women…”

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    image of the witch as presented by the MM and extended it‚ exploiting society’s prejudices and folklore tales. Jacob Grimm specifically‚ like Kramer and Sprenger‚ also believed that “women in general [were] to be predestined for clandestine magic because they‚ as opposed

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    Witch Craze in Europe

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    Witch craze in Europe during: the period of the Protestant Reformation‚ Catholic Counter-Reformation‚ the Scientific Revolution‚ and the consolidation of national governments from about 1480-1700 For more than two hundred years‚ individuals were persecuted as witches throughout the continent of Europe‚ even though the witch hunt was concentrated on Southwestern Germany‚ Switzerland‚ England‚ Scotland‚ Poland‚ and parts of France. In a collective frenzy. witches were sought‚ identified‚ arrested

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    WITCH HUNTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY Witch Hunts were one of the harshest hunts in history. Although these hunts were very harsh‚ they were very common. They were a search for people who accused of being a witch. In most cases‚ it was fairly easy to get out of accusations‚ as long as you could blame someone else. “Throughout history there were several cases of these so-called‚ witch hunts.” THE HARTFORD WITCH TRIALS One of the very first witch hunts that happened in America‚ took place in Hartford‚ Connecticut

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