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Alice Kyteler was put on trial in Kilkenny, Ireland. She was the first case that started the European Witch hunts. She was very wealthy and inherited much of it from her four deceased husbands.
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The disease known as plague killed about a third of the population in Europe in three years. Some people blamd the plague on witches.
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Pope Innocent VIII made the European law. It was directed against traditional acts on witchcraft like animals, weather, and harvest magic. It was the new additions to the traditional canan of witchcraft suppression that made the "Witch Bull" a seminal law.
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Queen Elizabeth I passed a harsher witchcraft law in 1563. The punishment for witches inEngland was hanging, not burning on a stake. Death was the punishment for murder only by witchcraft.
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King James I added a new twist concerning the laws of witchcraft. It was concerning the outlawing of pacts and the worship of the devil.
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In Salem, Massachusetts a group of girls began to have strange behavior. When they got examined, the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with them. So the only cause was that witches had invaded Salem.
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The village of Salem began praying and fasting to try to get rid of the devil. The girls had to reveal who was controlling their behavior, Three girls were called out. Tituba said that the devil appeared to her.
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The group of girls accused Martha Corey of seeing the devil. But the community was surprised with her because she is a member of the Puritan Congregation.
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The hangings just started. The first one to go was Bridget Bishop.
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The hangings were coming to an end. Many people were morning because they have lost loved ones.
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The covictions and condemnations for witchery were stopped. Nineteen people have been hanged, and one crushed to death by stones. About four people died in prison waiting for their trials.
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Witchcraft in EuropeThe revolution promoted concepts such as empirical reason, skepticism, and humanitarianism. Those concepts helped end the witch hunts. There was no true evidence that witches could actually work harm. The progress required the elimination of superstitions like the belief in witches.
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Anna Goeldi was the last western european women to be executed in Glaris, Switzerland.
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McCarthy Witch Hunts The American public heard on the radio the first of what came to be known as the McCarthy "witch-hunts." Those suspected of having communist sympathies or ties were questioned.
