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Modern witch hunts surpass the body counts of early-modern witch-hunting. [1] Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, and Nigeria, experiences a high prevalence of witch-hunting.
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-285449-6. Levack, Brian P. (2006). The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe. Pearson Education. ISBN 0-582-41901-8. Stack, Richard A. (2006). Dead wrong: violence, vengeance, and the victims of capital punishment. Greenwood Publishing Group.
Today, North America hosts a diverse array of beliefs about witchcraft. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Indigenous communities such as the Cherokee , [ 3 ] Hopi , [ 4 ] the Navajo [ 5 ] among others, [ 6 ] included in their folklore and beliefs malevolent figures who could harm their communities, often resulting in severe punishments, including death. [ 7 ]
A witch hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. Practicing evil spells or incantations was proscribed and punishable in early human civilizations in the Middle East. In medieval Europe, witch-hunts often arose in connection to charges of heresy from Christianity.
Articles related to the belief and persecution of witchcraft in the modern era, from 20th-century onward. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
This category is for individual (specific) trials/cases in the context of the Witch trials in the early modern period. For generic topics involving the early modern witch-hunts/trials, use Category:Early Modern witch hunts. For topics related to witch-hunting outside of the Early Modern period, use Category:Witch hunting
The Witch Child of Pilot's Knob is a Kentucky urban legend that tells of a five-year-old girl named Mary Evelyn Ford and her mother, Mary Louise Ford, being burned at the stake in the 1900s for practicing witchcraft in the town of Marion, Kentucky.
In this course, students will learn how: to view the witch as a dominant controversial cultural figure in literature, film, and television, from surveying the impact of the witch hunts on literature, popular culture, and law making; examine how early to modern witch-hunts intersect with attitudes about gender, religion, and community; draw ...