Henry Hunt

Witchcraft is a prominent problem in The Crucible. The entire play centers on this one problematic event that has everyone in the town of Salem panic-stricken and accused of being a witch. While the play had instances of witchcraft defined, most of the play just has the characters accusing each other blindly because they themselves do not want to face justice alone. Witchcraft in actuality is a religion that is centered on nature. They cannot perform spells, but they perform rituals that summon…

In the past decade, there have been numerous accounts of vicious attacks against Muslims men and women, who are being specifically targeted because of their faith. These ethnic and religious tensions have been brewing in the United States primarily since the large influx of immigrants in the 1980s and 1990s, but were severely heightened after the events occurring on September 11, 2001. Every man wearing a turban or every woman wearing a hijab was merely perceived as a menacing terrorist rather…

From the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth century, a massive number of prosecutions of alleged witches washed across parts of Europe. The courts targeted women and children rather than adult males. Tens of thousands of innocent women and children were wrongly convicted of being participants of witchcraft and were convicted through heinous trials. The number of executions increased drastically on a daily basis. In most executions, prosecutors used these methods: “burned by the stake,”…

sporadically between 1645 and 1694. Matthew Hopkins was able to convict and execute 18 people in one day. Matthew Hopkins had learned about witchcraft from the book demonology writien by King James the 1st. After beginning to go on his own witchcraft hunts he wrote his own pamphlet on the matter called ‘The Discovery of Witchcraft’ in 1647. Hopkins first witch was an old lady named Elizabeth Clarke. At the time of her arrest torture had been illegal in London. So Hopkins only…

but it also became a way for the church to control that which they feared and did not accept. It was no coincidence that the characteristics that described a witch were also those which were highly undesirable in women of the time. During the witch hunts, it was these women that were more likely to be sought, persecuted, trialed and convincted, which perhaps acted as a way to clean society of what it did not…

with silver daggers and burned in crucibles. Peeled off the skin, inch by inch. This was how executioners and judges handled pagans and witches in 16th century France. From 1560 to 1630, over 60,000 accused European witches died in the largest witch hunt in recorded history: the Great Witch Craze. Women especially were accused for a myriad of illogical reasons: being angry with a neighbor whose livestock fell ill or speaking out against the actions of the Church. Many scholars such as Nachman…

In the book Witches and Witch-Hunts” written by Wolfgang Behringer, he claims that “Contemporary anti-witchcraft movements illustrate the meaning of traditional witchcraft as an explanation of evil.” (Behringer 7) The portrayal of witches in the media today are still mostly women that are power hungry and selfish. In the show, American Horror Story: Coven, witches are portrayed by women of all colors and men portrays witch hunters who savagely hunts and murders witches. The leading female…

was a gender divide when it comes to how they were treated throughout the trial period as well as the different authority members of Scotland and how they used their beliefs to further force religion as a solution rather than just a religion. Witch hunts were somewhat prominent during the time of the Weir Trials and although Jane was the only one of the two that were committed for sorcery, people had the same process of execution because of the law. The religious community and the state…

The historic Salem Witch Trials arises in the early 1692s and claims the lives of about 20 people. The hysteria became popular in the village of Salem due to the fear and anxiety installed in the residents. Witches become a popular affair within the village, and two little girls were the reasons for the growth of the hysteria in Salem. The two young villagers initiate the paranoia about witches when they begin to exhibit abnormal behaviors after visiting a woman in seek of uncovering their…

Are you part of the 29% of Americans who believe in the Loch Ness Monster? The Loch Ness Monster is one thing considered to be in the realm of paranormal. There are many different theories and opinions on whether it is real or not. After researching and studying this topic, I found that there have been over 1,000 sightings of Nessie (the monster’s nickname). It was also mentioned that the first photograph taken of Nessie was taken in 1933. In addition, there has been a description and drawing of…