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    hen it came to sentencing the accused, there were only a few ways that they got punished. Most of the supposed witches died in jail, some were hung, but one member of the community was stoned to death. Giles Corey was an old man who farmed and was the husband of Martha Corey. One day, Martha was accused of witchcraft after she questioned about the lack of evidence behind the malice trials. After voicing this to the community, people then came forward and accused Martha of being a witch. She was…

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    Macbeth And Superstition

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    To the modern reader, the idea of the weird sisters in Macbeth being truly supernatural may seem laughable. In this era of skepticism and scientific thinking, superstition is typically relegated to children’s stories and fantasy novels. Today’s standard just-the-facts mentality makes it difficult for audiences to suspend disbelief as to the nature of the witches. However, it is vital to consider the time period in which the text was written, as the prevailing attitudes towards the supernatural…

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    The Salem Witch Trials When individuals talk about what had happened during the seventeenth century, it brings back to the dark period full of social, political, and economical challenges and gender inequality in American history. Richard Godbeer’s book, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692, discusses the events of the story of a witch hunt in Stamford, Connecticut. Furthermore, the book details how series of witchcraft cases brought before local adjudicators in a settlement called…

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    Witchery In The Crucible

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    Their religion is very strict, you come to church every sunday, don't work on the sabbath, and you believe the ministers word like it’s the words of god himself. Anything they have done to go against this would make them look like a witch if they was accused by people of the town. When accused most of them are asked to say the 10 commandments and if they can’t say them then they are said to be a witch. The punishment for witchery if you confesses is to be beat severely, and if you don’t…

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    Walking into the court on the first day of the witchcraft trails I felt quite a bit of remorse for those on trial. For it had been my fault, our fault. We accused the innocent of witchcraft, so we could get out of trouble, but did we actually save ourselves? So I now must to confess, I cannot keep in such a lie. We cheated the entire town of Salem. All of the girls and I weren’t forced to dance in the woods by Tituba’s spirit. We did it willingly, and for that matter quite often. When Reverend…

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    The Salem Times Bringing you the most up to date information regarding the Salem Witch Trials $1.50 Tuesday, November, 7th 2017 Why 24 People Died of Jealousy We have been studying the salem witch trials in social studies and trying to figure out what caused them. After a lot of time studying, I have decided that jealousy is what caused the Salem Witch Trials. If you have never heard of them, the Salem Witch Trials, It was a big hysteria where people of Salem village accused other people…

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    The Salem Witch Trials started in February 1692, over 200 hundred people were accused of witchcraft. There are a lot of questions about what caused the acusion of witchcraft? Was it ergot poisoning? Were people actually signing a contract with the devil or, were they just crazy? The infamous witch trails started all because a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and started pointing fingers at several local women claiming them of witchcraft. Two young girls (Elizabeth…

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    Witchcraft In Macbeth

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    “Look not like the inhabitants of the earth, and yet are on it” (Shakespeare 17). The ideology and belief of witches sprouted in the 1600’s when women would be accused of summoning evil spirits or harming human victims (Witches 167). King James, the king in 1609, was infatuated with witchcraft ever since he “became convinced that witches were secretly escorting his fleet, traveling in magical vessels made out of kitchen sieves” (Demons 191). Witchcraft was a feared yet popular topic in England…

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    Ancient Wicca Religion

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    Wicca is the second-fastest-growing religion in the United States with the first being Islam. When we here Wicca we usually think of straight up black magic but there is much more to Wicca then magic. Wicca means “wise ones” or “to bend or shape”. Wicca is a predominantly Western movement whose followers practice witchcraft and nature worship. The people involved in Wicca see themselves as a religion of pre-Christian traditions of Northern and Western Europe. The origins of the ancient Wicca…

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    Russian Witchcraft Witchcraft has a place in every culture in some way or another, however in Russia it is utilized in multiple ways. Witchcraft in Russia has been around for a long time and consists of spells, rituals, and witch trials. The belief of witchcraft has been around since the seventeenth century when there was a witch hysteria that was the start of the witch trials in Russia and the rest of Europe. Witchcraft is still around now with the use of everyday spells and the rituals such…

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