Witch-hunt

A major tragedy in American History occurred known as Salem Witch Hunt. In the year of 1692, 150 women and men had been accused, tortured, arrested, put to trial and charged with the crimes of witchcraft. The Salem witchcraft incident began when two young girls, nine-year old Elizabeth Parris and eleven year old Abigail Williams began to have strange fits. Samuel Parris did not believe that his daughter and niece were bewitched. However, Physician William Griggs believed, “the girls were under…

said, “Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it 's someone else 's witch being hunted.” Krin is a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review and has authored a handful of previous works of fiction. This quote applies to Richard Godbeer’s historical monologue Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 in the sense that most people have viewed the Salem Witch Trials as a form of entertainment in recent decades. His work, however, brings forward the reality of witch trials and the…

upon. This travesty involved torturing/experimenting on these groups until death in camps known as concentration camps. Consequently, this extermination of innocent groups has contributed to the idea that the Holocaust is a witch hunt. Furthermore, this is a modern day witch hunt due to its atmosphere of hysteria and paranoia, its prejudice of those accused…

fought on two fronts, in Europe, and at home as well. However, the very real threat of soviet espionage was perverted and used as a political tool. McCarthy, playing to the fervor of anti-communism, used defamation in conjunction with Communist “Witch Hunts” to promote his campaign and increase his reputation. Throughout the McCarthy Era, many Americans fell prey to the dubious accusations that McCarthyism proliferated. McCarthy capitalized on the paranoia…

black magic. Other harms caused to society, such as accidents, deaths, or bad luck, were also said to be caused by Black Magic. Witch-hunt was the fear of witchcraft led to witch hunts and executions. “Tens of thousands of people in Europe and European colonies died,” and “millions of others suffered torture, arrest, interrogation, hate, guilt, or fear.” Witch-hunt reached the peak during the protestant reformation. Being accused of witchcraft in the Middle Ages meant being labeled as a…

used their abilities for evil. It was this kind of magic that got a person labelled as a witch rather than the titles used for the practitioners of white magic. A witch was someone who used magic to cause harm unto others, including animals. Being a witch was based on the actions that a person did, not what they were. Witchcraft originated largely from Pagan beliefs, and so when…

best holidays because of the free candy. Everyone dressed up as a witch at least once in their lives on Halloween. Hearing the word “witch”, the first thing that might come to mind is the movie ‘Hocus Pocus’ or ‘Halloween Town’. Little did they know, witches or witchcraft exists and they are not all black pointy hats and broom sticks. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe, witch hunts originated. The witch hunts had goals to persecute the witches who practiced dark or black…

made the conflict inevitable. However, the extent to which the wars caused the witch persecutions remains a controversial topic among scholars. The most active period of witch hunting was during the Thirty Year War (1618-1648), but this does not prove a connection between the two. It must be taken into consideration that the nature of the religious warfare could have produced the superstition that surrounded the witch craze, generating the necessary fear for the increase of recorded persecutions…

to heal people through medicine. The previous were all things the early people in Europe new little about, thus anyone that seemed able to do these things were considered a witch. The reason they were considered witches was because if they were able to help others, they could also use their powers for harm (A History of Witch Trials in Europe). The phenomena was so widespread that even a pope once confirmed the existence of witches. Many stereotypes that people typically correlate with witches,…

The witch hunt craze that enveloped Europe and the New World throughout the 13th-16th centuries resulted in the senseless murders of countless people through horrifying methods of torture and execution, and all for seemingly no reason. Women constituted the vast majority of victims of the witch hunt craze that enveloped Europe and the New World throughout the 13th-16th centuries, with up to 80% of all witchcraft victims being women (Barstow, page 7), for a wide variety of reasons that can all be…