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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 ...
- Modern witch-hunts
Witch-hunts are a contemporary phenomenon occurring...
- Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and...
- Modern witch-hunts
witch hunt, a series of investigations and persecutions of “witches” that occurred in Europe and the European colonies in the Americas between the 14th and 18th centuries. The term witch hunt has entered common political parlance to describe such campaigns as that of Sen. Joseph McCarthy to root out “communists” in the United States in the 1950s.
- Jeffrey Burton Russell
29. März 2021 · With Gideon Adlon, Abigail Cowen, Elizabeth Mitchell, Echo Campbell. In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Elle Callahan
- 2021-03-29
4. Nov. 2011 · The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women...
Widely influential, it was reprinted numerous times. The hunts were most severe from 1580 to 1630, and the last known execution for witchcraft was in Switzerland in 1782.
