The origins of witch hunts SatanismSatan and a sorcerer exchanging the Bible for a book of black magic, illustration from Compendium maleficarum, 1608.(more) In premodern Western society the mixture of irrational fear and a persecuting mentality led to the emergence of the witch hunts. In the ...
Arthur Miller's “The Crucible” is a dramatization of events of immense importance that is set during the salem witch hunts which is also known to have occurred around the late 17th century in Massachusetts. The action of the play is set in a country frozen in the hatred and fear of wit...
That year he published a third witch tract, a résumé and extension of his previous two. He died in 1631. 9. “Child witches, boys and girls between the ages of 5–15,” and further “Children were almost always involved in early modern witchcraft in Navarre (ms 3).” I am ...