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It's impossible to give an exact figure, but the numbers would have been in the tens of thousands. Most of the victims were women, but some men were burned as witches too. It was a period of appalling genocide comparible to the racist persection of the Kurds by Saddam Hussein or the crimes of Idi Amin and Robert Mugabe.
The persecutions continued both before, during and after the English Civil War- one of the most notorious perpetrators was Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled 'Witchfinder General'. A failed lawyer, Hopkins was a genocidal psychopath who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in the 1630s & '40s before-ironically- he was HIMSELF accused of witchcraft and put to death in 1647, aged only 27.
Witch persecution was finally made illegal in England and Wales in 1750, although it continued to be legal in Scotland up until the 1820s and even after this time, some Scottish women suspected of sorcery were covertly murdered by their neighbours, who covered up their crimes.
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How many witches burned at stake at Salem trials?
None. In the Puritan society, withcraft was a capital crime, and tied to others, and therefore punishable by hanging, not burning.
How many witches were burned in the Salem witch trails?
None, for two reasons. First, none of the executed were actually witches by any definition. Second, in Puritan New England, witchcraft was a capital crime, thus the punishment for witchcraft was hanging.
Back in the 1600s how did you get from England to Delaware?
By ship, the boat would take about 7 to 12 months to get from England to Delaware. By that time there would be no food or clean water many people would have died.
Did they burn the witches of the Salem witch trials?
No, they did not. Witches were only burned in England, not in North America. During the Salem witch trials nineteen people were executed by hanging, one died in the interrogation. ^^^^This makes it sound like witches were burned a lot in England, when in fact this form of excution was extremely rare for witches and more reserved for Protestants, who where burned by Catholics. The more favored way of dealing with witches in England was beheading, drowning, and breaking on the wheel. Witches were rarely burned at the stake, buried alive, boiled alive, impaled, sawed in two, flayed, drawn and quartered, or disemboweled, as other contemporary criminals were. Other punishments inflicted on convicted witches included mutilating (cutting off of a hand or ear for example), branding, whipping, dunking, locking in the the stocks, jailing, fining, banishing, or selling into slavery. To improve on this answer. The people that were executed were not witches at all. They were Puritans who had a case of ergot poisoning. Ergot is a fungus that attacks rye. Rye being one of the main crops of these people. The rye was used to make bread a staple of the Puritan diet of that time. Ergot fungus is the very same fungus that the modern drug LSD comes from. People exposed to high levels of ergot fungus have the same symptoms as a person on LSD... dementia, hallucinations, etc. Of course during those times, no one knew or had the means to know what was causing people within their community to act the way they were... the most "logical" answer was witchcraft. To improve all these answers let me first correct them... ergot poising had nothing to do with this the people who were executed were not witches some had only agreed to admit that so that they would be let free. 19 people were hanged 18 were Innocent 1 man was killed during interrogation they were told to pile rocks on top of him he died 2 or 3 days later. one woman named Lisa said with out being interrogated that she practiced witch craft. No. Burning was the method of execution for witches on the Continent. In America and the England, witches were hanged. This latest "answer" is not an improvement, as it is based on opinion and not proven historical fact. Correcting already correct answers.. It is a proven fact that ergot poisoning had everything to do with what people were experiencing in Salem, I actually live very close to Salem, have been there many times, and have heard the history countless times. The ergot was linked to the hallucinations and strange visions people were experiencing. Since they (at the time) had no clue about ergot and its effects on the neurological passages, they thought it was witchcraft and pointed blame at the one person that was "not like them".. but it later spread to blaming people throughout the colony. Ergot poisoning started it all, fear and lack of knowledge finished it with deaths of innocent people.
Why were so many witches executed for being witches?
Witches were burned at the stake to clense the towns and cities. Women who had black cats and had bad things happen around their house were trialed and if found guilty burned at the stake. If they were found innocent they had probably been killed by the trial anyway
How many witches were tried during the 1600's?
Witches were punished by being thrown in ditches with spell fish tied to their feet to make them swim away and drown. they were burned at the stake and hung. depending where you were, the punishments differed. in England, witches were hung and in the rest of Europe witches were burned.
How many witches were burned at Salem witch trial?
none....they were all hanged.
How many witches burned at stake at Salem trials?
None. In the Puritan society, withcraft was a capital crime, and tied to others, and therefore punishable by hanging, not burning.
How many witches were burned in the Salem witch trails?
None, for two reasons. First, none of the executed were actually witches by any definition. Second, in Puritan New England, witchcraft was a capital crime, thus the punishment for witchcraft was hanging.
Do black cats protect a witchs powers?
No. If so, so many witches wouldn't have been burned.
Why did new England not share England's problem of moral decadence?
Many of England's most devout Christians had left for America in the 1600s, and their high moral standards were still influencing New England for good in the 1700s
How many major wars would England and France fight in the 1600s or the century before American independence was achieved?
2314221213133341
Why would wages for labor be higher in Pennsylvania than in England in the 1600s?
In the 1600s, wages for labor were higher in Pennsylvania than in England because there were less people to work. Knowing that the land was cheaper and the wages were higher was one reason many people immigrated to America.
What group of people was NOT living in New England in the 1600s?
Many groups were not living there.Australian Aborigines.New Zealand Maori s.Tibetan monks.
What kind of punishment were witches given?
Witches who were convicted (either by townspeople or by a Church authority) were usually burned at the stake. Many of the "trials", however, were heavily biased against the defendants. Tests included throwing the witch into a river or pond; if she floated she was guilty.
Why did New England's population grow more during the 1600s than any other region?
because there were too many blacks in the south
Back in the 1600s how did you get from England to Delaware?
By ship, the boat would take about 7 to 12 months to get from England to Delaware. By that time there would be no food or clean water many people would have died.
