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The external conflict that confronts the women convicted of witchcraft is their persecution and punishment at the hands of the authorities and society. They face accusations, trials, and ultimately being ostracized or executed based on the false belief that they are practicing witchcraft.
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Mary Hicks and her daughter Elizabeth were the last women executed in England for witchcraft.
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Saint Joan of Arc - However, she was executed for being a heretic, not a witch.
Four women in California have been executed, and they have all been sent to the California Gas Chamber.
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.
Men were accused, tried and executed in witchcraft trials, but less often than women. In Salem, for example, out of 19 hanged, 5 were men.
Alice Molland was a woman who was convicted and subsequently hanged for witchcraft in 1685 in Exeter, England during the height of the witch trials. Her case is one of the many examples of the hysteria and persecution of individuals accused of witchcraft during that period.
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Mistress Hibbins was executed in The Scarlet Letter for consorting with the devil and practicing witchcraft, which were considered serious crimes in Puritan society. Her behavior and interactions with the townspeople, as well as her reputation as a witch, led to her eventual punishment.