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How are the Salem witch trials related to religious discrimination today?
They aren't. The witch trials are not an example of religious discrimination. Puritans accused fellow Puritans of being witches. It was Puritans accusing Wiccans or Catholics or any different religious group.
Where women in Norway accused of being witches?
No ^^
Why are people accused of being witches?
In the case of the Salem Witch Trials, people who were not strict Puritans and those who did not go to church as often as the Puritan community deemed appropriate were considered outcasts, and these were usually the first people to be accused of witchcraft.
Who were accused of being witches?
Mostly innocent women.
Who executed people that were accused of being witches?
Christians
Witches were welcomed into Puritan society?
No - women accused of being witches were hunted tortured and killed.
What was the 'swimming of the witches'?
'The swimming of witches' was when a women, accused of being a witch, was dragged down a river.
Where Irish people accused of being witches on Halloween?
yes they were
Why were witches accused?
"Witches" did not really exist, but people were frightened by the thought of them. They would burn or hang witches. Citezens that nobody liked were usually accused of being witches in order do get rid of them. Others were accused because they did not fit in or were very strange, so they were suspects of practicing witchcraft.
Were children accused of being witches?
Yes, during the rise of Christianity
Why were people accuse of being witches?
People were accused of being witches becausespite, grudges,disliking someoneself defenceto explain misfortuneshope that was helpful
What was the 'swimming of witches' in 1604?
Swimming of Witches was when a woman accused of being a witch see would be draged down a river.
