Mostly innocent women.
No - women accused of being witches were hunted tortured and killed.
'The swimming of witches' was when a women, accused of being a witch, was dragged down a river.
Witches tend to be women. In Shakespeare's time, I assume that women were witches since Hecate is a woman who is goddess of witchcraft. I don't believe there's any report of a man being accused of witchcraft and being killed for it.
superstitious and intolerant
The witch burnings were a period of time from 1480 to 1750 where women were accused of being witches and burned at stake.
About 100 people sign a petition so that they may testify for the women who were accused of being witches. These same people were later arrested for being witches.
No, but there's a famous incident in Colonial days in Salem Massachusetts where some 20 women were convicted of being witches and hanged.
It is mainly because witches tended to be wise women and healers which required the women to be older.
In recent years, there have been cases of people being accused of witchcraft & being killed, in Africa.
Being a land owner...so after death property could be stolen. Vulnerable. Mostly women. Vendetta to be satisfied by falsely accusing another. The usual corrupt leaders...doing what they have always done
It depends on peoples views, but I personally think that he was bad, this is because quite frankly he killed over 300 elderly women ( this is because he thought of them as witches). They were accused of the most ludicrous things and were forced and tortured until they finally gave in and admitted to being, so called, 'witches'.