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Average English people believed that the Puritans and the Pilgrims were overzealous. They believed that the Protestants sects should be driven out of England.
St. Joan of Arc was one.
Puritans were people who wanted to reform the Anglican Church;Pilgrims or Separatists were people who wanted to leave the Anglican Church and start their own church in a new country.
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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.
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In recent years, there have been cases of people being accused of witchcraft & being killed, in Africa.
Average English people believed that the Puritans and the Pilgrims were overzealous. They believed that the Protestants sects should be driven out of England.
Both pilgrims and puritans were groups of English Protestants seeking religious freedom in the 17th century. However, pilgrims were separatists who broke away from the Church of England, while puritans wanted to reform the church from within. Pilgrims initially settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, while puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Thousands.
The pilgrims were Puritans, which is a denomination of Protestant Christianity.
Pilgrims and Puritans were both religious groups that originated from England during the 16th and 17th centuries. Both groups sought religious freedom and believed in strict adherence to Christian principles. However, while Pilgrims were Separatists who wanted to break away from the Church of England, Puritans wanted to purify the Church from within.
In some countries of the world there are people being accused of and persecuted for being a witch or practicing witchcraft. Religious intolerance has not been wiped out as yet.
The pilgrims and the puritans
St. Joan of Arc was one.