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No, but there's a famous incident in Colonial days in Salem Massachusetts where some 20 women were convicted of being witches and hanged.
superstitious and intolerant
2, under suspicion of being familiars because they were owned by accused witches.
I wouldn't say that they were discovered so much as falsely accused. Witches are mythical (at least in the sense that you mean).most were discovered by towns people wrongfully accusing people because they did not like them but some tryed to prove a point that witches were not devil worshiper but they just ended up being killed
yes. people accused of being witches were burned at stake, sometimes, people thought that witches could take the form of cats, so if you saw a cat more then three times, and it was the same, the cat would be found and burned at stake.
No, but there's a famous incident in Colonial days in Salem Massachusetts where some 20 women were convicted of being witches and hanged.
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Mostly innocent women.
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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.
yes they were
"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.
Yes, during the rise of Christianity
People were accused of being witches becausespite, grudges,disliking someoneself defenceto explain misfortuneshope that was helpful
Swimming of Witches was when a woman accused of being a witch see would be draged down a river.
Because they had broomsticks and black cats you thicko!!