Medieval Witch Hunts

The last Salem witch trial was in may of 1693.

The last witch trial was in Germany in the earky 1800s.

Because The Bible says no to witchcraft, sorcery, talking to the dead or being spiritually inclined.

So doing witchcraft back in those days was an awful sin and of course they took sin very seriously. i mean come on, they killed those you committed adultery. It was a very Catholic country, and i say catholic because its mainly the Catholics and Christians can go separate ways many times at once.

They were scared of Christianity dying out, or Gods wrath/punishment to the world due to a group of people to disobeyed the bible, It was ignorant in those days and not many people were open minded.

Witches were burned at the stake to clense the towns and cities.

Women who had black cats and had bad things happen around their house were trialed and if found guilty burned at the stake. If they were found innocent they had probably been killed by the trial anyway

Well any abnormality to the body mostly a 3rd nipple

McCarthyism was a witch-hunt because it destroyed people's reputations. It was very difficult for an accused person to prove that he or she was not a Communist, and McCarthyism adopted a 'guilty until proven innocent' mindset.

Most likely they would have died, slowly.

In that time, if you were accused of been a witch (whom were mostly women).

You will be put to death, in one form or another.

Jacobean beliefs about witchcraft were based on the Catholic Church's beliefs. They condemned witchcraft as evil and as of the devil.

So that really is not a complete question.

What did people wear in the Renaissance- Would have been a better choice, and the answer is even larger, as it would depend on the place and time period. The Renaissance began in Italy in the 15th Century through Europe to the 1600's England.

So clothing changed during this 100 and some odd years, and if you are asking what Venetians wore, then perhaps people could answer, Or if you asked What the Germanic or Flemish or Swiss, or Swedish, or even Spanish wore at a given time period? We can help you with that.

The best I can get with the question you asked? Kind of clothing? All sorts, dresses for women and mens wore all sorts of items.

It is mainly because witches tended to be wise women and healers which required the women to be older.

In the middle ages if you were suspected to be a witch they would tie a very heavy atleast 200 pound weight to her ankle. Then they threw her into a lake. If she was a witch she would float on the water and they would take her out and kill her. If she wasn't she would sink to the bottom. When that happened they would just leave her down there to die.

The Catholic Church preaches that no human being should be hated. The sins that they do may be hated but not the sinner.

Witches may or may not realize that they worship Satan (Lucifer). Since Satan makes it his priority to entice people with Mortal sin so that they may suffer

God's retribution, Satan and all his followers are to be avoided, but hate is not the Godly response; rather fasting, prayer and other sacrifices (denial of self, not blood or other ancient type sacrifices) are the response Christians (especially Catholics) are expected/desired to do.

Satanists (witches) worship Lucifer because he grants them their wishes and because he appeals to their sense of individual stength, but they are fooled into thinking they are stronger than God. Catholics on the other hand share in the divinity of Christ via the Holy Eucharist if they believe in it, and so their sufferings contribute to the Salvation Christ created for us. We are saved by being one with Christ-whether that be via the Holy Eucharist or deep study of the scriptures.

They attached a heavy rock to your leg and then threw you in a lake. If you floated, you were a witch and if you sank then you weren't a witch. You die either way!!!

They would poke your mole/blemish with a needle and if you couldn't feel the prick you were a witch. The examiners often used secretly dulled needles to be sure to get the witch convicted.

Then there is the touch test. If the victim of witchcraft was having a fit, and the witch touched the victim, the victim's fit would stop because touching your victim was the same as showing sympathy and causing the curse to return to the witch. The accused was often blindfolded, and the 'victim' was probably faking it.

And the witch cake. I don't remember all the details, but something with making a cake with the pee of the victim and feeding it to a dog would hurt the witch, and then they knew who the witch was. Some court didn't want to use it, because it was against god, since it was 'white' magic.

Emotional, Mental and of course physical tortures.

The Cat o' Nine Tails was created in 1971.

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It was called "Dunking" or "trial by water"

No witches were ever found and the poor souls who were executed this way all supposedly made their way to their accusers idea of Heaven.

In Salem, those accused of witchcraft were given two options. One option was to submit to a trial, which consisted of tying the accused to a board and dunking the person in a "pure'' pond while the deacon slowly recited the Lord's Prayer three times. If the accused survived the dunking, the purity of the accused's soul was vindicated and he or she was set free; if the accused did not survive, guilt and sentence were simultaneously announced. No one recalled any acquittals as a result of this process.

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They all were killed.

....and burnt

....alive

because they had to listen the the German soilders

Revenge was certainly a chief motive for the witch hunt. The years leading up to the witch hunt were ripe with feuds (notice how Proctor and Parris dislike each other - since Parris arrived Proctor has all but ceased attending church, mainly because Parris is greedy and worried about possessions rather than a religion), disputes (recall how Putnam accuses Proctor of taking wood from his land. Giles, though, steps in and reminds him how his grandfather had a habit of willing land that he did not own), and old resentments (recall how Putnam is angry that his man for minister did not get selected or how Tituba holds a grudge against Parris for capturing and enslaving her during his time in the Barbados).

All of these factors are building up in the community. Then throw in the strict Puritan religious code where children are to be silent and near invisible, where you have the 'elect' (those who are predestined for heaven) and everyone else and you have the scenario that leads to the mass hysteria and general revenge of the witch hunt.

Note, however, that the witch-hunt years aren't devoted just to getting revenge. The girls begin to like the attention and power they gain from the trials. This becomes a factor for how long the trials go on. Really until Abigail oversteps her authority by implying that Judge Danforth is not out of the devil's reach, she was pretty much allowed to accuse at free will.

The burning of witches is more a cliché that a real fact. The truth is that the burning of people convicted for being witches was not very common in England. By the time of the colonies, English law forbade burning people alive; this also means that the people convicted in Salem for witchcraft was not burned at the stake alive, they were hanged up to death.

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