Medieval Witch Hunts

Ursula- Little Mermaid

Cruella de Vil - 101 Dalmatians

Lady Tremaine, the evil stepmother

Drizella, the older ugly sister

Anastasia, the younger ugly sister ( all three from cinderella)

Queen of Hearts- Alice in wonderland

Maleficent- Sleeping Beauty

Madame Medusa- The rescuers

YZMA- The Emperor's New Groove

Alemeda Slim- Home on the Range

Evil Queen- Snow WHite

Queen Narissa- Enchanted

Morgana- Little Mermaid 2 Return to the sea

I know not all of these are witch names but they are all "bad characters"

a person employed to carry out witch-hunts and identify witches.

Most people believe they are deluded.

Well theres the burning at the stake, the drowning.

A modern day witch hunt refers to people getting all excited and getting together to search for problems or crimes where none exists. They turn a misunderstanding or something innocent into a big deal and convince themselves and others that something really terrible has happened. This is a reference to the time in colonial America where someone could be accused of being a witch and be killed for perfectly innocent or natural and normal acts.

The Pendle witch trials of 1612 have left a lasting impact on the area, shaping its cultural identity and attracting tourism. Today, Pendle celebrates its witch trial history through events, museums, and guided tours that educate visitors about this dark chapter. This legacy has fostered a sense of local pride and community engagement, while also serving as a reminder of the dangers of hysteria and injustice. Overall, the trials continue to influence Pendle's economy and cultural narrative.

Most probably believed that witches were real, that they had made pacts with Satan, that they had an extra nipple for Satan to suck on, and that they were usually women whose plan was to lure men from Godliness by their womanly wiles. This view was derived from that expressed by the fifteenth century book Malleus Maleficorum and others like it, an extremely popular expression of misogyny and credulity.

However, there was a growing and significant group who believed that most witch hunts were attacks on innocent and defenseless old women, and that most of the people claiming magical power through witchcraft or otherwise were frauds and charlatans. The most apparent of these was Reginald Scot, whose 1594 book The Discoverie of Witches set off a controversy which lasted for most of the next century. James I, "the wisest fool in Christendom" was a firm believer in witches and ordered Scot's book to be burned. Many copies survived, however, and many books were written both attacking and defending it.

The Discoverie of Witches appears to have been Shakespeare's source-book for Macbeth as well as Middleton's for The Witch. Although these plays (unlike Jonson's Alchemist, for example) do not portray actual charlatans, they could not have been very popular with those who really believed in witches, like King James.

There are actual witch hunts going on today in some parts of the world, though the people of the rest of the world know better than to hunt for actual witches.

There are things metaphorically called witch hunts going on today in parts of the world where people know better than to hunt for actual witches. Sometimes the things metaphorically called witch hunts are worse.

There is a link to an article on witch hunts below.

The English witch hunts, and those of the English colonies, mostly happened because King James I of England (James VI of Scotland) was a bit of a nut on the subject, to the point, possibly, of paranoia. When he went to Denmark to meet the princess to whom he was engaged, his ship was hit by a storm, which he blamed on witches. He wrote a book on the subject of witches, their supposedly evil nature, and how to identify them, and the English were very quickly caught up in the whole thing because of royal encouragement.

Earlier laws forbidding witchcraft in England dated back to the reign of King Henry VIII. There had been Anglo Saxon laws as well, though they had fallen into disuse during the Middle Ages. These earlier laws were doubtless used to prosecute a few individuals, but were not use as a basis for wide scale witch hunts, in which people were actively sought and examined to see if they were witches, to be subsequently tried and executed.

Yes, Jane southworth was with the pendle witches in their trial.

Be a woman, and speak your mind from time to time and not act as an inanimate object in the presence of men. That would do.

they were hanged , burned and swimming test

muslims. many categorize them as terrorists.

it wasn't good

The Salem Witch Trials are a very important part of US history. People were accused of witchcraft for many reasons, living alone, doing things that seemed odd to the town, and for sport. Sometimes people called others witches because they had a problem with them.

Some ways that witches were eliminated from the community were that they were:

- Hung

- Burnt

- Drowned

People in those times were largely religious, much more so than we are now. In those days, the word of the preacher was akin to law. So when the churches condemned witchcraft, things that may at one time seemed ordinary, now were acts of witches. Some people may have genuinely believed in witches, while others were just using them as a convenient scapegoat for life's problems, such as weather, etc.

I mean I'm not a history scholar or anything but it's what I scraped together from my readings in english and my U.S. history courses.

Witches boiled little children and ate bats and kept their familiars as pets.

The term witch in medieval times meant someone who worshipped Satan and worked black magic, even if they did something good with their magic its source was the devil. They were said to cause storms and be called on for love potions and manipulations; some may ask for favourable winds to storms destroy ships. However due to magic being respected in Pagan times the christian religion could not destroy it and some simple terminology was employed in order to distinguish good from evil. The term being wise women and cunning men; sometimes called white witches, wizards or conjurers. These people would be called upon for divination, assistnace in love and fertility as well as affluence and healing as well as counter magic. A famous cunning man was James Murrell of Hadleigh, essex; England. Witches were wise, magical and knowing in the healing arts and midwifery etc. they were councillors and advisors sought for their knowledge and wisdom and occult powers.

There were multiple people said to be witches. They were never proven true or false. There were told to be about 10 witches in a town per year.

Witch hunts ended because rare good sense took over.

Religious persecution in any and all of its forms is wrong. No single group has the absolute line on the truth. Although most people tend to believe theirs is the right path, it is only when we pass to the other side that we find out just how right or wrong we were. My personal statement is that "I" never did witch hunts to begin with so I never stopped. I realize I'm being sarcastic in this statement but it's the honest truth as far as I can see it.

thay wore normal close like us

Traditionally, the word "witch" refers to a female magician, and "warlock" refers to a male.But a witch can be male or female

Many were accused of witchcraft due to their iniquitous behavior and tension in the villages. These accusations led to the Salem witch trials and executions of twenty people between February 1692 and May 1693.

in the 1480s