They are only important to learn about, so that you can better understand the cruelty of humanity. Especially humanity influenced by a shared opinion, a.k.a. peer pressure.
Matthew Hopkins, d. 1647, was an English witchhunter whose career flourished in the time of the English Civil War. He held, or claimed to hold, the office of "Witch-finder General", though this was not a title ever bestowed by Parliament (despite him having to have some form of official jurisdiction), conducting witch-hunts in the counties of Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk and other eastern counties of England.
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mathew Hopkins was a very famous witch hunter back then and he killed meny old women that he thought were witches. he was a vey evil man and put many people through pain and sufforing. one day he was put to one of his own witch finding methods, were he is tied up and put into a river. if he sinks his is not a witch and if he stayed afloat he was a witch. he floated and was exicuted.
Witch Doctors or medicine Men, title varies, come close to a sort of High Priestly role in the affairs of the tribes.
Not in UK and if anywhere else, then not to the extreme level that it was in medieval times!!
There are witch hunts in part of Sub-Saharan Africa. India is another place that still practices witch hunts. In 2010, India had an 150 and 200 women killed during witch hunts.
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.
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a person employed to carry out witch-hunts and identify witches.
Witch hunt actually originates from with hunts in past centuries. From 1480 to 1750 is considered the classical period of witch hunts. The last executions happened in the 18th century.
Do you mean 1692?
Salem, Massachusetts
Old Salem, Massachussetts.
Innocent people are accused
No, there wasn't.
The Salem witch hunts happened in the English colony of Massachusetts, in what is now the USA.