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Web Sites in Category Witch Hunts

Deaths from the European Witch Craze - An estimate of the number of persons killed during medieval witch hunts.

Folk Magic in Britain 1200-2000 - The archaeology and history of counter-witchcraft in Britain from 1200 to the present. A new project to establish the extent of these practices.

Gendercide Watch: European Witch-Hunts - A case study of the european witch hunts, c. 1450-1750 and witch hunts today.

Greywing's Witch Hunt Pages - Links and research into European and English witch hunts. Also links for grieving parents.

Groton In The Witchcraft Times - Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Boston, 1883, 1-29, 3rd series.

Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America - Compiled by I. Marc Carlson.

Mary Ingelman, The first witch of Winnsboro, S.C. - Describes the illegal trial where a lady named Mary Ingelman was accused, found guilty and tortured for being a witch in 1792 in Fairfield County, South Carolina, USA.

The Burning Times Myth - Article about the myth about "the burning times" by Arlea Æðelwyrd Hunt-Anschütz. Published in the Spring 1999 issue of Connections Journal.

The Context of the Great Witch Craze in Sweden, 1668-1676 - Article by Mary Coghill.

The Malleus Maleficarum - Unabridged online republication of the 1928 edition. Introduction to the 1948 edition is also included. Translation, notes, and two introductions by Montague Summers.

The Pendle Witches - The story of the Pendle Witches, detailing their family backgrounds, their alleged crimes, trial and terrible fate.

The Schuler of Lindheim Page - A Witch Story - Describes the witchtrials at Lindheim 1664.

The Tree of Decentis - The history of witch hunts and information about various religious beliefs.

The Trial of the Bideford Witches - Tried in England at the very end of the witch-hunting craze of 1550 to 1660.

The Witch Hunts - An archive of texts and documents.

The Witch Hunts: The End of Magic and Miracles - A chapter from the book "The Dark Side of Christian History".

The Witch-Hunt - About witch hunts through the centuries to the present, including victims, hunters, role of the church, hypotheses on their psychological basis of the fear of witchcraft, bibliography, links, and picture and text archives. [Audio plugin not compatible with all browsers.]

The Witchcraft Bibliography Project - Collect and disseminate bibliographical information about books and articles in many languages about witchcraft in early modern Europe.

The Witching Hours - A starting-point for research into the European witch trials of the medieval through enlightenment periods.

Witch Hunt - The Killings of Witches - Then and now. A list by names and dates of death.

Witch Hunt Commented Links - A link collection.

Witch Hunting in Europe - The history of witch hunting in Germany and Europe.

Witch Hunts - A collection of articles and some links.

Witch Trials of Long Island and Sayville - Witchcraft trial on Long Island and the settlement of Sayville, with information about people accused of being witches in New York.

Witchcraft & Magic History - The history of witchcraft and magic is usually concerned with the era of the witch-trials, a period that officially ended in Britain with the passing of the Witchcraft Act of 1736.

Witchcraft Craze History - Personal and historical perspectives on the pursuit of witches and witchcraft in early modern Europe.

Witchcraft, Magic and Witch Trials in Finland - A historical archive of witchhunt and witchcraft in Finland, based on studies by Ph.D. Antero Heikkinen, lawyer and historically oriented lawyer and criminologist Timo Kervinen, and Ph.D Marko Nenonen.

Witchcraze, Then and Now - A report focusing on freedom of religion; it's supporters and it's detractors. Includes examples of Christian based political and legal acts against non-christian people.

Witches in the Bible and in the Talmud - Essay examining reports of witches in the Jewish Bible, in the context of the role of women and in relation to the subsequent history of witch hunts in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages.

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