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 | | If a man has laid a charge of witchcraft and has not justified it, he upon whom the witchcraft is laid shall go to the holy river; he shall plunge into the holy river and if the holy river overcome him, he who accused him shall take to himself his house. | | | Witchcraft in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible, Old Testament) | | | European Christians in the medieval era, some conservative Christians today, Neopagans and many African religions (past and present) believe that witchcraft is a form of genuine magic which can produce effects that are beyond the natural powers of man. However, the ways they characterize it differ widely. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/w/wi/witchcraft.html
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| | OCCULT BOOKS, RITUAL MAGICK BOOKS, SPELL BOOKS |
| | The focus is primarily upon those aspects commonly called operative witchcraft of results, rather than the supposedly more spiritual aspects that have been the subject of so many books of late. | | | This is a source work of medieval magic that gives complete sets of zodiacal lamens, characters, and planetary sigils, with full details for their manufacture and consecration, often omitted by later writers. | | | To the disappointment of those seeking a tradition to fall back on when they doubt their own judgement, the author has attempted instead to portray an attitude of spiritual freedom central to the Craft. |
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http://www.anathemabooks.com/
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| | Witchcraft Trial Documents |
| | Note, This Woman was one of the most Impudent, Scurrilous, wicked creatures in the world; and she did now throughout her whole Trial discover herself to be such an one. | | | It was a Religious Family that these Afflictions happened unto; and none but a Religious Contrivance to obtain Releef, would have been welcome to them. | | | Going to Receive this Cow, tho' he Hamstring'd her, and Halter'd her, she of a Tame Creature grew so mad, that they could scarce get her along. |
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http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/35-wit.html
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| | Books & Literature : A Case of Witchcraft: The Trial of Urbain Grandier |
| | A Case Of Witchcraft by independent Canadian scholar Robert Rapley is the true story of Urbain Grandier, a priest who was accused of sorcery, tortured, and burned at the stake during the reign of King Louis XIII. | | | Key words: Biography / Autobiography Body, Mind and Spirit Christianity - General Christianity - History - Catholic Europe - France New Age Religious Specific Members Of Religious Congregations And Orders Witchcraft Witchcraft and Wicca | | | Biography / Autobiography Body, Mind and Spirit Christianity - General Christianity - History - Catholic Europe - France New Age Religious Specific Members Of Religious Congregations And Orders Witchcraft Witchcraft and Wicca |
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http://www.literature.order-home.com/case_witchcraft_trial_0773517162.html
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| | Salem Witchcraft: the Events and Causes of the Salem Witch Trials |
| | George Burroughs prayer, Giles Coreys refusal to stand trial and Mary Eastys letter began to lessen the public support and faith that the witch trials once had. | | | Not all families wished to rejoin the congregation after the trials. | | | Sarah Osborne was an elderly lady who had not gone to church in over a year, and poor church attendance was a Puritan sin. |
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http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/salemwitchcraft.html
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| | Witchhunt |
| | Many of the suspects were women who lived in towns, villages or rural areas and who may have been practitioners of herbalism,natural healing or midwifery ; but often it was simply poor, uneducated women who didnot have influential friends. | | | The most important form of evidence in many of the witch trials was attained by " ordeal ". | | | Recent research on the matter calls into question the very existence of alleged "pagan survivals" and"backlash against herbalists". |
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http://www.therfcc.org/witchhunt-12131.html
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| | Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America |
| | I am trying to backtrail this citation as it seems to have vanished. | | | He received a reprieve from execution from the Upper House of the Assembly. | | | She may be the same as Mary Jonson from Wethersfield. |
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http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/witchtrial/na.html
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| | Carolina Academic Press - The Last Witchcraft Trial |
| | Duncan believed she was being persecuted for her religion; supporters of the government believed she was rightly convicted for taking advantage of the public. | | | It also discusses justifications for statutes such as the original Witchcraft Act (repealed in 1951) and for legislation that regulates or prohibits the practice of unorthodox religious beliefs. | | | In 1944, under a 1735 statute prohibiting the practice of witchcraft, the British government brought Duncan and three of her associates to trial where they were prosecuted and convicted. |
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http://www.cap-press.com/books/1254
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| | Salem witch craft trial |
| | Ann Putnam with prodding from her mother, pointed at a member of the Salem Village congregation by the name of Martha Corey. | | | Ann Putmam was the only one of the girls to publicly address her part in the witch trials by standing in front of the Salem congregation and saying “it was a great delusion of Satan” that had caused her to act as she had. | | | While these three awaited trail, arrests were made of Mary Warren, Bridget Bishop, Abigail Hobbs, and Giles Corey. |
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http://mt.essortment.com/salemwitchcraf_rdhw.htm
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| | Those found " guilty " were often tortured and/or executed. | | | During the 16th and 17th Centuries (as well as other time periods), there were a significant number of persons charged with the "crime" of witchcraft. | | | While such trials occasionally occur, during the modern era, there is a general scientific belief that witchcraft is mythological, and thus, is not a crime which can be committed. |
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http://www.voyagenow.com/travel-references/en/wikipedia/w/wi/witchcraft_trial.html
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| | The Last Witchcraft Trial? |
| | Brandi Blackbear, 15, was accused by school officials of casting a hex on her teacher While the ACLU has defended students' religious beliefs in Wicca and other minority religions, Bell said the Oklahoma lawsuit is believed to be the first in the country involving actual accusations of witchcraft. | | | Duncan was found guilty under section four of the Witchcraft Act of 1735, which states: "Whereby ignorant persons are frequently deluded and defrauded, if any person shall pretend to exercise or use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration, he shall be exposed to penalties". | | | In March 1999, a Michigan school settled a lawsuit brought by the state ACLU on behalf of a Wiccan student who was not allowed to wear a pentacle, a symbol of the Wicca religion. |
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http://www.illusions.com/burning/last.htm
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| | Skeptical topics |
| | ; The last witchcraft trial ; Careers in pseudoscience ; A Man, a Woman, and a Bizarre Belief; Blind Belief ; Why do people believe in the paranormal? | | | The Sexual Orientation Controversy; Post-Modernism and Parapsychology; Nostradamus Said What? | | | The last witchcraft trial; Asking awkward questions; Multiple personality disorder; Careers in pseudoscience. |
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http://www.skeptic.org.uk/topics/
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| | Eyvind Johnson |
| | Among the author's later books is DRÖMMAR OM ROSOR OCH ELD (1949), which looks at political trials and executions through the witchcraft trial of the 17th-century French Priest Urbain Grainier. | | | At age 46 Johnson began to write historical novels. | | | The process also inspired Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun (1952). |
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eyvindj.htm
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| | Salem Massachusetts Witch Trials |
| | He survived this brutal torture for two days before dying. | | | This refusal meant he could not be convicted legally. | | | John Hathorne, an ancestor of author Nathaniel Hawthorne, is buried in the Charter Street Old Burying Point. |
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http://www.salemweb.com/guide/witches.shtml
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| | Salem Witch Trials Chronology |
| | Several townspeople signed petitions on behalf of accused people they believed to be innocent. | | | This letter had great impact on Governor Phips, who ordered that reliance on spectral and intangible evidence no longer be allowed in trials. | | | Some of the accused had previous records of criminal activity, including witchcraft, but others were faithful churchgoers and people of high standing in the community. |
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http://www.salemweb.com/memorial
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| | Witchcraft Trial |
| | The theory being that the Word of God would weigh more than a witch. | | | The newspaper went on to record how 300 villagers came to watch the trials; how the accused and the accusers were placed one by one a a huge scale with the Bible on the other end. | | | Second, the story contains some silly aspects, like the statement that the females floated on the water because of their shifts and garters, and that the next time they would be thrown in naked. |
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http://www.njtimes.rutgers.edu/witch.htm
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| | Chronology of Events Relating to the Salem Witchcraft Trial of 1692 |
| | June 2, 1692: Bridget Bishop is the first to be tried and convicted of witchcraft. | | | accuses Giles Cory of witchcraft and alleges that a man who died at Cory's house also haunts her. | | | Reverend Cotton Mather meets twice with Glover following her arrest in an attempt to persuade her to repent her witchcraft. |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASAL_CH.HTM
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| | Cauches Witchcraft Trial |
| | She had evidently been twice married, once to a man called Guilbert, father of Guillemine Guilbert, and again to one of the family of Massey, who at the time held much land in St. Saviour's parish. | | | The three women having been cast into prison were brought before an "enqueste" on the 5th June, 1556, and by the testimony of the neighbours before the Crown Officers, it appeared that they had always lived honest, respectable lives, and were deemed incapable of theft. | | | After this unfortunate woman was taken to the pillory - which was where the Victoria Hotel ( now Woolworths) now stands - to which one of her ears were nailed. |
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http://www.museum.guernsey.net/Cauches%20Witch%20Trial.htm
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| | Witchcraft a part of Maryland's past - The Washington Times: Metropolitan - October 11, 2004 |
| | There wasn't the same sort of hysteria in Maryland that there was in Massachusetts, where 19 men and women were executed and many imprisoned for witchcraft in 1692. | | | Prescott acknowledged the hanging at his trial but was acquitted after he said the ship's captain, John Green, was the one responsible. | | | Witchcraft a part of Maryland's past - The Washington Times: Metropolitan - October 11, 2004 |
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http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20041010-102416-3747r.htm
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| | The Witchcraft Trial |
| | She was then committed to prison until her trial, where she no doubt endured harsh conditions. | | | While her family's money was probably able to buy her a larger cell and provide her with decent food and clean water, the situation was certainly unpleasant. | | | On March 2nd, Mary was taken to Boston and "presented" at the Court of Assistants. |
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http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/parsons/hnmockup/witchcrafttrial.html
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| | Vehement Suspicion: Eunice Cole of Hampton (1656-1680) |
| | The voice that spake to her was strange-like and speaking out of the earth, which showeth that if her God answered her it was the devil as appears John 29:4: As one that hath a familiar, spirit out of the ground. | | | The depositions from 1673, which are the fullest surviving records of community suspicions, describe Eunice Cole as attempting to persuade a ten-year-old girl, Ann Smith, to live with her. | | | Thomas Coleman and John Redman deposed to the evidence and particularly to the word[s] should not do. |
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http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/hall.htm
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| | MaryARoots's Home Page 8 |
| | Bradbery is a most dreadffull wicth sence she has been in prison she or hir Apperance has come to me and most greviously tormented me | | | Mary warrin ownid this har testimony one the oath which she hath taken before the grand Inquest this 9th of September 92 | | | Mary Bradbury & other prisoners to be Tried for the horrible crime of Witchcraft, hereon Make return fail not dated in Salem Sep'r 5'th 1692 & in the fourth year of Our Reign" |
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http://members.aol.com/MaryARoots/trial.index.html
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| | The Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| | From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. | | | Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. | | | Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft; dozens languished in jail for months without trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts subsided. |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
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| | Early Modern History - Witchcraft |
| | With the topic of the history of witchcraft persections this site is maintained by the University of Munich and the Bavarian State Library (DE). | | | Bibliography on midwives and witches by Jim Marchand as part of the ORB Online Encyclopedia | | | Among other informations this extensive website offers a "lexicon of witchcraft persections"and text and picture sources |
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http://www-geschichte.fb15.uni-dortmund.de/fnz/witch.html
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| | Transcripts of Legal Documents |
| | A Modest Inquiry Into The Nature Of Witchcraft, By John Hale, 1702 | | | The following lists are from Paul Boyer and Steven Nissenbaum, editors, Salem-Village Witchcraft, Boston, Northeastern UP, 1997. | | | List of all Persons Accused of Witchcraft in 1692 |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/texts/transcripts.html
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| | witchcraft trial |
| | just the methods used in modern witchcraft trials are different, |
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http://www.leonberger.coolfreepage.com/articles/witch.htm
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| | Love Spells, Money Spells, Love Horoscopes, & Witchcraft |
| | Powerful Love Spells - Love Horoscopes - Witchcraft Spells, Wicca Love Spell, Money Spells - Amulets & Good Luck Charms - Voodoo Dolls - and more! | | | Make your life better with love spells, wicca spells, horoscopes, amulets, and more! | | | Love Spells, Money Spells, Love Horoscopes, & Witchcraft |
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http://www.calastrology.com
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| | Witchcraft Trial |
| | A New England witchcraft trial in the late 1600s. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/tindall/timelinf/witch.htm
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