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Aug 29, 2024 · Witch hunt, a series of investigations and persecutions of “witches” that occurred in Europe and the European colonies in the Americas between the 14th and 18th centuries. The term witch hunt has entered common political parlance to describe such campaigns as that of Sen. Joseph McCarthy to root
Sep 9, 2024 · The Salem trials occurred late in the sequence, after the abatement of the European witch-hunt fervour, which peaked from the 1580s and ’90s to the 1630s and ’40s. Some three-fourths of those European witch hunts took place in western Germany, the Low Countries, France, northern Italy, and Switzerland.
Sep 6, 2024 · Clàudia Pujol, the editor of the Catalan history and culture magazine Sàpiens, became interested in collaborating with historian Pau Castell Granados on a project about Catalan witch hunt victims after learning about the movement in Scotland calling for an official apology to those persecuted as witches.
Apr 29, 2024 · In recent decades, governments the world over have increasingly taken action to address the dark history of witch-hunting. In western Europe, memorials to victims have been erected at sites in ...
Sep 9, 2024 · The Salem trials and the witch hunt as metaphors for the persecution of minority groups remained powerful symbols into the 20th and 21st centuries, owing in no small measure to playwright Arthur Miller’s use in The Crucible (1953) of the events and individuals from 1692 as allegorical stand-ins for the anticommunist hearing led by ...
Mar 7, 2024 · What is the 'modern' version of a witch hunt? As was the case in Salem, modern witch hunts involve the trial and persecution of people who have been accused of witchcraft.
Oct 16, 2023 · The Crucible shows how fear can inspire hysteria, intolerance, and paranoia, and it mirrored what was happening in America in the 1950s when a different kind of witch hunt was afoot.
Mar 17, 2024 · Britain has a long and bloody history of burning people accused of witchcraft at the stake. About 4,000 were sent to their death in Scotland and 1,000 in England, but curiously just five were ...
Mar 17, 2024 · About 4,000 were sent to their death in Scotland and 1,000 in England, but curiously just five were killed in Wales. In his new book, author and historian Phil Carradice tries to unpack this ...
Apr 10, 2024 · Yet Wales saw no witch hunt. So, what are the reasons behind the lack of prosecutions in Wales? It’s not that Welsh people had no fear of witchcraft or of supernatural harm – they did.
