i am doing a research paper on witch hunts and i would like to find some reliable information and not fiction books please>
2007-02-19 02:42:05 · 8 answers · asked by cool girl 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
A witch-hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and mob lynching, but in historical instances also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials.
The classical period of witch-hunts in Europe fall into the Early Modern period or about 1450 to 1700, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting tens of thousands of executions.
Many cultures throughout the world, both ancient and modern, have reacted to allegations of witchcraft either by superstitious fear and awe, and killed any alleged practitioners of witchcraft outright; or, shunned it as quackery, extortion or fraud. Witchhunts still occur in the modern era, in many and various communities where religious values condemn the practice of witchcraft and the occult.
Historically the term designated, especially for witches, the period within Western history in which there occurred intense burning together with various types of murdering of witches. This period is known for its bloody witch-hunts and crazes which extended from the mid-15th century to the early 18th century.
Check the "Document" section of the last link.
2007-02-19 02:58:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean the ones in Salem? With judge Nathenal Hawthorne?
They happened because a group of girls in the puritan town particapted in some rituals of witchcraft. Not wanttng to be hung for it they started claming that others were witches. Mostly people they did not like or that stood in their way.
The play The crucible will give you some insight. It is pretty clear on historical fats
2007-02-19 03:32:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have one good source - A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans by Jeffrey B. Russell. The book has a very extensive Bibliography at the back. He is also the author of other non-fiction books on Witchcraft, The Devil, and Religious Dissent.
2007-02-19 03:17:08 · answer #3 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-23 18:32:11 · answer #4 · answered by hirschfeld 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They began when people took on views of the church and became more conservative. Stealing pagan symbols they looked at the healers in contempt thinking that the only healer should be God.
2007-02-19 03:58:19 · answer #5 · answered by accebere 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just Google Salem, Massachusetts or check out wikipedia
2007-02-19 02:51:14 · answer #6 · answered by elaeblue 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
this link takes you to an online copy of the original witch hunters handbook of the Inquisition.
http://www.malleusmaleficarum.org/
2007-02-19 10:28:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
first of all there is no such things as witches lol soo i feel bad for u
2007-02-19 02:48:00 · answer #8 · answered by surfergrl741 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋