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{{Short description|Method of purported witch identification}} [[File:Scottish witchpricker Needle.JPG|thumb|Part of a Scottish witch-pricking needle]] ...

...in Catholic Central Europe and Russia. It corresponds to [[Blockula]] (in modern Swedish ''Blåkulla'') of Swedish mythology. ...ioned in documents dating back to the 17th-century witch hunts. In Swedish witch accounts, as mentioned before, the Sabbath was Blåkulla, which was sometime ...

...s://books.google.com/books?id=Qr6_q-chR6MC&dq=peter+binsfeld&pg=PR10 Witch hunts in Europe and America: an encyclopedia By William E. Burns], p.x, Greenwood ...the village of [[Binsfeld]] in the rural [[Eifel]] region, located in the modern state of [[Rhineland-Palatinate]]; he died in [[Trier]] as a victim of the ...

...e l'Inquisition en France''''' is a book about [[witch trials in the early modern period]] published in 1829 by [[Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon]] (1786–1864 ...and investigations regarding the history of the witch craze and the witch hunts in the Middle Ages"), which in turn became the source for many other works. ...

...ster|first=Richard |title=The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt |publisher=The Orwell Press |location=Oxford |year=2005 |pages=xv–xvi ...

'''Witch smellers''' (also known as '''''omoriori''''') were important and powerful ...g, in which they all sat in a circle, sometimes for four or five days. The witch smellers then took their places in the center. ...

...> and that the belief in [[fairy|faeries]] in ancient, mediaeval and early modern Europe is due to a secretive [[Pygmy peoples|pygmy race]] that lived alongs ...as written by [[Margaret Murray]], the main proponent of the discredited [[witch-cult hypothesis]] in the 1920s and 1930s. In her introduction, she stated: ...

...ted".<ref>Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld: ''Cautio Criminalis, or a Book on Witch Trials'' (1631), translated by Marcus Hellyer. University of Virginia Press ...ial on his fellow Jesuit [[Friedrich Spee]], another opponent of the witch hunts. ...

|image= FF9 Caverns of the Snow Witch.jpg |caption=The original [[Puffin Books]] cover of ''Caverns of the Snow Witch'' ...

{{Short description|Hypothetical mark on the body indicating a person was a witch}} {{About|the hypothetical body mark|the magical symbol|Witch mark|the novel|Witchmark}} ...

...on in 1989 and a third edition in 1999. It is a classic book on [[Wicca]], modern [[witchcraft]], [[spiritual feminism]], the [[Goddess movement]], and [[eco ...tchcraze'' (San Francisco: Harper, 1994) gives 100,000. Other works on the Witch Hunt vary, but between 60–100,000 is the usual range.</ref>) In the book's ...

...t happen in England or Wales, where witches were hanged during the [[witch hunts]]. Parts also seemed suspiciously similar to extracts from Gardner's books. ...he Laws are sometimes known as ''Lady Sheba's Laws'' or ''161 Rules of the Witch'' (her title for them).{{Citation needed|date=September 2012}} ...

...uto">Stuart Clark, ''Thinking with demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe'' (Oxford University Press, 1999; {{ISBN|0-19-820808-1}}), pp. [http ...ly all, cases of alleged witchcraft resulted from delusions of the alleged witch, rather than actual, voluntary cooperation with spiritual evil. In brief, W ...

...|documentary]], presenting a [[feminism|feminist]] account of the [[Early Modern European witchcraft trials]].<ref name="kapica">''Toronto Globe and Mail'', ...raze'' has 100,000 and Ronald Hutton in an unpublished essay "Counting the Witch Hunt" estimates 40,000 total executions.</ref> ...

===Modern times 'til the end of the Thirty Years' War (1500–1650)=== ===Witch hunts=== ...

...for his indictment of the "pretentious nebulous verbosity" endemic in the modern social sciences in his classic work ''Social Sciences as Sorcery'' (1972). * ''Syphilis, Puritanism and Witch-hunts'' (1989, Macmillan Press, Ltd., London). Includes an appendix on the lesso ...

|notable_works=''[[Caliban and the Witch]]'' (2004) ...|date=2021 |publisher=Penguin Book |isbn=978-0-241-53253-9 |series=Penguin modern classics |location=London |page=x}}</ref> In 1972, with [[Mariarosa Dalla C ...

...it North Berwick there was no appetite to rebuild a large pier. A smaller, modern concrete pier exists in its place today. ...ames VI that it triggered the [[North Berwick Witch Trials]] and the witch hunts that would eventually sweep the length and breadth of Britain. Those known ...

{{Short description|English alleged witch (d. 1730)}} ...is commonly but erroneously regarded as the last [[Witch trials in England|witch trial in England]].<ref name="Guskin">{{cite journal|first=Phyllis J.|last= ...

==Modern fiction== ...od to be Bad?|title=The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy: The Lion, the Witch, and the Worldview|publisher=Gregory Bassham ed.; Jerry L. Walls, ed.|page= ...