Lukol Directory: Society: History: By Topic: Social History: Oppression and Intolerance: Witch Hunts

The Witch Hunts
An archive of texts and documents.
http://history.hanover.edu/early/wh.html

Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America
Compiled by I. Marc Carlson.
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carls...

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.
http://sayville.8k.com/WitchHunts.htm

Gendercide Watch: European Witch-Hunts
A case study of the european witch hunts, c. 1450-1750 and witch hunts today.
http://www.gendercide.org/case_witchhunts....

Greywing's Witch Hunt Research
Links and research into European and English witch hunts. Also links for grieving parents.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/greywing/witch...

Witch Hunts
A collection of articles and some links.
http://www.paganlibrary.com/witch_hunting/...

Witch Hunt Commented Links
A link collection.
http://www.gwdg.de/~olachko/witchhunt.htm

Witchcraft Craze History
Personal and historical perspectives on the pursuit of witches and witchcraft in early modern Europe.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2962/witch...

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.
http://www.malleusmaleficarum.org/

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.
http://www.btinternet.com/~kariastri/ohome...

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.
http://www.geocities.com/kell1744/betweenw...

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.
http://www.chronicon.com/noita/

Groton In The Witchcraft Times
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Boston, 1883, 1-29, 3rd series.
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/groton/gr...

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.
http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/witches.h...

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.
http://davensjournal.com/index.htm?TBTM.xh...

Helping 'Witches' Who Live in Exile
Christian Science Monitor article about the situation of Ghanaian widows who are branded as witches and forced to live in isolation.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0622/p13s01-...

The Pendle Witches
The story of the Pendle Witches, detailing their family backgrounds, their alleged crimes, trial and terrible fate.
http://www.pendlewitchproject.co.uk/

Witch Hunts (A.D. 1400-1800)
Articles and essays about Europeans' heightened concern with the phenomenon of witchcraft during the early modern era, including materials about specific witch-hunt episodes in Europe and America.
http://departments.kings.edu/womens_histor...

Sub Topics:
Salem, Massachusetts, Witch Trials
West Memphis Three
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