Witchcraft+Trials+in+Europe+(16th-17th+centuries)

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CONFLICT: Christians and women perceived as witches

CAST AND CREW:The series of witch Trials that took place in europe during the 16th-17th centuries. MAJOR PLAYERS || REASONS FOR INVOVLEMENT || Bideford witch trial || She was charged with witchcraft and killing other people. || Salem Witch trials || She was one of the main accusers in the Salem Witch trials.Abigail gave formal testimony at 7 cases, and she was involved in as many as 17 capital cases. || 1668 1676.In the year of 1634 a man and several women were put on trial ||
 * Temperance Lloyd
 * Abigail williams
 * Ramsele witch trial, || which took place in 1634, is one of the few known Swedish witch trials before the great witch mania of
 * Torsåker witch trials || 71 people: 6 men and 65 women were beheaded and then burned, all in a single day. It was the biggest single day witch trial in recorded world history. ||

MINOR PLAYERS || REASONS FOR INVOVLEMENT ||
 * Thomas Eastchurch || He overheard Lloyd confess about her being a witch while she in Bideford lock-up the previous day ||
 * Mary Ireson || Mary Ireson is one of the minor charactersof the Salem witch trials. ||
 * Malin Matsdotter || It is most likely that they were beheaded before they were burned, as no known witch in Sweden, with the exception of Malin Matsdotter, was burned alive during the rasele witch trial. ||
 * Laurentius Christophori Hornæus and Johannes Wattrangius || This began when Laurentius Christophori Hornæus of Ytterlännäs parish, was told by Johannes Wattrangius, of Torsåker parish, to investigate witchcraft in his parish also durig the torsaker wtch trial. ||

MINI-BIOGRAPHIES OF MAJOR PLAYERS

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court of trials to prosecute people accused of of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex between February 1692 and May 1693. The episode has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature. The dangers of religious extremism, false accusations, lapses in due process, and governmental intrusion on individual liberties. The Bideford witch trial resulted in the last ever hangings for witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards were tried in 1682 in the town of Bideford in Devon. Much of the evidence against them was hearsay, although there was a confession by Lloyd, which she did not fully recant even with her execution imminent.It is sometimes said that Alice Molland was the last person to be hanged for witchcraft in England; the only evidence for this comes from a single book, //Side-lights on the Stuarts// by J Inderwick; although Molland was sentenced to hang, there is no evidence that the sentence was carried out. The Ramsele witch trial, which took place in 1634, is one of the few known Swedish witch trials before the great witch mania of 1668-1676.In the year of 1634 a man and several women were put on trial in the city of Ramsele in Ångermanland in Norrland in Sweden. This was during a period of starvation, and they were accused of having stolen milk from their neighbors.The man was said to have stabbed a knife in a wall and, uttering "terrible prayers," milked the wall through the knife. It had been claimed that the women had used small animals, hares and undefined creatures to milk cattle in their neighbor's barns. The women were pointed out by Barbro Påvelsdotter from Sandviken, who was the first to be arrested, and confirmed to have been with her to Blockula. The Torsåker Witch Trials, the largest single witch-trial in Sweden, took place in Torsåker, a village in central Sweden, in 1675, towards the end of the great Swedish witch hunt of 1668 - 1676. In total, 71 people (6 men and 65 women, roughly a fifth of all women in the region) were beheaded and burned in a single day, one of the largest single mass killings of accused witches in recorded history.
 * THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS**
 * THE BIDEFORD WITCH TRIALS**
 * RAMSELE WITCH TRIALS**
 * TORSAKER WITCH TRIALS**

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