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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Witch-Hunts"”.
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Cologne During the Witch Hunts, 1627--1662
… thesis examined Cologne during the years that witchcraft persecution was the highest in the city, from 1627-1662. By using a microhistorical approach on primary sources it found that strained relationships were the chief causes of the accusations. This thesis also discovered that in Cologne, at …
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A Gobber Tooth, A Hairy Lip, A Squint Eye: Concepts of the Witch and the Body in Early Modern Europe
… motivation for the increased severity of the witch hunts of that time. Both secondary and primary sources have been used, in particular the contemporary demonologies by such authors as Bodin, and Kramer and Sprenger. The thesis is divided into five chapters, including an Introduction and …
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Filid, Fairies and Faith: The Effects of Gaelic Culture, Religious Conflict and the Dynamics of Dual Confessionalisation on the Suppression of Witchcraft Accusations and Witch-Hunts in Early Modern Ireland, 1533 – 1670
The European Witch-Hunts reached their peak in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Betweeen 1590 and 1661, approximately 1500 women and men were accused of, and executed for, the crime of witchcraft in Scotland. England suffered the largest witch-hunt in its history during the Civil Wars of …
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An inquiry into the rise of communism in China
… S.S. legions fought long and well; medieval witch hunts aroused sincere religious fanaticism. In each ease these were a dedicated minority. Others were swayed to the banner for a limited time.</p><p>So it has been in China. A hard, closely-knit core has ruled since 1926. Followers have …
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Ethics in Congress
… desire to prevent legislative paralysis-inducing witch hunts. The data collected on those who have had their misdeeds brought to light fail to show significant effects of party membership or offense type on whether the member remained in Congress. Small but statistically significant effects were …
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Straight and narrow - Irish witch belief, trials and memory : Straight and narrow: a novel, and Irish witch belief, trials and memory: a critical component
… which takes as its inspiration the Islandmagee witch trial of 1711. Most of the novel is set in a contemporary fictionalised version of Islandmagee, which, based on true events in 2015, refuses to commemorate the witch trial that forms part of the peninsula’s history. Occasional intersecting …