Witch-hunt
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witch-hunt-205-3807559
title:
Witch-hunt
text:
A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. Practicing evil spells or incantations was proscribed and punishable in early human civilizations in the Middle East. In medieval Europe, witch-hunts often arose in connection to charges of heresy from Christianity. An intensive period of witch-hunts occurring in Early Modern Europe and to a smaller extent Colonial America, took place from about 1450 to 1750, spanning the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Search for witchcraft or subversive activity
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
date created:
2001-10-26T03:54:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T06:42:49Z
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