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	Witch-hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus the "witch hunts" of the time were compromised by wild accusations and disregard for civil liberties and civil discourse.
		In addition, all witches who did not attend the meal to be identified would be called to account later on by their master, who had risen from the dead, and who would force the witches by means of drums to go to the graveyard, where they would die.
		In fact, witches in England were never burnt, but were hanged; burning of heretics and witches was practiced on the European continent (additionally, many aspects of Wicca are of modern origin and were not part of the historical Pagan practices).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Witch-hunt (2455 words)

	Salem witch trials - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Witch hunts that cannot be linked to ergot also occurred in different seasons and in areas where rye does not grow; the root cause of those hunts remains to be explained.
		The Salem witch trials (also known as the Salem witch hunt and the Salem witchcraft episode) resulted in a number of convictions and executions for witchcraft in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts.
		It was the result of a period of factional infighting and Puritan witch hysteria which led to the deaths of 19 people (mostly female but also male) and the imprisonment of scores more.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salem_witch_trials (1601 words)

	The Witch Hunt as a Culture Change Phenomenon
		Witch hunts also have importative aspects, since a group's perception and methods of dealing with a social menace (such as witchcraft) may be derived from a higher authority or an outside "missionary" group.
		Witch hunting and demonological scholarship were launched in earnest by Innocent VIII papal bull Summis desiderantes afectibus (l484) This document of officially recognized witchcraft as a problem and a threat, and appointed James Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer as special inquisitors to investigate it.
		Witch hunts and persecutory movements are the plans of action that evolve from demonologies; they are attempts to purge society of a perceived cause of misfortune and disintegration.
	www.lclark.edu /~schoen/culturetext.html (7074 words)

	Witch Hunt
		Another ancient Greek witch was Medea, noted for her use of magic to aid the bold adventurer Jason in the quest for the Golden Fleece.
		If the witch was not dead and managed to escape the flames then onlookers would shove her back into the fire.
		Witches, also were classed as heretics, during the time of the Inquisition.
	witches.monstrous.com /witch_hunt.htm (1567 words)

	A Witch Hunt: Germany 1628
		Cite this hunt as Pavlac, Brian A. "A Witch Hunt: Germany 1628." Prof.
		A Witch Hunt: Germany 1628 is Copyright © 2004 by Brian A. Pavlac.
		While this hunt, its victims, and perpetrators are fictional, it is based on actual hunts that took place during the early seventeenth century in the Holy Roman Empire.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/witch/hunt (319 words)

	Witch Hunt
		The witches, who really are amongst the villagers in the town, are not too happy about being hunted, so each night they kill one villager in retaliation.
		Witches will lie if they are asked what they are, but a villager will claim to be innocent as well.
		Witches may decide to kill witches, but the vote still must be unanimous.
	www.randycon.org /witch_hunt.htm (816 words)

	WITCH HUNT LINKS
		She states that many hunts lasted as long as they did because of complex gatherings of rumor, suspicion, and observations stemming from other accused witches, neighborly quarrels, appearance of the witch’s mark, and also items in homes that appeared to be from the devil.
		Mortale sees the witch hunts, at least in part, as attempts by the Church and governments to Christianize the countryside and purge it of such troublesome women.
		An exception, one Helen Duncan, lived during World War II and was accused of being a witch because the British feared that her divining skills were so good that she might have been a spy or that she could have figured out the day of the Normandy landing.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/witch/witchlinks.html (11434 words)

	The Modern Witch Hunt by Alexandre Padilla
		The witch hunters; that is to say, the government officials may try any argument to justify their hunt and this new "war" on the free market but the fact is that these arguments are unsound in many respects.
		Economists and the witch hunters have argued that by allowing insiders to trade on confidential information, insiders will have more ability to manipulate stock prices, expropriate the shareholders, or work against the interests of shareholders since they can make profits on the fact that the corporation is performing well or bad.
		The insider hunt is as wrong and illegitimate as was the witch hunt in Salem.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig3/padilla1.html (2937 words)

	Amazon.com: Witch Hunt : A Novel: Books: Ian Rankin
		One of the people involved in the hunt is a recent retiree, who has a serious grudge against the Witch, and knows a lot about how she functions because he's been trying to catch her for so long.
		In Ian Rankin's "Witch Hunt," the chase is as compelling as the outcome.
		Witch should be a potent femme fatale, combining female penchants for dressup and masquerade, social infiltration and sexual manipulation with male tendencies toward violence and lone-wolf alienation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316009105?v=glance (2564 words)

	Witch Hunt
		Witches, defined in medieval times as those who could use nature to their advantage, got a bad rap during the Christianization of Europe, says Dennis Owen, professor of religion at the University of Florida.
		Their only rules are the witch's rede, "Harm none," and the "law of threefold return" - what you give returns to you threefold.
		One expert claims that paganism and witchcraft are the nation's fastest growing religions, attracting baby boomers hungry for a faith that is sympathetic to their environmental or feminist beliefs.
	www.ironoak.org /articles/athans.html (3495 words)

	The Salem Witch Trials, 1692
		Martha Corey was different; she was an upstanding member of the Puritan congregation - her revelation as a witch demonstrated that Satan's influence reached to the very core of the community.
		The afflicted persons asked her why she did not go to the company of witches which were before the meeting house mustering.
		And the afflicted persons told her ah, she was a gospel witch.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /salem.htm (1251 words)

	Scottish History: The European Witch-Hunt
		Witches, judges and the community', and Stuart Clark, 'The "gendering" of witchcraft in French demonology: misogyny or polarity?', are both in French History, 5 (1991).
		Emma Wilby, 'The witch's familiar and the fairy in early modern England and Scotland', Folklore, 111 (2000), is an ingenious comparison of Scottish fairies and English familiars.
		The early stereotyping of women is discussed by Suzanne Burghartz, 'The equation of women and witches: a case study of witchcraft trials in Lucerne and Lausanne in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries', in Richard J. Evans (ed.), The German Underworld: Deviants and Outcasts in German History (1988).
	www.arts.ed.ac.uk /scothist/courses/eurowitchhunt/index.html (7125 words)

	The councillor, the witch, and the tribunal - www.theage.com.au
		On the other are Ms Watts and her supporters, who claim that what is going on is, quite literally, a witch-hunt.
		The councillor, the witch, and the tribunal - www.theage.com.au
		But this time it is the witch who has taken the Christian to the inquisitors.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/12/26/1072308681324.html (855 words)

	WITCH HUNT INFORMATION CENTER
		This may be with witch hunt of the century (in terms of size).
		Information about the modern version of the witch hunts: ritual (and pseudo ritual) sexual abuse trials and those who have been wrongfully imprisoned by them
		Soon after the court approved arrangements for Ileana to testify via satellite, videotape, or telephone, the Miami Herald received a strange letter from Ileana retracting her retraction.
	www.geocities.com /jgharris7/witchhunt.html (1422 words)

	Anime News Network - Witch Hunter Robin (TV)
		Robin, a craft user, arrives from Italy to Japan to work for an organization named STN Japan Division (STN-J) as a replacement for one of STN-J's witch hunters who was recently killed.
		Witch Hunter Robin - Belief (DVD 2) 2003-12-02
		Plot Summary: Witches are individuals with special powers like ESP, telekinesis, mind control, etc. (not the typical hogwart and newt potions).
	www.animenewsnetwork.com /encyclopedia/anime.php?id=913 (337 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Witch Hunt by Ian Rankin
		Witch Hunt is something quite different, a spy thriller involving a race against time to track down an assassin (a female one).
		Though none of the novel's characters (aside from Witch herself) has yet engaged my interest as much as John Rebus, I enjoyed their story and hope that Witch Hunt is just the beginning of another Rankin series.
		Witch makes her plans and moves closer to her target, pursuers hot on her trail.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=3456 (350 words)

	7th House - Home of fine planners, calendars and books for real witches.
		Seventh House has an absolute winner with their Seasons of the Witch planners.
		A most useful tool for the modern-day witch, well thought-out, beautifully designed.
		7th House - Home of fine planners, calendars and books for real witches.
	www.witches.ws (56 words)

	The McCarthy Witch Hunt - a novelette by Kim Newman
		Named as a witch by a fellow traveller, an anthropologist, she had been easy to pressure, her husband's tenure being so fragile, and had been the first to cough up her twelve names.
		Undoubtedly, there had been witches in Tinseltown (Louella Parsons, for one) but if the extent of their maleficence was sneaking a few lines lampooning the clergy into a Busby Berkeley musical, then Finlay would rather be going after more deep-rooted conspiracies.
		I Married a Witch, with Fredric March and Veronica Lake, was a services comedy, with a gruff general and his enchantress wife battling Nazi spies on the home front.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /stories/mccarthy.htm (9325 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (The Blair Witch Hunt)
		explains the mythology behind the Blair Witch legend that these students were supposedly investigating: In 1785, a woman accused of witchcraft is banished from the village of Blair, Maryland, and a year later, her accusers and half of Blair's children vanish.
		The legend of the Blair Witch was invented by the film's writer/directors, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez.
		which is "commonly considered fiction" and "tells of an entire town cursed by an outcast witch," isn't real.
	www.snopes.com /horrors/ghosts/blair.htm (612 words)

	witch hunt
		The group will brainstorm ideas for a witch hunt mystery and complete the “Mystery Worksheet.” Completion of this worksheet will enable you to create complex characters and events to tell the story of your witch hunt.
		You are to research the events of a specific witch trial including the events precipitating the trial, the events of the trial, and the outcome.
		Although the shape and form of “witch trials” continues to morph with time, occasionally the innocent is convicted.
	www.stratfordisd.net /hs/english/wells/WebQuests/witch_hunt.htm (1138 words)

	wurzburg
		The Prince-Bishop has over forty students who are soon to be pastors; among them thirteen or fourteen are said to be witches.
		[Page 29] As to the affair of the witches, which Your Grace thinks brought to an end before this, it has started up afresh, and no words can do justice to it.
		Ah, the woe and the misery of it--there are still four hundred in the city, high and low, of every rank and sex, nay, even clerics, so strongly accused that they may be arrested at any hour.
	history.hanover.edu /texts/wurz.html (487 words)

	Central
		"Witch" comes from the Anglo-Saxon wicce (meaning witch), which in turn derives from an Indo-European root word meaning to bend or change or do magic/religion (making it related to "wicker," "wiggle," and even "vicar").
		It is possibly also related to the Old Norse vitki (meaning wizard), derived from root words meaning "wise one" or "seer." "Warlock" (rarely used, for male Witches) is from the Old Norse varðlokkur, "spirit song" (not "oath-breaker").
		That will be ere the set of sun...
	witches.monstrous.com (126 words)

	witchhunt
		The Witch Hunts from the Hanover Historical Texts Project (History Department of Hanover College, Indiana, USA) whose aim is seeking out and publishing original texts and documents in the World Net.
		Timo Kervinen's Witchcraft in Finland is a project which presents a book "The Salary for the Sin is Death" written in Finnish by him and his collaborator about witches and witch hunt in Finland in 1500-1700 togather with a review of this subject (in English).
		Joan's Witch Page is one of the most complete and frequently cited sites on witchcraft, consisting of The Question and Answer pages (news from e-mails), The Dates, The People, The Places, The Books (Primary literature), The Torture Procedures, The Healers, The Artworks and The Words (A lexicon of words concerning witchcraft and magic).
	www.gwdg.de /~olachko/witchhunt.htm (1257 words)

	Amazon.com: Witch Hunt: Books: Wendy Corsi Staub
		There are no ghosts in "Witch Hunt", rather the past comes back to haunt Abbey via time travel instead of through supernatural means, a much more interesting method than if the author had settled for a typical story about a wronged witch.
		Taking place in June of 1963, "Witch Hunt" is about the mysterious past of an old Massachusetts home Abbey Harmon and her family have inherited.
		Not only does the narrator, Abbey Harmon, find herself traveling back to the days of the Salem witch trials, but also she leaves her own reality in 1963, giving teen readers a good look at what life was like when their parents were in high school.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786012471?v=glance (1237 words)

	Witch hunt? - The Washington Times: Commentary - September 08, 2004
		Today, anti-Semitic witch hunts can be dressed up as ideological conflicts between the Bush administration's so-called "hard-liners" and "moderates." The former are increasingly caricatured as "neoconservatives." For many who use this ill-defined term, though, it serves as an unmistakable, pejorative code word for "Jews."
		It would be a dangerous irony if the witch hunt assailing prominent Bush administration Jews were to weaken a vital alliance, embolden our enemies and cause Mr.
		The available record suggests that most, if not virtually all of the latter meetings — including at least 19 with FBI Director Robert Mueller or his senior subordinates — have been with representatives of groups long sympathic with Iranian or other Islamist causes.
	www.washingtontimes.com /commentary/20040907-095338-1320r.htm (722 words)

	ER: Witch Hunt - TV.com
		Tell the world what you think of Witch Hunt.
		Dr.Legaspi is accused of sexual harassment by the suacidal girl of "Crossing".Kerry is terrified that their relationship will become known to the stuff and is more concerned on that than defend Kim who dumps her.Abby loses an infant when leavinh her unatt Continue
	www.tv.com /er/witch-hunt/episode/33939/summary.html (188 words)

	Official Witch Hunt Page
		Witch Hunt pics & review from May 18th show
	www.angelfire.com /rock2/witchhunt (28 words)

	Witch Hunt
		Witch Hunt is an intriguingly mapped game, and you'd better use the RAMSAVE option a lot as there are plenty of one-way doors that provide you with several different areas to explore: sewers, cliff-top paths, passageways, rooms, garden mazes.
		Witch Hunt and The Cup will set you back just £2.50 - making them another bargain.
		Good marks for use of PAW, bad marks for error-checking: everywhere mistyped as eveywhere, and responses like 'The dishes is too heavy to pick up' or 'You're wearing pair of shoes'.
	www.ysrnry.co.uk /articles/witchhunt.htm (661 words)

	Witch Hunt
		Hunt, Joan: hanged in Middlesex, England in 1615
		Sabina, Benita: killed as a witch in Alfajayucan, Mexico, September 8, 1956.
		Cockie, Isabel: burnt as a witch, at a cost of 105 s.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pag/burning.htm (6764 words)

	MISFITS LYRICS - Witch Hunt
		Hunt her down, for will she sink or float
		Hunt her down, for will she sink or float?
	www.azlyrics.com /lyrics/misfits/witchhunt.html (18 words)

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