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	Witchcraft Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first act of Parliament directed specifically against witchcraft was the act De hæretico comburendo, passed at the instigation of Archbishop Thomas Arundel in 1401.
		This act of 1563 provided that anyone who should "use, practise, or exercise any Witchcraft, Enchantment, Charm, or Sorcery, whereby any person shall happen to be killed or destroyed", was guilty of felony without benefit of clergy, and was to be put to death.
		In 1951 the last Witchcraft Act was repealed, largely at the instigation of Spiritualist media.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Witchcraft_Act (674 words)

	Witchcraft Act: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Witchcraft Act
		It specifically named witchcraft --- sortilegium --- "sorcery," or "divination," as a species of heresy, and provided that unless the accused witch abjured these beliefs, she was to be burnt at the stake.
		This act of 1563 provided that anyone who should "use, practice, or exercise any Witchcraft, Enchantment, Charm, or Sorcery, whereby any person shall happen to be killed or destroyed," was guilty of felony without benefit of clergy, and was to be put to death.
		In 1951 this last Witchcraft Act was repealed, largely at the instigation of Spiritualist mediums.
	www.encyclopedian.com /wi/Witchcraft-Act.html (648 words)

	Witchcraft Act -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This act of 1563 provided that anyone who should "use, practise, or exercise any Witchcraft, Enchantment, Charm, or Sorcery, whereby any person shall happen to be killed or destroyed", was guilty of felony without (Sanction by a religious rite) benefit of clergy, and was to be put to death.
		In 1604, the first year of James's reign, the Elizabethan act was broadened to bring the penalty of death without benefit of clergy to any one who invoked evil spirits or communed with (A spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard) familiar spirits.
		In 1951 the last Witchcraft Act was repealed, largely at the instigation of (Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead) Spiritualist (Click link for more info and facts about media) media.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wi/Witchcraft_Act.htm (698 words)

	Witchcraft Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It specifically named witchcraft --- sortilegium --- " sorcery," or " divination," as a species of heresy, and provided that unless the accused witch abjured thesebeliefs, she was to be burnt at the stake.
		This act of 1563 provided that anyone who should"use, practice, or exercise any Witchcraft, Enchantment, Charm, or Sorcery, whereby any person shall happen to be killed ordestroyed," was guilty of felony without benefit of clergy, andwas to be put to death.
		As late as 1944, Helen Duncan wasthe last person to be convicted under the Witchcraft Act, authorities fearing that by her alleged clairvoyant powers she couldbetray details of the D-Day preparations.
	www.therfcc.org /witchcraft-act-84216.html (647 words)

	Elizabeth I of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Contravening the Act of Succession 1544, it excluded both Mary and Elizabeth from succeeding to the throne and declared Lady Jane Grey to be his heiress.
		In 1563, alarmed by the Queen's near-fatal illness, parliament demanded that she marry or nominate an heir to prevent civil war upon her death.
		Fearing such conspiracies, Parliament had passed the Act of Association 1584, under which anyone associated with a plot to murder the Sovereign would be excluded from the line of succession.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_I (5131 words)

	wiki/Witchcraft Act Definition / wiki/Witchcraft Act Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		England's most notorious Witchcraft Act was passed early in the reign of Elizabeth IElizabeth I (September 7, 1533–March 24, 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from November 17, 1558 until her death.
		However, by making witchcraft an ordinary crime, they invoked all the penalties of felonies against the convicted witch, including escheatEscheat is an obstruction of the course of descent and the consequent reversion of property to the original grantor.
		In 1951 the last Witchcraft Act was repealed, largely at the instigation of Spiritualist mediaThe word medium has a number of uses: The most common meaning of the word medium is an average or mean in a range of sizes or conditions.
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	Background Information on the Times of Mary, Queen of Scots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Immoral behaviour such as adultery, homosexual acts and other unchaste conduct was dealt with by severe reprobation, admonishment by the preachers, public repentance, the cutting of a woman's hair and nailing to the cuckstool and finally, banishment for the chronic offender.
		In 1563, an Act of Parliament was passed against the practice and knowledge of any form of witchcraft, sorcery or necromancy.
		By 1579, a new Act was passed which laid down that strong and idle beggars between the ages of fourteen and seventy should be apprehended and tried, and if found guilty they should be "scourged and burned through the ear with a hot iron".
	www.marie-stuart.co.uk /background.htm (9127 words)

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		This was the central idea of the variety of witchcraft we are to discuss, the alleged diabolism of the late medieval and Renaissance periods in Europe.
		Cartesian and scientific thought had no room for witchcraft; ecclesiastical and civil authorities agreed that witch prosecutions had got out of hand.; and European society was settling down to 2 centuries (1700-1900) of relative peace and prosperity.
		Witchcraft and Society The most important social function of the belief in diabolical witchcraft was scapegoating.
	www.ladyoftheearth.com /lessons/medieval-witchcraft-2.txt (3769 words)

	Witchcraft Cases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1563 Elizabeth I's government passed an 'Act against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts,' which opened the way for a period of persecution that affected England for the rest of the sixteenth and well into the seventeenth century.
		George Gifford an early commentator on witchcraft wrestled with this puzzle as to why such servile lesser agencies were used as these imps.
		Witchcraft beliefs formed an important part of the rich popular culture of early modern Europe.
	www.e-gfl.org /e-gfl/activities/intranet/teacher/history/tudors/witch.htm (828 words)

	prxt_holo
		The 1541 Witchcraft Act in Britain was passed in the reign of Henry VIII and, shortly after, the Church standardised its tenets effectively as from 1545 - 1563 The Council of Trent defined almost the whole of the Catholic Faith.
		In 1547 the Act of Henry VIII was repealed but in the reign of Elizabeth I a further act stipulated the pillory for a first offence and death for a third conviction.
		In 1563 the Parliament of Mary Queen of Scots categorically laid down the death sentence for witchcraft and in the following 39 years (the remainder of her reign) the approximate number executed annually was 200, giving us c.
	www.btinternet.com /~kynran/prxt_holo.htm (2164 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Charles Borromeo
		It happened in the autumn of 1563, between the sessions of the Council of Trent, that the Cardinal of Lorraine went to Rome, accompanied by Ven.
		This act was followed by blows and cries, removal of the notices, and the declaration that the archbishop was himself suspended from his office.
		He began in the Mesoleina Valley; here not only was there heresy to be fought, but also witchcraft and sorcery, and at Roveredo it was discovered that the provost, or rector, was the foremost in sorceries.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03619a.htm (7021 words)

	Science and Secrets of Nature, Eamon - Chap 6.
		In his treatise on witchcraft, De prestigiis daemonum (1564), Wier argued against the persecution of witches, citing Della Porta's experiment demonstrating the the "witch's salve," supposedly used to transport witches into flight, could be understood according to naturalistic principles.
		He attacked the witchcraft persecutions on the grounds that supposed witches were not heretics who had made a pact with Satan, but innocent persons whose imaginations had been derranged by evil demons.
		As modern studies of witchcraft have shown, the identification of the ordinary village sorcerer with the magician who knowingly enters into a pact with Satan dramatically extended the scope and severity of witchcraft persecutions.
	homepages.tscnet.com /omard1/jp_eamon.html (13418 words)

	Science Fair Projects - List of Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is a incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (or its predecessors) for the years to 1987, and a complete list of Acts passed from 1 January 1988 to the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April 2005.
		An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth (1649) Text at: [1]
		Acts of Parliament by year, 2000 and later
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/List_of_acts_of_the_United_Kingdom_Parliament (869 words)

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	The Sugar Quill > All Things British: Arts And Culture
		There was an Act passed in 1542 that allowed for the trial of witches, but only one person was ever brought to trial, and the result was an acquittal.
		In 1563 an Act against witchcraft was passed in Scotland (nothing to do with the English Act of the same year, and somewhat stricter).
		Although there was a Witchcraft Act passed in 1586, this step does not seem to have encouraged much actual oppression.
	www.sugarquill.net /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t5907-150.html (4387 words)

	Witchcraft Act(s) of England - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		England's most notorious Witchcraft Act was passed early in the
		Witchcraft Act that marks a complete reversal in attitudes.
		Witchcraft Act was repealed, largely at the instigation of
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		It explained why witchcraft was such a terrible thing, why it was the duty of all good Catholics to stamp it out and how to tell if someone was practising the fl arts.
		Witchcraft was thought to be the most heinous of all crimes because it represented those who were working against society in general and God in particular.
		More seriously to modern eyes, she confessed killing her husband: but it was for witchcraft as well as murder that she was hanged.
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	Witchcraft Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This law was broadened further by Elizabeth's successor James I, a king who wrote a treatise on Dæmonologie and who, as VI of Scotland">James VI of Scotland, took a personal interest in the trial of some accused witches at Berwick on Tweed.
		This statute was replaced under II of England">George II in 1736 by a new Witchcraft Act that marks a complete reversal in attitudes.
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	The Lancashire Witches (1612)
		One of King James first acts after ascending the throne in 1603 was to tighten the Witchcraft Act (1563).
		Alice Nutter is a strange addition to the defendants as a rich woman she would normally have been immune to such charges.
		It is doubtful that the confessors initially realised the full impact of their admission of witchcraft.
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	Your Witchcraft: 08/14/2005 - 08/20/2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The witchcraft in the 1600s I clicked on was the very first witchcraft in the 1600s I saw.
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	1394-1890
		It was the charge of witchcraft that enabled the Inquisition to try and condemn Jean d'Arc in 1431.
		In 1457, Jean's sentence of heresy was revoked, and she is the only victim of the Inquisition to have been granted this admission.
		This act gives the directors of the Bank of England legal immunity for loans to the government.
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	Day 9 - Witchcraft
		The Witchcraft, or sometimes alternatively, Wicca, Witchcraft, or Paganism, The Craft originated in the ancient past, and has maintained a more or less unbroken line to the present.
		Actually Witchcraft and Wicca are not the same; Wicca being a religion, the Sabbats.
		Prior to the 14th century, witchcraft came to mean a collection of beliefs and practices including healing through spells, mixing ointments or concoctions, dabbling in the supernatural, divining or forecasting the future, and engaging in clairvoyance.
	www.crystalinks.com /day9witchcraft.html (4175 words)

	History Timeline AD Second Millennium
		Most of the poems of the Poetic Edda which had previously been circulating orally since the Migration Age or before, are collected and written down in the Codex Regius, the oldest surviving manuscripts containing the Eddic poems.
		Believed that the belief in witchcraft was caused by the devil.
		The Salem Witchcraft Trials : 5 were hung on July 19 ; 5 more hung on September 22 and another 8 were executed plus one dog.
	www.agnosticwitch.catcara.com /timelineAD-part2.htm (1318 words)

	The Patrin Web Journal - Timeline of Romani (Gypsy) History
		In the reign of Philip and Mary, an Act is passed which decrees that that the death penalty shall be imposed for being a Gypsy, or anyone who "shall become of the fellowship or company of Egyptians."
		An Act is passed in England "for further punishment of Vagabonds, calling themselves Egyptians." Any Gypsy born in England and Wales is not compelled to leave the country if they quit their idle and ungodly life and company.
		The act is in direct violation of the provisions of the Weimar Constitution.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/5121/timeline.htm (9433 words)

	1563 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Parliament of May-June 1563 was the most important of the parliaments...
		Council voted unanimously to adopt resolution 1563 (2004), by which it authorized the Member...
		judicial necessity for a witchcraft act in June 1563.
	ansiklopedi.info /1563 (277 words)

	Witchcraft Act
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		Witchcraft in Massachusetts : reasons for concluding that the Act of 1711, reversing the attainders of the persons convicted of witchcraft in Massachusetts in the year 1692, became a law : further notes on the history of witchcraft in Massachusetts, with a heliotype plate of the Act of 1711, and an appendix
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	Essays4
		In 1563, during the reign of Elizabeth I, the Convocation of Canterbury adopted the Thirty-Nine Articles, the central doctrines of the Church of England.
		One reason was that the supposedly unique act of redemption required the Earth to occupy a privileged position in the universe.
		The Tibetan describes the 7th ray variously as the ray of "ceremonial magic," "ceremonial order" and "organization." The three terms differ in their connotation, but "ceremonial magic" is particularly significant, and we must assume that it was intentional.
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