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	Witch-hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In fact, witches in England were never burnt, but were hanged; burning of 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).
		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.
		The most prominent 'witch hunt' of the 20th century is perhaps the McCarthy Era of 1950-1954, in which Senator Joseph McCarthy accused many prominent American citizens of being Communist sympathizers (or Communists themselves).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Witch-hunt (3070 words)

	Witches mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A witches' mark, also known as a Devil's mark or a witches' teat was asupposed mark on the body indicating (to those participating in witchhunts)that an individual was a witch.
		Witches' marks were commonly believed to include moles, scars, birthmarks or superfluous nipples.
		Individuals suspected of beingwitches were often carefully scrutinized over their entire bodies for evidence of witches' marks, which some believed to beindicators of a pact with Satan.
	www.therfcc.org /witches-mark-127541.html (87 words)

	Witches' mark - Slider
		A witches' mark, also known as a Devil's mark or a witches' teat was a supposed mark on the body indicating (to those participating in witchhunts) that an individual was a witch.
		Witches' marks could also be spots on the body which could not be penetrated or would not bleed.
		Individuals suspected of being witches were often carefully scrutinized over their entire bodies for evidence of witches' marks, which some believed to be indicators of a pact with Satan.
	enc.slider.com /Enc/Witch%27s_mark (101 words)

	Witches' mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A witches' mark also known as a Devil's mark or a witches' teat was a supposed mark on the indicating (to those participating in witchhunts) that an individual was a witch.
		Witches' marks were commonly believed to moles scars birthmarks or superfluous nipples.
		Individuals suspected of being witches were carefully scrutinized over their entire bodies for of witches' marks which some believed to indicators of a pact with Satan.
	www.freeglossary.com /Devil's_mark (259 words)

	The Different Groups Of Witches & Witchy Terms
		Lughnasadh marks the first harvest, when the fruits of the Earth are cut and stored for the dark winter months, when the God also mysteriously weakens as the days grow shorter.
		Midsummer marks the point of the year when the Sun is symbolically at the height of its powers, and so too the God.
		Witch: Anciently, a European practitioner of the remnants of pre-Christian folk magick, particularly that relating to herbs, healing, wells, rivers and stones.
	www.angelfire.com /ca6/wiccawitch/witchgroup.html (3440 words)

	More Activities & Games
		Prisoner's were searched for Devil's marks and for teats to suckle familiars, and many were pronounced witches because of some wart, pustule, or unusual swelling that would be recognized as perfectly natural today.
		Witches were supposed to be unable to say recite the entire prayer and their inability to do so was a sign of guilt.
		The Leicester witches of 1717 "swam like a cork, a piece of paper, or an empty barrel, though they strove all they could to sink." The Widow Coman was thrown into the river on three separate occasions in July 1699 and floated every time.
	www.csicop.org /superstition/witches.html (1625 words)

	Witch hunt 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/witch_hunt_1 (188 words)

	Sabbats
		Witches were said to have flew through the night either on the backs of demons that had metempsychosed into animals, or astride of broomsticks.
		The witches themselves sometimes changed into animals and were accompanied by their familiars.
		Witches and fairies roam on Midsummer’s Eve, as they do at Beltane; there is a bit of madness in the air.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/s/sabbats.html (1738 words)

	Witch-hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Only 21% of the cases ended with convictions, and the Church did not impose any kind of corporal or capital punishment." [http://www.cog.org/witch_hunt.html] However, most witch trials were held before worldly courts, not church courts, and the worldly courts were decidedly less scrupulous in their methods.
		The term originated with Arthur Miller 's play, The Crucible which was ostensibly about the Salem witch trials but were intended to criticize the hearings of United States Senator Joseph McCarthy as well as the general atmosphere of paranoia and persecution that accompanied them.
		Witch Hunt Offers pagan supplies and is home of the Season of the Witch calander.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Witch-hunt.html (2582 words)

	JURIST – The Salem Witchcraft Trials
		The tragedy of Salem--which saw nineteen suspected witches hanged and several more accused witches die in prison--caused colonists to rethink both their relationship with the supernatural world and the sort of procedural devices necessary to protect accused persons.
		(Dogs were believed to be used by witches as agents to carry out their devilish commands.) By this time, suspicion had already begun to focus on Tituba, who had been known to tell the girls tales of omens, voodoo, and witchcraft from her native folklore.
		Yes, Tituba declared, she was a witch, and moreover she and four other witches, including Good and Osborn, had flown through the air on their poles.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /famoustrials/salem.php (2905 words)

	Initiation
		Scottish witches told of putting one hand on their crown and the other upon the sole of one foot and dedicating all between their two hands to the service of the Devil.
		The description of the witches pledging fidelity to the Devil by denouncing their God, religion, family and world could be seen as a parody to the Catholic priests' and nuns' vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
		The solitary Witches not belonging to a tradition or coven have various forms of self-designed initiations that include ritual baths (a form of baptism),anointing and pledging to serve the Goddess and to use the powers of Witchcraft in the service of others.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/i/initiation.html (1957 words)

	Account of Salem Events in 1692 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After first adamantly denying any guilt, afraid perhaps of being made a scapegoat, Tituba claimed that she was approached by a tall man from Boston--obviously the Devil--who sometimes appeared as a dog or a hog and who asked her to sign in his book and to do his work.
		Apart from the evidence of Putnam family members, the major piece of evidence against Nurse appeared to be testimony indicating that soon after Nurse lectured Benjamin Houlton for allowing his pig to root in her garden, Houlton died.
		When Burroughs on Gallows Hill continued to insist on his innocence and then recited the Lord's Prayer perfectly (something witches were thought incapable of doing), the crowd was reportedly "greatly moved." Cotton Mather, who was in attendance, intervened and reminded the crowd that Burroughs had had his day in court and lost.
	www.the-night.net /witches/salem.htm (2820 words)

	Salem Witchcraft History
		She told Tituba to bake a rye cake with the urine of the afflicted victim and feed the cake to a dog.
		The first accused witch to be brought to trial was Bridget Bishop.
		By the time the witchhunt ended, nineteen convicted witches were executed, at least four accused witches had died in prison, and one man, Giles Corey, had been pressed to death.
	home.texoma.net /~adwignall (2624 words)

	Witch hunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While actual witchhunts occasionally occur in the modernera, there is a general scientific belief that witchcraft is mythological, and thus is not a crime whichcan be committed.
		However, most witch trials were held before worldly courts, not church courts, and the worldly courts were decidedly lessscrupulous in their methods.
		In addition, all witches whodid not attend the meal to be identified would be called to account later on by their master, who had risen from the dead, andwho would force the witches by means of drums to go to the graveyard, where they would die.
	www.therfcc.org /witch-hunting-201106.html (1477 words)

	Witchhunt - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Under the Empire, in the third century CE, the punishment of burning alive was enacted by the Empire against witches who caused another person's death through their enchantments.
		Furthermore certain early Irish canons in the far West treated sorcery as a crime to be visited with excommunication until adequate penance had been performed.
		Still there can be no doubt that during the 14th century certain papal constitutions of John XXII and Benedict XII did very much to stimulate the prosecution by the inquisitors of witches and others engaged in magical practices, especially in the south of France.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Witchhunts (4062 words)

	JURIST - The Salem Witchcraft Trials
		The Putnams brought their complaint against the three women to county magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne, who scheduled examinations for the suspected witches for March 1, 1692 in Ingersoll's tavern.
		Deliverance Hobbs became the second witch to confess, admitting to pinching three of the girls at the devil's command and flying on a pole to attend a witches' Sabbath in an open field.
		By the time the witchhunt ended, nineteen convicted witches were executed (LINK TO LIST OF DEAD), at least four accused witches had died in prison, and one man, Giles Corey, had been pressed to death.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials7.htm (2926 words)

	History
		Sometime after February 25, when Tituba baked the witch cake, and February 29, when arrest warrants were issued against Tituba and two other women, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams named their afflictors and the witch hunt began.
		One victim of the Salem witch hunt was not hanged, but rather pressed under heavy stones for two days until his death.
		By the time the witch hunt ended, nineteen convicted witches were executed, at least four accused witches had died in prison, and one man, Giles Corey, had been pressed to death.
	www.wwpn.org /Pages/history.htm (4524 words)

	A Wiccan Glossary (The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum)
		Each tradition has it's own standard version of the Book and each Witch's book will be different as he or she adds to it with time from many different sources.
		CONE OF POWER: power raised in the circle by the Witches assembled, and sent out into the world to work magick, is usually visualized as being retained and built in the form of a "cone" prior to release.
		This festival also marks the transition of rulership of the "Wheel of the Year from that of the Goddess to that of the God.
	www.ecauldron.com /wiccaterms.php (1837 words)

	Salem Old Witch Jail, history of the Salem Old Witch Jail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Old Salem Witch Jail that housed accused people during the Salem witch trial hysteria of 1692-93 was a filthy rat infested dungeon located close to the north river.
		The constuction of the Old Salem Witch jail was completed in 1684, and was constructed of hand hewn oak timbers and siding, and was 70 by 280 feet.
		Eventually with the end of the witch hysteria the Old Salem Witch jail was closed and sold into private hands and used as a residence.
	www.paralumun.com /salemjail.htm (388 words)

	Salem Witch Trials
		After first adamantly denying any guilt, afraid perhaps of being made a scapegoat, Tituba claimed that she was approached by a tall man from Boston--obviously Satan--who sometimes appeared as a dog or a hog and who asked her to sign in his book and to do his work.
		Ann Putnam claimed that Burroughs bewitched soldiers during a failed military campaign against Wabanakis in 1688-89, the first of a string of military disasters that could be blamed on an Indian-Devil alliance.
		When Burroughs on Gallows Hill continued to insist on his innocence and then recited the Lord's Prayer perfectly (something witches were thought incapable of doing), the crowd reportedly was "greatly moved." The agitation of the crowd caused Cotton Mather to intervene and remind the crowd that Burroughs had had his day in court and lost.
	www.wyldwytch.com /weavings/articles/talking_stick/pages/salem_witch_trials.htm (2822 words)

	The Malleus Maleficarum (review)
		The bishop of Innsbruck became so irritated with Kramer's fascination with the Witches' sexual behavior that he shut down the trials, claiming that the devil was in the inquisitor, not the Witches.
		The Malleus is usually circulated along with a papal bull "Summis Desiderantes", which rails against Witches and the people who oppose Kramer and his co-author, Jacob (or James) Sprenger.
		I mean, there are seven entire chapters on all the awful things Witches can do to penises, and Kramer apparently thought that it was quite common for men to wake up and discover that their Virile Member had walked off in the middle of the night...
	www.summerlands.com /crossroads/remembrance/_remembrance/malleus_maleficarum.htm (1067 words)

	Did You Know? - Witches in Scotland
		Scotland is estimated to have been Europe's biggest persecutor of witches.
		By the end of the 17th century burning had gone out of fashion so most of them were hanged instead.
		A small well (pictured above), on the eastern corner of the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, marks the spot where, over a timespan of 250 years, 300 women accused of witchcraft, were burned to death.
	www.rampantscotland.com /know/blknow15.htm (107 words)

	Witch-hunt
		Historically the term designated, especially for witches, the period within Western...
		A simulation of a witch hunt in Germany from 1628.
		The following is a simulation of a witch hunt.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Witch-hunt (235 words)

	Witch Hunt Chat
		His justification was that this only lasted an hour before the witch died, and wa snothing in comparison to the hellfires he would meet once he arrived in hell.
		One man who was burned as a witch said in a letter to his daughter: "Innocent have I come into prison, innocent have I been tortured, innocent must I die.
		Interestingly enough, the last witch burning in Scotland took place in 1727, when a lady was executed for using her daughter as a flying horse daughter was injured go figure not sure whatshe was on 4400 witches were executed in scotland.
	www.deafpagan.org /witchhuntchat.html (3470 words)

	Witchhunt - The Jiggies Reference Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A witchhunt is a search for suspected witches, it is a type of Moral panic.
		This was in accord with literal readings of the Old Testament, which contains fierce attacks against the polytheism of non-Hebrew peoples.
		The most important form of evidence in many of the witch trials was attained by "ordeal".
	www.jiggies.com /reference/Witchhunt (1470 words)

	Haunted Salem! - Witch City History
		The Salem Witch Museum brings you back to Salem 1692, a time of hysteria and fear that ended with the deaths of twenty innocent people.
		Using life size figures, stage sets, a sound track narration and lighting, the museum recreates the accusers and accused, the court proceedings and finally the execution of the victims of this terrifying wave of persecution.
		An award-winning live reenactment of a witch trial from the original transcript of 1692 followed by a guided tour through the dungeon.
	www.hauntedsalem.com /guidewitchcityhistory.html (521 words)

	An account of the Salem witchcraft investigations, trials, and aftermath.
		--Words written by John Greenleaf Whittier and inscribed on a monument marking the grave of Rebecca Nurse, one of the condemned "witches" of Salem.
		John Hathorne, who scheduled examinations for the suspected witches for March 1, 1692 in Ingersoll's tavern.
		Almost sixty years old, owner of a tavern where patrons could drink cider ale and play shuffleboard (even on the Sabbath), critical of her neighbors, and reluctant to pay her her bills, Bishop was a likely candidate for an accusation of witchcraft
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_ACCT.HTM (2814 words)

	Are Wicca and Paganism overrun with spells books? -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today.
		This folksy and rambling book might well have ended up consigned to the moldy used bookstores of the world, were it not for its audacious claim: that the author was an initiate in a genuine coven of Witches, active in Great Britain in the middle years of the 20th century.
		But it was the first important book in which an author claiming to be a real live Witch told his own story, and in doing so made it possible for hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people to make Witchcraft, in some form or fashion, their own spirituality of choice.
	www.belief.net /story/160/story_16005_1.html (624 words)

	Harry Potter's "Quidditch" Game Used as Basis for Artificial Intelligence Experiment
		But Crawford-Marks is doing far more than playing a video game: he's running an artificial intelligence experiment that involves computerized generation of teams that either proceed in competition or fall by the wayside according to their ability to adapt to the Quidditch environment.
		One is a Quidditch simulator with a built-in fitness function that evaluates each team's performance and likelihood to produce sought-after results, such as scoring a goal.
		He is indebted to RoboCup soccer, which uses soccer as a model for the evolution of teams of cooperating agents and is considered a benchmark in artificial intelligence.
	www.collegenews.org /x3287.xml (871 words)

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