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	Witch-hunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Witchhunts may still occur in the modern era, in the sense that ignorant or uneducated people, isolated peoples, or people living a traditional lifestyle may persecute people that they believe are "witches".
		A witchhunt in modern terminology refers to the act of seeking and persecuting any perceived enemy, particularly when the search is conducted using extreme measures and with little regard to actual guilt or innocence.
		Some have described the practice of involuntary commitment as a witchhunt, claiming systematic bias in the standards for involuntary commitment, the search for people to involuntarily commit, and the judicial procedures that may result in their commitment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Witchhunt (2414 words)

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		While actual witchhunts occasionally occur, during the modern era, there is a general scientific belief that witchcraft is mythological, and thus, is not a crime which can be committed.
		The notion of a witchhunt has come to refer to some legal proceeding, in which, it is argued that innocent people are being treated unjustly; due to some degree of fear, prejudice, or panic that has led the plaintiffs to act unreasonably.
		The witchhunts were part of a larger culture which was very religiously and socially intolerant.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Witchhunt.html (1211 words)

	Encyclopedia: Witch-hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A moral panic is a mass movement based on the false or at least exaggerated perception that some individual or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society.
		A witches mark, also known as a Devils mark or a witches teat was a supposed mark on the body indicating (to those participating in witchhunts) that an individual was a witch.
		Research into the laws and records of the time show that the witchfinders often used peine forte et dure and other torture to extract confessions and condemnations of friends, relatives and neighbors.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Witch_hunt (4980 words)

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		While actual witchhunts occasionally occur in the modern era, there is a general scientific belief that witchcraft is mythological, and thus is not a crime which can be committed.
		However, this may be countered by the fact that, whether or not it is possible for witches to magically influence events or individuals, witches do exist at least to the extent that a number of individuals state that they are witches.
		The term is usually used more metaphorically to refer to a search for a perceived enemy, with the implication of the hysteria, prejudice and injustice that was often seen in the great early modern witchhunts.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Witchhunt (2060 words)

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		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.
		Crop failures often correlated with the occurrence of witchhunts, leading sociologists to state thatcommunities often took out their anger of a lack of food on supposed 'witches'.
		A witchhunt in modern terminology refers to the act of seeking and persecuting any perceived enemy, particularly when thesearch is conducted using extreme measures and with little regard to actual guilt or innocence.
	www.therfcc.org /witchhunts-149936.html (1477 words)

	Witch Hunts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Witchhunts are characterized by mass hysteria driven by a paranoid attitude toward the judicial system, in which other key and more unscrupulous players take part, as well as unreasonably premature acceptance of the alleged evidence condemning those who are charged with a crime, e.g., sex abuse and molestation.
		Those who are targeted for witchhunts are those who are perceived with some suspicion, e.g., those who have been predominantly been involved in modern witchhunts include communists, satanists, and day care workers.
		In the 1980s, witchhunts began to target those perceived as causing some harm that raised emotive concern, such as the series of day care investigations and cases, and the subsequent accusations of satanic rituals and the like.
	chss2.montclair.edu /sotillos/_prop/0000007a.htm (616 words)

	Witch-hunt biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One thing showing the term is not a piece of old folklore is the fact that witches in England were never burnt, but hanged.
		The term was adopted by various American feminist historians and popularised in the 1970's and combined with an exaggerated version of the casualties of the witchhunt, often quoting a figure of nine million, drawn from nineteenth century campaigner for women's rights, Matilda Joslyn Gage.
		Some have described the practice of involuntary commitment commitment as practiced as a witchhunt, claiming systematic bias in the standards for involuntary commitment, the search for people to involuntarily commit, and the judicial procedures that may result in their commitment.
	witchhunt.biography.ms (2001 words)

	hs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Perhaps the nearest historical parallel to this international campaign is to be found in the great witchhunts which occurred at various times throughout Europe and North and South America reaching their peak in the seventeenth century.
		Today those witchhunts are looked on as a terrible aberration in the evolution of a progressively more humane civilisation, as something never to be repeated.
		Lifestyle heretics are harassed in public and even pursued by junk mail, television and newspaper to their very hearths in an unending attempt to make them recant, confess their unhealthy life-style and turn over a new behavioural and nutritional leaf.
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	Satanism and the history of Wicca
		Among other things, he theorised that the witchhunts were used by the emerging male medical profession to wipe out their peasant female competition.
		the words "witch", "coven", and "sabbat", are used because of the Wiccan myth that Wicca is the survival of an underground medieval religion that was the target of the witchhunts.
		Wicca's self-image is based on the records of witchhunts, re-interpreting the alleged activities of accused diabolical witches as the worship of a Pagan "Horned God".
	www.meta-religion.com /Spiritualism/Wicca/satanism_and_wicca.htm (3083 words)

	Psyberspace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For example, the European witchhunts followed closely in the heels of the printing press.
		The return of the image in the modern age through the medium of photography, film, television, and the internet have brought about a sharp rise in the values denigrated during the 5000 year reign of patriarchy and literacy.
		the European witchhunts followed closely in the heels of the printing press." I have been reading with interest the Playboy McLuhan interview and the same printing press is just prior to nationalism and industrialisation.
	www.psybernet.co.nz /weblog/2002/06/alphabet-versus-goddess-by-leonard.html (236 words)

	Burning Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Itsfirst recorded use is by Gerald Gardner in the fifties and was probablycreated by him according to Ronald Hutton (344).
		Modern historians agree the witchunts had nothing to dowith persecuting a pagan cult, but is the result of an interplay of a series of complex historical and social factors.
		The term was adopted by various American feminist historians and popularised inthe seventies and combined with an exaggerated version of the casualties of the witchhunt, often quoting a figure of nine million drawn from nineteenth century campaigner for women's rights Matilda Joslyn Gage.
	www.therfcc.org /burning-times-299822.html (311 words)

	H-Net Review: Robynne Rogers Healey on Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On one level, this is a biography of Tituba and the circumstances surrounding her confession and subsequent recantation.
		What set the Salem witchhunts apart from previous witchcraft cases was the panic that ensued when Tituba introduced the beliefs of the common folk into the courtroom of Salem's educated elite.
		The lack of a legitimate government and the suspension of courts until the arrival of a new governor meant that the witch scare could not immediately be resolved.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11802892495407 (2130 words)

	Re: A History Lesson Regarding Witchhunts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We have concrete evidence against a number of students, but are leaving the door open for them to confess so that instead of facing the maximum penalty that the law allows, they can face a smaller punishment that permits them to get on with their lives.
		: If this were a McCarthy witchhunt, the TAs would be dragging each of you into our offices, bullying you, and viciously interrogating you about whether you'd plagiarized on this paper, whether you'd plagiarized in the past, and whether any of your friends had plagiarized.
		: : If this were a McCarthy witchhunt, the TAs would be dragging each of you into our offices, bullying you, and viciously interrogating you about whether you'd plagiarized on this paper, whether you'd plagiarized in the past, and whether any of your friends had plagiarized.
	www.uky.edu /~deen/HIS109/Messages-001/149.html (941 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: Yelling Heads
		More sinister are their allegations that stars who speak out are somehow unpatriotic and therefore should be shunned by audiences, and/or banished by the studios.
		The witchhunts of the 1940s and 1950s were triggered by politicians who subverted the Bill of Rights to further their careers.
		The current witchhunts are being orchestrated by yelling heads who are perverting the Bill of Rights to further their careers.
	www.smmirror.com /volume4/issue44/yelling_heads.asp (412 words)

	Ackanomic Witchhunt Archive
		Malenkai called for a witchhunt on this is not a name at Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:05:53 -0400 for the same message.
		Brinjal called for a witchhunt on this is not a name at Wed, 31 Jul 1996 02:33:00 GMT again for the same message.
		Witchhunt 136 - Called by Hubert against K 2 for claiming the Earth was banna-shaped on Friday, 17th April 1998.
	www.chiark.greenend.org.uk /~dricher/Nomic/Acka/entity/burned.html (2803 words)

	German at Georgetown University : GERM-201
		The witchhunts are not only a gruesome, but also a largely unacknowledged history (less so in scholarship than in school curricula).
		As a course available to students from all backgrounds and of all majors, this course attempts consciously to illuminate the fundamental questions and concerns of an essential area of human experience and encourage self-reflection in the face of problems and questions larger than themselves in students.
		The three tenets in this course that would encourage such reflection are the witchhunts as persecution, the witchhunts as religious persecution (Innocent's Papal Bull on witches) and the breadth of this occurrence, both over time and across national boundaries.
	www3.georgetown.edu /departments/german/courses/germ201.html (1142 words)

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		A witch-hunt was traditionally a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, which could lead to a witchcraft trial involving the accused person.
	www.greatartworks.com /search/encyclopedia/Witchhunt (2553 words)

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		Actually, I was referring to "witchhunts" as part of a broader social phenomena which sociologist call deviance scares.
		A common denominator in both the European and US colonial witchhunts was social change.
		In the case of the latter, the colony was about to lose its charter and in danger of breaking down.
	www.prwatch.org /forum/showpost.php?p=9993&postcount=4 (524 words)

	Booklist
		Attempts to study the Witchhunts in a serious and scholarly manner, without exaggeration of numbers and facts.
		Cohn "Europe's Inner Demons; The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom"A scholarly study of the Witchhunts, and their relationship to religion and a society in fear.
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	Malefice
		Witch hunting came to Scotland in the 16th Century, some time after the original witchhunts of central Europe began in the 14th Century.
		A comission of 1677 advised Dumbarton's witchhunters: "If found guilty without the use of torture hindering them to sleep or other indirect means, then justice may be adminstered upon them."
		Christian Shaw, the 11 year old daughter of the laird of Bargarran, accused a number of tenants and servants of bewitching her.
	www.templum.freeserve.co.uk /history/witchcraft.htm (799 words)

	Witch-hunt - InformationBlast
		The term is usually used more metaphorically to refer to a search for a perceived enemy, with the implication of the hysteria and injustice that was often seen in medieval witchhunts.
		For several centuries dominantly Christian societies believed that Satan was acting through human and other animal servants.
		There is, after all, a difference between a witchhunt, which is a mass cultural phenomenon, and a potentially unjust individual hearing.
	www.informationblast.com /Witch-hunt.html (1521 words)

	Infoshop News - Witchhunts to the Right; Witchhunts to the Left (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Witchhunts to the Right; Witchhunts to the Left
		Churchill faces an attempt by the University of Colorado to find grounds for firing him because of statements he made about the 9/11 attacks and to deepen the attack on ethnic studies at the university.
		Some leaders of the American Indian Movement and quite a few mouthpieces on the left are currently seeking, on what I am sure they consider morally justified grounds, to counter the efforts to fight the witch-hunt against University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill.
	www.infoshop.org /inews/article.php?story=20050224191728777 (1765 words)

	History of the European Witchhunts by Glenn Weiser, Metroland, Oct 25, 2002
		History of the European Witchhunts by Glenn Weiser, Metroland, Oct 25, 2002
		Written for the Halloween 2002 issue.-GW Like May Day, the two solstices, and other times, Halloween is one of the traditional witches' Sabbaths.
		And even though the Age of Enlightenment brought the witch burnings to an end, history always seems to provide enough events to prove that wherever ignorance and blind obedience to either religious or temporal authority prevail, innocent people will be in danger.
	www.celticguitarmusic.com /Mland~witchhunt.htm (860 words)

	Mrs. Robitaille - English 10
		The source listed here is a "must see" source-before you decide on your "witchhunt.
		Think also of the witchhunt for Arab Americans after 9/11.
		I'm sure many more documented situations come to mind that were "witchhunts".
	myschoolonline.com /page/0,1871,25114-175729-28-49085,00.html (150 words)

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		Quite a few other 19th- and early 20th-century writers on witchcraft have also drawn inspiration from Michelet, who theorized (1) that medieval witchcraft was a survival of Paganism, and (2) that the aim of the European witchhunts was to wipe out peasant midwives, who were seen as competition by the emerging male medical profession.
		Wiccans and Satanists both took that constellation of terms from accusations against alleged diabolical witches; Wiccans use those terms _because_ of the Murrayite interpretation of the witchhunts, or because (in the case of those Wiccans who don't accept the Murrayite interpretation) they otherwise identify with the victims of witchhunts.
		The very idea of a "Horned God" associated with _witchcraft_ is derived from the Christian witchhunters' Devil concept, as re-interpreted by 19th-century literary-Satanic writers like Michelet and later by Murray, and not from any pre-Christian source.
	www.necronomi.com /magic/satanism/Wicca-and-Satanism.txt (2453 words)

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		Witchcraft has been confused in the popular mind with pointy fl hats, green faces and broomsticks.
		These images fueled the witchhunts of 17th century Salem, but now an enlightened Salem community embraces paganism and welcomes witches and warlocks to pursue harmony with nature and live as ordinary and respectable citizens.
		The exhibit concludes with examples of modern "witchhunts" such as the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, fllisting suspected communists during McCarthyism, and blaming gays for AIDS.
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