Witchcraft
Published on Nov 23, 2015
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Why would the Judges/Jury accuse innocent people for being witches, just for how they are acting?
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During the late 1600's a few Village Girls decided to start something called witchcraft. They let it get out of hand and never told anyone for a long time that they weren't telling the truth, causing a lot of trouble around the town.
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People were killed, tortured, and put in jail for a period of time. Still, none of them confessed.
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At least 150 people were accused of witchcraft. One man pressed to death with very large stones after he had refused to plead guilty or innocent.
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Witchcraft had gone around for about a year. Everyone who had been accused and in jail were set free. The Massachusetts Colonial Legislature made payments to the families that were witch hunt victims.
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Now days, people will agree that a lot of people were accused for no reason. The village girls had pretended to be possessed, most likely for attention. No one new the real reason why.
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Around 1939, Gerald B. Gardner started a group with people who called themselves Hereditary Witches. They said that they were practicing the old religion, since it had been passed down to them through family for many generations. Through the 1950’s Gerald published books about the older religious ceremonies of Witchcraft.
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He was afraid that witchcraft was going to die out so he wanted to make the book public. He gathered as much information he could get and added material from certain sources like European Folklore, Eastern Magic, and the writings of his friend Aleister Crowley.
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Aleister was a British writer, and was known for his interest in spiritualism and supernatural, mystical, and magical beliefs.
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