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Witch's mark (1,749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A witch's mark, devil's mark or stigma diabolicum was a bodily mark that witch-hunters believed indicated that an individual was a witch, during the height

The Burning Times (555 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Burning Times is a 1990 Canadian documentary, presenting a feminist account of the Early Modern European witchcraft trials. It was directed by Donna

Pricking (409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

During the height of the witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries, common belief held that a witch could be discovered through the process of pricking

Witch camp (701 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Witch camps are settlements where women in Ghana who have been accused of being witches can flee for safety. Women in such camps have been accused of witchcraft

Helen Ukpabio (1,119 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Helen Ukpabio is the founder and head of African Evangelical franchise Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries based in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Ducking stool (1,706 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ducking stools or cucking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in medieval Europe and elsewhere

Flowing Wells witch trial (908 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Flowing Wells witch trial was a series of events that resulted in the 1971 firing of Ann Stewart, a tenured teacher, by the Flowing Wells Unified School

Saving Africa's Witch Children (192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Saving Africa's Witch Children is a documentary directed by Mags Gavan and Joost van der Valk. It features Gary Foxcroft and his organisation Stepping

Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson (1,407 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Clifford Carson (a.k.a. Michael Bear Carson; born 1950) and Susan Barnes Carson (aka Suzan Bear Carson; born 1941) are American serial killers convicted

Tongnaab (120 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tongnaab (literally "Chief of the Earth") is a deity associated with the Tallensi people of northern Ghana. Tongnaab is particularly believed to have powers

Ali Hussain Sibat (1,132 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ali Hussain Sibat is a Lebanese national and former host of the popular call-in show that aired on satellite TV across the Middle East. On the show - described

2008 Congo football riots (435 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

On Sunday 14 September 2008, a riot broke out in connection with a football game in Butembo, in the province of Nord-Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic

Chutni Mahato (513 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Chutni Mahato, also known as Chutni Devi (born 1959), is a social worker from Jharkhand, India. Once a victim of witch-branding, she now works to help

Ama Hemmah (813 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ama Hemmah (1947–2010) was a Ghanaian woman who was burned to death on suspicion of being a witch. Around 10:00 am on 20 November 2010, at Tema Site 15

Gottfried Christian Voigt (400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gottfried Christian Voigt (1740–1791, pronunciation [foːkt]) was an 18th-century German law clerk of Quedlinburg, scholar and antiquarian, author of a

Häxan (3,245 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Häxan (Swedish: [ˈhɛ̂ksan], "The Witch"; Danish and Norwegian Bokmål: Heksen, "The Witch"; English: The Witches; released in the US in 1968 as Witchcraft

Spirit children (1,567 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A spirit child in Ghana is a disabled child who is believed to possess magical powers to cause misfortune. Disability in Ghana is greatly stigmatized and

Fawza Falih (396 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Fawza Falih Muhammad Ali was a Saudi woman who made international headlines after she was condemned to death for practicing witchcraft in 2006. In April

Trial by ordeal (5,099 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Trial by ordeal was an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused was determined by subjecting them to a painful, or at least

Anja Ringgren Lovén (1,074 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anja Ringgren Lovén is the founder of the charity organization DINNødhjælp, which has been protecting and rescuing children accused of being witches in

Leo Igwe (3,785 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Leo Igwe (born 26 July 1970) is a Nigerian human rights advocate and humanist. Igwe is a former Western and Southern African representative of the International

Feminist interpretations of witch trials in the early modern period (3,544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Various feminist interpretations of witch trials in the early modern period have been made and published throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

2017 hair and braid chopping incidents in India (1,418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Numerous unexplained and mysterious hair and braid chopping incidents were being reported across India between June and October 2017. The first widely

Martin of Arles (253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

terrarum (1515), a work on demonology in the context of the Early Modern witch-hunts. Martin believed witches (sorginak) to be particularly numerous among

Segen (485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

scepticism and was sometimes repressed. By the time of the Early Modern witch-hunts, the term segen had become ambiguous, and depending on context could

Robert W. Thurston (732 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Russia and the Soviet Union, Thurston has also written on early modern witch hunts (The Witch Hunts in Europe and North America: A History of the Witch

Bury St Edmunds witch trials (2,746 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bunn 1997: p185 Jensen, Gary F. (2006). The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-4697-7. Letter from Cotton

Matthew Hopkins (2,806 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Maleficarum. Jensen, Gary F. (2006). The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-4697-4. Summers, Reverend Montague

Andrew Gow (640 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This book critiques historians' assumptions about gender in early modern witch hunts.[citation needed] Gow and his research team have been studying and

Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (5,092 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

scholar Gary F. Jensen, who wrote the book The path of the devil: early modern witch hunts, Chakraverti's self-confession of being a witch, brought a new light

Sodomy (7,464 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adamites were a libertine sect also accused of sodomy. The early-modern witch hunts were also largely connoted with sodomy. Persecution of Cathars and

Deviance (sociology) (5,576 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Deviance. pp. 84–89. Jensen, Gary F. 2007. The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 88. Becker, Howard S. 1963.

Stereotypes of Jews (8,350 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Accessed 01-03-09. Jensen, Gary F. (2006). The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-7425-4697-4. "poster for

Forced fatherhood (7,037 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

remember it the next day in the form of a dream. During the early modern witch hunts, sexual intercourse with the devil was regarded as an act deliberately

Thirty Years' War (14,397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 0-19-873072-1. Jensen, Gary F. (2007). The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-4697-4. Kamen, Henry (2003)

Middle Ages (21,056 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

('Hammer of the Witches'), laid the groundwork for hysterical early modern witch hunts. Prominent late medieval philosophers departed from Aristotelian logic