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Witch hunts and the church with bibliogaphy

Date Submitted: 04/26/2004 11:55:17
Length: 5 pages (1379 words)
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I am a witch, now please kill me! Many innocent women happily welcomed death by confessing to witchcraft in order to end their excruciating torture during the witch hunt craze between 1450 and 1750. Since many records were lost, destroyed or never kept, the best estimation of the total deaths is several million (4). The main cause of the witch hunts was the Church inflicting fear upon the common and educated man by lying to them about what …

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…Bibliography 1, Australi, Stella. “Witchcraft Craze”, -http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2962/witchcraze/intellectual.html 2, Ellerbe, Helen. “The Witch Hunts: The End of Magic and Miracles”, -http://www.warcove.com/cove/morningstar/chapter8.html 3, Hoyt, Olga. Witches. U.S.A., Fourth Impression, 1973. 4, Kallen, Stuart. Witches, Magic & Spells. Minnesota, Abdo & Daughters, 1991. 5, “Salem” -http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem 6, Shafer, Mike. “The Salem Witch Trials”, -http://www.gprep.org/~mike/salem 7, Woodhurst Earl, Social Studies Teacher and expert footnoter

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