Witch trial
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Witch trial
A witch trial is a legal proceeding that is part of a witch-hunt. * Witch trials in Early Modern Europe, 15th–18th centuries** Salzburg witch trials - 1675-1690, Salzburg, Austria** Spa witch trial - 1616, Belgium...
is a legal proceeding that is part of a witch-hunt.
- Witch trials in Early Modern EuropeWitch trials in Early Modern EuropeThe Witch trials in the Early Modern period were a period of witch hunts between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, when across Early Modern Europe, and to some extent in the European colonies in North America, there was a widespread hysteria that malevolent Satanic witches were operating as...
, 15th–18th centuries- Salzburg witch trialsSalzburg witch trialsThe Salzburg witch trials, known in history as the Magician Jackls process, which took place in the city of Salzburg in Austria in 1675-1690, was one of the largest and most famous witch trials in Austria. It led to the execution of 139 people...
- 1675-1690, Salzburg, Austria - Spa witch trialSpa witch trialThe Spa witch trial took place in the city of Spa in present day Belgium, which was then the Spanish Netherlands, in 1616. It was one of the larger and more known of the witch trials in Belgium. It led to the execution of ten women, and possibly the death of another four.- Background :On 31 January...
- 1616, Belgium - Jesenice witch trialsJesenice witch trialsNorthern Moravian witch trials, also known as Boblig witch trials was a series of witch trials which occurred in the Jeseník and Šumperk area in present day Czech Republic, between 1678 and 1696...
- 1678-1696, Jesenice area, Bohemia - Køge HuskorsKøge HuskorsKøge Huskors was the name for a witch trial in the city of Køge in Denmark, which took place in 1608-1615. It is one of the best known witch trials in Denmark. It led to the execution of between fifteen and twenty women by burning at the stake.- Background :...
- , 1608-1615, Køge, Denmark - England
- Bideford witch trialBideford witch trialThe Bideford witch trial resulted in the last ever hangings for witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards were tried in 1682 in the town of Bideford in Devon...
- 1682, Bideford - Bury St. Edmunds witch trialsBury St. Edmunds witch trialsThe Bury St Edmunds witch trials were a series of trials conducted intermittently between the years 1599 and 1694 in the town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England....
- 1645, 1662, 1655 & 1694, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - Northamptonshire witch trialsNorthamptonshire Witch TrialsThe Northamptonshire witch trials mainly refer to five executions carried out on July 22, 1612 at Abington Gallows, Northampton. In 1612 at the Lent Assizes held in Northampton Castle a number of women and a man were tried for witchcraft of various kinds, from murder to bewitching of pigs. There...
- 1612, Northampton - Pendle witch trialsPendle witch trialsThe trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th century. The twelve accused lived in the area around Pendle Hill in Lancashire, and were charged with the murders of ten people by the use of witchcraft...
- 1612, Pendle, Lancashire
- Bideford witch trial
- Germany
- Fulda witch trialsFulda witch trialsThe Witch trials of Fulda in Germany in the years from 1603 to 1606 was one of the biggest witch trials in Europe together with the Trier witch trials 1587-1593 and Quedlinburg in 1589...
- 1603-1606, Fulda - Witch trial of FuersteneckWitch trial of FuersteneckThe town of Fuersteneck, near Grafenau in Bavaria, Germany, was the location of a witch trial in 1703. A record of the trial was obtained from the parsonage of Röhrnbach.- Accusation :...
- 1703, Fuersteneck, near Grafenau, Bavaria - Trier witch trialsTrier witch trialsThe Witch trials of Trier in Germany in the years from 1581 to 1593 was the perhaps biggest witch trial in Europe. The persecutions started in the diocese of Trier in 1581 and reached the city itself in 1587, where it was to lead to the death of about three hundred and sixty eight people, and was...
- 1581-1593, Trier - Würzburg witch trialWürzburg witch trialThe Würzburg witch trial, which took place in Germany in 1626–1631, is one of the biggest mass-trials and mass-executions seen in Europe during the Thirty Years War; 157 men, women and children in the city of Würzburg are confirmed to have been burned alive at the stake; 219 are believed to...
- 1627-1629, Würzburg
- Fulda witch trials
- Szeged witch trialsSzeged witch trialsThe Szeged witch trials, which took place in the city of Szeged in Hungary in 1728-1729, was perhaps the largest witch-hunt in Hungary. It led to the death of 14 people by burning.- The trials :...
- 1728-1729, Szeged, Hungary - Kirkjuból witch trialKirkjuból witch trialThe Kirkjuból witch trial was perhaps the best-known witch trial in Iceland. It took place in Kirkjuból 1656 in what is today Ísafjörður.The plaintiff in the trial was pastor Jón Magnússon, who had been suffering poor health since 1654...
- 1656, Kirkjuból, Iceland - Islandmagee witch trialIslandmagee witch trialThe Islandmagee witch trial took place in 1710-1711 on Islandmagee in what is today Northern Ireland. It is believed to have been the last witch trial to take place in Ireland....
- 1710-1711, Islandmagee, Ireland - Val Camonica witch trialsVal Camonica witch trialsThe Val Camonica witch trials were two large witch trials which took place in Val Camonica in Italy, in 1505-1510 and 1518-1521. They were among the biggest Italian witch trials, and caused the deaths of about 60 persons, in each trial: 110 in total....
- 1505-1521, Val Camonica, Italy - Roermond witch trialRoermond witch trialThe Roermond witch trial, which took place in and around the city of Roermond in The Netherlands in 1613, was the largest witch trial in The Netherlands. It caused the death of sixty four people by burning.-Earlier witch trials in Roermond:...
- 1613, Roermond, The Netherlands - Vardø witch trialsVardø Witch TrialsThe witch trials of Vardø were held in Vardø in Finnmark in Northern Norway in the winter of 1662-1663 and were one of the biggest in Scandinavia. Thirty people were put on trial, accused of sorcery and making pacts with the Devil. One was sentenced to a work house, two tortured to death, and...
- 1662-1663, Vardø, Norway - Doruchów witch trial - c.
- Salzburg witch trials
