In the Middle Ages witchcraft was feared throughout Europe. ... Some other punishments were banishment, imprisonment, and mutilation, but mostly execution. Almost everyone that was accused was tortured

From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging.

; Intriguing medieval Torture-Museum ... ; Executioner's Mask ... In this instructional exhibition you will see: Whipping posts, gallows, stretching ladder, knee screws, breast talons,

Medival punishments may not be something you associate with holidays, yet a new museum has opened in Rudesheim to tell the story of what happened in the Middle Ages and is in fact a fascinating...

; Intriguing medieval Torture-Museum ... ; Executioner's Mask ... In this instructional exhibition you will see: Whipping posts, gallows, stretching ladder, knee screws, breast talons,

Feminist Islam : Force for liberation ... Sexuality is valued in witchcraft as pleasure, as the symbol and embodiment of life and as one of the sources of used in magical practice and religious worship.

Punishments for Witchcraft; Culross, 1684.— Oct. 18th, 1684. Sir . . I shall informe you, with three remarkable Stories which may be attested by famous Witnesses, many of which are yet living.

Each new law represented an updated English understanding of the crime of witchcraft and the punishments appropriate for such an offense.

§ 59. Witchcraft and its Punishment. ... The punishments to be meted out for it were carefully laid down, as also the methods by which witches should be detected and tried. The cases were no

They are blamed for causing illness, death and destruction, prompting some communities to put them through harrowing punishments to "cleanse" them of their supposed magical powers.