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english witch hunts, 1486 Malleus Maleficarum is published - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Queen Elizabeth I
        killing people by witchcraft was punishable by death
        Harming people or goods, using witchcraft to find lost goods, use witchcraft to provoke love or any other purpose
        1 year imprisonment for first offence, death for the second
        
        A group of catholic plotters had been discovered using sorcery against her protestant regime and needed to try them
        Secular law now dominated
      - 1576 Elizabethan witch hunts
        
        1585 Samuel Harsnett
        
        1590s
        
        1604 act
        
        1604 Gunter Case
        
        Ann Gunter started having fits and accused three women of witchcraft
        1605 these fits were exposed as being fake
        Ann confessed to Harsnett that she faked the fits at her father's request
        
        1612 Lancashire trials
        
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        Made injuring people a capital offence on the first conviction
        made capital using dead bodies or parts for witchcraft
        Imposed the death penalty for people that consult covenant with evil spirits
        
        Whitgift
        Arminianism
        avoided popery and extreme protestantism -- encouraged tolerance
        Anglican hierarchy was becoming more sceptical about demonic possession
        
        Declared that there were natural explanations for possessions and exorcisms
        
        Discovery of a plot to kill Queen
        Privy council launched a full investigation
        The government's panic led to local panic especially in essex.
- - - - 1625-1631 Wurzburg
        
        1654 Iceland
        
        1669-70 normandy
        
        1692 Salem