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Witch Hunting- A century of murder

FROM 15TH CENTURY TO THE 17TH CENTURY IS THE PERIOD OF WITCH TRIALS AND MURDERS over three centuries powerful people use superstition, to satisfy their political agendas and to suppress women, they normalized brutality and murders in England in the name of the witch hunt. The estimated death was between 500-1000 people of which 90 percent were women. the intense stage of witch-hunting was during the civil war and puritan era in the mid-17th century.   Witchcraft - real or superstitious? witchcraft had been illegal since 1563, over centuries people mostly women were accused, tortured, and killed. so many innocents were wrongly accused and punished, the majority of them elderly women, some middle-aged, and a few teenagers. The witch trials were based on some superstitious proof, It says, the suspect must have an unusual scar or birthmark a boil or growth, or even own a cat or other pet, or based on their appearance and style( looks like evil or witch familiar) all these points w