European Witch Trials

Websites:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/Ftrials/salem/witchhistory.html

European Witch trials happened all over Europe; there is evidence in witch hunts or persecution as early as 560BC, in a book written by Jews to describe what they thought was a witch or how to find one. During the 1400s, the witch craze was raging; many of the Catharism were sought after, attacked, and accused of being a witch. Many who feared prosecution would fee to Germany and Savoy, where they were still arrested and tortured. Most, who were accused, would be tortured until they confessed their ‘crime’; mostly the crime of witchcraft would be associated with the demon who would take over the bodies and do horrible things. Then Pope Innocent the III, announced that the devil was in Germany.
The early 1500s, due to the effect of mass fear, more than 500 were burned at the stalk in Switzerland and more than 1000 were burned in Italy. Once the Protestant Reformation was developed, it’s take on witchcraft was no less of the Catholic Church. In France, a man said he had more than 100, 000 witches running around the forest under his control. Throughout Europe witch craze, it was more than 80% of the ones who were accused of witchcraft were women. In Scotland, King James begun his witch craze after his marriage to Princess Anne, After many horrible accident on the sea , all the blame was on six women, who they said used witch craft to start the storms.