aiming anything other than the air. The tip of the wand will shoot out a green light and explode across the room. This will cause the room to illuminate and the hidden things like secret doors, platforms, and such hidden by a dark magic will be revealed. But this magic will only take effect in a limited time until the spell fades out.
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In January 1692, The daughter Elizabeth Parris and the niece Abigail Williams of the minister of salem village randomly started having screaming and violent outbursts. The doctor diagnosed them with being controlled by witches. After they have been diagnosed other females started mimicking the same symptoms that the two girls had. The young girls accused a caribbean slave, Tituba, and other women of using witch spells on them. Years latter it was revealed they were lying, and Abigail Williams were
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Although some believe that the rites performed by Gardnerian Wiccans are evil, they are the opposite and usually a practice of great love and trust. A magickal rite begins, remains and ends with perfect love and perfect trust. It is the key to the magickal workings and the religion. A circle is opened by the high priestess and the high priest. It is first cleansed from any negative energy to ensure the magick is pure. Only if perfect love and perfect trust are established between all coveners can
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Ryan Hasenbeck American Experience Family Feud in Salem In 1692, nineteen people were tried and executed as witches and hundreds more spent months in jail as accused witches. No one knows what exactly caused these Salem Witch Trials, but there are many theories ranging from the most ignored girls of Salem wanting power to actual witchcraft. The most likely theory about these trials however, is that there was a rivalry in Salem politics. Two families, the Putnams and the Porters dominated Salem
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of Voodoo. It is commonly believed that Voodoo is solely black magic; concerned with satanic rituals and terrifying dolls made to mirror victims and then used for torture. This is due to the misrepresentation of the practice shown in movies, discussed on social media, or even communicated to others verbally. Voodoo is actually a religion made up of Catholic, African, and Native American practices rather than a dastardly form of magic. Of course there will always be individuals with ill intents no
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The salem witch trials occurred between 1692 and 1693. They took place in the colonial Salem in Massachusetts. In total there was one hundred and forty-one people put in prison, nineteen were hanged and one person was even crushed to death. These trials were performed to find out what individuals in the colony were practicing witchcraft. Of the nineteen who were hanged fourteen were women and five were men. Some of the individuals that were in jail died before serving their time. When the bewitchings
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The Salem Witch Trials of the 1690’s and the Red Scare of the 1950’s are connected in many different ways. Even though they were a very long time apart they do have some similar aspects. During the two periods many people lost their lives, were thrown in jail or tortured all because of false accusations. Many innocent people had their lives ruined when they did not deserve it. During the Salem Witch Trials they were accusing people of being witches. They had many different ways to help identify
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In Stamford Connecticut 1692 a crisis broke out, a seventeen-year-old maid servant began to have intense fits and terrors claiming she was bewitched. Katherine Branch, the young maid servant for Daniel and Abigail Wescot continued to have intense fits and episodes. Young Katherine during many of her fits would suddenly collapse, cry out she was being poked and pinched by invisible creatures and also cry in a helpless terror. As the fits continued to happen they increasingly became worse and drew
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In Salem, Massachusetts there was a massive witch hunt where a lot of people were either hanged or put in jail. It all started when Reverend Parris finds his daughter and his niece Abigail in the woods, dancing with other girls while Tituba is conjuring up spirits . Abigail lied to her uncle about the conjuring and then slowly she slipped out details and snitches on Tituba for conjuring spirits . Then Tituba confessed and asked for forgiveness just so she wouldn’t be hanged. With this being said
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From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries were people superstitious, in D16 Physician Bertrand blamed God for bringing such a disease, fearful, in D13 an English bureaucrat, Samuel Pepys, claimed that people were afraid to buy wigs, inferring that people believed anything was a carrier of the disease, and people took advantage of the people below them, an example being D4 Heirs payed lowerclassmen to smear the town gates with an ointment contaminated with the disease, in order to receive their
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