This chapter reviews existing literature and all other related documents about the topic; creating an educational material to speak against the false accusation of old women and manhandling of accused witches at Gambaga in the Northern Region of Ghana. This chapter is broadly categorized into three parts; The Concept of Witchcraft, World View on witchcraft and Empirical review. The Concept of Witchcraft tries to understand witchcraft and the Origin of witchcraft. The World View on witchcraft looks
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in a town called Salem. Many theories point out the reasoning for this witch hunt, some say it was due to the belief in evil. Others say, the people in Salem were just acting, or maybe, it was a lack of knowledge. In events like the holocaust, post 9/11, and McCarthyism & the red scare, similar theories can explain the causes.This presents, that the reasons for the Salem witch trials are those same reasons for “witch hunts” throughout history. The belief in evil had a major role in the Salem, Massachusetts
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Mass hysteria is the phenomenon in which a group of people experience similar symptoms of anxiety, fear, or other physical symptoms. A well-known case of mass hysteria in history was the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. This incident was portrayed by the Arthur Miller play The Crucible, in which a group of girls starting falsely accusing multiple women in their town of witchcraft, starting a wave of hysterical fear throughout the village. Neighbors would accuse others of witchcraft over land disputes
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Thomasin was milking a goat, instead of milk it was blood. William ask if Thomasin was a witch. Thomasin was hurt and accused William of being a hypocrite because he let Thomasin take the blame for the silver cup and does not acknowledge that he could not hunt or provide for his family. In The Case of Ann Hibbins, Executed for Witchcraft at Boston 1656, “Search was made upon her body for teats, and
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Between the months of February 1692 and May 1693, a small town in Massachusetts called Salem Village held hearings and persecuted citizens accused of witchcraft. Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, the daughter and niece of Reverend Samuel Parris, engaged in a ritual in the woods and fell ‘ill’ a few days later. They experienced unusual fits that included screaming, throwing things and contorting themselves into odd positions. The minister of a nearby town believed it was the result of witchcraft
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THE WITCHES HAMMER The Witches Hammer (the Malleus Maleficarum) is an infamous document in history. According to Hatcliff in the Magical Circle School Resource Library Malleus Maleficarum is “Latin for Hammer of the Witches or Der Hexenhammer in German”. The main purpose of this document is to negate those that claimed that witchcraft did not exist. Another purpose of the Witches Hammer was to educate those in power on the ways to seek out, interrogate, convict, and torture alleged witches. Guiley
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Vulnerability to a Witch Hunt The fact is that Salem, Massachusetts is all about God and doing God’s work, yet they are believing a bunch of young girls and hanging people without evidence. People believed whoever the person before could blame, no one ever would think of anyone possibly lying or acting? If making a city vulnerable to a witch trial could be easy, Salem and the people living there definitely caused it. In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”, religion, personal vendettas, and human faults
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The Salem Witch Trials was one of the most phenomenal events that had ever occur in history, that lead to which is now still a mystery on how it happened. During the 1600s, immigrants from England came over to a part of North America, which is known as New England. They were called the Puritans. Puritans were Protestant Christians that were upset with churches in England. Their arrival to Colonial Massachusetts was the purpose of starting a new life. The life of the Puritans revolved around religion
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The Spring of 1962 began a dark and terrifying time in the history of the American colonies. The well-know Salem witch trials began when a group of girls were diagnosed with bewitchment after showing symptoms of uncontrollable outbursts of screaming and contortions. These symptoms spread to other young girls in the community and most likely were caused by other reasons that could have included epilepsy, child abuse, mental illness or even a disease caused by eating rye bread infected with fungus
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Ever since the dawn of time, people have sought out revenge on others. The Salem Witch Trials and the Holocaust are both events in which people sought revenge on other people, mostly for no reason. Some wanted eradication of witchcraft, while others another human race. The trials began during the spring of 1692, after the group of girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local woman of witchcraft.(Salem Witch Trials) The first convicted
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