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    In England, witch trials were conducted from the 15th century until the 18th century. They are estimated to have resulted in the death of perhaps 500 people...
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    and one at York – make the trials unusual for England at that time. It has been estimated that all the English witch trials between the early 15th and...
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    Gaelic: buidseachd) took place as part of a series of witch trials in Early Modern Europe. In the late middle age there were a handful of prosecutions...
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    The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May...
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    witch trials Asten witch trial (in Dutch) Basque witch trials Bideford witch trial Bredevoort witch trials Derenburg witch trials Islandmagee witch trial...
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    than all the other witch-hunters in England of the previous 160 years, and were solely responsible for the increase in witch trials during those years...
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    Berwick witch trials were the trials in 1590 of a number of people from East Lothian, Scotland, accused of witchcraft in the St Andrew's Auld Kirk in North...
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    Edmunds witch trials were a series of trials conducted intermittently between the years 1599 and 1694 in the town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England. Two...
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  • Kirkjuból witch trial was a witch trial that took place in Kirkjuból in 1656, in what is today Ísafjörður, in Iceland. It is the most famous witch trial in Iceland...
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