Open Directory - Society: History: By Topic: Social History: Oppression and Intolerance: Witch Hunts
See also: This category in other languages: - A case study of the european witch hunts, c. 1450-1750 and witch hunts today. - Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Boston, 1883, 1-29, 3rd series. - Compiled by I. Marc Carlson. - The story, victims, and movie of the trials of 1664. - Unabridged online republication of the 1928 edition. Introduction to the 1948 edition is also included. Translation, notes, and two introductions by Montague Summers. - An archive of texts and documents. - A collection of articles and some links. - Articles and essays about Europeans' heightened concern with the phenomenon of witchcraft during the early modern era, including materials about specific witch-hunt episodes in Europe and America. - The history of witchcraft and magic is usually concerned with the era of the witch-trials, a period that officially ended in Britain with the passing of the Witchcraft Act of 1736. - A historical archive of witchhunt and witchcraft in Finland, based on studies by Ph.D. Antero Heikkinen, lawyer and historically oriented lawyer and criminologist Timo Kervinen, and Ph.D Marko Nenonen. - Essay examining reports of witches in the Jewish Bible, in the context of the role of women and in relation to the subsequent history of witch hunts in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. - Christian Science Monitor article about the situation of widows in Ghana who are branded as witches and forced to live in isolation. (June 22, 2006)
