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Witchcraft Acts

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c. 5) marked a complete reversal in attitudes. Penalties for the practice of witchcraft as traditionally constituted, which by that time was considered by many influential figures to be an impossible crime, were replaced by penalties for the pretence of witchcraft. A person who claimed to have the
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Indictments for homicide caused by witchcraft begin to appear in the historical record in the period following the passage of the 1563 Act. Out of the 1,158 homicide victims identified in the surviving records, 228 or 20.6% were suspected of being killed by witchcraft. By comparison, poison was
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regime passed a series of acts to enforce godliness in 1649, which made capital offences of blasphemy, the worship of false gods and for beaters and cursers of their parents. They also passed a new witchcraft act that ratified the existing act of 1563 and extended it to deal with consulters of
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Witchcraft Act 1563, enacted effective 4 June 1563, both the practice of witchcraft and consulting with witches were capital offences. This Act remained on Scottish statute books until it was repealed as a result of a House of Lords amendment to the bill for the
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Acts and laws, passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of Their Majesties province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England. Begun at Boston, the eighth day of June, 1692. And continued by adjournment, unto Wednesday the twelfth day of October
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once per quarter. This was also the penalty for a first offence of using witchcraft to "discover hidden treasure, ... or stolen goods, or to provoke unlawful love"; for a second such offence, it was
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were a historical succession of governing laws in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British colonies on penalties for the practice, or—in later years—rather for pretending to practice
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The Acts of Elizabeth and James changed the law of witchcraft by making it a felony, thus removing the accused from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the courts of
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Kesselring, K.(2016-05-12). ‘Murder’s Crimson Badge’: Homicide in the Age of Shakespeare. In The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare. : Oxford University Press.
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J. R. Young, "The Covenanters and the Scottish Parliament, 1639-51: the rule of the godly and the 'second Scottish Reformation'", E. Boran and C. Gribben, eds,
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suspected in only 31 of the cases. Out of the 157 people accused of killing with witchcraft, roughly half were acquitted. Only nine of the accused were men.
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and the Commission of the Kirk lobbied for the enforcement and extension of the Witchcraft Act 1563, which had been the basis of previous witch trials. The
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An Act to repeal an Act, made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, against Witchcraft and Sorcery
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power to call up spirits, or foretell the future, or cast spells, or discover the whereabouts of stolen goods, was to be punished as a
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The Witchcraft Act 1735 remained in force in Britain well into the 20th century, until its eventual repeal with the enactment of the
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Religious tensions in England during the 16th and 17th centuries resulted in the introduction of serious penalties for witchcraft.
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and others to bring the penalty of death without benefit of clergy to any one who invoked evil spirits or communed with
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Possessed By the Devil: The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches and Ireland's Only Mass Witchcraft Trial
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An Act, Against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits, passed by the
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The Witchcraft Act 1603 was employed in the British American colonies, e.g., in the trial of
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died during her 1661 trial; Marion Fisher's 1655 conviction was overturned by Sir
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An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked spirits.
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of South Africa, which is still in force, was based on the Witchcraft Act 1735.
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An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked spirits
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Gibson, Marion (2006), "Witchcraft in the Courts", in Gibson, Marion (ed.),
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Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740
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following an EU directive targeting unfair sales and marketing practices.
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The Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts
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Treatises on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants
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The Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 was repealed on 26 May 2008 by new
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An Act against Conjurations, Witchcrafts, Sorcery and Inchantments.
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An Act Against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts.
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Anent the using of witchcraftis sorsarie and necromancie.
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Witchcraft And Society in England And America, 1550–1750
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Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550-1700
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Anentis Witchcraftis, "The Scottish witchcraft act."
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Witchcraft Act 1586
witchcraft
Parliament of England
Long title
Citation
33 Hen. 8
Royal assent
Repealed by
Statute Law Revision Act 1863
Text of statute as originally enacted
Henry VIII's
33 Hen. 8
benefit of clergy
statute
Edward VI
Parliament of England
Long title
Citation
5 Eliz. 1
Royal assent
Repealed by
Witchcraft Act 1603
Text of statute as originally enacted
5 Eliz. 1
Elizabeth I
Parliament of Scotland
Long title
Citation
Scottish
union

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