Friday, 9 November 2012


Witch Hunting

Witch hunting is a hunt for witches and evidence of witchcaft, and this involves moral panic, mass hysteria and lynching. People getting executed due to evidence of witchcraft was last seen in the 18th century. Recent which hunts are said to be reported from Sub-Saharah Africa, India and Papua New Guinea. There were witch trials in the 15th and 16th century, then thewitch scare went into decline, before coming back in the 17th century. People in these times used to find that people were witches by detecting their super natural abilities. Witchcaft usually went on in satanic ritual parties, where naked dancing and cannibalistic infanticite. You would also be convicted of witchcaft for not abiding by the ten commandments.

 

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