After Susilaben and her sisters-in-law were attacked as witches, they sought ANANDI`s help and discovered that they were not the only women in Dahod suffering accusations of witchcraft. Another woman, Ranjuben, was there and said she had been accused of being a Dakan when a one-year-old girl died in her village. “She was sick for a long time, a year, I think. But they said, `You ate them,` and a mob came and beat me,” she recalls. Another woman, Ushaben, said she was called a witch when she asked a man to repay a loan. Following the example of the Bihar Act, the newly independent state of Jharkhand drafted its own law in 2001. She was acquitted by Maria Theresa in 1758, ending the witch trials in Croatia. [96] [97] On May 21, 2008, it was reported that a mob in Kenya had burned at least 11 people accused of witchcraft. [157] The villagers reported that the witch seekers were always right, because the witches they found were always the people the village feared all along. The Bamucapi used a mixture of Christian and indigenous religious traditions to explain their powers, saying that God (without specifying which god) helped them prepare their medicine. In addition, any witches who did not attend the meal to be identified would later be held accountable by their master, who had risen from the dead and used drums to force the witches to go to the cemetery where they would die. Richards noticed that the Bamucapi created the sense of danger in the villages by gathering all the horns of the village, whether they were used for anti-witchcraft spells, potions, snuff or black magic vessels. And we established respect for witchcraft and lybacs [pronounced lyblac “witchcraft”] and morthdaeds [“murder, mortal sin”]: if anyone were to be killed by it, and he could not deny that he was responsible in his life.

But if he wants to deny it, and will be guilty of a threefold examination; that he was in prison for 120 days, then let relatives take him out and give the king 120 shillings, and pay the throw to his parents, and enter Borh for him, so that he could refrain more and more from doing the same. [37] The Hebrew Bible condemns witchcraft. Deuteronomy 18:10-12 says, “There shall be no one among you who passes a son or daughter through the fire, who practices prophecy, or who is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or casts spells, or consults spirits, or seeks oracles from the dead. For whoever does this is despicable to the Lord”; and 2. Moses 22:18 prescribes, “Thou shalt not permit a witch to live.” [20] Stories such as that of 1 Samuel 28, which record how Saul “cut off from the land those with familiar spirits and sorcerers,”[21] suggest that witchcraft could at least lead to exile in practice. Witch hunts began in North America, while Hopkins hunted witches in England. In 1645, forty-six years before the infamous Salem witch trials, Springfield, Massachusetts, witnessed the first allegations of witchcraft in America when husband and wife Hugh and Mary Parsons accused each other of witchcraft. In the first witch trial in America, Hugh was found innocent while Mary was acquitted of witchcraft, but she was still sentenced to be hanged as punishment for the death of her child.

She died in prison. [67] About eighty people in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in England have been accused of witchcraft; Thirteen women and two men were executed in a witch hunt that took place throughout New England and lasted from 1645 to 1663. [66] Salem witch trials followed in 1692-1693. Perhaps the most famous witch trial in history was that of Joan of Arc. Although the trial was politically motivated and the verdict was later overturned, Joan`s position as a woman and accused witch became an important factor in her execution. [46] Joan`s punishment for being burned alive (victims were usually strangled before being burned) was reserved exclusively for witches and heretics, meaning that a burned body could not be revived on the day of judgment. [46] Violence against women related to witchcraft includes death by dowry, genital mutilation, murder, rape, and female foeticide, and it is very evident that these crimes are on the rise and visible through records and reports. It is important to note that the practice of witch-hunting is acceptable for cultural and ethnic reasons and is not censored as a violent activity.

The Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China, in 1995, affirmed the importance of women`s human rights worldwide. The discussion clearly showed why violence against women should be condemned and declared a violation of human rights. The last execution of a witch in the Dutch Republic probably dates back to 1613. [89] In Denmark, this happened in 1693 with the execution of Anna Palles[90] and in Norway, the last witch execution was by Johanne Nilsdatter in 1695,[91] and in Sweden Anna Eriksdotter in 1704.

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