Witch Hunt – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:46:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Witch Hunt – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Witch Trials in Early Modern Europe and New England https://brewminate.com/witch-trials-in-early-modern-europe-and-new-england/ Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:50:54 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=144973 The height of the witch frenzy was marked by the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum (“Hammer of Witches”).

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]]> The European Witch-Hunts, 1450-1750 https://brewminate.com/the-european-witch-hunts-1450-1750/ Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:50:34 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=144962 The witch-hunts of early modern Europe took place against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, and religious transformation.

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]]> Witch-Hunts, Theocracies, and Hypocrisy: McCarthyism in ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Susannah’ https://brewminate.com/witch-hunts-theocracies-and-hypocrisy-mccarthyism-in-the-crucible-and-susannah/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 18:29:25 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=112967 For the source of his story, Arthur Miller looked back to the Salem witch trials of 1692. In

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