Witch-hunts Around the World

The witch hunts are best to be defined as it being a way of searching for women who use any kind of harmful magic or rituals to kill or get revenge on anybody. A question that seemingly gets asked is “witch-hunting , woman- hunting ?” to answer this it’s very hard to but according to this article, we can say that about 80 percent of those accused of witchcraft in the European witch hunts of the 16th and 17th century were women. At the same time, we can say according to this article, that most of them were considered to being males.

The main article Modern Witch Hunts is mostly telling stories about certain places where witch hunting has occurred the majority is in Africa, it gives time stamps and dates as well. A way to improve this section can be by adding more recent information from today's century. This article mentions how this is still a sad tragedy for many women that are being accused of being a witch. They get beaten or killed all the time for being accused of something they are not, for example, Akua Denteh was beaten to death after being accused of being witch. These recent actions leaded to declaring August 10 as a World Day against Witch-hunts.

In Britain we actually see witch hunts occur and lead to many disasters. According to this article, most supposed witches were usually old women, and invariably poor. These witches struggled to make it out alive, they were being tortured and killed by men. Some of these poor women weren't even considered being under the witch category, rumors were the fact that got these poor women killed. Men would believe the lies they will tell each other and not hesitate to even ask if it's true or not. Besides the rumors, they were also certain tests that told them if they were a witch. For example, Mary Sutton was a victim in one of these tests. The swimming test determined whether or not she was guilty or not. If she sank she was not guilty but if she floated on the water she was considered guilty. The poor woman floated and got killed. When Queen Elizabeth I’s death passed in 1603, many believed that no one was going to be able to rule. According to this article, that’s not true the next ruler became James VI of Scotland, which was a man. He was serious about witch-hunting and he did everything possible to get rid of all the witches that might be doing the works of Satan.

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