The Rise of the Witchcraft Craze in 17th Century Britain

The rise of British magic frenzy of the 17th century The accusation of British magic traces dates back to the year 900, but at the end of the late 16th century Europe and the late 17th century the accusations of the murder reached a climax. Germany and Scotland have the highest divorce rate, an estimated 4,000 witches in Scotland and 26,000 women in Germany died (Gibbons). The background of the British Inquisition is that new ideas compete with the established tradition, which creates a sense of chaos and religious hysteria among the public.

The 17th century was the cornerstone of the European witch boom and many people were executed for magic and persecuted. About 85 percent of the people executed by magic was women, and this fanaticism lasted in Europe until the beginning of the 20th century. Loss of life is very serious, so some researchers call it the Holocaust. Does this kind of magic hysteria reduce that number? No they become so violent that they will be executed. The majority of the people executed were women, and the massive attack on this woman meant genocide, a person who focused on gender rather than religion and ethnicity. Reform In Europe, women are considered witches to most people. More than 80% of witches are executed in France and Germany, 92% in women in the UK and 95% in Russia are executed (Trevor 214).

Although few people fully understand the magic boom that swept across Europe during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, this is not just a superstition. If you dislike is dead and you are accused of murder by magic, that witch does not exist or you assert that you do not think it is useless. Magic is considered to exist in the law - more or less, and many superstitions are so. In the 17th century, many of them were replaced by scientific theory. The ancient idea that the sun was going around the earth was finally refuted by Galileo. In the face of life-threatening people, they only prayed to God for health in 1600, and now chooses to see a doctor. But most importantly, people are confident in science in general. When published in 1687, few people could understand books such as Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton.