I'm fascinated by all of the legal references coming up now - I've just
started researching the law relating to this area and I would really like to
follow up the following snippets if anyone can help:-
Curiously in another
> group I frequent, there's been a discussion of the witch trials in Europe,
> and the number of executions/ burnings that resulted.
Can anyone please provide a link of some sort to the above discussion? Is
it relating to past or contemporary events? I'd love to get to the legal
sources.
> Here we still have the
> > Witchcraft Act in place that
> > denies the reality of witchcraft, and rather than
> > prohibiting its practice,
> > makes it illegal to ACCUSE someone of practicing
> > witchcraft. People
> > therefore have no recourse to courts, and the law is
> > taken into their own
> > hands. There have been two witch burnings that I
> > know of in the past few
> > weeks - again in the similarity that most are women,
> > many are elderly,
> > infirm etc.
Sorry - I've lost track of who said this - which country are you speaking
from? Can you give more detail at all?
> Owen Davies has written two
> books based on court records and local press reports
> of 18th and 19th century, full of this kind of thing.
Can you give more detail on this please? Which country? Title of the
books? Grateful for all references.
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