The last witch executed in England was in 1682, where women were hanged, the death penalty of witches in England was then abolished in 1736. Estimates of witches sentenced to death are at about 400, around 90 percent of those sentenced were women.
Although executions of witchcraft have long disappeared from the world, cursing, hexing and causing death by witchcraft still remains powerful and offencive in may nations. Even today i think curses and hexing is still feared, weather people believe in it or not. There are still cults of witchcraft in the world although small and hidden. I think politics and the use of new laws increases fear among people (This applies to anything). if the government implement a new law then most people will abide by these laws, and this increases fear and spread of the superstition of witches. Another factor i think causes fear among people is the unknown, and the fear of what if?
Research:
1.Library. (N/A) Witchcraft in England The Sixteenth
& Seventeenth Centuries. Retrieved from
http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/rare/witchcraft/w-england16&17/w-england16.html 2. SummerLands, Jenny Gibbons (N/A) Stage #9: Sentencing and Execution. Retrieved from http://www.summerlands.com/crossroads/remembrance/_remembrance/sent_execute.htm
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