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A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. The classical period of witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America took place in the Early Modern period or about 1450 to 1750, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in an estimated 35,000 to 50,000 executions.

Before, the witch hunt was mainly linked to religion, however over time the motives have changed. The best-known punishments in the Middle Ages were public humiliation, death or burning.

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men).

This trial is one of the best known because it shows the absurdity of this witch hunt. Indeed these witches were condemned because they were in the forest at night, an act considered normal today. This is even more shocking because they were very young.

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