![]() ![]() There was a strong belief then that witches made pacts with the devil. The cumulative concept of witchcraft pointed immediately to the devil, the source of the magic and the one most witches adored. ![]() ![]() The intellectual foundations of the hunts were attributed to the witch’s face-to-face pact with the devil and the periodic meetings of witches to engage in practices considered to be barbaric and heinous. The cause of most of these hunts is the multi-causal approach, which sees the emergence of new ideas about witches and changes in the criminal law statutes.īoth point to major religious changes and a lot of social tension among society. Sometimes professional witch-hunters carried on the task, but judicial authorities performed most. The hunts were not prisoner escapee type hunts but rather a hunt that involved the identification of individuals who were believed to be engaged in a secret activity. The causes of witch-hunting have been sometimes in publications portrayed differently from reality. Levack focuses mainly on the circumstances from which the witch-hunts emerged, as this report will examine. The book offers a solid, reasonable interpretation of the accusation, prosecution, and execution for witchcraft in Europe between 14. The Witch-Hunt in Modern Europe by Brian Levack proved to be an interesting as well as insightful look at the intriguing world of the European practice of witchcraft and witch-hunts. ![]()
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