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The Last Witches of England

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Witch Hunts Stopp Could They Have Spread?

How could they have spread? I mean, we see sometimes these hunts. Well, ve see famous in salem, in new england, but they seem to have a kind of a pandemic effect. If you look at the salem outbreak, who are they talking to? They're talking to their family and relations and their business partners,. So people like winthrop are reading all this new trial literature. The fact it doesn't really happen tas an outbreak at paisley is really the fact that he blows his hand on the scaffold. He tries to get a final confession out of temperance lloyd, that might have made his name as the sort of detector of witchcraft

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