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590:"In Owen Davies's reconstruction of events, a change in attitudes occurred at the opening of the nineteenth century, as members of the social elite came to perceive that a faith in magic seemed to be as prevalent among the populace as it had been a hundred years before, even while a growing political turbulence among commoners gave their rulers a new interest in the idea of education and civility as stabilizing forces. Ignorance, superstition, criminality and insurrection seemed increasingly to make up a single package, and one result of this realization was a growing number of prosecutions under the 1735 Act and then considerably more under
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337:. Erskine not only fervently believed in the existence of witchcraft, but, it has been argued, also held beliefs that were deeply rooted in "Scottish political and religious considerations" and which caused him to reject the Act. His objection to the Act "marked him out as an eccentric verging on the insane" among Members of Parliament, and in turn his political opponents would use it against him; one of his staunchest critics,
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563:"The responsibility of all men of authority was reversed. Instead of instigating the scratching or swimming of a witch, the justice of the peace now turned to censuring those who took it upon themselves to perform such actions. Instead of overseeing the weighing of witches against the church Bible, Anglican clergyman now preached that the mother of all witches, the
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parliamentary debates, meaning that there is a lack of archival material on the parliamentary debate on the implementation of the Act. According to Davies, it appears that the Act "generated only a modicum of debate" within
Parliament, with several amendments being suggested in both the House of Commons and the
377:, whose sinking was hidden from the general public at the time. After being caught faking a spiritual manifestation, she was arrested during a seance and indicted with seven punishable counts: two of conspiracy to contravene the Witchcraft Act 1735, two of obtaining money by false pretences, and three of
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which were originally based in an intolerance toward practitioners of magic but became mired in contested
Christian doctrine and superstitious witch-phobia. Instead of assuming as the earlier laws did that witches were real and had real magical power derived from pacts with Satan, the new law assumed
265:(1484), but with far less success among the bishops. Thus the Act of 1735 reflected the general trend in Europe, where after a peak around 1600, and a series of outbursts in the late 17th century, witch-trials quickly subsided after 1700. The last person executed for witchcraft in Great Britain was
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An Act to repeal the statute made in the first year of the reign of King James the First, intitutled, An Act against conjuration, witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked spirits, except so much thereof as repeals an Act of the fifth year of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, Against conjurations,
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on 24 March and came into effect on 24 June. In the words of Davies (1999), the new law meant that witchcraft was "no longer to be considered a criminal act, but rather an offence against the country's newly enlightened state". Up until 1772, it was illegal for the newspapers to report on
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inchantments and witchcrafts, and to repeal, an Act passed in the parliament of
Scotland in the ninth parliament of Queen Mary, intituled, Anentis witchcrafts, and for punishing such persons as pretend to exercise or use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, inchantment, or conjuration.
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was jailed under the
Witchcraft Act 1735 on the grounds that she had claimed to summon spirits. Her followers often contend that her imprisonment was in fact at the behest of superstitious military intelligence officers, who feared that she would reveal the secret plans for
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Witchcraft Act 1735 was frequently invoked in the early years of the 19th century in an attempt by the political elite to root out "ignorance, superstition, criminality and insurrection" among the general populace, and even more so under the
567:, was nothing but a mere impostor. The fight was now not against the evil of witchcraft, but, instead, against the evil influence which such 'ignorant' and 'superstitious delusions' had on the minds of the uneducated masses.
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prime minister of the country, allegedly stated that he no longer considered
Erskine to be a serious political threat as a result of his embarrassing opposition to the Act.
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240:. With this, the law abolished the hunting and executions of witches in Great Britain. The maximum penalty set out by the Act was a year's imprisonment.
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381:(a common law offence). She spent nine months in prison. Duncan has been frequently described as the last person to be convicted under the Act.
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Another candidate for the last person convicted under the Act was
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539:Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951
245:witch trials in the Early Modern period
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2028:Witch trials in the Holy Roman Empire
1801:Witch trials in early modern Scotland
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1348:Gormshuil Mhòr na Maighe (aka Gormla)
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626:Chambers, Vanessa (24 January 2007),
209:Text of statute as originally enacted
1880:Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–62
1870:Great Scottish witch hunt of 1649–50
2709:Legal history of the United Kingdom
2681:Witchcraft Act 1735 (Great Britain)
2399:Amersfoort and Utrecht witch trials
905:Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham
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243:It thus marks the end point of the
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2540:De Lamiis et Pythonicis Mulieribus
2138:Witch trials in Estonia and Latvia
1781:Witchcraft in early modern Britain
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1835:Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597
959:Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
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1806:Witchcraft in early modern Wales
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1035:Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
701:Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin (1992).
423:Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957
410:, largely at the instigation of
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2371:Witch trials in the Netherlands
2062:Pappenheimer family witch trial
785:Newton, John; Bath, Jo (2008).
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297:A portrait of James Erskine by
2524:Summis desiderantes affectibus
2317:Navarre witch trials (1525–26)
2216:Vardø witch trials (1651–1653)
788:Witchcraft and the Act of 1604
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1846:Northamptonshire witch trials
1150:Northamptonshire witch trials
954:Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
654:"Obituary of Thomas Brooks".
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172:Statute Law Revision Act 1867
2659:accusations against children
2564:The Discoverie of Witchcraft
2011:Trial of the Wizards of Lyon
1864:Bury St Edmunds witch trials
1786:Channel Islands Witch Trials
1659:Last person imprisoned under
1180:Bury St Edmunds witch trials
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1981:Aix-en-Provence possessions
869:Anglo-Saxon metrical charms
660:. London. 17 February 1958.
545:Manchester University Press
408:Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951
305:Initially presented to the
184:Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951
39:Parliament of Great Britain
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2588:Daemonolatreiae libri tres
2435:Liechtenstein witch trials
2116:Witch trial of Fuersteneck
1976:Labourd witch-hunt of 1609
1829:North Berwick witch trials
1428:George and Lachlan Rattray
1298:Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis
1120:North Berwick witch trials
974:Society of the Inner Light
725:Crime in England 1688-1815
609:"Witchcraft Act charges".
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2290:Witch trials in Portugal
2104:Mergentheim witch trials
2098:Baden-Baden witch trials
1866:(1645, 1662, 1655, 1694)
1700:Witches' Well, Edinburgh
309:on 27 January 1735/6 by
234:Kingdom of Great Britain
97:Territorial extent
2556:De praestigiis daemonum
2508:De maleficis mulieribus
2405:Bredevoort witch trials
2352:Witch trial of Nogaredo
2233:Kastelholm witch trials
2169:Copenhagen witch trials
2148:Witch trials in Iceland
2143:Witch trials in Finland
2133:Witch trials in Denmark
2050:Rottenburg witch trials
2044:Wiesensteig witch trial
1926:Witch trials in Hungary
1909:Islandmagee witch trial
1791:Witch trials in England
1230:Islandmagee witch trial
879:Cunning folk in Britain
743:Gibson, Marion (2006).
484:Oxford University Press
459:Interpretation Act 1978
2612:Compendium Maleficarum
2604:Magical Investigations
2495:(8th–2nd centuries BC)
2311:Mirandola witch trials
2295:Witch trials in Sicily
2158:Witch trials in Sweden
2153:Witch trials in Norway
2110:Esslingen witch trials
2080:Eichstätt witch trials
2038:Derenburg witch trials
1971:Witch trials in France
1931:Witch trials in Poland
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579:Newton & Bath 2008
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414:through the agency of
394:Central Criminal Court
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126:24 June 1736
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2464:Maryland Witch Trials
2429:Salzburg witch trials
2346:Terrassa witch trials
2300:Witch trials in Spain
2280:Witch trials in Italy
2251:Katarina witch trials
2245:Torsåker witch trials
2221:Kirkjuból witch trial
2198:Akershus witch trials
2086:Würzburg witch trials
2074:Ellwangen witch trial
2033:Rottweil Witch Trials
2005:Affair of the Poisons
1999:Normandy witch trials
1954:Doruchowo witch trial
1130:Aberdeen witch trials
722:Cox, David J (2014).
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2411:Roermond witch trial
2381:Stedelen witch trial
2334:Witches of Laspaúles
2210:Rosborg witch trials
2187:Finspång witch trial
2092:Bamberg witch trials
1993:Louviers possessions
1891:Bideford witch trial
1796:Witchcraft in Orkney
1774:In the British Isles
1200:Bideford witch trial
969:Ordo Templi Orientis
874:Anglo-Saxon paganism
257:Council of Paderborn
2572:Newes from Scotland
2532:Malleus Maleficarum
2393:Geneva witch trials
2387:Valais witch trials
2340:Basque witch trials
2263:Thisted witch trial
2257:Rugård witch trials
2204:Ramsele witch trial
2175:Gyldenstierne-sagen
2163:Põlula witch trials
1948:Szeged witch trials
1663:Witchcraft Act 1735
1535:Neopagan witchcraft
1328:Issobell Fergussone
581:, pp. 224–225.
361:In September 1943,
341:, who was then the
321:, the Act received
218:Witchcraft Act 1735
162:Witchcraft Act 1603
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22:Witchcraft Act 1735
2476:Salem witch trials
2322:Lisbon witch trial
2273:In Southern Europe
2227:Vardø witch trials
2126:In Northern Europe
2068:Fulda witch trials
2056:Trier witch trials
1987:Loudun possessions
1903:Pittenweem witches
1858:Witches of Belvoir
1852:Samlesbury witches
1823:Witches of Warboys
1516:Christian Caldwell
1393:Euphame MacCalzean
1293:Katherine Campbell
1220:Pittenweem witches
1170:Witches of Belvoir
1160:Samlesbury witches
1110:Witches of Warboys
1050:Austin Osman Spare
1040:Madeline Montalban
421:The South African
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1686:and museums
1418:Mary Pannal
1368:Janet Horne
1253:Lilias Adie
1079:In Scotland
1055:A. E. Waite
547:. pp.
451:short title
427:Cape Colony
390:Forest Gate
267:Janet Horne
179:Repealed by
2698:Categories
2666:Drudenhaus
2654:Witch-hunt
2362:Elsewhere
2328:Benandanti
2021:In Germany
1652:witchcraft
1622:Sybil Leek
1403:Violet Mar
1378:Mary Hicks
1071:witchcraft
1045:Alan Moore
1030:James Lees
855:Folk magic
849:in Britain
847:witchcraft
682:19 October
640:29 October
486:. p.
433:References
398:bound over
238:witchcraft
230:Parliament
190:Relates to
168:Amended by
145:1951-06-22
130:1736-06-24
47:Long title
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1693:Monuments
1684:Monuments
1483:Jane Weir
1453:Anna Tait
1343:Maud Galt
1333:John Fian
1134:1596–1597
1114:1589–1593
1025:Phil Hine
988:Magicians
898:Magicians
791:. BRILL.
676:Quackdown
657:The Times
612:The Times
598:. p. 107.
438:Footnotes
372:HMS
269:in 1727.
1573:Neopagan
1543:Variants
1084:In Wales
1010:John Dee
889:Nicnevin
862:Variants
636:, London
535:(1999).
474:(1999).
343:de facto
222:9 Geo. 2
138:Repealed
63:9 Geo. 2
58:Citation
2647:Related
1714:Museums
1582:Artemis
1575:witches
1303:Meg Dow
1246:witches
1244:Accused
273:History
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