[DOC] [TLE] Witch trials in the early modern period - Wikipedia [PAR] The period of witch trials in Early Modern Europe were a widespread moral panic 
suggesting that malevolent Satanic witches were operating as an organized 
threat to Christendom during the 15th to 18th centuries. ..... In the later 18th 
century, witchcraft had ceased to be considered a criminal offense throughout 
Europe, but... [DOC] [TLE] The Burning Times in The Summerlands [PAR] Historians generally refer to the Burning Times as "the great European Witch hunt
" or ... what life was like for Witches who were accused of diabolism or criminal 
spell casting. ... Worse, by the 15th century some Christian scholars theorized 
that Witches ... But the centers of the persecution killed far more women than men
,... [DOC] [TLE] The Witch Hunts, The Burning Times [PAR] The second century St. Clement of Alexandria wrote: "Every woman should be 
filled .... The eighteenth century founder of Methodism, John Wesley, declared to 
those ... By adding witchcraft to the crimes it persecuted, however, the Inquisition
... [DOC] [TLE] The Burning Times - Wikiquote [PAR] The Burning Times is a 1990 Canadian documentary about the witchcraft trials 
and persecutions that swept Europe in the 15th-17th centuries, the title being a 
term used to refer ... The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also 
always the counselors. ... It was first used by a German historian in the late 18th 
century. [DOC] [TLE] The Burning Times | Way of the Wild Heart [PAR] Oct 14, 2011 ... During the 16th century the rate of persecution and death skyrocketed. ... century 
until they virtually disappeared by the end of the 18th century. ... sexually 
independent and especially beautiful women and criminals all fell under 
suspicion. ... In fact, after the 15th century, witch hunting manuals were being... [DOC] [TLE] Who Burned the Witches? - Catholic Education Resource Center [PAR] In their 1973 book, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, 
... Persecuting suspected witches was not an elite plot against the poor; nor was 
... laws regarding maleficent magic, laws that treated witchcraft as a crime. ... from 
its first center in alpine Italy in the early 15th century, guttering out in Poland,... [DOC] [TLE] Recent Developments in the Study of The Great European Witch Hunt [PAR] The most famous was a craze where 400 women died in one day. ... And if your 
knowledge of the "Burning Times" is based on popular or Pagan literature, ... "
Naturally", therefore, the persecution would be worst when the Church's power ... 
Certainly there were trials in the early modern period (15th-18th centuries), but 
they... [DOC] [TLE] witchcraft facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] These different pictures of the typical witch of the Burning Times or the Great Hunt 
(both terms for the persecutions that peaked in the sixteenth and ... enemies of 
Christianity, defined variously as heretics, Muslims, Jews or possibly witches. ... 
By the eighteenth century, however, fewer educated Europeans believed in... [DOC] [TLE] 10 Weird Facts About Witches | Mental Floss [PAR] Oct 29, 2015 ... Countless women and men were indiscriminately persecuted for witchcraft ... In 
the 15th century, witchcraft was of grave concern to a lot of people, and major ... 
by witch-hunting in Europe that would last well into the 18th century. ... fear to 
commit and perpetrate many other abominable offences and crimes,... [DOC] [TLE] Burning Times - Reclaiming Quarterly [PAR] access to the views of women and the. "common folk. ... scouring the millions of 
criminal trials preserved from ... when the Inquisition defined Witchcraft as a 
heresy. ... 15th century) only had a minor ... dropped sharply as the 17th century 
ended, and they vanished completely in the 18th. ... persecutions of the Burning 
Times. [DOC] [TLE] Witches: Myth and Reality - 456th F.I.S. [PAR] This and other Biblical admonitions and commands both defined the witch and ... 
Hollywood, on the other hand, conjures up images of sexy women with ... came 
about from the 15th to the 18th centuries in the depiction

Question: "Burning Times" refers to the 15th-18th century persecution of women for this crime
Answer: Witchcraft