AriadneSpider

A site containing a wealth of information including a history of the witch craze of the middle ages as well as beginners guides to magic and magical correspondences.

This website is dedicated to "Dummy" killed by his neighbours in 1863, just for being different, and the thousands of other innocent people accused of WITCHCRAFT. I hope that this site will be of use to students and researchers alike. Burning times, persecution, inquisition

Dedicated to the Iberian Jews (both Spanish and Portuguese) who were imprisoned, persecuted, and brutally slaughtered, by representatives of King Ferdinand, Queen Isabella, and the Office of the Inquisitional Tribunal.

From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Map of Salem in 1692, burning times, persecution, petitions of accused witches

Who were the Perpetrators and their Victims? Is it Still Happening Today? Much has been written by the Pagan community on the period known as "The burning times", the time in history when witches were persecuted by the church. However, not much has been written by Christians. Here is a new article on this subject written from a Christian perspective.

Reference to a historical time from approx. 1000 CE through the 17th century, when over nine million people were tortured and burned by church and public officials, on the assumption that they were Witches. A partial timeline of events and statistics significant mass executions. Links to more conclusive timelines.

Disfigurement, confinement, and instruments used in the inquisition

The concepts of an inquisition and inquisitorial procedure lie deep in the roots of world history. Inquisitions were used during the decline of the Roman Empire until the Spanish Inquisition's decline in the early 1800s. An inquisition can be run by both civil and church authorities in order to root out non-believers from a nation or religion. The Spanish Inquisition was one of the most deadly inquisitions in history.

Online journal devoted to the lore and history of witchcraft. Includes articles, reviews, poetry, fiction, and links.

A comprehensive list of Witch mythology and how those myths apply to popular fiction. Useful for gamers, authors, bibliophiles or people interested in how these things get filtered through the media mindset.

Dialogue from Salem Witch Trial Court Transcripts, an accounting of various people who were tried, list of those who were condemned, a personal accounting of growing up in the shadows of the history of the witch trials and links to very inclusive timelines.