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Queen Elizabeth I allowed some persecution of witches during her reign. She passed a new harsher witchcraft Law in 1563. The punishment for witches in England was hanging, not burning at the stake. Also, death was the punishment only for murder by witchcraft; lesser spells were punished by pillory.
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Plagues such as the Bubonic Plague began to break out leading to religioius uncertainty which also led to the beginning of witchcraft.
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The Ramsele witch trial, which took place in 1634, is one of the few known Swedish witch trials before the great witch mania of 1668-1676.In the year of 1634 a man and several women were put on trial in the city of Ramsele in Ångermanland in Norrland in Sweden.
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The Torsåker Witch Trials, the largest single witch-trial in Sweden, took place in Torsåker, a village in central Sweden, in 1675, towards the end of the great Swedish witch hunt of 1668 - 1676
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The Bideford witch trial resulted in the last ever hangings for witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards were tried
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court of trials to prosecute people accused of of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex
