"witch" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For centuries it was popular to accuse the devil, witches, and warlocks for these be-wildering manifestations.
- They had accused everyone-Jews and witches and the insane.
- It might be noted that about this time the Churches accused witches of 'Raising Storms, Human Sacrifice and Wearing Girdles'.
- As we have seen, the Church similarly accused witches of wearing cords or girdles which have a ritual meaning for them.
- The Church therefore at the time accused witches of raising storms, poisoning wells and other serious crimes - and of wearing girdles!
- Of the twenty men and women accused - amongst them the Pendle witches and the Samlesbury witches - eleven were found guilty and subsequently hanged; one was sentenced to stand in the pillory, and the rest were acquitted.
- I know that accused witches who chose to keep their silence were usually stripped and pressed to death with heavy stones.
- In parallel, a riot took place where people accused witches of abducting children for the black masses, and priests reported that a growing number of people were confessing to poisoning in their confessions.
- The authors accused witches, among other things, of infanticide and having the power to steal men's penises.
- In the Early Modern Period, the Church accused alleged witches of consorting and conspiring with Satan.
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