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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At that time, hundreds of women were burned at the stake for witchcraft .
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People who were accused of practicing witchcraft were thrown into the lake.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For three hundred years the persecution of witchcraft was to continue until the advent of our modern scientific world.
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How do these findings bear upon our earlier discussion of Zande witchcraft ?
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Last May, he said, she erected an altar to witchcraft on his dresser.
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She could try to forget him; she could attempt an exorcism by her particular witchcraft of compulsive denigration.
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Then, widening our focus, we looked at Lugbara witchcraft and the ancestor cult which complements and completes it.
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This theory became the basis for the examination and torture of those suspected of witchcraft .