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Witch hunts began because many people believed that witches were the main source of evil and bad manner. They blamed many problems on witches such as lack of milk produced from cows, they caused frost to grow over the seeds and they made snails an caterpillars destroy the crops that they needed.

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There were many testaments that neighbours saw them wearing hats when they met together however they didn't usually go out in public with them on. This is most likely because they were trying to blend in and not get executed

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One of the most common ways to torture was sleep deprivation with made them hallucinate and confess answers about their practice.

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There were 5 Great Witch Hunts nationwide throughout the 16th and 17th century. One of these Great Witch Hunts was in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Throughout the Great Scottish Witch Hunt in 1597, 3837 people were accused of being witches and 67% of the accused witches were executed

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Although it wasn't as popular, the last witch to be accused and punished in Scotland was in 1944, however they faced jail time instead of execution.

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A devil's mark is a visible mark that when pricked with a pin is insensitive to the suspect.

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There were many types of evidence that they used against the witches. They used confessions that were usually extracted by torture, they asked the neighbours to testify, asked witches for names of other suspects before they were executed, or the devils mark.

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They were mostly strangled and then burned however, sometimes they were beheaded, burned alive or hung.

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84% of the accused were women and most of them were between the ages of 30 and 70.