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All of these ideas connect to the devil and Tom Walker by describing an unseen factor in the story. All these topics describe the people and how they were feeling why are the events of the Devil and Tom Walker we’re going on. It gives them a reason for why they didn’t really care about Tom Walker‘s disappearance or try to hunt for his wife. Yes he went Tom Walker went to hunt for his wife he didn’t ask anybody else for help. Everyone at the time was very quick to pull the trigger on an accusation. Anything you did that slightly made you look like a witch would probably get you accused. These are set Tom Walker to walk into the woods at night alone, which is a particularly dangerous situation. It also gave the author a quick assumption that the people could to link toms disappearance.

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Before 1500, Witch Hunts were uncommon and only one to three people would be accused.  Larger Witch Hunts began to become more and more common place in England.  Dozens to Hundreds of people would be accused and rarely hundreds would be executed.  Often times in regions with religious tensions they would use Witch Hunts to relieve them, they often targeted the Imposverished, Jewish groups, and Gypsies.

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By the time WitchCraft in England mostly thinned out, some 200,000 witches were tortured and killed. Most Witches of time were old woman with sunken in skin and snuggle tooth sets of teeth. In the History of WitchCraft in England there are mostly strikes of mass killings of witches instead of gradually killing of witches. This is mainly because of the idea witches in a town made people anxious. These people would then accuse people of being a witch with minimal reason then pressuring legal action, then starting a chain reaction of accusations.

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Demonology is the way the Elite and high Ranking religious members identified "WItches".  These people began to believe that witches were acolites of the Demon so that it could take over the world.  They made WItchcraft a Secular crime and it was already a Religious crime.  Most of these laws were enforceed by confessions thorugh torture and accussations.

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Witchcraft is the practice of magical skills, Spells, and abilities. It’s a practice that causes a lot of tension among communities of people. In witchcraft which is unknown to brew spells out of pots, these spells can range from turning a person into a cat to summoning the devil. And these witches can perform the spells on anyone or anything but they mainly like to perform them on people

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Magical Beliefs in England stem from religions and remained into the 18th Century.  Many believed that Gods and demons gave human these supernatural powers.  Some such as Aristotle believed that the Lunar cycle had an influence on the use of their powers, thus Astrology was born. Magic such as Fortune Telling and spells were very common, but the Darker side like necromancy was less accepted by society.

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https://www.luthercollege.edu/university/academics/impetus/spring-2011/magic-and-the-common-people-of-early-modern-europe