witchcraft act of 1735造句

• The Witchcraft Act of 1735 marked a complete reversal in attitudes.
• Such cases were outlawed by the Witchcraft Act of 1735, which made it a crime only to pretend to be a witch.
• At her trial in September at London's Central Criminal Court she was found guilty on seven counts against the Witchcraft Act of 1735.
• :: Do you discount the case of Helen Duncan, Geogre, the last person in England to be convicted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735?
• Kate Nevin was executed only 20 years before the passing of the Witchcraft Act of 1735, whereby the penalty for practising witchcraft was reduced from death to imprisonment.
• The Witchcraft Act of 1735 remained in force in Britain well into the 20th century, until its eventual repeal with the enactment of the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951.
• :: : Oh, Helen Duncan was indicted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735, which shifted the emphasis in law away from prosecutions for witchcraft to prosecutions for fraudulent " claims " of witchcraft, or extraordinary powers of any kind.
• Despite the fact that at the time witchcraft was still illegal in New South Wales ( the British Witchcraft Act of 1735 had been repealed in England in 1951, but would only be repealed in New South Wales in 1971 ), Norton openly declared herself to be a Witch.
• The witch hunts declined in the early 18th century, culminating with the British Witchcraft Act of 1735, but sporadic witch-trials during the second half of the 18th century, the last known dating to 1782 ( though a prosecution was commenced in Tennessee as recently as 1833 ).
• The Witchcraft Act of 1735 was frequently invoked in the early years of the 19th century in an attempt by the political elite to root out " ignorance, superstition, criminality and insurrection " among the general populace, and even more so under a new statute brought in to reinforce the 1735 act in 1824.