witchcraft act of 1736造句

• The gap really begins to open up with the passing of the Witchcraft Act of 1736, which repealed earlier English and Scottish statutes on the subject.
• With the decline in the witch trials in the latter part of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, partly due to the rise of the Witchcraft Act of 1736.
• With the decline in the witch trials in the latter part of the 17th and early 18th centuries, partly due to the rise of the Witchcraft Act of 1736.
• Moving to London in 1945, following the repeal of the Witchcraft Act of 1736 Gardner became intent on propagating Wicca, attracting media attention and writing about it in " Witchcraft Today " ( 1954 ) and " The Meaning of Witchcraft " ( 1959 ).
• The new regulations imposed by the Witchcraft Act of 1736 laid down a maximum penalty of a year's imprisonment for the crime of deceiving people by claiming magical powers, but in effect, during the rest of the eighteenth century, there were very few prosecutions, with most authorities not bothering to enforce this particular law.
• Moving to London in 1945, following the repeal of the Witchcraft Act of 1736 he became intent on propagating this religion, attracting media attention and writing about it in " High Magic's Aid " ( 1949 ), " Witchcraft Today " ( 1954 ) and " The Meaning of Witchcraft " ( 1959 ).
• Nonetheless, the nineteenth century also saw an increase in the numbers of those cunning folk being prosecuted under the Witchcraft Act of 1736, possibly because " members of the social elite came to perceive that a faith in magic [ far from having been eradicated as they had hoped, ] seemed to be as prevalent among the populace as it had been a hundred years before, even while a growing political turbulence among commoners gave their rulers a new interest in the idea of education and civility as stabilizing forces ."