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In May 1620, southern Germany experienced arctic temperatures and so 900 men and women were accused and executed for witchcraft as scapegoats for the change in temperatures.

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More people are executed for witchcraft in modern times than in previous centuries. In Tanzania alone 20,000 'witches' have been brought to death in the past 20 years.

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1. About the werewolf trials of Europe. In the early 15th century people were often prosecuted for being a werewolf as well as for being a witch. In the Netherlands a 13-year old boy claimed his family could turn into wolves by command of satan. His family was executed for witchcraft.

2. Two dogs were executed for the crime of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692

3. The Affair of the Poisons (L'affaire des poisons) a murder scandal in France during the reign of King Louis XIV where multiple prominent aristocrats were implicated and sentenced on charges of poisoning and witchcraft and lead to the executions of 36 people.

4. In the late 1730's some apprentices in France got jealous of how cats were being treated by masters and so rounded them up, held a trial and executed them for Witchcraft. It's the inspiration for the title of a book about cultural history in France.

5. In Saudi Arabia you can still be executed for witchcraft or sorcery

6. The government of Saudi Arabia (one of our allies) has an Anti-Witchcraft unit, to hunt out and investigate sorcery and that the government executes "witches."

7. Saudi Arabia regularly executes people for practicing witchcraft and sorcery.

8. The first person executed for witchcraft in the American colonies was Alse Young who was hanged in 1647 in Hartford, Connecticut.

9. Saudia Arabia still executes people (beheading) for "witchcraft and sorcery" - three in the last five years.