Sentence examples for executed as a witch from inspiring English sources

An old woman, about to be executed as a witch, curses her accuser, the village pastor, and the rest of the story cowers under that spell; the pastor's young wife has an affair with his son from an earlier marriage, and they in turn are oppressed and denounced by the pastor's elderly mother.

He also plays with the "aesthetics of disgust", and makes references to haunting and undead elements, and  presents "the past as Gothic trauma" by memorializing his own ancestor, executed as a witch at Salem in the autumn/winter 2007 show In Memory of Elizabeth Howe, Salem, 1692.

It followed the Swiss government's pardon earlier that year of Anna Göldi, beheaded in 1782, thought to be the last person in Europe to be executed as a witch.

He was eventually executed as a traitor.

Then, from about 1550 to 1700, continental Europe experienced the "Great Witch Craze," in which an estimated 100,000 people were executed as witches.

20 people were executed as witches, both males and females.

Albert Deutsch estimated that more than 100,000 were executed as witches from the mid-fifteenth century until the Age of Enlightenment began to take hold in the eighteenth century [ 6].

Ms. Schroeder declined to supply the information, and her lawyer characterized the action as a witch hunt.

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So if you're dressing up as a witch tonight, remember the 20 executed on Gallows Hill while you stick fake warts on your face.

A judge appears with a noose in hand, ready to execute the Witch as a mega-terrorist, but she tricks him into hanging himself.