![]() ![]() Punishments were rarely severe and some form of public penance was the most likely sentence. Prior to the mid-sixteenth century witchcraft cases were normally tried in ecclesiastical courts. In particular, I look at how complaints arose and developed, and the involvement of the neighbours of the accused in that process. ![]() ![]() My interest here is to look at what the records reveal about those charged with witchcraft in the seventeenth-century Norfolk courts and how these findings compare with current theories. However, it is not my intention to carry out an extensive investigation into early modern witchcraft beliefs here that area has already received much coverage elsewhere. It is a complex subject, not least because early modern beliefs regarding witchcraft and magic were obviously very different from those of today. The crime that has attracted the attention of historians more than any other in early modern England is witchcraft. ![]()
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