1229- The Inquisition was founded to lead the attack on witchcraft as the church begins to view witches not as pagans but as allies of the devil.

1300- Golden age of alchemy

1431- Joan of Arc burnt as a witch by the English, at Roeun in France.

1503- Nostradamus writes Centuries, his series of predictions.

1600- Voodoo religion

1606- William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the three witches.

1692- Salem Witch trials.

1782- Anna Goddi hanged for witchcraft in Europe.

1820- Percy Shelley writes the Witch Atlas.

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