1. Witchcraft
Around A.D. 700, Christian religion saw witchcraft as denouncing the Catholic Church and began to question "heresy-, a rejection of the church, and, "began a long campaign to stamp out heresy [and] [b]eginning in the 1000's, religious leaders sentenced heretics to death by burning- (World Book, 2002 p. 372). ... Again, instead of looking for a natural cause, let alone any cause of death, the Nupe believed a witch had taken the man away (Nadel, 1952). Unfortunately, I do not have the data on the final outcome of this case. ... These men were not the law-abiding type and most had previ...
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