left-handedness was associated with witchcraft and therefore strongly discouraged, reflecting the negative connotations and ...

Hauberg Lindgaard explained monarchs assumed this responsibility after 16th-century French philosopher Jean Bodin declared if a king did not persecute witches then he was solely responsible for ...

They introduced laws to enforce, what they believed to be, an appropriate Christian lifestyle: In the 16th century ... for witchcraft during this period. By the early 18th century, when scientific ...