The Republican National Convention starts today and we have all the details about how you can watch it live on TV. The main events start at primetime, although the Convention will have some events earlier in the day and TV stations will start broadcasting around 1 p.m. Eastern.
People believed in witchcraft in the 17th century because they needed a way to explain the unexplainable, according to the BBC. When situations came up that could not be explained due to the lack of scientific and medical knowledge, people needed a scapegoat to help the masses understand.
Punishment for witchcraft was, at one time, âburningâ but with the change in offence, the penalty for pretending to be a witch became imprisonment for up to one year and time spent in the pillory.â. Further discussions of the problematic nature of this section at page 9 of the article.