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.
Superstition is the belief in supernatural causality âthat one event causes another without any natural process linking the two eventsâsuch as astrology, religion, omens, witchcraft, and prophecies, that contradicts natural science.his in turn led to studies of biblical exegesis, pioneered by Spinoza and to a more skeptical view about superstition. Opposition to superstition was central to 17th century rationalist Benedict de Spinoza and the intellectuals of the 18th century Age of Enlightenment.