Note, tho, that those more recent laws were not against practicing witchcraft but against professing to do so. IIRC, they were mainly aimed at people who, for a fee, would put a curse on your enemies. The idea was that such people were swindlers & nuisances. Whether the law should concern itself with such stuff is debatable, but at any rate it is not the same as hanging people for being in league with the devil.

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