There is a tendency to place witchcraft in the dim and distant past and/or the work of "black savagees", especially by those who would use it to belabour those of different colours or cultures as being "in error's chain".
The last British witch trial took place in 1944 when Helen Duncan was jailed for 9 months having been found guilty of "conspiracy, fraud and witchcraft"
The charge of witchcraft in Britain was not removed from the statute books until 1951 - glass houses - stones, maybe?
http://www.helenduncan.org.uk/
Jim Carroll