| 单词 | witch craze |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswitch craze witch craze n. chiefly historical a period of widespread belief in witches accompanied by the hunt for and persecution of people (esp. women) believed to be practising witchcraft; spec. the zealous campaign directed against suspected witches which took place in Western Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, and was supported by ecclesiastical and civil legislation (cf. sense 1b(b)). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > mania for witch mania1823 witch craze1880 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > witch > [noun] > witch-hunt witch hunt1853 witch craze1880 1880 C. C. Coffin Old Times in Colonies xxv. 310 The saddest story in the history of our country is that of the witch craze at Salem, Massachusetts. 1967 H. Trevor-Roper European Witch-craze 16th & 17th Cents. iii. 105 The Alps and the Pyrenees, the original cradle of the witch-craze, would long remain its base. 1976 R. Kieckhefer European Witch Trials ii. 23 The intense witch hunting of this stage [during the mid to late 1400s] anticipated, if it did not equal, the witch craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 2019 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. (Nexis) 25 Sept. 17 In 1596, as trials took place across the north and north-east of Scotland amid the height of the witch craze, she was convicted of 18 counts of witchcraft. < as lemmas |
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