It is known that witches have always involve moral panic in the public. Heksejagt represent the so-called search for witches and often led to line and mass hysteria. Historically witch hunt legally wrong in towns and cities as official hekseri proewe. Due to historical studies, the scope and intensity of witchcraft prosecutions now known to the public. In Europe and North America is considered the period 1450 to 1700 as the classical period of witch hunts, in which more than 40,000 executions took place (Ankarloo 55). People have always been inspired by the magic of witches, although some people still do not believe in witchcraft.
In our time heksje a little different meaning, but the same nature. Today find heksje in our society is when an individual (or a group of individuals) another individual or individuals unjustly prosecuted and are guilty of the greater problems in their lives. This fact means that heksje is based on the expression of fear, violence and ignorance. The Holocaust is the most important example of modern witch hunt, organized by the German political party to Adolf Hitler at the head, who needed someone to blame for the losses in the war.
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The historic Salem hex proewe still have an enormous impact on our society. It is known that the current hakerjag include the communist hunts, the political events of the 1950s that inspired the characters in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The following groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, political groups, including communists, socialists, religious groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses, and the groups gay