List of people executed for witchcraft

[1] Until around 1450, witchcraft-related prosecutions in Europe centered on maleficium, the concept of using supernatural powers specifically to harm others.

Throughout the century, several treatises were published that helped to establish a stereotype of the witch, particularly the Satanic connection.

[3] About eighty people were accused of practicing witchcraft in a witch-hunt that lasted throughout New England from 1647 to 1663.

It has been estimated that tens of thousands of people were executed for witchcraft in Europe and the American colonies over several hundred years.

[A] Scholar Carlo Ginzburg of the University of Bologna, in his work Night Battles, estimates the number between 3-4 million people.