Witch Biography

During the Elizabethan Era witches were looked down on, there were witch hunts where they would hunt witches and harass them with torches and other weapons. Women that were often blamed of being witches were old, poor, single or a widow and they were executed by being hung. Witches were often blamed for the spread of the black death (a deadly disease which kill a lot of humans during the Elizabethan Era), other illnesses, diseases. They were also thought to have been able to create fires, and start thunderstorms.  And people wanted to get rid of the witches so that the plague would end. Witches could either be men or women but only 23 men were accused and 247 women were accused.