Editing Witch-Hunt

Despite popular belief, witch hunts actually had very little to do with religious beliefs. During the Middle ages the Catholic church openly critized belief in witches denouncing it as heretical to belive such a power other than God could exist and would only exercute people during times of mass panic purely to quell the population. It wasn't untill the early modern period, when the Church had lost much of its power due to the rise of Protestantism and the increase of power in the government, that Witch hunts became popular. Normally for political and social reasons. Although originally supportive of the Witch-Hunt most religious societies and governments have since gone on to condemn the actions of their ancestors and pardoned most of the victims who died as a result of these events.