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   5 hours ago · In ancient Mesopotamia, they mainly used counter-magic against witchcraft (kišpū [86]), but the law codes also prescribed the death penalty for those found guilty of witchcraft. [85] According to Tzvi Abusch, ancient Mesopotamian ideas about witches and witchcraft shifted over time, and the early stages were "comparable to the archaic shamanistic stage of European witchcraft". [ 87 ]

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   Who were Mesopotamian witches?

   • The individuals mentioned in records of Mesopotamian society as witches tended to be those of low status who were weak or otherwise marginalized, including women, foreigners, actors, and peddlers. By the time of the Code of Hammurabi (about 2000 BCE), the use of magic to harm others without justification was subject to legal repercussions:

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   Who wrote the Malleus Maleficarum?

   • The Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for 'Hammer of The Witches') was a witch-hunting manual written in 1486 by two German monks, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.

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   How did a sorcerer get slain?

   • The succession of a sorcerer was from father to son, or from uncle to nephew. So too of sorceresses: it would be from mother to daughter, or from aunt to niece. Sorcerers and sorceresses were often slain by relatives of their supposed victims. A singular enchantment was employed to kill off a husband of a pretty woman desired by someone else.

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   1 day ago · In the 4th millenium BC written history arose in Ancient Egypt, [ 1 ] and later in Nubia 's Kush, the Horn of Africa 's Dʿmt, and Ifrikiya 's Carthage. [ 2 ] Between around 3000 BC and 1000 AD, the Bantu expansion swept from north-western Central Africa (modern day Cameroon) across much of sub-Saharan Africa, laying the foundations for states ...