European witch hunts

Target entity: European witch hunts
Context triple: [Salem Witch Museum, topicContext, European witch hunts]

• A. Salem witch trials
  The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous 1692–1693 prosecutions in colonial New England where mass hysteria and superstition led to the execution and imprisonment of people accused of witchcraft.
• B. Inquisition
  The Inquisition was a powerful ecclesiastical tribunal system of the Catholic Church and allied monarchies, created to identify, try, and punish heresy and enforce religious orthodoxy.
• C. Spanish Inquisition
  The Spanish Inquisition was a powerful Catholic institution established in late 15th-century Spain to enforce religious orthodoxy, often through persecution, trials, and expulsions of Jews, Muslims, and other perceived heretics.
• D. Mihna (inquisition)
  The Mihna (inquisition) was a 9th-century religious and political persecution in the Abbasid Caliphate during which scholars were forced to conform to the caliphs’ official theological doctrine, particularly regarding the created nature of the Qur’an.
• E. Peasants’ War
  The Peasants’ War was a major 1524–1525 uprising of German peasants and lower classes, inspired in part by Reformation ideas, that sought social and economic reforms and was brutally suppressed by the nobility.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: European witch hunts
Target entity description: European witch hunts were a series of widespread persecutions, trials, and executions of people accused of witchcraft across Europe from roughly the 15th to 18th centuries, driven by religious, social, and political tensions.

• A. Salem witch trials
  The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous 1692–1693 prosecutions in colonial New England where mass hysteria and superstition led to the execution and imprisonment of people accused of witchcraft.
• B. Inquisition
  The Inquisition was a powerful ecclesiastical tribunal system of the Catholic Church and allied monarchies, created to identify, try, and punish heresy and enforce religious orthodoxy.
• C. Spanish Inquisition
  The Spanish Inquisition was a powerful Catholic institution established in late 15th-century Spain to enforce religious orthodoxy, often through persecution, trials, and expulsions of Jews, Muslims, and other perceived heretics.
• D. Mihna (inquisition)
  The Mihna (inquisition) was a 9th-century religious and political persecution in the Abbasid Caliphate during which scholars were forced to conform to the caliphs’ official theological doctrine, particularly regarding the created nature of the Qur’an.
• E. Peasants’ War
  The Peasants’ War was a major 1524–1525 uprising of German peasants and lower classes, inspired in part by Reformation ideas, that sought social and economic reforms and was brutally suppressed by the nobility.
• F. None of above. chosen