Faithfulness in witchcraft, and by use witch-hunts, is found in innumerable cultures intercontinental, today mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa (E.G. IN THE WITCH SMELLERS IN BANTU CULTURE), and historically notably in Fresh Go off Europe of the 14th to 18th century, anywhere witchcraft came to be seen as a titanic diabolical section against Christianity, and accusations of witchcraft led to large-scale witch-hunts, extra in Germanic Europe.
The "WITCH-CULT POSTULATION", a put forward conclude that European witchcraft was a suppressed pagan religion, was into in the 19th and antiquated 20th centuries. Since the mid-20th century, Witchcraft has become the self-designation of a job of neopaganism, extra in the Wicca tradition investigation Gerald Gardner, who claimed a sanctimonious tradition of Witchcraft with pre-Christian family tree.