"A witch-hunt is a search for people labelled \"witches\" or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic or mass hysteria. The classical period of witchhunts in Early Modern Europe and Colonial North America falls into the Early Modern period or about 1450 to 1750, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in an estimated 35,000 to 100,000 executions.The last executions of people convicted as witches in Europe took place in the 18th century."@en . . .