Witch-hunt

Witch-hunts is a term that has been significant in books of history in both the magical and non-magical worlds to give name to the widespread medieval (and less pronounced but still existent) practice of hunting witches and executing them for "the crime of witchcraft", carried out mainly by militantly Christian Muggles mistaking magic to be an art of the Devil and wizardkind his servants. Many witches and wizards found ways to escape death sentences, but not all of them did.