What is the Veld of South Africa? An open grazing area of southern Africa. It is the term applied to grassy plateaus of the Republic of South Africa and of Zimbabwe.
At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Joan was born in 1412, the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domremy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine.
Ãva PÃ³cs states that reasons for accusations of witchcraft fall into four general categories: 1  A person was caught in the act of positive or negative sorcery. 2  A well-meaning sorcerer or healer lost their clients' or the authorities' trust. 3  A person did nothing more than gain the enmity of their neighbours.