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What groups were particularly vulnerable to the witch hunts?

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Women. In the middle ages, they were generally considered to be far more vulnerable to evil and corruption than men, which led to the vast majority of the people killed during the witch hunts to be female.
Theoritically though, nobody was safe from being accused of witchcraft.

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