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Throughout the Middle Ages, the existence of witches was a matter of fact for people of England. They sought out witches to predict the future, find lost items and cast benevolent spells; they also blamed witches for their misfortunes, such as the death of children or livestock, the destruction of crops, or the spread of unknown diseases. Witches were prosecuted in England for inflicting these types of personal misfortunes, or maleficium. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, witchcraft was usually only tried in ecclesiastical courts, since there were no secular laws against it. While witchcraft was always believed to involve interaction with some type of good or evil spirits, witchcraft was rarely tried in conjunction with all-out devil-worship, even in the churchcourts. (444) When the Witchcraft Acts of 1542-1547 and 1563-1604 madewitchcraft a secular offence, the severity of the punishment was determined only by the nature of the harm done, like any other criminal.