Bell-Beaker Culture:

- The
Bell-Beaker Culture is the first known culture to have practice just a tinge of
magic. 

- Ended
around 1900 B.C.E.

- The most
beneficial contribution to society from Wizardkind is the idea of symbols becoming text. 

- The Bell-Beaker times had a few
strange phenomena that still remain unsolved to muggles to this day, but these
can be illuminated by lesser-known wizarding folklore. One of which is the Stonehenge in England, labeled as one of the “Seven Ancient Wonders of The
World”. 

- Gerbert DeBolbec was a well-off wizard who lived near the Salisbury Plain with his wife Josselyn.

- One
neighbour, a hag named Cedany,
resented his fortune.

- Josselyn,
in an attempt to improve relations between their households, visited Cedany
with an offer to extend magical protections to her land but Cedany took it as
an insult and in the fit of anger, turned her surroundings to stone, including
Josselyn. 

- Gerbert
was unable to tell which stone was his wife, so he loaded the large stones into
a pack that he enchanted with an Undetectable
Extension Charm and went in search for Cedany. 

- Upon
finding the hag, he cast the most powerful spell he had ever attempted in
history thus far, entrapping Cedany in an enchanted circle of the stones before
hurling the rest in an attempt to squash her. 

- Christianity began rapidly spreading across Europe in the
early C.E.

- Amongst
the spurned minority of those who practiced magic in Christian Europe, there
were the Pagans and Occultists.
There were rare instances of Shamanism
occurring at that era as well.

- However,
under the influence of Abrahamic
religions and their conflicts with supernatural, most witches and wizards
went into hiding.

- Ultimately,
the lack of tolerance was what contributed to the separation between the
wizarding and muggle societies, as the former could not risk revealing oneself.
Thus, the International Statute of
Secrecy was formed.