Seems like a good idea, I know I’ve never heard of a noose killing a real witch.
In a pretty famous case, Giles Corey refused to plea to the accusation of witchcraft against him. He was pressed to death. Each time he was asked to plea over the course of three days he replied, “more weight.”
Central Europe went nuts over witches. The general thought is that the driving force behind the witch hunts was the Reformation and Counter Reformation that drove Christians and leadership to more extreme positions to position themselves as the “defenders of the true faith” and to attract adherents. They centered around battleground states where protestant and catholic states bordered. In areas where one faith had a monopoly they were rare. The Spanish Inquisition actually suppressed witch hunts. Witch hunts peaked with the wars of religion period around 1560 to 1630.
Socio-economic turmoil and changes in the law fed the craze with groups that could not defend themselves made into convinient scapegoats.
“In the Middle Ages, if you accused a neighbor of witchcraft and could not prove it, you faced the legal penalty they would have received. This kept accusations low.”
“In the early modern era, local states took over prosecution. Authorities could arrest people based on mere rumors, try them in secret, and legally use judicial torture to extract confessions. Tortured victims routinely named friends and neighbors to make the pain stop, creating a self-perpetuating loop of mass arrests.”
“The craze finally disintegrated after the 1648 Peace of Westphalia. The treaty established fixed territorial borders for religions, eliminating the open competition for souls and causing witchcraft prosecutions to plummet.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Moravia_witch_trials
I can’t imagine standing at one of these executions and it not occurring to me that, if these women had command of magical powers… why wouldn’t they use them to escape?
The last confirmed execution for witchcraft in England was in 1682.
The United Kingdom (UK) did not come into existence until 1707 - when the Act of Union united England and Scotland.
The last execution for witchcraft in Scotland was in 1727, which was by burning. At that time Scotland was part of the United Kingdom, so witches WERE burnt in the UK, but only in Scotland, NOT in England.
We actually have a memorial near me to the women who were killed in a witch Hunt in my area.
Hanged. Meat is hung. People are hanged.
I hate this stupid rule. No matter what word you use, the outcome is exactly the same. Something or someone is suspended off of the ground.
Some people are hung. Usually not witches, though.
There is absolutely nothing saying you must be a woman to be a Witch. Wizard being the male equivalent is a modern usage.
Hence the “usually”. The girls still outnumber us.
Warlock i think
From what I can see warlock, like wizard, came to mean male sorcerer later. Though earlier than wizard in this case.
Godammit
Interestingly when you are hanged, you get a boner. It’s a real thing.
People would be nuts about medicine from some of the corpses, as the essence of criminals can be helpful. One such thing was to rub the sweat of the condemned on their hemmaroids. I forget what they did with redheads but they were really good for stuff.
One such thing was to rub the sweat of the condemned on their hemmaroids
Alrighty then
The Angel’s Kiss I think it was known as
Unless you’re well hung.
I prefer my witches hung
And my pork pulled
In this case you are right.
Both are fine for people. Hanged is actually more outdated and is used as the past tense for hanging (as in the execution).
Pretty sure at least one is really bad for people. I’m not a doctor though.
But people are meat
Yay.
A pedant.
Speak for yourself, I’m hung as a horse.
“You can lead FiskFisk33 to water but you can’t get over the size of his genitals”
- Paraphrased from some show or other I watched a long time ago
I’m hung as a hearse.
Meh. Language is descriptive, not prescriptive
Why?
Its funny because I thought only warlocks were hung.
Every other male magic user: That is baseless slander!
I love when someone gets something that is less than obvious that I comment. made my day.
Happy to have done so!
Women. They hanged and burned women.
Men were also accused of witchcraft, just not as often. By the 1600’s it’s estimated 100k people had been sacrificed to such allegations, burning being the go to method of dealing with them and heretics.
The witch hunts primarily arose due to women owning property and gaining class consciousness against the feudal system. Yes, men were killed in the witch hunts, but that doesn’t negate their primary purpose
Most victims were of lower class and didn’t own any property though. Like the wave of witch hunts in South Eastern German regions targeting the homeless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaubererjackl_witch_trials
There wasn’t really any primary purpose. Many were done just as a reaction to economic hardship by the general population in mass hysterias without any deeper meaning.
Events like that, which spans on different continents and different centuries absolutely don’t have a common cause or purpose. It’s easy to read in them confirmations of one’s own preconceptions…
A lot of the witch trials were for the church, and the aristocracy, to prevent anyone challenging their authority. Ie, practicing herbal medicine was a big one. Any Shamans of barbarian tribes they wanted to convert, all sorts of stuff like that.
Yes, and women put to death for witchcraft had their property given to the church
John Dee wasn’t executed.
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Scotland is part of the UK. You mean they were hanged in England.
UK didn’t exist yet.
We probably needed the heat. It can get quite chilly up here.
That and everyone loves the smell of a barbeque.
I, for one, don’t enjoy the Holocaust smell
There are ways of telling whether she is a witch. Tell me, what do you do with witches?
were hung in the U.S. and the U.K., but burned in Scotland.
I guess some wanted to see them, while others rather wanted to smell them.
Yes, those regions have some rather big levels of autonomy. Even used their own money. Scottish pound differs from British pound even today.
regions
Countries.
big levels of autonomy
We didn’t back then.
Scottish pound differs from British pound even today
No it doesn’t. Its the exact same.
