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It time for another What if... Thread!
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RE: It time for another What if... Thread!
October 26, 2014 at 5:57 pm (This post was last modified: October 26, 2014 at 5:57 pm by abaris.)
(October 26, 2014 at 5:52 pm)Alice Wrote:
(October 26, 2014 at 5:45 pm)abaris Wrote: If no prison could hold them, how did they put them on trial?

They asked very nicely. Which is probably why not a single witch was ever actually hung.

That should have been my next question. Why did they hang them or press them to death in Salem if only fire or water do the trick?
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RE: It time for another What if... Thread!
October 26, 2014 at 6:37 pm
(October 26, 2014 at 5:57 pm)abaris Wrote: That should have been my next question. Why did they hang them or press them to death in Salem if only fire or water do the trick?

Because that'd be engaging the logical fallacy of poisoning the well, or burning down wooden women (related to straw men, but witches are made out of wood and supposedly predominately female).

Besides, it's symbolic of how they roped the witches into the trial.
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RE: It time for another What if... Thread!
October 26, 2014 at 7:11 pm
(October 26, 2014 at 6:37 pm)Alice Wrote: Because that'd be engaging the logical fallacy of poisoning the well, or burning down wooden women (related to straw men, but witches are made out of wood and supposedly predominately female).

Besides, it's symbolic of how they roped the witches into the trial.

Or to quote Harry Potter, some witches enjoyed burning too much. Because after all, what makes us think that Harry Potter is less of a source than the bible when it comes to witchcraft?
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October 26, 2014 at 7:23 pm
(October 26, 2014 at 7:11 pm)abaris Wrote: Or to quote Harry Potter, some witches enjoyed burning too much. Because after all, what makes us think that Harry Potter is less of a source than the bible when it comes to witchcraft?

Because Latin is a ridiculous basis for witchcraft... Diana is pretty much Latin's only magical portent.

I'll take eastern mesopotamian o'er that western bull... and hell, I'd love to put some pre-islamic arabic or turkish into this.

So... I did. And it's awesome. Screw the west! Screw abrahamic! And on top of that, Japanese is like so overdone! Screw japanese!

I only wish I had the ability to make mayan or incan happen. Undecided I mean, I can... but it's just not believable enough.

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So says the woman who's drawing a half-Jinn Vampir spirit what interacts with fairies in a 'recovering' post-apocalyptic world. Dodgy

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RE: It time for another What if... Thread!
October 26, 2014 at 8:47 pm
(October 26, 2014 at 7:11 pm)abaris Wrote: Or to quote Harry Potter, some witches enjoyed burning too much. Because after all, what makes us think that Harry Potter is less of a source than the bible when it comes to witchcraft?

You know you have a die hard fan when they remember a piece of trivia like that!
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