RE: God brings peace?
May 19, 2011 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2011 at 1:56 pm by downbeatplumb.)
(May 19, 2011 at 1:39 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Oh and by the way, it's only folklore which says that witches were burned at the stake. In reality they were all hanged.
Some were burnt this from wikipedia.
Quote:Witch-hunts were seen across early modern Europe, but the most significant area of witch-hunting in modern Europe is often considered to be central and southern Germany.[15] Germany was a late starter in terms of the numbers of trials, compared to other regions of Europe. Witch-hunts first appeared in large numbers in southern France and Switzerland during the 14th and 15th centuries. The peak years of witch-hunts in southwest Germany were from 1561 to 1670.[16] The first major persecution in Europe, when witches were caught, tried, convicted, and burned in the imperial lordship of Wiesensteig in southwestern Germany, is recorded in 1563 in a pamphlet called "True and Horrifying Deeds of 63 Witches".[17]
In Denmark, the burning of witches increased following the reformation of 1536. Christian IV of Denmark, in particular, encouraged this practice, and hundreds of people were convicted of witchcraft and burnt.
But the victims were not witches but people victimised by authority on any pretext.
Quote:"Every old woman with a wrinkled face, a furrowed brow, a hairy lip, a gobber tooth, a squint eye, a squeaking voice or scolding tongue, having a rugged coat on her back, a skull-cap on her head, a spindle in her hand and a dog or cat by her side, is not only suspect but pronounced for a witch"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/myths_lege...and/essex/
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
