(March 31, 2026 at 8:53 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: If the witch wasn’t completely incinerated after Gretel pushed her into the oven, how do you explain the empty oven? Where is the witch’s body?
The Empty Oven is one of those historical facts that skeptics just can’t explain.
A skeptic’s explanation:
You can cremate at human body in 2-3 hours at less than 1000C. I typically exceed that temperature in my smithy.
If we assume that the witch’s oven was lined with good quality firebrick, coated with refractory cement, fueled with anthracite, and equipped with some sort of air blower, Witchy Poo would be reduced to ashes within the time mentioned above. Easy peasy.
Boru
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