It time for another What if... Thread!

[paulpablo]

Last year we did one on witches and most of the old timers lost their minds, and wanted to burn me at the stake. I figured since we have so much fresh meat, we can let the new guys play, and see what they think. Rules are simple. If you want to play sick with in the senerio, don't wander off into history or self righteousness.

Ok so what if.... witches as per folk tales and scary movies existed? (Not the dbag witch/emo/hippies we do have) but real fly on a broom, steal your children cook and eat them, prey on people in general, no prision can hold them, can only be killed by water or fire, but real as the day is long???

Would it then be ok to have an hold witch hunts of old/Salem witch trials?

What if #2: what if just a few hundred years ago these type of witches really did exist and it wasn't superstition and rampant ignorance that over took people. What if the population was then just as aware of reality as we are now, only that the variable in the equation was reality itself and not our ancestors knoweledge of it? Meaning the supernatural was stronger than it is now?

Would that change your view of what they did and why they did what they did?

Ok this is an interesting post.

In this hypothetical situation how did I find out that witches were real back then and not just a myth?

Bare in mind that witch hunting still goes on today in less well educated countries and those witches as far as I know don't fly on a broom or eat children, it's normally done by malicious people, or just seriously mentally unstable people, and often results in child abuse in cases where parents believe their daughters or sons are possessed.

Interesting fact (Interesting if it's true I mean)
I've heard somewhere that the whole flying on a broom myth started because women used to treat thrush with herbs, applied on the vagina with a broom handle, some of the herbs were hallucinogenic and resulted in a flying sensation while the herb was applied.