It time for another What if... Thread!

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this would be avaiable to anyone looking to turn their solu over to said demon, based on the rituals in said witch book...

Very well, what is the net cost in life of one's soul being removed, that is to say: are they capable still of free will, do they lose every shred of their humanity, what's the overall effect of turning a soul 'over' to a demon in this scenario?

Maybe they taste like a crazy good bacon from an extinct pig, whos meat products taste so good it cause humanity to hunt them out of existance. Children+ some spell= insanity Bacon

Maybe... but I can think of plenty of soul-retaining humans who would love a taste of insanity bacon. In the era in question: other people's peoples don't have nearly the worth of their own... and people like bacon.

We are long pork, after all.

We don't generally farm and eat other people's kids.

Sure, but we have all sorts of bizarre rituals (Aztec, Roman, Judeo-Christian, Hindu, Incan...) that involve killing people/eating dead people. Why not use witch magics to mark the end of a drought, and engage in free trade between the peoples for mutual societal benefit?

Demons are spiritual in nature, and appearently have some weakness to fire.

Spirits don't care about Fire, Earth, Air, or Water... they are planar; they cannot be (harmed?) killed 'here'... and they cannot be fought with said elements in a spirit realm devoid said elements. To battle the spirits is a contest of wit and of will.

Most 'witches' worship gods and goddesses, not demons... but we're speaking about this as though they did.

Eat children, fly on a broom, etc... The what if.. states these qualities were observed at the time of the salem witch trials as well

And how is one having eaten children in an era without forensic science going to be observable? That they *can* fly on a broom does not mean that they necessarily *do*... in such a time, witches would (assuming they continue to be 'human', or that the demons controlling them are intelligent) recognize the need for stealth, and for caution...

Regardless, the salem witch trials were performed without state involvement, as were the great majority (if not all) of witch huntings/witch burnings/witch hangings.

How do you *find* a 'witch'?

The idea of burning was spawned from the denzel washington movie fallen.

Where Azazel was a demon who could pass from person to person by touch. I have transposed this power from that movie in these controlling witch demons. If you kill a confirmed witch by any other means other than fire that demon is free to possess another host willing to be a witch. so in effect the same 'witch/demon' different host.

Okay... and my idea of witch burning was spawned from the history of witch burning, and from the psychological elements of fear what might bring a mob to perform such.

In your supposition: how are we supposed to *know* which ones are witches before we set them aflame? How on earth can we *catch* witches, and can we do so without accidentally nabbing some poor innocent wretch in the process?

feel free to use any of this in your project, just send me a copy.

Not much for me to use in this, as I've utterly eliminated judeo-christeo-islamac'n'cheese from my texts Luckily, I've found older traditions of demons

Again what if the reasonable counter measure was death by fire?

It's as-of-yet an identical process of death-by-fire between innocents and witches alike (and note, witches may not necessarily not be innocents, themselves).

Again got to stick with the parameters of the what if.. These witches are real and can act with impunity. if they did not want to goto trial they would just walk away and nothing we could do could stop them.

In which case there is nothing to be done, and any brokered violence in the populace is folly alone, re: bend over for our magical girl overlords

In this senerio witches are not really able to completely hide who they are for very long. The demons powering this rampage are not shy. they want people to know its power

Until this point, you hadn't said that they can't hide... and I would ask: by what mechanism can they not hide? They are not all immediately violent; how could they sucker suckers into succor without being able to manipulate quietly?

After all... not all demons are built the same... pride and wrath and gluttony are not shy... but desire and greed and sloth have quite a bit more patience. These beings are otherwise held in "hell" for eternity... you think that they would not do *anything* to not go back there? Mimicking a mortal existence is child's play.