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Witch Hunting
Okay so Yesterday at like two in the morning I started seraching stuff on Wikipedia and what I found actually had tears pooling in my eyes and I can tell you right now that I am not an easy cryer.
Did you know that in the earlier centuries they accused innocent women of being witches - who were back then despised - and would search her body for a witch's mark by looking for any kind of beauty mark, mole, or insensitive patches of skin. They would stick needles into the woman's skin all over her body to find a part that when they stuck a needle into it she wouldn't cry out in pain.
But that was only after they shaved her entire body so as to ensure that she couldn't hide any of the markings.
Sometimes they would crush the accused bones - or pull them from their sockets - until they confessed that they were a witch. But of course they were ACTUALLY witches. They just wanted the pain to stop.
After that they would either be drowned or burned alive.
Who is not disgusted by the cruelty inflicted by men? By man?
Tell me your answer.
Did you know that in the earlier centuries they accused innocent women of being witches - who were back then despised - and would search her body for a witch's mark by looking for any kind of beauty mark, mole, or insensitive patches of skin. They would stick needles into the woman's skin all over her body to find a part that when they stuck a needle into it she wouldn't cry out in pain.
But that was only after they shaved her entire body so as to ensure that she couldn't hide any of the markings.
Sometimes they would crush the accused bones - or pull them from their sockets - until they confessed that they were a witch. But of course they were ACTUALLY witches. They just wanted the pain to stop.
After that they would either be drowned or burned alive.
Who is not disgusted by the cruelty inflicted by men? By man?
Tell me your answer.
Tags: torture
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Permalink Reply by Mimi (Unloved) on -
That makes me sick. Normally I don't believe what's on Wikipedia cuz it's not very reliable but i have heard that that's what they would do... So much torture.... It's just horrible
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Permalink Reply by me-n-only-me on -
well men are mean. well i dont think they do that any more. do they.
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Permalink Reply by Mimi (Unloved) on
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I hope not!
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Permalink Reply by Rob. on -
Honestly it wasn't JUST men, often women would accuse other women as being witches when they'd get mad at each other, which of course lead to their death. Other cruelties that were commited would be to bound the accused with ropes then catapault them into a lake, if the woman floated she was a with if not then... "oops".
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Permalink Reply by Faery_Sprite_Silvarmayne on -
That would be nice...
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Permalink Reply by Faery_Sprite_Silvarmayne on
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Oh, BTW there's no such thing as a "worlock": They're just witches. Plain and simple.
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Permalink Reply by Belatrix on -
Omg thats terrible...I'm definetly digusted how could anyone do that...it's so sad that they suferd so much...it's terrible
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Permalink Reply by Faery_Sprite_Silvarmayne on
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Yeah I read up on that when I was younger, though my mom was disgusted that I was reading that kind of "crap". I wanted to rip the hearts out of the accusers! (If they had one, haha).
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Permalink Reply by Lamenting Angel on
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It wasn't just women that were torchered it was men and children as well. Think about it when the burning times happened there were places in Europe the inquisitors would go to a village declare everyone in that village I'm talking every man women and child right down to little babies a witch lock them in the church and set it on fire if they somehow jumped out the windows they were shot.In America the witch trials lasted longer and it was puritan girls who started it all puritan society was such that children and girls more so were seen and not heard as well very religiously strick play was null and children got very little attention as well.
From my understanding there are a few theories one being the girls played a fortune telling game with the families slave Tichiba(sp?) made up these symptom's and lies about people after there father found out to get out of trouble saying they were possessed by the devil another is that if you look back the women and men the girls accused were people higher up didn't like or wanted that persons land as well another is that they did it for attention and yet another is that they had ergot poisoning but at any rate once it all started it snow balled and it couldn't be stopped what finally stopped the witch hunts is when they accused a judges wife.
Oh and a little more food for thought yes it does still happen a few years ago in Africa a couple was burned at the stake for practicing black magic. England just lifted the anti witchcraft laws it had in the last 30 odd years I believe. But when someone is burned at the stake the smoke from the fire gets to them before the fire actually does and they just pass out and don't feel anything. So yes its still out there in many forms look at the hate groups Nazis and KKK they have there own witch hunts and wouldn't hesitate to burn someone for being different.
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Permalink Reply by Ophelia on -
"They would stick needles into the woman's skin all over her body to find a part that when they stuck a needle into it she wouldn't cry out in pain." Just in case you didn't know, they did that so as to find the where the Devil touched them ^_^
And if it makes you feel any better, the Witch Finder General, Matthew Hopkins was caught by a bunch of disgruntled villagers, and then subjected to his own 'swimming' technique, where he was chucked in some water. If he floated, he was a witch, if he sank, he was innocent - but he also would have drowned in the process. Anywho, he floated and was then burned. (As popular local lore would have it, though there is no actual evidence).
He was buried in Manningtree in 1647, along the banks of the River Stour, where I happened to walk past every day on my way home from school. If it makes any odds to you, I've jumped on the concrete where it's said he lays under?
He's actually buried under a path, so people are exacting their revenge on his corpse, if that helps at all...
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Permalink Reply by The mad hatter on -
Oh my god thats got me crying but you should go to boscastle witch museum and you can find out loads of stuff even stuff that wont make you cry i hope. the only part that may do was i actally saw that pin and a dunking chair and also i found out about this lady was accusced for being a witch and put to death but wasnt alond to be able to be put to rest because they used her body for exemipments and after 20 years or so she was buried it was terrible.
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