witches
witches
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"Oh no, we feel like we're being plagued by magic users who's supernatural abilities are believed to include turning into other creatures, vanishing and flying. How will we catch them?"
"Eh, let's just set fire to the old widow who lives outside the villiage, she has a weird, hairy, wart on her nose. Oh, and Bob. He beat me at dice once. Let's set fire to him too"
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I highly recommend the book Caliban And The Witch by Silvia Federici.
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But only if they weighed the same as a duck.
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In the interest of historical accuracy, 'they' burned men and women as witches. Notably, in Iceland nearly everyone executed as a witch was male.
World wide 75% of killed persons accused of witch craft were women.
Just in the interest of historical accuracy.
women and their allies 😬
Thanks for pointing out the one exceptional case where women didn't comprise the majority of people murdered. That really helps!
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It's really just something that I learned recently and thought was interesting, which happened to be relevant to this post.
then there's Giles Corey ... not burned, but pressed to death
Oh no, that’s where the saying “I’d be hard pressed to do —“ came from, isn’t it.. (not that specific event but the uh.. method?)
People are horrible. Colloquialisms are (usually) horrible.
An entire ideological movement forming around a widely believed historical inaccuracy?
I think that's called a religion.
Please elaborate what exactly falls under “widely believed historical inaccuracy”?!
What ideological movement are you talking about?