Posted on 10/21/2019 8:14:57 PM PDT by hapnHal
In January 1692, a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts became consumed by disturbing “fits” accompanied by seizures, violent contortions and bloodcurdling screams.
A doctor diagnosed the children as being victims of black magic, and over the next several months, allegations of witchcraft spread like a virus through the small Puritan settlement.
Twenty people were eventually executed as witches, but contrary to popular belief, none of the condemned was burned at the stake. In accordance with English law, 19 of the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were instead taken to the infamous Gallows Hill to die by hanging. The elderly Giles Corey, meanwhile, was pressed to death with heavy stones after he refused to enter an innocent or guilty plea. Still more accused sorcerers died in jail while awaiting trial.
The myth of burnings at the stake in Salem is most likely inspired by European witch trials, where execution by fire was a disturbingly common practice.
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Hanged and Stoned, LOL... crazy times in old Salem.
Merriam - Webster
“In January 1692, a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts became consumed by disturbing “fits” accompanied by seizures, violent contortions and bloodcurdling screams. “
Probably ate the wrong type of mushrooms.
Actually they ate rye bread contaminated by the ergot fungus.
yes
No. Execution of witches by burning was limited to Europe, because it was a Catholic practice.
Camarillo Brillo —by Frank Zappa
She had that
Camarillo brillo
Flamin out along her head,
I mean her mendocino bean-o
By where some bugs had made it red
She ruled the toads
Of the short forest
And every newt in idaho
And every cricket who had ed
By the bush in buffalo
She said she was
A magic mama
And she could throw a mean tarot
And carried on without a comma
That she was someone I should know
She had a snake for a pet
And an amulet
And she was breeding a dwarf
But she wasn’t done yet
She had gray-green skin
A doll with a pin
I told her she was awright
But I couldnt come in
(I couldnt come in right then...)
And so she wandered
Trough the door-way
Just like a shadow from the tomb
She said her stereo was four-way
An I’d just love it in her room
Well, I was born
To have adventure
So I just followed up the steps
Right past her fuming incense stencher
To where she hung her castanets
She stripped away
Her ranchid poncho
An laid out naked by the door
We did it till we were un-concho
An it was useless any more
She had a snake for a pet
And an amulet
And she was breeding a dwarf
But she wasn’t done yet
She had gray-green skin
A doll with a pin
I told her she was awright
But I couldnt come in
(actually, I was very busy then)
And so she wandered
Trough the door-way
Just like a shadow from the tomb
She said her stereo was four-way
An I’d just love it in her room
Well, I was born
To have adventure
So I just followed up the steps
Right past her fuming incense stencher
To where she hung her castanets
She said she was
A magic mama
And she could throw a mean tarot
And carried on without a comma
That she was someone I should know
Is that a real poncho... i mean
Is that a mexican poncho
Or is that a sears poncho?
Hmmm... no foolin ...
They're still doing that sort of thing these days. Charge you with a crime and give you two options: (1) confess and get a lighter sentence; or (2) go to trial and risk getting the book thrown at you or worse. Which leads me to believe that there are scads of innocent people languishing in prison in the United States. Kind of why I'm not too keen on prison "justice."
[[seizures, violent contortions and bloodcurdling screams]]
Grand Mahl seizures?
So many miss it though.
It was those same Puritans who put a stop to the nonsense.
Sounds like modern day application of the law regarding law bidding non Democrats in Dayton Ohio.
Yeah, actually it was some mold in the wheat.
I thought that the Massachusetts state motto was “Burning witches since 1692.” Apparently not.
The answer is "yes", "no", "maybe" and "sort of".
You have to define what you mean by "witch" and there are at least a half dozen meanings.
“It was those same Puritans who put a stop to the nonsense.”
I dunno how that’s to their credit, since they were the only Christian sect in the Colonies to go down that lunatic road in the first place.
The Christmas-observing Anglicans down in Virginia were a much more grounded bunch than the holiday hating witch hunters of Massachusetts
Hanged
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