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1756: Veronika Zeritschin, the last witch executed in Germany
ExecutedToday.com ^ | April 2, 2015 | Headsman

Posted on 04/02/2020 6:52:14 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

The last witch execution that can be documented in the Holy Roman Empire’s illustrious history took place on this date in 1756, in Landshut, during the age of Maria Theresa.* Its subject was a 15-year-old named Veronika Zeritschin, who was beheaded and then burned.

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To: dangus

I shouldn’t seem to blame Protestants for all the witch trials that actually did take place, either. The Bamberg witch trials were led by a bishop who was disobedient and criminal, but still called himself a Catholic; indeed many heretics and those caught in the sway of heretical movements regard themselves Catholics (e.g., Nancy Pelosi, Francis*, etc.)

* ;-)


21 posted on 04/02/2020 7:29:06 PM PDT by dangus
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To: CheshireTheCat
There's one more German witch to put to the torch.

22 posted on 04/02/2020 8:07:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Witches are sexy


23 posted on 04/02/2020 8:14:31 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: dangus

Many of the accused were defacto executed, dying as the result of trial by ordeal, from the effects of torture (infection and the like), the cold, damp, near starvation conditions of prison, or were killed by family of those they accused to escape torture.


24 posted on 04/02/2020 8:14:34 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat
We use words other than “witches” for them now.

Democrats?

25 posted on 04/02/2020 8:18:16 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
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To: Repeal The 17th

So, you think that some of them were “real witches”?
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Depends on how the word “witch” is defined. Some people consider it to be a synonym of the word “bitch”!


26 posted on 04/02/2020 8:41:42 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: dfwgator

She turned me into a newt!
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LMAO! Very funny.


27 posted on 04/02/2020 8:43:37 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
I had at least one multi-great-aunt die due to the Salem fiasco, but the number of such deaths due to witless superstition has been greatly exaggerated.
1829 "Histoire de l'Inquisition en France" by Etienne Leon de Lamothe-Langon was published. It was a forgery claiming massive witchcraft executions in the 14th century. The evidence was, essentially, fiction.
1833 In the United States, a Tennessee man was prosecuted for witchcraft.
1862 French writer Jules Michelet advocated a return to goddess worship and saw women's "natural" inclination to witchcraft as positive. He depicted witch hunts as Catholic persecutions.
1893 Matilda Joslyn Gage published "Women, Church and State" which reported that nine million witches had been executed.
1921 Margaret Murray's "The Witch Cult in Western Europe" was published. In this book about the witch trials, she argued that witches represented a pre-Christian "old religion." She contended that the Plantagenet kings were protectors of the witches, and Joan of Arc was a pagan priestess.
1954 Gerald Gardner published "Witchcraft Today" about witchcraft as a surviving pre-Christian pagan religion.
A Timeline of Witch Hunts in Europe by Jone Johnson Lewis

28 posted on 04/02/2020 8:45:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
I’m saying people throughout history have engaged in the worship of dark powers as well as the sick rituals that go with that. We use words other than “witches” for them now.

Speaker of the House is another word we use for them nowadays...

29 posted on 04/02/2020 8:51:04 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid; Candor7

Oh, Candor7 beat me to the punch on Post 7.


30 posted on 04/02/2020 8:53:08 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: CheshireTheCat

” I’m sure most were innocent and were accused because someone did not like them”

Most of them? You think some might have been witches after all?


31 posted on 04/02/2020 9:11:03 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

Did you read my response to the other person who asked this question?


32 posted on 04/02/2020 9:14:13 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

Looks like nobody here is aware that witchcraft and abortion overlapped heavily in the pre-modern world.


33 posted on 04/02/2020 9:28:06 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: CheshireTheCat

Now I do. But I don’t think any of them were actually witches. That’s retarded...


34 posted on 04/02/2020 9:38:02 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Romulus

Thank you. And abortion was thought of as evil.


35 posted on 04/02/2020 10:11:40 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

Wonder what did she did to piss off the yankee Puritans.


36 posted on 04/02/2020 11:53:03 PM PDT by Pelham (RIP California, killed by massive immigration)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; CheshireTheCat

“So you aren’t POSITIVE they were innocent?”

Hillary. Pelosi. Warren. The Prosecution rests.


37 posted on 04/02/2020 11:54:30 PM PDT by Pelham (RIP California, killed by massive immigration)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Might pick up Kingdom of the Cults and Kingdom of the Occult by Walter Martin.

God exists.
Elect Angels exist.
Fallen angels exist.
Evil Spirits exist.
Demons exist.

God created Humanity.
We were instructed not to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, lest we surely die (a state of existence involving separation).

Every human now has the knowledge of good and evil.
Good & Evil is confused with sin (disobedience of God’s Plan). When we perform human good separate from God, we sin. Many good works are sinful. Many evil works are sinful.

Re: witchcraft, we are to condemn sorcery and witchcraft, i.e appealing to the spiritual domain of fallen angels and evil spirits to perform our bidding.

If one believes Masons exist, then be aware sorcery and witchcraft also exists. Both will attempt to remain occultic.

To those who neither know God nor the occult, they simply blend in as worldly do-gooders. Similar to witches. (If not the same,)

IMHO, we have our hands full simply remaining in fellowship with God, through faith in Christ, overcoming how our souls are so scarred from worldly and fleshly temptations, without having to also have direct conflict with the angelic domain.

Those who seek the power of fallen angels, evil spirits, and anything spiritual outside of faith in Christ or God’s Plan, simply bring more cursings upon the rest of humanity. They are to be removed from society, if not simply sentenced to capital punishment and executed.

Be careful of those who ignore the spiritual domain outside of Christ or the Holy Spirit. Those who seek to cause you harm will hide in their midst, and will obfuscate the spiritual domain in an attempt to gain more power for themselves.


38 posted on 04/03/2020 12:18:59 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: El Cid

W e could set up a pyre in Stockton. And make the Bern live up to his name: Bring the slow “Bern!” Sounds like bacon!


39 posted on 04/03/2020 3:00:24 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What about Angela Merkel?


40 posted on 04/03/2020 3:52:33 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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