17th century witch chronicles put online (UK)

Reuters ^ | March 4, 2011 | Michelle Martin

[decimon]

Familiar women ping.

[RJR_fan]

See the Vincent Price swan song, the horror move The Conqueror Worm for a cinematic take on the era.

[LostInBayport]

They got all my friends, but they didn't get me!

[max americana]

they should have asked her, she was the head witch..

[MrEdd]

Well, we did do the nose...

[ProudFossil]

They got all my friends, but they didn't get me!

Thank you NOT!!! I will be having nightmares tonight because of this. (Although it is funny)

[crz]

There was one tied to a pole in a bay in Scotland and the people watched as the tide came in and drowned her.

[decimon]

There was one tied to a pole in a bay in Scotland and the people watched as the tide came in and drowned her.

I've read of a little test that was done. Tie her up and dunk her in a river. If she didn't drown then she was a witch. Don't know if that was actually done but I have read that.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

There is an area near where I live called Witchduck, because someone suspected of being a witch was dunked near there...

[LostInBayport]

I don't want you to have nightmares, so I'll make up a happy ending! Here's what happened to the old witch after she made some anti-semitic comments to a reporter:

[stuartcr]

That’s how witchduck rd in VaBch got named.

[crz]

That was the Dunking chair.

They also used to tie something to them and chuck them in and if they floated they were considered a witch and if they drowned they werent.

What a bunch. I read that most of the cases might have been caused by ergot poisoning. ergot is a mold that was in the barley and it is not unlike LSD. So they went around in a state of drug induced paranoia and thought they saw witches and accused anyone that didnt look just right.

[I still care]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

That one’s too easy.

[LibFreeOrDie]

List of witch trials in North America and names of accused, 1600s-1700s:

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/witchtrial/na.html

[decimon]

I see a William Ayers as both an accuser and the accused. Some things never change.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

That’s just insulting to witches. Don’t blame anyone but yourself when you get turned into a newt.

[Pelham]

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

[SunkenCiv]

He really had it goin’ on.