[Michael.SF.]

you just knew this was coming.

[Norski]

Here, this should be fun:

Bill Schnoebelen Are Werewolves and Vampires Real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO58GMVhkwQ

[Telepathic Intruder]

Contrary to popular opinion, medieval times were often not very fun.

[Veggie Todd]

Howling in the background]
Inga: Werewolf!
Dr. Frankenstein: Werewolf?
Igor: There.
Dr. Frankenstein: What?
Igor: [pointing] There... wolf. There... castle.
Dr. Frankenstein: Why are you talking that way?
Igor: I thought you wanted to.
Dr. Frankenstein: No, I don't want to.
Igor: Suit yourself. I'm easy.

[chajin]

In the South we call ‘em waswolfs.

[Billthedrill]

They were looking for the wrong things. First, the Chinese menu in his hand. Second, his hair was perfect.

[fidelis]

It’s easy to disparage people of earlier times as superstitious or less intelligent because less facts about the world were available to them. From their standpoints, they were acting with prudence and morality— probably more so than we ourselves would. CS Lewis once wrote:

“I have met people who exaggerate the differences, because they have not distinguished between difference of morality and differences of belief about facts. For example, one man said to me, 'Three hundred years ago people in England were putting witches to death. Was that what you call the Rule of Human Nature or Right Conduct?' But surely the reason we do not execute witches is that we do not believe there are such things. If we did — if we really thought that there were people going about who had sold themselves to the devil and received supernatural powers from him in return and were using these powers to kill their neighbors or drive them mad or bring bad weather — surely we would all agree that if anyone deserved the death penalty, then these filthy quislings did? There is no difference of moral principle here: the difference is simple about matter of fact. It may be a great advance in knowledge not to believe in witches: there is no moral advance in not executing them when you do not think they are there. You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if held the belief there were no mice in the house.”

[gattaca]

Medieval animal trials in Europe – A pig sentenced to death by hanging for murder

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/21/medieval-animal-trials-in-europe-a-pig-sentenced-to-death-by-hanging-for-murder/

[Hardastarboard]

The modern equivalent is having sent politically incorrect emails 10 years ago, or stating that CRT is a destructive philosophy, or exercising your right to protest the actions of the Federal government.

[Bratch]

But gradually, the educated and elite stopped believing in the Devil...

[joethedrummer]

Anyone got a Milk-bone handy?

[Salman]

America was never really big on witchcraft trials, rather Massachustetts caught the tail end of the English witchcraft hysteria.