Posted on 09/18/2021 6:27:30 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1685, Catholic priest Kryštof* Alois Lautner was degraded from the clergy and burnt at the stake as a sorcer — but his real crime was standing athwart a witch hunt.
The term “witch craze” doesn’t quite seem the just one for the Northern Moravian witch trials since they spanned 18 terribly systematic years until the gouty main inquisitor mercifully retired in 1696, having put about 100 people to the sword and stake.
Generally understood in the context of Catholic hostility to reform denominations on the soil of the present-day Czech Republic, this dreadful affair started when a Vernirovice woman was caught sneaking the Host out of Easter Mass in 1678, intending to use it as a charm for a folk spell to enhance the fertility of her cows.
By 1679, that woman was burned at the stake — along with two others whom she was induced to accuse by the threat of torture.
These executions were the fruit of a witchcraft commission that had been empaneled to pursue the original desecration of the communion bread, but now that the witch team was an institution it began finding more and more necromancers, in a self-justifying spiral of accusations.
Lautner, a well-liked deacon of Sumperk, spoke against the witch hunt when it came to that city and for his pains he was arrested there in 1680 … then leisurely broken by torture over a period of four years until he was at last undone by accusations wrenched from the torture of the wealthy Sattler family. (Whose valuables the commission did not neglect to appropriate.) It was standard witchcraft fare: black sabbaths, incestuous orgies, pacts with Satan.....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
“Pope Innocent XI ultimately signed off on proceedings, on the sententious grounds that clergy can’t be above the law when they traffic with devils.”
Now witches just run for public offices or work on television
But one would think that they would be better at what they do with the magic to assist them. They mostly suck at what they do.
They mostly suck at what they do for us. That is to be expected.
Gimme that old time religion.
I am descended from a woman hanged as a witch at Salem, along with her 2 sisters
// Now witches just run for public offices or work on television. //
Yup. And their overt harmful / evil actions rule the rest of us for way too long.
Article // The term “witch craze” doesn’t quite seem the just one for the Northern Moravian witch trials since they spanned 18 terribly systematic years until the gouty main inquisitor mercifully retired in 1696, having put about 100 people to the sword and stake. //
Witch Hammer
They used to open for Megadeth
Once in a while they become speaker of the House.
They were not executed today. The only executions today are in other countries like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. And China.
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