Posted on 11/20/2021 6:27:05 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On an uncertain date in November 1676, the Gävle Boy paid the penalty for his elders’ credulity.
Only 13 years old at his death, he’d spent the foregoing months as the star witness in Stockholm’s witch trials. Like the hysteria itself, he’d migrated to the capital from the provinces; it’s said that in his native town of Gävle, he’d orphaned himself with a witchcraft accusation against his own mother.
Sent off by relatives to live in Stockholm, young Johann Johansson Griis (or Grijs) found his previous evidence made him an expert courtroom authority on the infernal arts; driven by some blend of blandishments and cajolery sufficient to stimulate the youthful imagination’s potent capacity for blending fancy insensibly with fact, Griis was in no time at all sending fresh victims to the scaffold with his freaky stories about Blåkulla.
No, Blåkulla, a sort brunch buffet for Swedish sorcerors.
Hard to imagine this kid and a few others like him were given carte blanche to destroy people’s lives with increasingly ludicrous Satanic abuse stories....
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17th century form of “cancelling”. Instead of saying “witch”, the mob screams “racist”.
Now we have the fbi to do that.
How many people were murdered due to christian superstitions over the centuries?
It’s probably like the number of licks to get to the center of a tootsie-pop question.
Hmmmm. Kinda sounds like a repeat for the wicked evil ‘unvaxxed’ heretics. Odd eh?
Blacula or Blakulla?
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