Witch-Killing: Group Kicks as Court Discharges Man Charged With Murder of Woman

PREMIUM Times ^ | December 18, 2024 | Chinagorom Ugwu

[BenLurkin]

Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AFAW).......

[one guy in new jersey]

1-2 things lost in translation here lol

[fidelis]

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Did she weigh as much as a duck?

(You knew someone had to ask.)

[fidelis]

“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 neighbours 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 simply 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 he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.”

― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

[Angelino97]

Well, she did turn him into a newt.

Thankfully, he got better.

[null and void]

she had a witch’s nose.

[Valpal1]

So what do you suppose the brother in law was trying to cover up by having his sister in law beaten to death?

Cause you know there’s backstory here. Did she refuse to make him a sammich?

[Paladin2]

Beat me to posting the US equivalent.....

[I-ambush]

She was found at trial to weigh the same as a duck! It was a fair cop. Also, they couldn’t burn her because it’s dry season.

[nickcarraway]

We should not kill her. But I think it would be cool if they could make her the ambassador to Western Sahara.

[gnarledmaw]

In Africa its somewhere between often and regularly a curse of penis shrinkage. Sometimes its in retaliation for wizards sending over their underwear goblins to pull a heist.

African vampires and flying wizards

[Steely Tom]

All cultures are the same, none are superior.

[No name given]

Indeed.

[Steely Tom]

We all know this, and repeat it to ourselves several times a day.

[Fzob]

Yes, all cultures have equal value. /s

[fidelis]

It wasn’t all that long ago we were burning “witches” in this country. We are only 200 years or so smarter than some other cultures.

[rlmorel]

I used to work with a guy who was married to a woman with six sisters...

He called them “The Coven”...:)

Holidays were probably interesting!

[nickcarraway]

Well, in fairness, witch-burning in the U.S. was localized to a brief area, and a brief time period.