“Oh, now. I’m descended from several Protestant groups driven out of France, Alsace-Lorraine, Pfalz, The Palatinate, the Rhineland, Savoy, Moravia and Bohemia, by Catholics.”
I have Huguenot ancestors as well. French Protestants who were driven out by Catholics.
But if NKP wants to point to the Puritans as an especially nasty bunch I’d agree with him. No surprise to find the witch hunts being their doing. James Fenimore Cooper wrote a few books featuring their malign influence back in the 1800s.
Actually, it was the the more devout Puritan, Increase Mather, who insisted the Biblical standard in rules of evidence requiring 2 or 3 witnesses to be applied, which led to the trials’ ceasing.