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A Brief History Of The Salem Witch Trials
Smitsonian ^
| 10-24-2007
| Jess Blumberg
Posted on 10/26/2007 11:40:54 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:40:55 AM PDT
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:41:20 AM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
We think, as a society, we are smarter, more scientific, and savvy enough that this will never happen again...
But we are doing the same thing as they did, right now, with Global Warming.
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:45:04 AM PDT
by
Cogadh na Sith
(Peace Through Light)
To: blam
This is what happens when you give people too much power over you. Like socialists, they will attempt to control every aspect of your life if they don’t like how you think or speak.
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:45:46 AM PDT
by
RC2
To: blam
She doesn't look like a witch.
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:48:45 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: Cogadh na Sith
Political correctness too. (And, calling everything racist)
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:49:56 AM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:50:35 AM PDT
by
griffin
(Love Jesus, No Fear!)
To: blam
Maybe it was just a very bad year for witches and the were justly condemned.
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:51:11 AM PDT
by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: Cogadh na Sith
Yes, and no.
If I truly believed that a person was in legue with the Devil, and using powers of the Devil to kill other people — people I loved -— I could see knocking them off.
The distinction being that I do not believe the evil forces of the world work like that.
All that said, the untold part of the story is that several the little girls involved were actually dabbling in (what they believed to be) witchcraft taught to them by a slave that practised some sort of African pagan religion (probably something similar to what we’d now call VooDoo) -— starting the whole fiasco.
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:52:47 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: blam
Duke Lacrosse Frame
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:52:56 AM PDT
by
abb
(The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
To: blam
Something rarely mentioned about the Spanish Inquisition and witch trials, is that they were demanded by the public before they went astray. Usually because the public have become fed up with criminals, perverts and annoying people making mischief.
Also, it is important to note that belief in witches was held by many of the common people, even those accused of witchery. And no doubt, there were some who actively tried to become witches, just as there are today. Except back then, they did so for nefarious purposes.
Today, what would the Secret Service do if somebody was selling voodoo dolls with the President’s face on them in a community that heavily believed in voodoo? While it does not reflect a direct threat on the President’s life, it is still a threat.
To: Cogadh na Sith
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posted on
10/26/2007 11:57:34 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
(Dems want to rob from the poor to give to the rich)
To: Cogadh na Sith
We think, as a society, we are smarter, more scientific, and savvy enough that this will never happen again... Duke LAX.
Actually the left acts like everyday is a Salem Witch trial, accusing Republicans of one thing or another.
To: blam
oh...I thought this was a Hillary! documentary.
...never mind
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posted on
10/26/2007 12:01:21 PM PDT
by
woollyone
(tazers are the 21st century version of the rusty bed frame, car battery, & clamps)
To: Popocatapetl
Something rarely mentioned about the Spanish Inquisition and witch trials, IIRC, few, if any, people were killed as witches in nations with the Inquistion. The Inquistion, as hard as it is to believe now, was probably an advancement in jurisprudence.
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posted on
10/26/2007 12:03:19 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
(Dems want to rob from the poor to give to the rich)
To: blam
Today there's thousands of tourists who come to Salem every October, spending money, snarling traffic, and sometimes getting arrested for drunken or violent behavior. The Witch City..."Stop By For A Spell"
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posted on
10/26/2007 12:05:36 PM PDT
by
raccoonradio
(Boston Red Sox: 2007 American League Champions)
To: blam
The parallel to this was the hysteria that swept the country 10 years ago when over-zealous investigators and social workers were ‘uncovering’ satanic day care centers by aggresively interrogating small children.
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posted on
10/26/2007 12:07:56 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: blam
But the damage had been done: 19 were hanged on Gallows Hill, a 71-year-old man was pressed to death with heavy stones, several people died in jail
Not a single person was burned at the stake? So much for the 'Burn Witch Burn' legends.
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posted on
10/26/2007 12:15:53 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: blam
A weak rendition of what the Vatican did a few centuries earlier. Nobody burns witches like the Vatican.
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posted on
10/26/2007 12:19:17 PM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Islam is to Religion as Taco Bell is to Mexican food)
To: Tribune7
The Inquistion, as hard as it is to believe now, was probably an advancement in jurisprudence. The Inquisition was originally created in order to put a stop to the practice of local authorities using heresy cases for political purposes. The church was in the business of saving souls, not eliminating enemies. It got out of hand when combined with secular authority as in the case of the Spanish Inquisition.
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posted on
10/26/2007 12:25:57 PM PDT
by
antinomian
(Show me a robber baron and I'll show you a pocket full of senators.)
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