I, apparently, suck.

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Just got a batch of links from my mate Charlie. Seems the Burning Times is another one of those myths, like that Pope Joan. Yes, witches [1] were tried and burned and tortured, but it wasn't a wholescale genocide sort of thing. At least, not during the times courts kept records. Of course, that only goes back to the age of the printing press and doesn't cover what happened to the Druids when Britain was invaded by the Romans, but then again, unless I work out how to summon the ghost of Magic Users Past, that's probably just another myth too.

So, you're all right, I'm wrong (again) and I'm going to stop attempting to be clever and go play with Meggan.

Edit: The links, since you lot obviously don't understand the words "I got it wrong":

http://www.cog.org/witch_hunt.html
http://www.wiccaweb.com/suck_misconceptions.php
http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_burn.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_burn1.htm


There.

Edit 2: [1] or perfectly non-magically adept people who for whatever reason were called witches.

Comments

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The Romans indeed had an Inquisition. It actually tended to be a little... nicer, on the whole, than the Spanish Inquisition. Damn, it's been a long while since I studied this sort of thing...

If I really wanted to get started, I'd be telling you about how the medieval period was actually fundamentally more tolerant than the period of the Renaissance and Reformation. So much for the 'Dark Ages'.

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Tell you what, the next time I have a spare dupe and am bored out of its skull (er, so, probably pretty soon, actually) and you feel like lecturing, I'll take you up on that. :)

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Medieval? Aren't the medieval times categorizes by being after the fall of the Roman Empire? And turkey legs (http://www.medievaltimes.com/)? (Joking!)

Don't get me started on the nonsense that's been propagated about the Spanish Inquisition

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I do know nobody expects it!