I, apparently, suck.

[xp_daytripper]

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.

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Re: And speaking of history...

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Must be nice to come from someplace with actual history. In America it always feels like we're scrapping for interesting things to say about our country.

Or maybe that's just me.

Mine was a very, very old family.

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We have records - admittedly spotty ones - that go back to Rome Herself during her heyday.

Thousands of years of de la Rochas - our lives, our experiences, or hates and loves and passions and dealings.

That's probably all gone now. I don't know what came of the archives when Alphonso was assassinated.

Probably snatched by some university somewhere, if not actually just burned as rubbish.

Manuel