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.

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Except that I did. And my professor did.

The truth of the Inquisition was that their realm of inquiry was limited to Christians. The problem in Spain was that, because of the persecution of the Jews (having already run off the Moors), many had "converted" to Christianity as a way to hide their religious beliefs thus opening themselves up to being questioned.

If a man was brought before the inquisition for matters of heresy and said, "but I'm Jewish" they'd pretty much say "thank you and good night." If they said "I'm Christian." then they'd get questioned (but not tortured)

See, this is why it was a whole lecture series.

Suffice it to say, there wasn't any implication that it was "not bad"