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.

Comments

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose I should have expected that from the guy who thinks of himself as an entire country instead of an individual.

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

It's from the guy who sees himself as one part of a family, a culture, an empire. (Well, a democracy, but we still have an Emperor, even if he is a figurehead.) You should read Confucius. Maybe you'll be enlightened.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I get that - but I can't help but see that as restrictive. I know that it gives you a sense of identity, but I've always had that just from being myself. Different strokes, and all that.

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

I am just myself. But my self also includes the selves of the others who came before me and paved the way for me. They do not restrict me. They are me, so I establish my own boundaries.