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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Not to impugn your or your friend Charlie's knowledge but a quick Google search gave me a bunch of links that suggest the "witches" burned where nothing of the sort. That's like saying that only the mentally ill were put into Nazi concentration camps. Sure they were but that wasn't the largest group. Saying that witches were burned (which is inaccurate anyway because what do you mean by witches? Wiccans who didn't exist yet? Pagans? Nature worshippers? Satanists?) presumes that people were sophisticated enough to differentiate between a real witch and just the guy down the street who owes you money. It's not realistic. Most of the people were probably just like the rest of Europe at the time, Christian of some flavor or another.

Court records go back plenty further than the printing press. They're just hand-written is all.

Wasn't Britain colonised by the Romans? Who weren't Christian and generally fonder of not giving a damn about religions that didn't rouse-rabble?

Oooh, except that I see this one site is blaming the Burning Times on the Inquisition. Yeah, that's about as inaccurate as you can get.

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Fuck, I'm agreeing with you lot. I got it bloody well wrong. I'll give you the blody links, if you insist...

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No, no, I read what you were saying and it still sounded like you meant that witches were the ones getting burned. Which wasn't the case. Again it's like saying Jews were the target of the Spanish Inquistion. They weren't. Only Jews who claimed to be Christian but were secretly Jewish fell under the offices of the Inquistion.

Links are good though. I like links.