I, apparently, suck.
May. 25th, 2005 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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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Date: 2005-05-25 10:10 pm (UTC)Like I said, Homer and the Bible. It's not word for word fact and the king who slaughtered four hundred men probably didn't really but the point is he was a great warrior and king.
And again, the Spanish Inquisition. Not actually an orgy of blood and torture but a hundred years later when the English told everyone it has been then that's what it became and now they're to blame for that scene in history of the world part one.
Yes?