It's October. Discuss the Salem Witch Trials. Were they really witches?
Why would witches bother to mess with some random town? Modern conspiracy theorists at least treat magical occultists as the elites which is where sorcerers naturally would be at.
>>18050612Obviously
God I hate Catholics
>>18050623Are you fucking retarded? They were Puritans you dumb fuck.
>>18050620They were just tools of the devil.
>>18050625no way, protties are good guys and the purgers of superstition
>>18050635Look at the state of the modern world and tell me demons and witches aren't real.
Reminder that literally the only person to actually admit to being a witch, speaking with the devil, and being full of oogabooga pagan blasphemies was released by Salem authorities where they then proceeded to execute their own daughters instead.
>>18050635Protestants were more notorious for witch hunts than Catholics ever were. Catholics just went on heresy hunts.
>>18050635Catholics for all their flaws actually required proof of heresy, apostasy and/or sorcery, and their official investigations just discarded almost every accusation of witchcraft as gossip and bad faith rumors that got out of hand. Almost all medieval witch burnings in Catholic areas were done by secular authorities without official church oversight. Protestants on the other hand instantly believed any hysterical accusations without any reasonable doubt.
>>18050626Why would the devil mess with some random town instead of messing with rulers and major cities? Is Satan stupid?
>>18050612Pretty clearly there were witches there, the question is whether the witches did anything wrong.
No the town was just accidentally being poisoned by ergot and it caused mass hysteria and hallucinations.
>>18050658>he thinks anyone is beyond the devil's notice
>>18050655It was more about jealous and catty prot women wanting to get rid of the good looking single women because they didn't fuck their husbands and didn't want some other woman fucking their husband. Prot women are cold.
>>18050655Literally everything you just said is untrue
>>18050670Great and you don't have an argument.
>>18050612I haven't seen any witches around so they did a good job.
>>18050612That happened in February tho
We see enough examples of mass formation psychosis in modern times, so imagine how easily this could happen in a religion obsessed frontier settlement. Teenage girls messing with Euro folk magic and anti Christian edginess, spurred on by a slave girl and her voudou island background.
>>18050643dindu nuffin
>>18050635>protties are good guys and the purgers of superstition>which is why i believe the catholic church is ran by a satanic Jewish cabal (even though I still love Jews and worship one)
>>18051037It happened from February 1692 to May 1693.
>>18050623almost no witch hunts occurred in ireland or spainalso almost no witch hunts occurred in the entire middle ages; the enlightenment arguably had more
No. In court, you could literally say that a woman's spirit was harming you, and she would be found guilty and burned alive the next day.
>>18050655>Almost all medieval witch burnings in Catholic areas were done by secular authorities without official church oversight.yes, because the church delegated the task to the secular authorities.
