Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2022/04/14/scotland-apologies-for-the-historic-persecution-of-witches.html
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Your auto-correct is misfiring today. Her name is Nicola Sturgeon.
Now, what about us heretics?
Good.
The Scotts are on top of this whole “Witch Grooming” thingy. /s
4000 (fourth row in the picture)? Pfaugh, check out Germany and Switzerland. Also, this source is completely at odds with the “2/3 were executed” claim.
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It’s about time someone apologized for all our suffering so many lifetimes ago.
It’s a bit weird that they separate out Scotland and England (presumably because over most of this period the United Kingdom didn’t exist) but at the same time talk about numbers for “Germany” and “Italy”, which likewise didn’t exist as countries at the time.
Better late than never? At the same time, it feels almost progressive relative to the US, where I feel like any day we’ll start back up with government persecution of “witches” (among others).
Pandering for that crucial immortal witch vote.
Is the lack of either an s or a z at the appropriate place in the headline due to indecision about which to use? Since this is a story about Scotland apologising, let’s go with s.
Legal stats will always show Scotland and England separately, because they have two distinct legal systems, with their own, separate laws and record-keeping.
If you were to go by the similarity of legal systems, you would have more of a case for reporting England and the USA together than England and Scotland.
The Scots were indeed hell on wheels when it came to witches. No joke.
It’s wose than that
Germany tried and executed 9587 witches, and not being satisfied with that, they just went and executed 6887 more without so much as a trial.
fuckers.
I think that graph shows, for Germany, 6,887 tried and executed and another 9,587 tried (and presumably not punished by execution or found not guilty).
Color me shocked that Spain only had 1. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to only kill one witch. I guess the rest were heretics?
Yeah, that is what I am getting from that graph. The part in red is the number actually killed.
For a long time in many parts of Europe, denouncing someone as a witch to the authorities was not a good move, because believing that witchcraft existed was heresy.
Additionally, if you look at the times and places that did see accusations of witchcraft, they generally happened in poor areas during times of unrest and weak central authority.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition… at all!