Yeah, it was a populist concession to the protestant Reformation. The high middle ages would leave you just being seen as a cunning person or a lunatic depending on charisma and reproducibility.
Crazy people have always existed (yeah sorry I know that’s a harsh and reductive description mental illness), and most times and places throughout history if you were spouting stuff people didn’t understand they’d most likely just chalk you up as a crazy person and ignore you, not put you on trial for being a witch. Unless you were threatening to upset the social order, then you might get in hot water, otherwise you were just another lunatic.
Twenty-year-old Kepari Leniata was stripped, tied up, doused in petrol and burned alive by relatives of a boy who had died following an illness in the city of Mount Hagen. The attackers claimed Kepari had caused the boy’s death through sorcery.
Apparently it wasn’t an isolated incident, either.
Amnesty International has received reports of girls as young as eight years old being attacked and accused of sorcery, and children being orphaned as a result of one or both their parents being killed after accusations of witchcraft.
Yeah. I don’t know why people are downvoting a verifiable fact. Western arrogance and ignorance I suppose. Can’t fathom that if something doesn’t happen in their narrow window to the world it must not happen anywhere.
If I went back in time at least 200 years ago and I wasn’t burned for witchcraft the world would be a much different place.
200 years ago was 1826 and firmly in the industrial/modern era, they were not executing anyone for witchcraft at that time.
Witch trials were more a 1400-1700s deal.
I learned this when I took a class in university 13 years ago. I got a b- so keep that in mind.
Yeah, it was a populist concession to the protestant Reformation. The high middle ages would leave you just being seen as a cunning person or a lunatic depending on charisma and reproducibility.
Crazy people have always existed (yeah sorry I know that’s a harsh and reductive description mental illness), and most times and places throughout history if you were spouting stuff people didn’t understand they’d most likely just chalk you up as a crazy person and ignore you, not put you on trial for being a witch. Unless you were threatening to upset the social order, then you might get in hot water, otherwise you were just another lunatic.
Kepari Leniata was burned alive in 2013 in Papua New Guinea over accusations of witchcraft.
Wow, I hadn’t heard of this.
Apparently it wasn’t an isolated incident, either.
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Yeah. I don’t know why people are downvoting a verifiable fact. Western arrogance and ignorance I suppose. Can’t fathom that if something doesn’t happen in their narrow window to the world it must not happen anywhere.
Fortunately, no one was burned for witchcraft. That said, still harassed and killed.
Nobody was burned in the Salem witch trials, but I thought burnings still happened in other, previous locations. Is that wrong?
Witch burnings were absolutely a thing.
It might even have started in Valais/Wallis, Switzerland ;)
The area was poor and dumb back then.
It still is xd
Well, true.
I’m seeing the word “burned” a lot on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_for_witchcraft