Rhiannon gets down...
I love it. Now tell, me, since you obviously know more about this than I do--was anyone ever drowned as a result of the 'witches float' test, or did they actually do it at Salem? It's been a while since I read up on this, so I forget--but I thought they had. Did they fish them out so they could humanely hang them? Or is this just another myth like the burnings.
Didn't the whole thing start when some teenage girls were caught having a little bisexual orgy? Not wanting to admit they were naughty, they came up with the 'bewitched' excuse, correct?
I'm not all that impressed by the confessed witches, they may have been going with the easy way out--easier than getting crushed by rocks or half-drowned, anyway.
The methods of execution and interrogation were imported from England, correct? Was rock-crushing common there, perhaps a century or so before the less tolerant Puritans sought the religious freedom to make everyone pray the same?
And obviously the accused witches were considered guilty. Hell, I would only admit to being a witch if I thought they might crush me or make me breathe water. Not to pick nits with a superior nitpicker, lol...
Were any of them in their own minds witches, for real?
Perhaps this should be a new thread, but I love talking to people who know their history.
Later--it should be a new thread, so I made it one, lol. Since no one is likely to get riled up about it, I did it here.
Rhiannon, if you answered my questions there, sorry it took so long. I've been too busy to get wireless hooked up so it's still glacially slow dialup for me.



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