Yes, those regions have some rather big levels of autonomy. Even used their own money. Scottish pound differs from British pound even today.

Hanged. Meat is hung. People are hanged.

Some people are hung. Usually not witches, though.

Godammit

In this case you are right.

Both are fine for people. Hanged is actually more outdated and is used as the past tense for hanging (as in the execution).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/hung-or-hanged

were hung in the U.S. and the U.K., but burned in Scotland.

I guess some wanted to see them, while others rather wanted to smell them.

Speak for yourself, I'm hung as a horse.

But people are meat

Women. They hanged and burned women.

Why?

I prefer my witches hung

We probably needed the heat. It can get quite chilly up here.

Interestingly when you are hanged, you get a boner. It's a real thing.

People would be nuts about medicine from some of the corpses, as the essence of criminals can be helpful. One such thing was to rub the sweat of the condemned on their hemmaroids. I forget what they did with redheads but they were really good for stuff.

Men were also accused of witchcraft, just not as often. By the 1600's it's estimated 100k people had been sacrificed to such allegations, burning being the go to method of dealing with them and heretics.

The witch hunts primarily arose due to women owning property and gaining class consciousness against the feudal system. Yes, men were killed in the witch hunts, but that doesn't negate their primary purpose

A lot of the witch trials were for the church, and the aristocracy, to prevent anyone challenging their authority. Ie, practicing herbal medicine was a big one. Any Shamans of barbarian tribes they wanted to convert, all sorts of stuff like that.

Yes, and women put to death for witchcraft had their property given to the church

There are ways of telling whether she is a witch. Tell me, what do you do with witches?

Scotland is part of the UK. You mean they were hanged in England.

I'm hung as a hearse.

Most victims were of lower class and didn't own any property though. Like the wave of witch hunts in South Eastern German regions targeting the homeless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaubererjackl_witch_trials

There wasn't really any primary purpose. Many were done just as a reaction to economic hardship by the general population in mass hysterias without any deeper meaning.

The last confirmed execution for witchcraft in England was in 1682.

The United Kingdom (UK) did not come into existence until 1707 - when the Act of Union united England and Scotland.

The last execution for witchcraft in Scotland was in 1727, which was by burning. At that time Scotland was part of the United Kingdom, so witches WERE burnt in the UK, but only in Scotland, NOT in England.

And my pork pulled

Meh. Language is descriptive, not prescriptive

John Dee wasn't executed.

That and everyone loves the smell of a barbeque.

regions

Countries.

big levels of autonomy

We didn't back then.

Scottish pound differs from British pound even today

No it doesn't. Its the exact same.

Events like that, which spans on different continents and different centuries absolutely don't have a common cause or purpose. It's easy to read in them confirmations of one's own preconceptions…

UK didn't exist yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeyOBAra014

The Angel's Kiss I think it was known as

"You can lead FiskFisk33 to water but you can't get over the size of his genitals"

• Paraphrased from some show or other I watched a long time ago

I hate this stupid rule. No matter what word you use, the outcome is exactly the same. Something or someone is suspended off of the ground.

Its funny because I thought only warlocks were hung.

Unless you're well hung.

I, for one, don't enjoy the Holocaust smell

Central Europe went nuts over witches. The general thought is that the driving force behind the witch hunts was the Reformation and Counter Reformation that drove Christians and leadership to more extreme positions to position themselves as the "defenders of the true faith" and to attract adherents. They centered around battleground states where protestant and catholic states bordered. In areas where one faith had a monopoly they were rare. The Spanish Inquisition actually suppressed witch hunts. Witch hunts peaked with the wars of religion period around 1560 to 1630.

Socio-economic turmoil and changes in the law fed the craze with groups that could not defend themselves made into convinient scapegoats.

"In the Middle Ages, if you accused a neighbor of witchcraft and could not prove it, you faced the legal penalty they would have received. This kept accusations low."

"In the early modern era, local states took over prosecution. Authorities could arrest people based on mere rumors, try them in secret, and legally use judicial torture to extract confessions. Tortured victims routinely named friends and neighbors to make the pain stop, creating a self-perpetuating loop of mass arrests."

"The craze finally disintegrated after the 1648 Peace of Westphalia. The treaty established fixed territorial borders for religions, eliminating the open competition for souls and causing witchcraft prosecutions to plummet."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Moravia_witch_trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum

One such thing was to rub the sweat of the condemned on their hemmaroids

Alrighty then

I can't imagine standing at one of these executions and it not occurring to me that, if these women had command of magical powers... why wouldn't they use them to escape?

Yay.

A pedant.

We actually have a memorial near me to the women who were killed in a witch Hunt in my area.

In a pretty famous case, Giles Corey refused to plea to the accusation of witchcraft against him. He was pressed to death. Each time he was asked to plea over the course of three days he replied, "more weight."

Pretty sure at least one is really bad for people. I'm not a doctor though.

There is absolutely nothing saying you must be a woman to be a Witch. Wizard being the male equivalent is a modern usage.

Every other male magic user: That is baseless slander!

Warlock i think

I love when someone gets something that is less than obvious that I comment. made my day.

Hence the "usually". The girls still outnumber us.

From what I can see warlock, like wizard, came to mean male sorcerer later. Though earlier than wizard in this case.

Happy to have done so!