Seems like a good idea, I know I've never heard of a noose killing a real witch.

Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Sutherland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours. Horne was showing signs of senility, and her daughter had a deformity of her hands and feet. The neighbours accused Horne of having used her daughter as a pony to ride to the Devil, where she had her shod by him. The trial was conducted very quickly; the sheriff, Captain David Ross, had judged both guilty and sentenced them to be burned at the stake. The daughter managed to escape, but Janet was stripped, smeared with tar, paraded through the town on a barrel and burned alive.[2] Nine years after her death the witchcraft acts were repealed in Scotland.

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

Apart from being burned alive that's just a blackening! A wedding tradition still done to this day.

Best not to think about such things.

Not a historian but if recall correctly the swimming test followed the logic that water is sacred (baptism) and would reject a witch

If you float your a witch, sink and you are innocent. Too bad some drowned this way.

This was not an recognised science, but common folklore, the people demanded such test after there where already rumours.

The majority of witch trials happend within a real court but they usually made sure (torture) that there was a confession.

For a commoner, who may not have experienced the means to get confession first hand they had no reason to doubt their word.

There where also some ready answers for your exact questioning, one is that witches have no power of their own but get it from Satan, who is “the father of lies” some confessions included a supposed promise by Satan to protect them, which didn’t happen and gets turned into a warning that Satan will deceive even those that are loyal.

Probably because it's colder up north. They need the warmth.

I've heard Angel lust

Some justifications of torture too were that if we're truly devoted you wouldn't lie. No matter the condition.

It is kind of funny, in a macabre way, of the inquisition being like "no, no, no that's not how you torture people and burn them at all" or "witches don't be ridiculous that's a red hearing to hide the heritics!"

When you are in control you don't want a mob running loose.