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witch hunts: divine folly
Witch hunting. How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for the better part of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? It seems inconceivable, and yet, though the numbers have often been exaggerated, the facts themselves are not in doubt. The European … Continue reading
BEDEVILED OF COMMON SENSE
Torture and mythology, the pincers and the book, these were the essential machinery of the European witch craze. Out of hallucination and suggestion was created a terrible empire of darkness which then acquired a life and momentum of its own, … Continue reading
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Tagged Clouddragon, Colbert, Edward Gibbon, Francesco Maria Guazzo, H.C. Lea, H.C. Lea History of the Inquisition, Henry More, John Selden, Matthew Hopkins, Nicolas Remy, Salem Witch burning, Sir Francis Bacon, Spanish Inquisition, Witch burning, Witch Persecution, witch torture
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