#witch trials

[nalyra-dreaming]

Something that someone genuinely believes happened that couldn't have?

I feel this way about the witches’ place cause there were no witch burnings anymore in the years Lestat would’ve been a child

Mhhh.

Actually:

Witch trials in the early modern period - Wikipedia

"to 1775"

So easily in Lestat's childhood.

[chroniclesofhistory]

The First Witch Trial: Before Salem

​We all know the story of Salem, but the true colonial witch panic began decades earlier in Connecticut. In 1647, Alice "Alse" Young became the first person in the American colonies to be executed for witchcraft.

​While Salem saw the most famous trials in 1692, Connecticut’s intense period of persecution lasted from 1647 to 1697. Nearly 40 people were accused, and 11 were executed. Unlike the hysteria we associate with later trials, these were often tied to strict Puritan anxieties in new, untamed settlements. It’s a haunting reminder that the fear of the unknown ran deep in the very foundations of early American life.

[thegeekytaurus]

It’s strange how media about the Salem witch trials, or witch trials in the Americas more broadly, usually centers white women as the victims, while often ignoring the fact that many women of colour were also targeted during witch hunts across the Americas.

[sunnyfuneral]

We should be meaner to atheist and pagans who claim that women who were killed during the witch trial were actual witches

Deeply devout christian women who practised medicine that was accessible to their communities, disabled women, what we maybe would call queer in our own context , poor women, deeply devout Christians who under torture refused to recant their faith should not be reinterpreted as witches.

It is an insult to their memory, and we are once again , listening to the men that prosecuted them over their own voices in what they should be called.

This is not apologetics for Christianity or the witch trials. it's just as bad as retroactively baptising people. we are once again removing the autonomy of these women , not listening to them in their own words and deciding that we know their real secret identities despite all of their public proclamation of their devout faith.

[valkyries-things]

ANNA GÖLDI // THE LAST WITCH OF SWITZERLAND

“She was a Swiss housemaid who was one of the last persons to be executed for witchcraft in Europe. Göldi, who was executed by decapitation in Glarus, has been called the "last witch" in Switzerland. She was posthumously exonerated by the government of the canton of Glarus in 2008.”

[weebuddycat]

One of these days, I will be able to travel to Scotland to visit all of the Outlander filming locations. It has been put on hold due to illness and loss of employment but I still hold on to hope to travel to all the places of my desires.

[madonnamadeofasphalt]

The witch trials that ended with making the accused pay a fine are so funny to me. We find you guilty of being a bride of the Devil, participating in rites most hideous and profane, as well as employing dark forces to bring misfortune upon your neighbours. You should give your local magistrate a hundred louidors within 30 days, and please don't do it again