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A Historical Reflection: Five Reasons Why Women Were Burned at the Stake
The witch hunts of the 15th to 18th centuries ... perceived moral and intellectual inferiority. Women were also burned at the ...
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200 Years Before The Salem Witch Trials, There Were Werewolf Trials Held In Europe
witches were blamed for causing bad crops, blindness, infertility, turning into wolves, and killing cattle. Hundreds of men and women were convicted and burned at the stake with sacks of gunpowder ...
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History of Scotland's witches revealed in new book by campaigners who won pardon for women burned at stake
The history of Scotland's witches is to be revealed in a new book written by the women who campaigned to get a formal state pardon for women burned at the stake hundreds of years ago. How to Kill ...
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Was Irish witch Darkey Kelly really Ireland’s first serial killer?
For generations, Darkey Kelly was known in Dublin’s folk memory as the woman who was burned at the stake for witchcraft after she accused the Sheriff of Dublin, Luttrell, of fathering her baby.