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[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (2 children) 200 years ago was 1826 and firmly in the industrial/modern era, they were not executing anyone for witchcraft at that time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tempest@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (1 child) Witch trials were more a 1400-1700s deal. I learned this when I took a class in university 13 years ago. I got a b- so keep that in mind. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yeah, it was a populist concession to the protestant Reformation. The high middle ages would leave you just being seen as a cunning person or a lunatic depending on charisma and reproducibility. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Crazy people have always existed (yeah sorry I know that's a harsh and reductive description mental illness), and most times and places throughout history if you were spouting stuff people didn't understand they'd most likely just chalk you up as a crazy person and ignore you, not put you on trial for being a witch. Unless you were threatening to upset the social order, then you might get in hot water, otherwise you were just another lunatic. permalink fedilink source parent [–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) Kepari Leniata was burned alive in 2013 in Papua New Guinea over accusations of witchcraft. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ugh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) Wow, I hadn't heard of this. Twenty-year-old Kepari Leniata was stripped, tied up, doused in petrol and burned alive by relatives of a boy who had died following an illness in the city of Mount Hagen. The attackers claimed Kepari had caused the boy’s death through sorcery. Apparently it wasn't an isolated incident, either. Amnesty International has received reports of girls as young as eight years old being attacked and accused of sorcery, and children being orphaned as a result of one or both their parents being killed after accusations of witchcraft. Quotes are from this link permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago Yeah. I don’t know why people are downvoting a verifiable fact. Western arrogance and ignorance I suppose. Can’t fathom that if something doesn’t happen in their narrow window to the world it must not happen anywhere. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (1 child) Witch trials were more a 1400-1700s deal. I learned this when I took a class in university 13 years ago. I got a b- so keep that in mind. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yeah, it was a populist concession to the protestant Reformation. The high middle ages would leave you just being seen as a cunning person or a lunatic depending on charisma and reproducibility. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Crazy people have always existed (yeah sorry I know that's a harsh and reductive description mental illness), and most times and places throughout history if you were spouting stuff people didn't understand they'd most likely just chalk you up as a crazy person and ignore you, not put you on trial for being a witch. Unless you were threatening to upset the social order, then you might get in hot water, otherwise you were just another lunatic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 child) Yeah, it was a populist concession to the protestant Reformation. The high middle ages would leave you just being seen as a cunning person or a lunatic depending on charisma and reproducibility. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Crazy people have always existed (yeah sorry I know that's a harsh and reductive description mental illness), and most times and places throughout history if you were spouting stuff people didn't understand they'd most likely just chalk you up as a crazy person and ignore you, not put you on trial for being a witch. Unless you were threatening to upset the social order, then you might get in hot water, otherwise you were just another lunatic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago Crazy people have always existed (yeah sorry I know that's a harsh and reductive description mental illness), and most times and places throughout history if you were spouting stuff people didn't understand they'd most likely just chalk you up as a crazy person and ignore you, not put you on trial for being a witch. Unless you were threatening to upset the social order, then you might get in hot water, otherwise you were just another lunatic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) Kepari Leniata was burned alive in 2013 in Papua New Guinea over accusations of witchcraft. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ugh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) Wow, I hadn't heard of this. Twenty-year-old Kepari Leniata was stripped, tied up, doused in petrol and burned alive by relatives of a boy who had died following an illness in the city of Mount Hagen. The attackers claimed Kepari had caused the boy’s death through sorcery. Apparently it wasn't an isolated incident, either. Amnesty International has received reports of girls as young as eight years old being attacked and accused of sorcery, and children being orphaned as a result of one or both their parents being killed after accusations of witchcraft. Quotes are from this link permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago Yeah. I don’t know why people are downvoting a verifiable fact. Western arrogance and ignorance I suppose. Can’t fathom that if something doesn’t happen in their narrow window to the world it must not happen anywhere. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ugh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) Wow, I hadn't heard of this. Twenty-year-old Kepari Leniata was stripped, tied up, doused in petrol and burned alive by relatives of a boy who had died following an illness in the city of Mount Hagen. The attackers claimed Kepari had caused the boy’s death through sorcery. Apparently it wasn't an isolated incident, either. Amnesty International has received reports of girls as young as eight years old being attacked and accused of sorcery, and children being orphaned as a result of one or both their parents being killed after accusations of witchcraft. Quotes are from this link permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago Yeah. I don’t know why people are downvoting a verifiable fact. Western arrogance and ignorance I suppose. Can’t fathom that if something doesn’t happen in their narrow window to the world it must not happen anywhere. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago Yeah. I don’t know why people are downvoting a verifiable fact. Western arrogance and ignorance I suppose. Can’t fathom that if something doesn’t happen in their narrow window to the world it must not happen anywhere. permalink fedilink source parent
