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What's your position on the Salem Witch Trials?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 77957859:MV80MTMwNDA2Xzc1MDA0NzA4Xzc5RTBFQTRF] [quote:sisatsana888 9645480:MV80MTMwNDA2Xzc1MDA0NTgyXzUyNjg1RDM2] [quote:Anonymous Coward 77957859:MV80MTMwNDA2Xzc1MDA0NDU0X0Y2N0VDNzk=] [quote:sisatsana888 9645480:MV80MTMwNDA2Xzc1MDA0Mjg1X0M5NDNERTEw] They had found Reverend Burroughs guilty (by utter hearsay and spectral lunacy) of being the [b]witch king of Salem[/b]. They searched his body for the devil's mark, but could not find one. And as he stood on the gallows that summer of August 19, 1692, he gave a perfect recitation of the Lord's prayer from the Puritan Geneva Bible, which was said to be an impossible fete for a witch to perform. And then they hanged him, instead of admitting that the whole mob of them were as mad as Burroughs said they were. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burroughs [i]George Burroughs was hanged at Proctor's Ledge in present-day Salem on August 19, 1692. He was the only minister to have experienced this fate in American history. Although the jury had found no witches' marks on his body, he was nonetheless convicted of witchcraft and a conspiracy with the devil. While standing on a ladder before the crowd, waiting to be hanged, he successfully recited the Lord's Prayer, something that was generally considered by the Court of Oyer and Terminer to be impossible for a witch to do. [/i] [/quote] stop fabricating nonsense! there was nothing called a "witch king of salem" you are reading too much Tolkien and fantasy works. [i]Witch-king of Angmar[/i] https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Witch-king_of_Angmar . [/quote] Where do you think Tolkein got the term, genius? [/quote] he pulled it out of his hat....like the elves and the orcs. there are nothing like them in real life. . [/quote]
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Can they be justified? Anyone who studied that period and knows a good argument in their favor?
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