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Mediaeval world still with us
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 1:26 pm
by Pervert
Fucking pathetic.
witches
Re: Mediaeval world still with us
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 1:35 pm
by Peter
We were prosecuting witches in the 1940's
Re: Mediaeval world still with us
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 4:31 pm
by BeestonBoy
Peter wrote:
> We were prosecuting witches in the 1940's
Erm not actually the case i'm afraid Peter.
Helen Duncan was in fact held and charged under the "Witchcraft act" but she was never tried for being a witch. She was really charged with little more than being a fake.
The Witchcraft act was used as it was the only law at the time that could be used. Niether Helen Duncan or Jane Rebecca Yorke (tried under the act in 1944) were ever called witches,let alone rounded up in the street by a baying mob and burned alive!!
Cheers
BB
Re: Mediaeval world still with us
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:08 pm
by Peter
Well they should have been! And Paul Daniels too.