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On 30 Mar 2003 at 23:29, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> Don't know where you got this idea from, the First Papal
> Inquisition in 1232 was specifically for witches and
> sorcerers. And a bit later, in the Burning Times (1450-1700
> roughly) the church burned and hanged hundreds of thousands
> of people, mostly women witches or alleged witches.
Don't be silly
The largest single witchcraft pursecutions killed a few
hundred, not tens of thousands. Add them all up you are going
to get something from several hundred to a few thousand
See the book "witches and neighbors" for a realistic survey of
witchcraft persecutions
You are projecting modern totalitarianism back to an era when
it was unknown.
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