Lawyer seeks to pardon 2,500 Scottish witches

[UM-Bot]

Over 300 years ago, thousands of Scots were burnt at the stake because they were believed to be witches.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/339513/lawyer-seeks-to-pardon-2500-scottish-witches

[keithisco]

James 1st took a particular delight as the "Royal Witchfinder" and Scotland pursued a policy of burning at the stake. Oddly, this form of execution was almost unheard of in England where Hanging was the preferred option.

[+Razman]

Honestly , What the hell good does pardoning them do, its already far too late.

[Orphalesion]

5 hours ago, seanjo said:

Catholics...

Eh, the Puritans were rather burn-happy too. And across Europa enough witches were persecuted and burnt in protestant areas. In fact witch craft was a convenient thing the followers of Catholicism and the various Protestant movements could accuse each other of. 

[Festina]

14 hours ago, seanjo said:

Catholics...

Protestants as well.

It seems the trials, tortures, burnings and hangings of innocent citizens for the most part were all part of a Holy War between the two Christian rivals ; Catholics and Protestants.  

And.....there was “money to be made” as both sides confiscated the property of the accused and divided up the “spoils of war”  amongst themselves. This practice still occurs albeit it wears a coat of a different color. 

What a world we live in.  

The book is a history on the subject, not a “how to” book.  It’s useful on the subject —  albeit poorly titled.  

[Festina]

8 minutes ago, seanjo said:

I'd take a wild guess and say that Catholics murdered the most women for witchcraft...

 

This isn't an anti-catholic thing either, I was brought up as a Roman Catholic my parents are practicing RC's

Yes.  The Catholics, by their own admission were mostly responsible.  

[Jon the frog]

12 hours ago, razman said:

Honestly , What the hell good does pardoning them do, its already far too late.

Probably that the lawyers involved was in desperate need of attention....

[Festina]

On 9/13/2020 at 1:20 PM, keithisco said:

James 1st took a particular delight as the "Royal Witchfinder" and Scotland pursued a policy of burning at the stake. Oddly, this form of execution was almost unheard of in England where Hanging was the preferred option.

The Catholics were into burning as punishment.  Thousands of Cathars and Giordano Bruno were victims of this method. 

But it was the jews who did it before the Catholics as it listed in  613 Mitzvahs under “administering justice” as a method of punishment along with stoning, suffocation and decapitation by the sword.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-613-mitzvot-commandments

545	The courts must carry out the death penalty of stoning	Deut. 22:24
546	The courts must carry out the death penalty of burning	Lev. 20:14
547	The courts must carry out the death penalty of the sword	Ex. 21:20
548	The courts must carry out the death penalty of strangulation	Lev. 20:10
549	The courts must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry