She’s a Witch! May We Burn Her?

Awww, yes. The good old days. Used to be able to burn them at the stake, but now we just marry them.

That was a gripping read.

When my increasingly-senile Grandma tries to prove by the news or the TV preachers' evidence that the world will indeed end in 2012, I tell her, "there have been many times in history far more terrible than this one."

…"or perhaps a viral encephalopathy"… Medicalization of deviance, much? I'm all right, you're all right, we're all alright… and if we're not, there's a diagnosis for it, no need to change or think about how maybe we're actually just nuttier than squirrel poop.

The logical part of my brain just fainted. Which is it, that women control men through manipulation of men's insatiable lust or that women are readily controlled by their insatiable need for sex? Couldn't they pick one? Ah, the devil, wooing people down the dark path to healing the sick and injured instead of creating them via torture and rape. I know, when I'm feeling randy, there's nothing that sounds more appealing than "his ice-cold penis" – at first I thought you were describing my husband who often has hordes of women following him, but his is quite warm.

History is often about apologetics. No one wants to admit that men (or the Church) would behave that way, or that the people would just glom on and run with it. So they invent brain addling explanations. I've read through a few, from ergot contamination of the wheat to a viral encephalopathy. They all lay out good cases, but it still doesn't explain 300 years of mass executions, in my book.

I cut my comment short so it wouldn't be lost (like usual) and now I need to be approved. *Sigh*. Your blog hates me.

It is a wonder to me that, in the Western world where we pride ourselves on being "democratic and free," we have historically (and even now) so often villified kindness, education, compassion, tolerance, science and consensual copulation, and glorified torture, war, greed, ignorance, hatred, fear, and yes, even sexual predation?

I'm not scared. I'm disgusted.

I knew I wouldn't have survived back then for some reason!! Oh, and thank the Goddess I don't live in Africa. Just backwoods Misery with all my damn rainbow stickers, oh well!

"The hunters had a guidebook, you see–they knew exactly what to look for. In 1484 two priests named Kramer and Sprenger wrote the “Hammer of Witches” (Malleus Maeleficarum), a lovely piece of fiction which carefully detailed how the devil seduced women to his cause, fornicated with them with his ice-cold penis, and gave them magical healing powers."

— and can you guess which cockpit this wicked witch was in?

Seriously, though, you seem to have a thoroughly comprehensive knowledge of the history of torture. The CIA needs you, now!

Very spooky story! It is appalling and shocking to me how people driven by fear of the unknown can so readily resort to torturing other human beings. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

However, I can't concentrate on that right now. I'm feeling insatiable, and about to go in search of an ice-cold penis!

“She’s a witch! May we burn her?”

I love Monty Python.

It really is sad how men back then were all so fearful of women that they felt the need to “rule”.

I have been reading horrible accounts of the witch hunts in Africa at present time. "Priests" yes I use that so very losely, that are forced to call children out because of money issues and they need the followers. OMG, there is a special place in whatever hell anyone believes in for all of these MEN

People are always afraid of those who are different. In the past they were tortured and killed. That is less acceptable now, but those who are different are still treated poorly.

These stories are retold again and again as the atrocities of the Holocaust, or Khmer Rouge, or countless other massacres of history.

The bottom line is that some people will find justification to murder any group of "different" people, and will drum up flimsy reasons for why such horror is "necessary", and convince the lay population to be a part of it.

Thanks for givng us a good writeup

spookiness at its best

Sadly, I think we can't be shocked by the Kenyan witch burnings. Those East African countries are notorious for their miserable treatment of women. Kenyan women's "rights" (if you can call them that) are based on their relationships with men. When those relationships end, they lose everything.

Goof thing I was born in this era. My great grandmother was a midwife who rode her horse to attend neighbors births, I went on to become an OB nurse. Don't think either one of us would have fared very well in a different time and place.

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