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posted 13 days ago by EJGeneric on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +42Score on mirror )
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RoulerBleu on scored.co
13 days ago 20 points (+0 / -0 / +20Score on mirror ) 3 children
The Salem ''Witch Trials'' is an interesting case of what happens when you Listen and Believe bored women who make shit up for attention and try to one-up the previous false-accuser.

Because yes, it was started by women, and mostly done by women. Not ''patriarchy killing wimminz they didn't like''.

There were no ''witches'' among the victims, no matter how many false claims neo-pagans make about the trials. All the victims were White Christians.
HarlechMan on scored.co
13 days ago 9 points (+0 / -0 / +9Score on mirror ) 1 child
Half the people executed were actually men anyway. They leave outt that part.
HimmlerWasRight88 on scored.co
10 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
In fact in many countries they executed more men than women as witches.

Witch was not a gendered term at the time.
WeedleTLiar on scored.co
13 days ago 8 points (+0 / -0 / +8Score on mirror )
>bored women who make shit up for attention and try to one-up the previous false-accuser.

ie Witches
TakenusernameA on scored.co
11 days ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Yep, Salem was just Puritan Me-Too, with a lot more murder. The lesson learned from Salem should have been "dont believe women unless a trustworthy man will also vouch for them". Clearly, that lesson was never learned, and the actual Witches got away with it.
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USSDefiantJazz on scored.co
13 days ago 14 points (+0 / -0 / +14Score on mirror )
Feminists are witches.
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zk3hf9dB on scored.co
13 days ago 11 points (+0 / -0 / +11Score on mirror ) 3 children
Witchcraft is very real.

The Greeks wrote extensively about witches and what they did. There's plenty of first-hand accounts in Medieval times as well.

In short, they were people doing involuntary drug experiments on others. In medieval times, groups of them would get together and experiment with various narcotics. Witches and witchcraft was also heavily involved in necrophilia and cannibalism. Of course today, we know what "bath salts" can do to a man.

In the Bible, the word "sorcery" comes from the Greek word we now call "Pharmacy."
TakenusernameA on scored.co
11 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
Witchcraft is technically utilizing demons to perform sleight of hand (or tentacle, or claw, or whatever it is the demon feels like having that day), which is why actual witches (which were rare) were punished so harshly. Of course, after the Reformation, the Inquisition, who had the only good track record for rooting out actual witches and sparing poor schizos from the pyre, lost the ability to do this in many countries. What resulted is people randomly accusing anyone who was a bit weird of being a witch, and then subsequently igniting them without any inquisitional oversight (which usually involved actually checking if any demonic activity was taking place).
HEXEN on scored.co
13 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Alchemy is powerful stuff.

My lvl 60 orc in Skyrim is no joke.
zk3hf9dB on scored.co
12 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
There is a guy on youtube reading old alchemy books and trying their recipes and explaining what's really going on.

Alchemy was actually fairly advanced chemistry. A lot of the concepts translate almost 1-1 with modern chemistry.

The thing is, though, most people in the ancient and medieval world had no access to good information on alchemy. And the texts we do have are obviously not giving the truth in straight terms. They were trying to obscure certain things from the general public and other alchemists.
TakenusernameA on scored.co
11 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
There was also a whole lot of actual witchcraft going on among the Alchemists, considering their end goal was attaining eternal life without consulting God about it first (or considering that eternal life on planet where its very easy to get sick and feel miserable for years at a time might not be the most enjoyable past-time). Alchemy was heavily tied up with (((Gnosticism))), the pre-cursor to (((Kabbala))).
zk3hf9dB on scored.co
11 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
SOME of the alchemists were bordering on witchcraft.

MOST were simply trying to understand the true nature of the world. They were isolating compounds and creating repeatable results.

You cannot deny the people who wasted their lives trying to find pure essences laid the groundwork for modern chemistry.
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PurestEvil on scored.co
13 days ago 10 points (+0 / -0 / +10Score on mirror ) 1 child
Or: The witches were village whores, ugly skunks, prehistoric feminists, childless, rootless, jews, who dabbled in bullshit like astrology and crystals.

They are portrayed as the oh-so smart, educated alchemists who got shunned because smart wahmen bad and Christians stupid and bigots. Yeah no, don't believe it.
TakenusernameA on scored.co
11 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
A lot of the Alchemists were quacks and frauds too.
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onetimeuser on scored.co
13 days ago 10 points (+0 / -0 / +10Score on mirror )
the most common form of magic is in the ability to change one's perception of reality.

jews are master magicians with their word magic, money magic and story magic
RealityWiener on scored.co
13 days ago 7 points (+0 / -0 / +7Score on mirror ) 1 child
I'd say they killed a few real witches and the rest were innocent victims of tard hysteria.
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EJGeneric on scored.co
13 days ago 10 points (+0 / -0 / +10Score on mirror )
Maybe. A few harlots, hags and spinsters may have been caught up in the mix. I trust English common law to not be so careless.
Yggdrasill on scored.co
13 days ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror ) 2 children
I’ve heard conspiracies that the witch trials were motivated to go after women with property some rich people wanted to steal. Like widows and such. “Hey she’s crazy we need to kill her, oh my what do we do with her estate?”
EJGeneric on scored.co
13 days ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror ) 1 child
The main theory 'historians' go with was that everyone got ergot poisoning from moldy corn. Then they all went a bit crazy with hallucinations n shit.

Considering most Americans can barely understand much history over 100 years that came off as ignorant and superstitious of religious folks.
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FeloniusNiggums on scored.co
13 days ago 10 points (+0 / -0 / +10Score on mirror ) 1 child
I don't believe anything "historians" say. Even ones with normal noses.
Dfalt on scored.co
13 days ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror )
It's an EXTREMELY kiked profession, especially the closer you get to the current era. That's why I took classes mostly focused on ancient and medieval stuff when I was getting my degree.
Dfalt on scored.co
13 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
I've seen that claim before too. I got into it in college with a history professor over a book review I wrote for a book making that claim where I critiqued the thesis and he got all pissy about it in the margins of my paper.
FeloniusNiggums on scored.co
13 days ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror ) 1 child
Unfortunately they didn't and not even a full century later (((Freemasons))) Washington and Jefferson gave the synagogue of satan free rein to "practice" in the new world.
TakenusernameA on scored.co
11 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Thats because the witches were the ones running the trials.
LesboPregnancyScare on scored.co
13 days ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Werent there something like 100 or so tried and killed, and again, the that happened due to men listening to womens histrionics
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