Women put in cages with black cats and burnt alive
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Swami Vivekananda said that even if we throw all the mud from the bottom of the Indian Ocean, it wouldn’t be sufficient to revenge the atrocities committed by the foreigners. It is true not only in India but also true in South America, America, Canada and Australia where they killed sons of the soil and occupied their countries.
White children don’t know that their forefathers burnt alive 60,000 to 100,000 white women in the name of witches following inquisition. Only Joan of Arc is known to many of us, that too because of George Bernard Shaw wrote a play on her. No lesson on Witch Hunting or Inquisition is in any book.
Europeans hid their crimes from their own children; about 500 years ago all over Europe, later in America, those who don’t follow Christianity or those who claimed certain powers were flogged, tortured, and left to weather to die with their hands and feet tied together. Most of them were burnt alive like St. Joan.
Since the Christians spread superstition that witches take different forms such as black cats, owls, wolves and foxes, women were hung in big cages with several black cats and burnt alive. People in hundreds or thousands gathered to see such cruel executions, and they jeered and danced happily to celebrate the executions.
Joan of Arc was a poor peasant girl with some miraculous powers. She made the French army to score a victory over the English. When the English were waiting for an opportunity to take revenge, the Burgundians captured 19 year old girl Joan and sold her to the English. English who bought the girl colluded with the French Christians and burnt her alive in 1431. Five hundred years after this atrocity, the French realised their crime and made Joan a saint.
But during the five hundred years 60,000 to 100,000 persons, mostly women, were hanged or burnt alive. They tortured innocent women to confess.
The women were following pagan belief or practising astrology or other arts. Some executions were political.
Joan of Arc was accused of heresy, witchcraft and dressing in men’s attire. But politics played a bigger role in her execution.
Christian bishops published books to identify “witches”. It gave guidelines to torture them and to get confession. When they confessed, they were burnt alive or hanged. Flogging , beating them were very common.
Encyclopaedias give the lowest estimate as 60,000 executions. But latest research books say that it must be around one hundred thousand.
We must note that they sold girls, and the English bought them. Selling and buying women like commodities existed in Europe. The condition of women was horrible. Without telling these truths they projected Europe had Renaissance.
France had no central government at that time. So there is no record of village wise executions. They conducted which hunting in the same way like other places under Roman Empire. Only a hundred executions are recorded in Paris. Village wise or area wise executions may be in thousands.
The latest conclusions of research on Witch Hunting and Inquisition are.
Most of the women were innocent. Neighbours used Witch hunting for revenge.
Pagan worship and political rivalry were used for identifying the “witches”.
Christian fanatics enjoyed killing women who are not ready to accept Christianity.
This disease of Witch Hunting spread to America and Salem Inquisition was recorded.
I give below some excerpts from Encyclopaedias:-
Three books sold like hot cakes next to Bible:
witch-hunting manual such as the Malleus Maleficarum! This famous book, known as “The Hammer of Witches” in English, was written in the 15th century by a pair of inquisitors for the Catholic Church.
A Pleasant Treatise of Witches
“The manner of the Witches
Famous “Witches” or “possessed women” of France
- Joan of Arc
- Marie des Vallées, Saint of Coutances
- Margot de La Barre
- Marion la Droiturière
- Jehenne de Brigue
- Macette de Ruilly
- Catherine David
- Martiale Espaze
- Madeleine de Demandolx de la Palud (Louis Gaufridi)
- Élizabeth of Ranfain
- Jeanne des Anges (Urbain Grandier)
- Madeleine Bavent
- Leonora Galigaï
Torture book written by Christian Bishops.
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From Wikipedia
In the early modern period, from about 1400 to 1775, about 100,000 people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and British America.[1] Between 40,000 and 60,000[2][3] were executed, almost all in Europe. The witch-hunts were particularly severe in parts of the Holy Roman Empire. Prosecutions for witchcraft reached a high point from 1560 to 1630,[4][5] during the Counter-Reformation and the European wars of religion.
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The Old Testament‘s book of Exodus (22:18) states, “Thou shalt not permit a sorceress to live”.
Most historians agree that the majority of those persecuted in these witch trials were innocent of any involvement in Devil worship.
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In 1921, anthropologist Margaret Murray argued that Joan was correctly identified as a witch by the religious authorities who condemned her to death, but that what they called witchcraft was, in fact, a survival of the pagan “old religion” of pre-Christian Europe
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At least 500 “witches” are thought to have been executed in England between 1542 and 1735, when witchcraft was a capital offense, according to government figures, although historians think the real number could be double. Scotland killed around 2500 “witches”; across Europe it is believed that up to 60,000 were executed. The trials swept to North America as well – where, most famously, 19 were executed in Salem, Massachusetts, with more dying under torture and investigation.
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According to Kors & Peters, modern scholars place the number of executions for witchcraft at no greater than 50,000. According to Merriman, some estimates are higher. Levack multiplied the number of known European witch trials by the average rate of conviction and execution, to arrive at a figure of around 60,000 deaths. Barstow adjusted Levack’s estimate to account for lost records, estimating 100,000 deaths. Many were burned by the stake, decapitated, and tortured in various ways. Hutton argues that Levack’s estimate had already been adjusted for these, and revises the figure to approximately 40,000
In short known executions 60,000 and unknown or unrecorded executions 40,000 ; and the total is around 100,000.
–Subham—
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