Most were Midwives and responsible for births and female health issues. Strong independent and smarter than most men at the time. Feared for their knowledge by men they were jealously hunted and killed. The new GOP 2028 plan is coming soon.

I am Celt and come from a long line of witches. Strong, Independent and leaders of business and trade. Men feared them and other women wanted to be them. They didn't need men, they tamed them. Mom had a 180 IQ and a quick temper for sexist BS. A red headed warrior from a family of giants.

most were accused of adult murder or other serious crimes.

Everything I was taught said Puritans and landgrabbers were the problem. Maybe if they hadnt been kicked out of England for banning Xmas theyd not have this problem. Also, AI is for losers.

They burn those they fear. Educated and independent women WILL destroy the patriarchy.

I would have rather had the witches. We needed the witches.

If they had burned men it would have been a much different story.

That would mean Maga would have to use their “Critical Thinking”.

Oh, I fear them. What is a `witch`? Someone who disagrres with you?

No shit! 🤯

All those back then participating as accusers would be MAGA now

Yeah. That load of illegals and fleeing criminals.

The patriarchy protecting and preserving itself

Yes ma'am!

Sad because those men really scared me

Witches weren’t burned at the stake in Salem.

First series of The Black Adder called The Witchsmeller Persuivant. Prince Edmund is falsely accused of witchcraft and was supposed to be burned at the stake with Baldric and Percy. Spoiler warning: you don't see the real witch until the end.

That depends entirely on who raised you.

Roughly the same kind of treatment given to any practitioners of non-Abrahamic (or more specifically non-Christian) faiths, gender be damned...

Just like the Bible was written by men for men the laws were written by men for men!

Yup. 😒🤬

Amen.

Well, she turned me into a newt! A newt???? I got better...........

She’s got a wart.

Zero witches were burned.

exactly

Watch Castlevania...

It’s amazing. Americans can talk themselves into believing pure bullshit.

We are there again.

The way it was taught me (in CA public school system) was as a crime against humanity. We talked about how the people in power weaponized religion to oppress and murder women.

Grooming.

Fear anyone that uses religion to justify violence.

Replace “fear” with “condemn.”

not odd at all simply the powerful indoctrinating the young😠

And now the witch burners have taken over our government, they want to be able to inspect young women.

Throughout German, England and New England, Evangelicals would dunk the women accused of being witches, if they survived the dunking they were witches and would be hanged, if they drowned they were innocent. That is not justice.

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Very odd indeed

Thank you religion, for instilling illegitimate fear.

Absolutely !

is this facebook

Witches weren't burned, women were.

We left Scotland over it.

Taught to fear women. That’s is still happening. 😞

"Surveys show that what women fear in men is violence, and what men fear in women is ridicule." - Gloria Steinem

It’s what can happen when unscrupulous opportunists concoct bogus “emergencies” to justify unlawful usurpation of political power.

I mean, I don’t want to be the type of person to overthink a meme, but we were… The Salem witch trials is the biggest example of why mass hysteria and mod mentality is a bad thing. The term “witchhunt” is literally used in a negative sense.

Hawthorne told us all in 1850. It is the MEN who are the hypocrites. Plus Noem and Bondi.🤢🤢🤢🤢

Tragic, actually.

I figured that out myself.

💜

My thoughts exactly!

Cultist behavior? It’s been the topic of some media apps and their algorithms. I know I’m arguing with a bot, an algorithm. Google uses them too. That’s why the SNUFUs in their headlines. As long as the point is reached, what harm does it posse? Well for one if you are that lacks on portraying a non

Imagine my horror while traveling in Europe seeing the beautiful villages and cathedrals…when our sweet tour guide stops at a quaint bridge and said this is where women were thrown to their deaths!! Why we asked? For being too smart or too beautiful or too mouthy!!!😳

They would be women calling for the burning of other women. 🙄

Facts. They would be women calling for the hangings of other women in 17th century New England, too. 😡

Who set up this game? Are you trying to defend the history of men hunting and burning women?

I don't know and, no, I'm not defending the history of men hunting and burning women! 😮😡I have an ancestor who was scheduled to be hanged for aliegedly practicing witchcraft after she was convicted. She died in a Salem MA, jail on December 3, 1692.

Adultery the 7th Commandment the bain of all first wife's. trumpies administration are all guilty. Yet they want Children to observe them in Class. But not the Constitution. Bill of Rights. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

Because it’s a game set up by men that makes women turn against each other, and in the end, it’s still the men who burn them.

Another angle smh

if you were a woman and ppl were sniffing around your house wondering if they should burn you alive, maybe just you'd point the finger at another woman but it was men who were sniffing around men who were doing the burning women were in an impossible situation men chose that situation

Are you giving Pam Bondi and Christi Noem(pathy) a pass?

Noem, Bondi and their ilk were born in very different times than women in the age of the witch trials. So, no passes for Puppy Killer et al. It’s all in the understanding of historical context.

They aren't witches. They're Christian nationalist tools. Real witches have far more integrity than either of those two.)

I didn't say they were witches, I have too much respect for those. But there is a difference between self preservation and active involvement.

Will this lead to enf of patriarchy?

If only....

"The only permanent thing is CHANGE", Heraclitus. Is it time now? For the betterment of and on Mother Earth!

sorry did I accidentally trip and fall into hundreds of years ago, I didn't realise they were under any genuine threat of being burnt alive for being witches

No, but guarantee if there were witches to be burnt today, they definitely being found by bitches. 🤔

Created that situation.

Yes, because if they were really witches and had the power the mortals accused them of, the fire wouldn't start, the rope would break, they wouldn't be killed.

It wasn't just women. Men were accused of being 'cunning men', 'wise folk', 'sorcerers', 'necromancers', and 'werewolves'.

precisely..

Revisionist bullshit.

The patriarchy never gets questioned

Gods chosen

The story of women’s lives.

The burning of knowledge has always been a tool of religion

It's odd that we're taught to fear witches, but not the people that burned Women alive

The catholic church burnt witches

The catholic church burnt women!

The Massachusetts executions were run by non-Catholics. So, religious zealots burned women.

So, religious zealots burned women, too.

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I have friends ;-)

Isn’t that the truth.

BURN THE PEDOPHILE CHURCH LEADERS!!!

Amen 🙏

You reckon she's standing a bit close to the fire there? Like there are no artistic depictions of public burnings around, some in the public domain even. Just had to fire up the slop machine.

Because these people wrote the history books

Just like prostitutes are arrested but not the Johns.

Has anyone taught people to fear witches since the 1800s? IDK how old you are, but back in the 90s in Catholic school, we definitely were not taught that the Puritans were the good guys.

Both Protestants and Catholics had witch hunts and executed witches.

Yes, but obviously you don't pay attention to all the world really is. The names may change, but it's still in the same rhetoric.

We are though. Witch finders. Witch hunts. Witch trials. These are presented as bad things - irrational, dangerous, etc.

To be very clear, they didn't burn in any witches. ZERO. They burned women, WOMEN.

I was taught to fear and despise christians and my parents were right.

great point, christians have always been killers and supremesicsts in the most cruel and violent ways. the inquisition was devoted to torturing people. the crusades was a brutal assault on the people of the middle east. and now christians have elected donald trump, an ignorant racist thief.

These weren't witches, they were women.

Their daughters.... "We're getting tired of your bullshit"

You’re wrong. Those who burn witches have always scared the fuck out of me and are to be avoided at all costs.

They didn’t burn witches, they burned women

They weren’t witches, they were women with brain and voice. When a man can’t stand a smart woman always tag her like crazy ( Joan d Arc ) or like a witch (Salem ). The men still don’t realize without women they are nothing. 🤗

We need to teach that they burned women alive, not witches.

People believed witches existed, and that angels were too afraid of humans to set foot on earth. Dumb as rocks for not knowing what that meant.

As always, it’s about oppression of women through violence.

I hear ya

The Witches were the healers in tune with nature and its seasons, the ones who understood the magick of earth and how to wield it for the benefit of those around them. The ignorant ppl who burned them alive? Fearful fuckwads who should have been burned themselves.

Those people shouldn't be feared. They should be ridiculed and burned alive.

Matthew Hopkins is quite scary

One of them rewrote the Bible. We have a lot to process.

Valid point 👌

Witch-hunters are still a cowardly and superstitious lot, though. *wink.*

Propaganda. Just like today. Fear the immigrant. They are eating your dogs. And hexing your children.

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Also why the ginger gene is so rare, the term fiery red head meant something totally different at one point.

Women are the most abused sector of humanity throughout history. Any era, country, regime, religion, or law it continues. More than any demographic in history!

And we continue to vote for men who hate women!

Republican Party

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You don't have to be taught to fear someone who wants to burn you alive. You know that's bad without any lessons. That fear lets them get away with it because we don't want them to find a reason to make us next. Defend the witch and you join them.

👀 But of course; they were cowards.

Yip natural remedies were feared and deemed evil back then too.

There are quite a few zealots in trumps administration that would joyfully light the wood on fire while laughing at the screams on the person being burned alive.

It's also odd people were taught to fear brown and black people and not the wipeepos that caught, tortured, and enslaved them.

I thought the people who burned 'witches' were all dead.

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So strange

They weren’t witches. They were women They have always hated women.

especially.. thinking, opinionated, vocal women

exactly

It’s anything BUT odd when you think about who was directing people to burn the witches

Yup

*demonize women. And it hasn't stopped. It's just in different form. In 2024 support for Dems declined 4 to 7 points among men in multiple demographics when Harris became nominee. Support among women remained relatively stable. Similar story in 2016 with Clinton. Men are still demonizing women.

The mobs are terrifying,an angry, relentless group unjustly drowning and burning women.mobs were a result of prejudice and superstition,not some holy duty to save a town, it was slaughter It was group assisted murder

Anyone who was unmarried and/or challenged the patriarchy was a "witch." It's heresy to believe in witches anyways. Deeply unchristian to believe that powers such as those alleged exist among non-angelic mortals.

That depends - if you had an English teacher like the one I had and you read "The Crucible" - then yeah, you learned that the real monsters were the ones doing the burning and hanging.

I fear the witch burners to this day.

So in medieval ages collective shout... i mean... witches were burned?! :O

The Christian men, you mean?

Evil white men deserved to be treated like they treat women, immigrants and all POC.

Gods forbid a woman could read, write, have herbal knowledge, an opinion or refuse to bend her neck to the "authority" of men. The misogyny didn't end in the 16th Century. It's always been here.

Explains a lot. 😡🤬

I visited Salem Massachusetts. It’s about oppressed women, not witches.

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the past is definitely repeating itself. The ignorant can’t learn. it’s like they are stubborn…like a donkey or something 🤷🏽‍♂️

Tell me about it. 😒😣

If I believed in evil witches, the last thing I’d want to do is piss one off, let alone torch one… or her sister.

They burned women, not witches.

It's odd that religion has survived such blatant demonstrations of the levels and breadth of ignorance and evil that it embodies. Or, considering history, it's not so much odd but, rather, just tragic.

End ALL organized religion immediately!

Now that, is critical thinking.

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Is it? We're still laughing with the bully persecuting some poor hapless individual for some peculiarity in in persona. How they dress or look. Skin color or religion other than Christian. We're still too sacred to say" Knock it off."

Imagine how much better the world would be if the Witches lived and the Christians had all been tortured to death.

Unfortunately I think these days the Witchfinders (most of who now work in the media) seem to outnumber the witches.

Always wondered about that

I have a sticker on my car, “They didn’t burn witches. They burned women.”

They are still trying to burn 🔥 everything THEY don’t like

You were taught to fear witches? Where were you brought up?

Not sure which is worse - witch burning or throwing sick people off of health care ….

And the beat goes on…

I appreciate the sentiment but not the ai slop

Stop being wokey! Rupees Murder Foxey Crisis anchors won’t like it.

Exactly

Burning was a European thing. They were hung in America

Women. They didn't burn witches. They burnt women.

The conqueror worm's methods should have been turned back on the clergy.

Yup

Thank God that never happened in America.

19 women were hanged, and one man was crushed to death.

I really hope you're being ironic...

What do you mean?

Have you heard of the town of Salem?

Yah a lot of women were murdered, but none of them burned alive.

True, they hung them.

*hanged

Depends on the dialect of english 🤷‍♀️

No, it doesn't. Hanged is very specificly the word used for execution in this manner.

Tom Dooley was hanged, and then they dug him up to see if he was hung. lol

Is that any better than burning?

Probably 100x better, yes.

It's faster with less pain. Yes

The rope doesn't always snap the neck; sometimes the victim survives long enough to die from the strangulation aspect instead

Either way religion is responsible for too many deaths.

Plenty of people were burned alive in the USA. If you look at what happened to some slaves in USA for example, or even some free black people, working the lifetime of your grandparents burning seems tame by comparison. If you want to be sickened by humanity Google some of that shit

No witches though.

Yeah of course. But still humans. My own point is the disgusting foul nature of ordinary people when their bigotries are normalised and not challenged. I’m talking stuff that makes the Saw movies look tame. In 20th century USA

We were taught to be those people

I think witch burning has a pretty negative connotation lol

Oh, I definitely do.

always feared - condemned, loathed & despised - those weak, small minded men who so feared women they had to subject them to such torture and execution. Today in America they announce themselves with 'christianity' and red hats.

They didn't burn witches, they burned women.

They weren't burning witches, they were burning women.

Ai art is a tool of the capitalist empire

Wow! Great point!

Incredible reframing.

Yikes.

Oof! That hits hard

I learned in school that witch burners were primitive, ignorant, superstitious fools. But, that was a very long time ago, and schools were more than just tax-funded daycare and halfway house facilities. They have, since, fallen on hard times at the hands of primitive, ignorant, superstitious fools.

I always say They didn't burn witches. They burned women.

“Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis Whitney Vs California, 1927

We’re taught to hate women. And protect men no matter what.

This deliberate dissociative shock was consciously triggered to affect all subsequent generations of women. As a result, women – whether unconsciously or consciously – become alienated from their natural intuitive power. Men, too, are deprived of this power already in childhood.

There were no witches. They burned women. #DeporttheGOP

TRUTHHHHHH💯

there's no such thing as witches THEY BURNED WOMEN

It wasn’t witches who were burned. It was (mostly) women who were tortured to death.

overheard

When you find out it was nothing more than a land and power grab then you’ll realize they made a word for the greed of men its “capitalism” the enemy is the elites

Actually, we were taught to fear the witch-burners. They've always been portrayed as the evil villains in stories and film.

My guess is that a man wrote that statement.

And by the people who burned the woman alive you mean Christians.

Christians definitely murdered women. Every major religion has. Let's not ignore Islam and Judaism. All 3 have a horrible history (and present!) of murdering women.

And at very least,relegating women to 2nd class—if even that.

Newsflash. Our ancestors were the ones burning them alive

I've always been on the lookout for those killers. More recently, in this part of the world, it was based on race.

I don't remember being "taught to fear witches", probably because I was born in 1973 and not 1573; but setting that aside... no, it's not odd at all. Were witches to exist, it would make perfect sense to fear them more than their opponents, just as we would fear Dracula more than Van Helsing

Conditioning people from childhood to believe in things that don't make sense, to suspend disbelief in the name of "faith", to accept what the nice man at the front of the room says as "truth", and to severely punish kids for not complying, creates ideal conditions for full control over the people.

The men (and women) who persecuted witches were likely feared more than the people who were accused. Deflection is a common defense mechanism, especially when your reputation depends on it. Blame others to save yourself. Isn't that what Trump (and everyone else in the Epstein files) is doing.

It's likely the persecutors were more feared than witches, and in any case, there WERE no witches: such creatures never existed. But if they DID exist, it's not at all obvious you should fear the persecutors more; indeed, "persecutors" would be the wrong word.

I suppose your comment on deflection is true enough, although its relevance eludes me. Definitely have no idea why you mentioned Donald Trump or Epstein.

I read (decades ago) that accusations often came after accusers had themselves been accused of a variety of misconducts. Trump/Epstein because their nefarious relationship needs to be kept front and center until justice is served.

Oh. Sooo accurate! Looks like we were scared of the wrong people!!

Those people buggered children for centuries

Brilliant.

They did not burn witches. They burnt women.

Oh believe me, women were taught to fear them.

Taught by whom? I distinctly recall lessons in school about witch trials being examples of greed, corruption, and control of women through lies and fear.

Love this! Side Note...check out the #EncyclopediaBritannica post on BlueSky regarding the witches of Salem & the scientific reasoning for their "witchy behavior". So gd interesting! Ladies, stay away from the bread. 😗

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

Men. It’s men.

Well, we know why. The people that burned them, christians, still hold the majority and have the upper hand in America through buying politicians who very likely are pretending they believe in their man-made, mythical, imaginary deity so they get paid.

They were taught to fear witches who were mostly women whose only crime was that they were smarter than the men. People who knew how to heal with hygiene & medicine. People doing good. This was just another religious con. It was about materialism, land, money, jealously & power. Politics.