Comments on: How many people were killed as Witches in Europe from 1200 to the present? https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/how-many-people-were-killed-as-witches-in-europe-from-1200-to-the-present/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: William Platts-Mills https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/how-many-people-were-killed-as-witches-in-europe-from-1200-to-the-present/#comment-848279 Sat, 22 Feb 2020 18:13:35 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9417#comment-848279 William Cobbett, writing in the early 19th Cent, felt that the population figures for the middle ages were greatly understated by his contemporaries for political reasons, the pretended ‘surplus population’ being needed in the colonies. He based his statements on the size, quantity and quality of the churches from the middle ages. I think all history (‘written by the winner’) is fundamentally suspect; when one thinks of the many lies current today how much more might that be true of periods of which no one (Thony C for example) has personal experience?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/how-many-people-were-killed-as-witches-in-europe-from-1200-to-the-present/#comment-696230 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:23:00 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9417#comment-696230 In reply to Shirley Jean Pilger.

Very good point.

]]> By: Shirley Jean Pilger https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/how-many-people-were-killed-as-witches-in-europe-from-1200-to-the-present/#comment-695708 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:38:49 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9417#comment-695708 If Salem (which was not actually part of Salem at the time) witch hunters murdered 39 people (fact) out of a few hundred, it should not be surprising 9 million were murdered across Europe over several centuries. You would be foolish to believe otherwise.

]]> By: Shirley Jean Pilger https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/how-many-people-were-killed-as-witches-in-europe-from-1200-to-the-present/#comment-695707 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:38:49 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9417#comment-695707 If Salem (which was not actually part of Salem at the time) witch hunters murdered 39 people (fact) out of a few hundred, it should not be surprising 9 million were murdered across Europe over several centuries. You would be foolish to believe otherwise.

]]> By: Eva Mendoza Mignault https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/how-many-people-were-killed-as-witches-in-europe-from-1200-to-the-present/#comment-667420 Thu, 15 Nov 2018 06:50:50 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9417#comment-667420 Its so sad and hard to accept this horible and dark past, thanks for the information, great job.

]]> By: joan Sutton https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/how-many-people-were-killed-as-witches-in-europe-from-1200-to-the-present/#comment-660153 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:16:14 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9417#comment-660153 Someone commented that the idea of witches began much earlier than the 13th century. I agree. I’m reading Apuleius’ The Golden Ass which was written about 2000 years ago (2nd century CE). In that Roman novel witches are depicted in their scariest forms. Anyone believing such crap would be primed for persecuting women they didn’t like. And Apuleius isn’t the first by far among the ancient authors to depict women as witches – remember Medea, and Circe in the Odyssey that goes back to the 8th century BCE, just for starters. The ancient Greeks were vehement misogynists.

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/how-many-people-were-killed-as-witches-in-europe-from-1200-to-the-present/#comment-552910 Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:25:35 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9417#comment-552910 In reply to Charles Laird.

Tangential in relevance perhaps,sorry but this article shows the face :

https://www.livescience.com/60863-18th-century-witch-reconstructed.html?utm_source=notification#sthash.Xq1zMfhI.gbpl

Of a “convicted” witch Lilias Adie reconstructed by modern science as the article explains, interesting if tragic.

There would have burned her at the stake had she not died in custody – for nothing.

]]> By: Charles Laird https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/how-many-people-were-killed-as-witches-in-europe-from-1200-to-the-present/#comment-551056 Sat, 21 Oct 2017 21:10:07 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9417#comment-551056 I was looking for real information. Pulling from “The Wiki” is questionable at best. It’s evidently just as questionable as gregladen.com

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