Lets be honest, they were one of the more stupid things we particapated in. A man could just say a woman was a witch and have her drown,burnt, or tourtured? It makes no logical sense. Even if we didn't know better.Like, ok, say some guy got bored or mad at his wife but back then you weren't aloud to remarry till your spouse died. He could just
Man-My wife is a witch
Preist- How do you know?
Man- She has a mole!
Preist- Ok, let me see.
Man- Well, funny thing she used her magic to get rid of it once I saw. Still, we must burn her.
Now what the actual flip. And yes I could see this conversation actually happening with more thous and thys but you get the point. Honestly, if I had to choose between my husband cheating or burning me at the stake I'm letting that man cheat. Back then a woman would do anything and everything for their men to stay in good graces and still somehow could end up getting burnt or drown. And that is true.
They would tie the woman hog style throw her in the river and if she floated to the top she was a witch but if she drown(AS MOST DO WHEN BEING TIED UP AND THROWN INTO A RIVER) then she was innocent. But even if they didn't float %95 of the time they would just leave them to fully drown instead of pulling them out and trying to revive them. Your telling me we were that stupid "if she drowns she can be freed and granted a non-witch, but if she floats we kill her" lose lose of woman here man.
Upsides though. If your friend wronged you and you really wanted to get back at them yell "witch!". If you get blackmailed "witch!". Infidelity? Easy solution "WITCH!". Good upsides for men but the females real took the hits. One upside for woman. If I could im screaming witch at everyone I hate. I mean HATE not just dislike a little. I would, no doubt about it. Only downside, men weren't accused because "men could never be withces"? WHAT?! Something women could that men couldn't?! Yes, technically got them killed, but, it was something we could they couldn't. Thats a win in my books, especially with the time period we were in.
I would love to meet the absolute bafoon of a person who made everyone believe for CENTURIES that some women were sent from the firery pits of hell on broomsticks with moles and beautiful bodys just to simply live in crappy houses and horrid towns, with bafoons who thought if was better to put cow manure in open wounds to heal them? Leaches all over your body to suck the "bad blood out"? If I was a witch im staying in hell. It was a world where men were better even though the women did everything for them.
Anyway I have no sorces. I wrote this in studie hall from my own brainstems and info iv'e aquirred over a few years.(I fact checked most of this on google)
QUESTIONS-
Do you think they shouldve done this?(witch trials)
Do you agree we were dumb as heII?(thats two i's next to eachother not trying to get in trouble)
If you were on trial for being a witch what would you say?
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Interesting and well written Audrie! You mentioned you fact checked some of this--add those sources here as you do throw out some factual type information. You didn't reply to any student comments which is worth 30 points and it is a week late. With that said, I'm so glad you go this posted!!
I personally don't think they should've done them, it's a little sexist, though I do think there were some men accused of witchcraft(might be wrong). I personally also kind of practice what would be considered witchcraft and it's not really summoning stuff(really just believe in mother nature and spirits). It was also really dumb because way back before the witch trials, if you weren't christian you were a witch.
No, they should've never done the witch trials because why!! framing an innocent woman who is trying to live her life and killing her without proof is one of the stupidest things ever, I will agree that back then people were very uninformed about things but that doesn't mean to kill a random girl just because of something so dumb, always they believed the men and never the woman, one of the worst things is that they would make public killings to embarrass the victim as if killing them wasn't enough and which is just very disgusting.
I agree with this being one of the most stupidest things that humans have ever done in the history of humanity. Why we just randomly started naming people witches for no reason, I have no idea. If I were on trial for being a witch I would relize that I was going to die anyway, and call everyone around me the stupidest names I could possibley think of. Everyone around me would be a coat rack or a dumb piece of cow manure.
I do not think they should have done witch trials because they were pointless. Anyone could accuse anyone of being a witch with or without proof and they would get killed or tortured. I think that they were dumb because they didn't even have any proof and yet many people died.
No, most to all of the time they didn't have any evidence. They were very dumb because they had no evidence or proof if they were even witches. If I was on trial for being a witch then I don't know what I would say because either way they wouldn't listen.