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“Witch Hunt”

Another “holy task” of the Inquisition was the so-called “witch hunt”. The Catholic Inquisition burnt tens of thousands women alive. Sometimes men were also persecuted with this type of charges.

To be accused of sorcery even a petty cause would suffice, for example, when a woman was seen standing in her courtyard during a thunderstorm or collecting horse manure (for fertilizing the vegetable garden?). Once a person got under suspicion — the death in the fire was inescapable.

The executioner would shave all hair on the victim’s body first: it was believed that devilish force abides in hair. And after that the already-known things started: daily dislocations of joints, tortures with fire, water in the lungs…

The executioners demanded confession by the following two points: 1) admission of guilt, and 2) reporting the accomplices.

Tortures would bring the victims in such a terrible state, that their only wish was to die in the fire as soon as possible.

On the first point everyone would tell “standard” stories about their “flying on brooms” to “witches’ Sabbaths” and “initiations” received from the Satan…

When answering the second question, some were giving out the names of all their acquaintances. But others — true Christians — persisted until the end, resolved not to calumniate other people.

N.Speranskiy [79] describes a case when a woman-victim pleaded with her torturers to burn her as “innocent”, since she knew of neither her own guilt nor that of others.

The same author provides a testimony of a torturer, who was describing how beautiful young female bodies were gradually, day by day, turning into burnt and swollen sacks of bones, which lost the human appearance…

Discontinuing of daily torments just before the execution was called “relaxation”, while the commitment to the flames — “reconciliation with the church”…[58].

It is an interesting fact that the “witch hunt” was taking place not only in Catholic countries, but also — under its own momentum, perhaps, — in Lutheran Germany, which had already cast the yoke of the Inquisition by that time.

… There is no doubt that a certain number of people always practiced black magic — in any country at any time (as it is the case in today’s Russia). (Although, it is clear that none of them were actually flying on brooms or taking part in “Sabbaths” with the Satan: all of this is from the realm of fantasies).

But the issue is: who was darker (in that sense) — actual black magicians or members of that horrible sect, who were torturing and burning both them and tens of thousands of innocent people?