• Re: SNP drops plans to pardon witches

    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 27 20:59:39 2023
    XPost: uk.rec.psychic, alt.scottish.clans, uk.local.scot-highlands
    XPost: uk.local.glasgow, scot.general

    On Nov 27, 2023, Ned wrote on alt.buddha.short.fat.guy
    (in article<[email protected]>):

    On Monday, November 27, 2023 at 1:27:57 PM UTC-8, Julian wrote:
    Ding, dong, the bill is dead. Yes, that’s right: Holyrood’s much-trumpeted plan to pardon witches has now been dropped by the SNP,
    as the party desperately tries to conjure up something resembling a governing agenda. Around 4,000 Scots accused of being witches were
    tortured to gain their confessions and executed under the Witchcraft Act between 1563 and 1736. Legislation to pardon them was introduced last
    year by Natalie Don, a backbench nationalist...

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    It has been estimated that tens of thousands of people were
    executed for witchcraft in Europe and the American colonies over
    several hundred years. The exact number is unknown, but modern
    conservative scholars estimate around 40,000–50,000.
    Scholar Carlo Ginzburg of the University of Bologna, in his work
    Night Battles, estimates the number between 3-4 million people.
    Common methods of execution for convicted witches were hanging,
    drowning and burning. Burning was often favored, particularly in
    Europe, as it was considered a more painful way to die. Prosecutors
    in the American colonies generally preferred hanging in cases of
    witchcraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_for_witchcraft
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    Hot stuff.

    Ned

    After I read that I did a massive parallel soul alignment,
    aligning each so executed who has not yet reincarnated
    (and hence is either in the afterlife, and still could
    reincarnate, or in the beyond afterlife) with a pentacle
    pendant worldwide. (I have crossposted this to some
    other newsgroups, and those on those groups may be
    interested in other posts in the original thread on
    alt.buddha.short.fat.guy .)

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