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For a project, I need information about the persecution of witches.?
would they burn the witches from the 17th-18th century in North America?
4 Answers
- 1 decade ago
No witches were ever burned. They were hung or crushed to death. In England, only a few witches were burnt, the majority were hanged, possibly as a cost saving exercise and possibly because of the risk that the general public would not tolerate frequent use of such a barbaric punishment.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No witches were burned in North America.
They hanged and presses some young girls (and one man) out of religious hysteria in the 17th century, but no witches were burned.
- lainiebskyLv 71 decade ago
Burnings were European. Most of the European witch hysteria happened earlier than the American cases. Some villages killed all but one or two of their women.
The Americans used other methods of execution.