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LagG_ asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 5 years ago

Does anybody remember when we used to burn people on stakes?

Good times it was back then.

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  • Donald
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
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    Ah, yes. The same could be said for the guillotine.

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  • Mr. P
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    More people were hung than burned at the stake, but about as many clergymen were burned for heresy as witches were.

  • Kano
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Before I was born, back then people would blame bad weather on witches, now they blame it on climate change.

    Seems we are stil a superstitous bunch of people.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    What?!?!? there was a time of cannibalism with stake. How come no one told me?

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Before my time

  • JimZ
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    I burned my lips on steak but that is about as close as I could come.

  • Lily
    5 years ago

    ??? That's messed up

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