Burned at the stake

[Loxuru]

Sure you can just burn at witch at the stake but the ritual is the thing...

In the foreground the woman in the embroidered skirt was at least a woman of privilege but is being chained with her beautiful hair shorn and watches as more kindling is stacked and another witch is brought out.

At the fourth stake the Reverend Lynch hears a confession- or is he damning her to Hell?

The other witches' garments will be torn asunder exposing their breasts exposing them a ripe targets to be pelted with rotten fruit before the wenches are burned...

'Witches'? Would you mean they are basically innocent (confessions have been retrieved during torture)?

Maybe (and in my opinion, it adds more to the dramatic of this great ritual scenery), the 'woman of privilige' was the instigator in a murder or conspiracy plot? The others were her accomplices. They provided the poison, and helped to cover up the plot, or burying the bodies. But their crime was uncovered, because the youngest one (the woman still in the cart), could not keep her mouth shut. After the instigaotor got tourtured, they all fell in the hands of justice. The judges wanted to make an example by condemning them all to death, without regard of their role in the plot, and to burn them all publically at the stake (which became judicially acceptable by adding 'witchcraft' to the accusations)..

While they are chained to their stakes, on the time square, in presence of a huge crowd of onlookers, they all have a last occasion to consider their crime, before the flames will start tormenting them (to y opinion, such a story more fits the resigning look of the condemned).

And the woman behind, maybe she damns the monk to hell?

 

[Top-Cat]

'Witches'? Would you mean they are basically innocent (confessions have been retrieved during torture)?

Maybe (and in my opinion, it adds more to the dramatic of this great ritual scenery), the 'woman of privilige' was the instigator in a murder or conspiracy plot? The others were her accomplices. They provided the poison, and helped to cover up the plot, or burying the bodies. But their crime was uncovered, because the youngest one (the woman still in the cart), could not keep her mouth shut. After the instigaotor got tourtured, they all fell in the hands of justice. The judges wanted to make an example by condemning them all to death, without regard of their role in the plot, and to burn them all publically at the stake (which became judicially acceptable by adding 'witchcraft' to the accusations)..

While they are chained to their stakes, on the time square, in presence of a huge crowd of onlookers, they all have a last occasion to consider their crime, before the flames will start tormenting them (to y opinion, such a story more fits the resigning look of the condemned).

And the woman behind, maybe she damns the monk to hell?

Loxuru

Good intro to the story.

I'm waiting for more!

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[Eulalia]

Sure you can just burn at witch at the stake but the ritual is the thing...

In the foreground the woman in the embroidered skirt was at least a woman of privilege but is being chained with her beautiful hair shorn and watches as more kindling is stacked and another witch is brought out.

At the fourth stake the Reverend Lynch hears a confession- or is he damning her to Hell?

The other witches' garments will be torn asunder exposing their breasts exposing them a ripe targets to be pelted with rotten fruit before the wenches are burned...

And the wretch still waiting on the cart, bewildered, terrified,
can't believe what's happening to her,
she was just the lady's little serving-maid,
she had no choice but guilt by association!

 

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[KvK]

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Gives an entirely new definition to the term "stakeholder."

 

[KvK]

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This 'mother and daughter' burning is one of my all-time favourites,
perhaps the best burning at the stake pic I've seen, so full of vivid detail,
with eerie, threatening evening light and the fire glowing on the girl's leg,
as she's beginning to feel the unbearable heat...

Nice, if a bit overdressed...

 

[Eulalia]

The way the rags of sackcloth are already billowing in the smoke
gives the onlookers an enjoyable tease - and of course it will soon catch fire,
adding to our agony and revealing our nakedness!

 

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[thehangingtree]

...I always like the 'the unreachable key to the lock' dilemma!!!

 

[LittleSiss]

...I always like the 'the unreachable key to the lock' dilemma!!!

Someone turn on the radio!

I just can't say no.

FIRE .........

 

[phlebas]

These could just as easily be impalings

 

[Loxuru]

These could just as easily be impalings

Clever : as the wood is burned away from under their feet , they slowly get impaled.

 

[jhmas]

These could just as easily be impalings

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very good combination !

 

[Eulalia]

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A Scottish witch-team being roasted,
that's a typical tower-house from my part of the country

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Nice little dress, seems a shame to burn it

 

[Naraku]

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A Scottish witch-team being roasted,
that's a typical tower-house from my part of the country

They have cheerleaders in Scotland?

 

[Eulalia]

Of course, we invented them!

Seriously, Google Glasgow Rockettes, or The Claymores, they're bloody good -
Glasgow cheerleaders feature in the later part of 'Lassie Hunting in the Northern Forest'

 

[Loxuru]

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After the invasion of the barbarians, a leading woman is burned alive as an example, after refusing to convert, with the symbol of her heresy around her neck.

 

[Jollyrei]

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Nice little dress, seems a shame to burn it

I wouldn't worry. Tiny little fire there is mostly there to scare her. It's clearly never going to reach the dress.

 

[Naraku]

I wouldn't worry. Tiny little fire there is mostly there to scare her. It's clearly never going to reach the dress.

But, don't forget that heat rises...up under the dress...

Of course, we invented them!
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Seriously, Google Glasgow Rockettes, or The Claymores, they're bloody good -
Glasgow cheerleaders feature in the later part of 'Lassie Hunting in the Northern Forest'

Took your advise...

They seem agile enough for a good hunt in the Northern Forest.