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The Hell Of Inquisition

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"Are you feeling the bite of fire, witch? Do you want to burn at the stake? If you confess now, tomorrow you'll be strangled before the fire reaches your feet."
 
Barbaria1 said:
I cannot confess to something I did not do! You have the wrong person. This is all a big mistake!
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Loxuru said:
"The inquisition never gets the wrong person! The inquisition makes no mistakes. Even if you were the wrong person, your presence here is a proof of guilt! So, confess!"
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Moore ought to know that the police never get the wrong person either. Even if they're not guilty of what we arrested them for, they are guilty of SOMETHING!!!
 
damhouder said:
>>>> I'm a lot more familiar with the history in the Germanic principalities, France, etc. but it is certainly true that witch hunting became very quickly a racket of significant proportions. Witch panics usually started with accusations against the poorest of the poor, but they soon typically spread into the higher social orders. Even fairly well to do people could lose all of their property in those jurisdictions where the local government had the right to confiscate the property of a witch on the grounds that what they had was the result of ill gotten gains. Critics of the witch hunt such as Meyfarth or Father Spee emphasized how witch hunting was a money making machine. And even in those cases where the accused managed to escape capital punishment, usually after undergoing torture without confession, the costs were often ruinous. Court officials of all kinds, jailers, torturers, etc. were usually paid exorbitantly for their services. A case that could be cited as an example would be that of Chatrina Blanckenstein, an accused witch living near Naumburg in Thuringia, whose cost for 4 months imprisonment, a single torture and an examination after shaving by the executioner came to 70 thalers, a small fortune for the time.
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So exciting idea the accused witch should pay in order to be..tortured ..
 
srecmip said:
So exciting idea the accused witch should pay in order to be..tortured ..
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>>>> If they didn't pay up right away the accused witch, even after overcoming the torture, could be held in detention, further running up the ultimate bill. In the case of the Blanckenstein trial she was imprisoned for weeks after the torture and examination and had to put up as a bond a field that she owned. In another example of an accused witch in Hagenau, after undergoing 3 tortures, and being shaved before the last by Capuchin monks, she also languished in prison for an indeterminate time because she hadn't paid in full. Witchcraft trials involved torture and sex, along with money.
 
damhouder said:
>>>> If they didn't pay up right away the accused witch, even after overcoming the torture, could be held in detention, further running up the ultimate bill. In the case of the Blanckenstein trial she was imprisoned for weeks after the torture and examination and had to put up as a bond a field that she owned. In another example of an accused witch in Hagenau, after undergoing 3 tortures, and being shaved before the last by Capuchin monks, she also languished in prison for an indeterminate time because she hadn't paid in full. Witchcraft trials involved torture and sex, along with money.
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damhouder said:
>>>> If they didn't pay up right away the accused witch, even after overcoming the torture, could be held in detention, further running up the ultimate bill. In the case of the Blanckenstein trial she was imprisoned for weeks after the torture and examination and had to put up as a bond a field that she owned. In another example of an accused witch in Hagenau, after undergoing 3 tortures, and being shaved before the last by Capuchin monks, she also languished in prison for an indeterminate time because she hadn't paid in full. Witchcraft trials involved torture and sex, along with money.
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Eulalia said:
I guess Damoulder's had to wait for a woman choosing clothes :p
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>>>> I don't know what is worse, picking shoes or picking clothes. At least men tend to be more decisive. We make lousy choices more often than not, but at least we make them quickly.
 
damhouder said:
>>>> If they didn't pay up right away the accused witch, even after overcoming the torture, could be held in detention, further running up the ultimate bill. In the case of the Blanckenstein trial she was imprisoned for weeks after the torture and examination and had to put up as a bond a field that she owned. In another example of an accused witch in Hagenau, after undergoing 3 tortures, and being shaved before the last by Capuchin monks, she also languished in prison for an indeterminate time because she hadn't paid in full. Witchcraft trials involved torture and sex, along with money.
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Was the witch known to languish totally naked ? and the more long time she was in jail the more increasing would be the
charges.
 
srecmip said:
Was the witch known to languish totally naked ? and the more long time she was in jail the more increasing would be the
charges.
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I doubt that any witches were ever kept naked in their places of imprisonment. It did seem to be the universal practice to chain them in some way. People at the time who wrote about witches very often would use phrases about chains being used. The ravages of time, especially the damage to archives from wars, have destroyed or at least damaged a large portion of the records of the time in regards to witchcraft trials. But there are still many that managed to survive every peril, and there is no question that hunting for witches was a big and lucrative business at the time which enriched many who participated in it.
 
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