Through out time, the judicial punishment of women has been a delicate matter to handle. Women by their nature were considered the gentler of the sexes and thus any punishment of them was considered an abhorrent thing that unfortunately had to be done at times. This was not always handled by the sovereign state’s governing body. Often the predominant church would take the lead.
This led to the burning of women accused of witchcraft. It was a brutal way of handling wayward women. There would be a trial of sorts where the accused woman had to prove she was not a witch.
She of course was presumed guilty of such charges and condemned to suffer her execution by being burned at the stake.
A great show was made of chaining her to the stake and a wise senior woman would often relate to the gathered crowd how burning the woman, though fatal to her, would purge the stain on her soul and render her spirit safe for a higher place in the afterlife.
No records exist of how the woman felt about being burned to death.
Such burnings were unanimously fatal.
Over time it was decided that hanging a woman by her neck would be more merciful and make a less ghastly sight.
One cannot fault the method as it too proved quite effective.
The cleaning of her soul had never been proven, but that did not prevent the improvement of the soul-cleansing method of hang women. In the new world it was improved to take care multiplewitches women at one time.
It was also determined women accused of witchcraft must have practiced their dark art sans clothing. It was determined the women should be put death naked to insure their bodies would be purged of its sins.
Not only did this method clean the woman of her sins, it drew a good crowd which helped the sales of adult beverages.
It too proved effective as none of the women subjected to such a fate were recorded surviving her hanging.
But this is only the opening of this tale, as we will explore further in detail…
This led to the burning of women accused of witchcraft. It was a brutal way of handling wayward women. There would be a trial of sorts where the accused woman had to prove she was not a witch.
She of course was presumed guilty of such charges and condemned to suffer her execution by being burned at the stake.
A great show was made of chaining her to the stake and a wise senior woman would often relate to the gathered crowd how burning the woman, though fatal to her, would purge the stain on her soul and render her spirit safe for a higher place in the afterlife.
No records exist of how the woman felt about being burned to death.
Such burnings were unanimously fatal.
Over time it was decided that hanging a woman by her neck would be more merciful and make a less ghastly sight.
One cannot fault the method as it too proved quite effective.
The cleaning of her soul had never been proven, but that did not prevent the improvement of the soul-cleansing method of hang women. In the new world it was improved to take care multiple
It was also determined women accused of witchcraft must have practiced their dark art sans clothing. It was determined the women should be put death naked to insure their bodies would be purged of its sins.
Not only did this method clean the woman of her sins, it drew a good crowd which helped the sales of adult beverages.
It too proved effective as none of the women subjected to such a fate were recorded surviving her hanging.
But this is only the opening of this tale, as we will explore further in detail…