A masquerade ball meant to entertain an unstable king ended with four nobles burning alive on the ballroom floor.
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THE WITCH HUNTS NEVER ENDED: Medieval Gallows To Modern Mob Justice
From Salem’s gallows where twenty innocent people swung in 1692, to modern Tanzania where elderly women are butchered with machetes for having red eyes, the pattern of witch hunts remains horrifyingly consistent: torture until confession, murder for being different, and children weaponized against their own families. What most people don’t realize is that these brutal executions never stopped; they simply evolved, moved to new countries, and learned to hide behind the masks of religion, justice, and mob rule while continuing to claim thousands of lives every year.
THE TRUTH ABOUT WITCH TRIALS AND HUNTS: A History Written in Blood and Lies
Between the 15th and 18th centuries, approximately 50,000 people died accused of witchcraft across Europe and America. Most of what we think we know about these executions is wrong. And sadly, the killing never stopped.