Poles stop burning witches

Patti Wigington’s blog on about.com is one of my favoured and trusted sources for news of interest to witches and other pagans


this week she tagged a report in Ananova about a decision in Zielona Gora to stop symbolically burning witches; it’s been part of the village’s anniversary celebrations for 9 centuries, along with jousting, minstrels, dancing and other mediaeval festivities

but witch-burning is out now, mostly because of Polish women's rights groups; Monika Platek of the Association for Legal Education said, "Making peoples' tragic deaths into a tourist attraction is reprehensible and regrettable ... The stakes where women were burned were the result of profound misogyny, discrimination against women and ignorance.”

too true, but I wish Ananova had also included some reference to the religious aspects of The Burning Times

linx:
the Inquisition

the Salem trials

American victims

more next time

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