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From: BOB SHELL <76750.2717@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 12 Aug 97 18:36:12 EDT
Fwd Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 08:53:21 -0400
Subject: Re: Of Martian Cats, etc.

>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:53:21 +0100
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>From: Sean Jones <tedric@tedric.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Of Martian Cats, etc.


>If I reccollect correctly when witches where "discovered" back then,
>they was either burned at the stake, or if the local townsfolk were
>feeling VERY generous they just stoned the person out of town.


Burning at the stake was more of a European thing.  If the executioner
was feeling compassionate he might strangle the "witch" into
unconsciousness before lighting the fire.

Here in the USA, we usually drowned witches.  The idea was to submerge
the unfortunate in water for a long time.  If he or she drowned, then
they were obviously innocent and could not use magic to save their
lives.  Often they were submerged and pulled out repeatedly until they
proved their innocence by drowning.

As we became enlightened, we stopped killing "witches" and
institutionalized them instead.

Today they are safe from most persecution, but pendulums do swing.

Bob