Fun Facts and Myths about Witches
Some Fun Facts by Sean Hutchinson we enjoyed reading about Witches and thought you might too. Enjoy! https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53438/10-weird-facts-about-witches 1. Most witches weren't burned at the stake. The common image of a witch’s execution shows a large group of hysteric people surrounding the guilty person on a burning pyre—but immolation was not the primary means of execution used for those accused of witchcraft. During the Salem Witch Trials, no one was burned to death; all of the accused that pled their cases and were found guilty during the Trials in 1692 were hanged. In fact, no one found guilty of witchcraft was ever executed by burning in the American colonies—immolation wasn't permissible by English law. But one person was pressed to death by...