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How Were Witches Punished During the Dark Ages?

 

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Punishments for witches varied from town to town. Some towns even believed that torturing a witch would cause them bad luck and furthermore they avoided it!

The most common cause of killing witches was to be burnt at the stake. This was easy, cheap and was said to "burn away evil spirits".

The Dunk Stool was also widely used as a witch could last many hours suffering and the townspeople could watch from a distance.

Of course torturing witches was a common practice as witches were very common themselves! Unfortunately, most of them were never proven guilty and they were just tortured and killed to force them to prove themselves guilty.

The inquisition was full of such false trials and witches were said to be everywhere.

People during the Dark Ages were very superstitious.

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