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Posted on 06/02/2023 7:28:10 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1666, the pastor Andreas Koch suffered the pains of standing up against witch hunts in his town of Lemgo: Koch himself was beheaded as a wizard.
Lemgo recorded a busy witch-hunt record with an estimated 250 cases in the 16th and 17th centuries. But the bulk of those cases came surprisingly late — from 1653 to 1681, the period after the Thirty Years’ War witch-smelling acme.
As we’ve seen before in these grim annals, elites were not safe from the Hexenverfolgung; this, perhaps, is the reason that even we latter-day seculars still have such a visceral reaction to the term “witch hunt”.
Great is the honor for the one bold enough to stand athwart the inquisitor’s path, for great is the danger....
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RFK Jr, no Instagram account for you!
Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles (Macbeth: act v, scene 1)
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Was it necessary to use the obsolete term ‘acme’ instead of ‘peak’?
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