Good Answer!
Posted on 12/07/2011 8:57:32 PM PST by eccentric
I would like to know the answer to that question. Keep in mind, that most witchhunts occured BEFORE 1776, and the victims were hung not burned.
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I did want to mention that among the Shawnee Indians, and the tribes of the Northwest Indian Wars, burning at the stake was not uncommon as both torture and execution. Grenadier Squaw’s village marker near Circleville Ohio points out that the one small hill was called the burning grounds for that was where they burnt the captives. After reading Allan Eckert’s books I realized several of the people on the Ohio frontier met their death this way. While the colonials themselves did not execute too many people in this manner they were sometimes killed this way by their Indian foes. So if you count Indian captives many dozens more died burning at the stake on US soil.
Source? I have not seen or read any account of Native American burnings at the stake.
Speaking PROFESSIONALLY, I would not use the word ‘heretic’ however the general view among Protestant groups and proto-protestant reformers was that the Catholic church strayed very far from Biblical teachings that they had indeed become outside the guidelines of traditional Christianity and thus a return to Biblical Christianity was required.
But I do understand where you are coming from and can easily see how that could be considered a valid argument.
Would that be considered ‘for religious reasons’?
I doubt anyone on FR has ever burned even a single person at the stake.
It’s interesting that in a good bit of continental Europe, the reasons for burning were due to the practices of witchcraft, sodomy and lesbianism. These conditions were usually found together and eventually exposed by the children they were focusing on. It seems this is rarely written or spoken of now days.
Uhm, please speak for yourself, thank you.
ORLY? What’s the count? :)
Well, I’ve burned people with a steak, but that was accidental.
Those Jesse Watters bits are the best part of the BOR Factor.
And Dennis Miller.
I have heard the actual number is 2-3 if that. It is most likely an urban legend.
Pray for America
I believe that the only people in this country that ever burned anyone at the stake were certain Eastern Indian tribes. As far as I know all the convicted(wrongly of course)witches were all hung. After the mass hanging of the Salem witches I believe the practice of convicting witches was done away with.
I read that there was an Indian or several burned alive at the stake in the late 1800s Oklahoma Territory for rape. It was lynching without hanging.
Can’t find the book I read it in.
Quite a few people hanged and then burned, mostly Negros during the Lynching years and two whites burned after being hanged in a range war in Nebraska.
***Wait just a minute, if you count Native Americans, the number is far higher.***
I have several eye witness accounts of white prisoners being tortured and burned by the Indians.
Correction to post 32. Apparently some slaves were burned at the stake for various crimes, but these were not religious crimes.
Additionally, when someone tries to bring up The Crucible as an indictment of “McCarthyism”, (A) there WERE witches in The Crucible just as there WERE Communists in the USA, and (B) the book was written BEFORE McCarthy’s rise, he became the focused target to attack all of the investigations.
The communist sympathizers in the State Department outlasted Joe and today their are still unelected officials who work from within “the beast” to take down this country or at least push their own agenda contrary to the elected leadership (hello Valerie Plame).
I seem to remember hearing about some activity in Duck Hill Mississipi and Gainesville Florida that wasn’t much to be proud of. Just to be accurate.
If you widen the parameters to include the Spanish Colonies you would find a lot more, since they brought the inquisition with them. In particular, Sephardic Jews trying to establish themselves covertly in the new world were targets.
And I think they drowned those witches. Some of them, at least. I’ve never hard of anyone being burned at the stake in this country, unless the Indians did it.
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