How come we don't burn witches anymore ?

Question

Why did we burn them ?

Answer 1

It says somewhere in the book God supposedly authored, that people should kill witches.

Unfortunately, it was just misogynistic perverts who got off on torturing women having their fun with "God" as their shield to take out their perverse aggression on the innocent.

People were screwed up in the head for a LONG time, the bible did NOTHING to help people.
look at the dark ages. Christian, perverse, violent, and unnecessary.

Answer 2

Honestly very few true witches were burned. The Christian church actually killed more Jews and Muslims during the burning times.

A goodly amount of the people who were burned would have been called progressives and liberals theses days. Others were herbalist, midwives, blacksmiths and women of power.

Since it was the church doing 99.9% of the witch burnings, all confiscated property was then the property of the church, and the church has a very large appetite.

Why were they burned? Because fire is the great cleanser and it worked better than exile.
By being the one who figured out who was cause a drought, blight, or mysterious livestock r child death a person could build renowned, and power for the witch hunter. Since the test for witchcraft were made up by the people doing the testing they could claim whatever they wanted showed a positive. Confessions were usually gained through torture, and as we know, after a certain point just about anyone will say what every they think will stop the pain.

It's my opinion that the witch trials stopped because people began to realize that anyone could be charged and if the crowd was whipped up enough, no one and nothing was going to stop them from ridding themselves of the "witch". If you were a person of wealth and knew you had enemies, might you want to stop a practice that could be used against you too?

Answer 3

You asked this question last night and said you missed being able to do that.
At least this time, you asked more respectfully.

Burning witches comes from the Catholic Church at a time when women were historically the healers of the village. They handled not only the physically illnesses of the people, but also gave out advice. The original word "wicce" meant wise one. When the church was forcing conversions on people, they demonized a lot of the pagan ways in order to make them less palatable and make people turn to the church for everything.
When the Maleus Maleficarum (The Witches' Hammer) was written, it was a license to accuse anyone of being a witch in league with the devil and get rid of them.

Still miss the burning times? For all you know, you could've been accused as one.

Answer 4

Out of ignorance and fear of what they do not know or understand. Women of power were bun red. Healer women were burned. A woman who stood for something was burned. If another woman suspected you of sleeping with her husband, you were a witch and should be burned. If your child, your spouse or your sheep got sick you blamed and burned a witch. Why did it stop? Ignorance may be bliss, but someone had the guts to stand up for women anyway.

Answer 5

Because they figured out that if the people who didn't like witches being burned got into power that they would start burning a**holes and they figured out they wouldn't like that. As to why, it goes back 2000 years that Jesus had children and the church had to destroy anyone showing any more control or power than they had. Magic was a power the church didn't have or control.

Answer 6

Because now in such pc times as today the witch held would have every right to set you on fire.

Because the Christians got rid of all the holy women as they didn't like this stong female influence in pagan countries. They created the image of the witch, and they smote it down.

Answer 7

Unfortunately, witches are still hunted down in places like South Africa. I honestly don't know what the procedure is for their death, but I know they die just the same.

Thanks to King James, the murder of witches became more justifiable and acceptable when he changed the Bible to his liking. Instead of the Bible saying "Ye must not let a poisoner to live", changed it to "Ye must not let a witch to live."

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Witch%22

Witches were often blamed for such things as epidemics and famines in the Middle Ages, especially in light of such continent-wide problems as the Bubonic Plague. It is crucial to remember that these witches who were accused were not the same as the cunning folk who practiced herbal medicine, and often assisted others in locating so-called witches. Often times the ones persecuted for being witches were midwives, due to their knowledge of contraceptives and abortifacients.

One of the most infamous texts that outlined the proper methods of discovering and trying witches was the Malleus Maleficarum, or, "The Hammer of Witches", written by James Sprenger and Henry Kramer, which was first published in 1486.It was first written in Latin, and translated to English in 1928 by Montague Summers. Prior to the publication of the text, there was wide skepticism as to whether or not witches actually existed. The authors responded within the text itself by asserting that such disbelief was tantamount to heresy, which thereby silenced any dissenters, out of fear that they too would be persecuted. The book was instrumental to the Inquisition, who especially utilized the methods of torture and dispatching outlined in the work. It is from the Malleus Maleficarum that many of the superstitions surrounding witches arose, such as the belief that women are much more likely to be witches.

It is this period in Medieval Europe that many modern persons who self-identify as witches refer to as "The Burning Times". Often times, the facts and figures that are presented to sway the reader's sympathy with the oppressed witches are skewed, in that there are no official records that explicitly state how many were indeed murdered. The records that do exist are often difficult to verify, as some have included all manner of people killed in the count, regardless of the nature of their case (whether they were truly witches, heretics, or merely non-Catholic). Figures have ranged from 40,000 deaths, to as high as 100,000.

Answer 9

those who were burned in the first place were rarely witches ... just people speaking out or not leading a " Christian " lifestyle
and witches ( especially in those days ) are just people who use what nature has given us and work with it
but times have changed thankfully

Answer 10

For the same reasons that mormons say they are no longer polygamists, it is just not acceptable in modern society. The Catholic church murdered woman (witch burning), mostly because thier intelligence was showing, in the name of their God.