How were witches burned at the stake?

Question

If you were truly a magical witch that was even open about it or see doing witchcraft(not the falsely accused) then how could you not get out that situation of being burned at the stake back in the day

I dont mean to say that innocent ppl were not hurt. I am just say if someone were a true witch how did they not escape

Answer 1

because we are not the "charmed" variety witches. we are everyday, normal people with the ability to manipulate our own lives to be happier, and the people who were killed in the Witch trials, were not just burned. If they somehow survived the burning, it was "proof" they were a witch, then they were hung, if that didn't take, then they were drowned. All this took place after weeks of "questioning" which was code for "horrific torture" and if you died in any of that, you were pronounced innocent and given a proper, "christian" burial.
actually, i think I would have died during "questioning" and told them all to kiss the devil's *** and threw out all sorts of "curses" as they were trying to kill me....but I am weird like that.

Answer 2

The obvious answer is that no one who was burned at the stake was "truly a magical witch". They were all falsely accused.

An almost equally obvious answer is that if there were real witches, they did not have the kinds of magical powers seen in fantasy films. Ask any modern practitioners of witchcraft, and they'll tell you that they can't fly away on a broomstick, transform themselves into an animal, or shoot lightning from their hands. So how would they escape from someone determined to kill them?

If there ever had been witches who could do magic just like Harry Potter then I'm sure they all would have had a good chance of escaping execution. Sadly, no one accused of witchcraft in real life ever had such powers. When it comes to real humans, we'll all die if tied to a stake and set on fire.

Answer 3

Honestly, it was not like you think. Innocent people were "accused" of witchcraft for many different reasons and greed and jealousy were the biggest ones.
I really think you have the wrong idea of what Witchcraft REALLY is. People did not "use" magic as you think and they still DO NOT use it that way. Your other question was about where witches more powerful back in teh day. No, they just lived differently and used their knowledge of herbs to SURVIVE.
Witches are NOT all powerful and we don't do anything "special" that anyone else can't do.
Besides, back during the "burning times"...NO-one escaped an angry mob , once caught, they were severely tortured until they confesssed just to make it stop No amount of magic, real or imagined could save an accused person.

Answer 4

Witches usually weren't burned at the stake. They were hung or drowned. Heretics were burned at the stake and usually were hung before they were burned or were simultaneously hung and burned (this was an early idea of giving person a compassionate execution: strangling them before burning them to death).

The overwhelming majority of people who were drowned, burned, or hung as "witches" or heretics (about 9 million over about 4 centuries or so) were ordinary people who were healers, loners, older women with no means of support, and philosophers, scientists, and also persons of religious and cultural persuasions that were thought to be undesirable. Dissenters of the witchhunts (politicians, clerics, and philosophers) also could find themselves accused of witchcraft and heresy and executed. People were mercilessly tortured into confessions and forced into singling out other persons to accuse of witchcraft. Indeed, there was a town in Germany in which nearly all of the women were disposed of. Certainly, some people practiced folk magic or may have identified themselves as witches --or else were mentally unstable and confessed to weird practices that the Inquisitors dreamed up about witches, but most of the people who were executed for heresy or witchcraft were ordinary folks who got a really bad deal from the people they lived among.

Answer 5

As I've noticed you asking a few questions, you really need to learn a lot more before you announce to everyone that you're a "practicing teen witch." No offense. Your lack of knowledge about everything "craft" wise makes the authentic ones look fake.

If you're a "practicing witch" then you know the answer to why they were burned at the stake and didn't use magick.

Answer 6

Do you think modern witches just wiggle their noses and get instant magical results? The people who were burned, hanged, and tortured to death for heresy and witchcraft were most probably arrested on trumped up charges. I doubt that few, if any, even practiced any form of witchcraft. Even if they considered themselves witches, there still wouldn't be those magnificent cinematic powers to help them escape.

Answer 7

How were witches burned at the stake?

Answer: They weren't. There were NO wiccans, witches, or pagans left in medieval Europe by the time of the "burning times."

http://usminc.org/burning.html

Answer 8

99% of the people burned at the stake during hte years of the witch trials (roughly 1500 to about 1700) were NOT witches at all.

Most people who were burned at the stake were strangled first and not burned alive.

All that aside, real magic doesn't work that way.

Answer 9

You couldn't. The magic of Witchcraft is not like the magic portrayed by Merlin the Magician or Dungeons and Dragons.

Answer 10

It's not like witches are immortal. We're human beings, if an angry mob were to come and burn you at the stake, there really isn't much you can do