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   margueritem said, 11 months ago

   Lucky for Broomie.

   have a good week, LB!
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   Llewellenbruce said, 11 months ago

   MARG! I thought you’d be in bed by now since
   you’ll probably be heading out early for the camp
   ground. Watch out for the ticks and have a good
   time.
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   margueritem said, 11 months ago

   @Llewellenbruce

   Thank you!
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   Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

   A soggy little green witch in the Enchanted Forest! But if that sogginess had been of the alcoholic variety, would it not have fed the flames?
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   jeffc42 said, 11 months ago

   I think that’s WAY too much information.
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   William Pursell said, 11 months ago

   Aye jeffc42…..even worse would be Broomie…..in a bikini…..Akh there goes the stomach …..again.
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 11 months ago

   Actually, most of the accused witches were hanged.
   I think there were only two instances of burning in Salem.
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   rnmontgomery said, 11 months ago

   I thought most of the witches were drowned proving they were not witches?
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   RUBBER DUCKY said, 11 months ago

   i like my steak medium rare…
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    Elderflower said, 11 months ago

    @rnmontgomery

    Maybe that’s Broomie’s point – they tried drowning her, she survived, so must be a witch – but by then, was too waterlogged to burn.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 11 months ago

    Good thing they never burned any ‘witches’ or ‘werewolves’ in North America—-mostly hanging with at least one man crushed.
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    runar said, 11 months ago

    @SUSAN NEWMAN

    None of the Salem executions were by burning. Nineteen were hanged; Giles Corey died while being questioned under torture and at least five more died in prison.

    Burning alive was a punishment reserved for heretics; the various Catholic inquisitions were primarily for the punishment of heresy – they did not go after witches because official church policy was that witchcraft did not exist. Witch hunts were primarily a phenomenon of the protestant countries.

    The confusion arises from the fact that the bodies of executed witches were cremated in the belief that doing so would deny those persons resurrection on the day of judgement (a policy maintained by the Catholic church until just a few years ago). Apparently, the Christian deity is capable of forming man from the dust of the earth and re-animating a sack of bones but ashes were completely beyond his ability to reconstitute.
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    boldyuma said, 11 months ago

    At least the trees in the enchanted forest behind Broomie

    are of no danger burning..They look like “kneecap” trees

    and seem to have water on the knee.
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    Happy, happy, happy!!! said, 11 months ago

    @Sisyphos

    beer doesn’t ignite…
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