295
witches (quokk.au)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In the interest of historical accuracy, 'they' burned men and women as witches. Notably, in Iceland nearly everyone executed as a witch was male.

[-] grober_Unfug@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 3 days ago

World wide 75% of killed persons accused of witch craft were women.

Just in the interest of historical accuracy.

[-] dandelion 1 points 2 days ago

women and their allies 😬

[-] gid@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago

Thanks for pointing out the one exceptional case where women didn't comprise the majority of people murdered. That really helps!

🙄

[-] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

It's really just something that I learned recently and thought was interesting, which happened to be relevant to this post.

[-] stray@pawb.social 6 points 3 days ago

Just in the interests of everyone getting along, I think you should have opened with that context. Your first post sounds like you're arguing that women weren't oppressed or something. It was interesting to read about though, and I'm glad you shared it.

[-] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Fair enough, that was not my intention. I will admit that I find the format of this post to be kind of performative and pointless, so maybe that came across in my comment. That said, I do not disagree with the message or underlying sentiment.

[-] nightmare786@leminal.space 3 points 3 days ago

then there's Giles Corey ... not burned, but pressed to death

[-] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Oh no, that’s where the saying “I’d be hard pressed to do —“ came from, isn’t it.. (not that specific event but the uh.. method?)

People are horrible. Colloquialisms are (usually) horrible.

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

An entire ideological movement forming around a widely believed historical inaccuracy?

I think that's called a religion.

[-] grober_Unfug@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago

Please elaborate what exactly falls under “widely believed historical inaccuracy”?!

[-] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

What ideological movement are you talking about?

this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
295 points (100.0% liked)

Witches VS Patriarchy

1037 readers
186 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS