• DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    If it was the 1600s you were probably getting eggs from your own chickens and when they died from an avian flu like is going around now you would probably blame a witch and burn the 34 year old widow down the street at the stake.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      actually most of the English witchtrials in the 1600s were by order of King James so it was the government coming in and torturing confessions about of people because the king worried that rural poverty might lead people to be tempted by the devil.

      If you're wondering why he didn't just help with the poverty you must remember the crucial fact about James the 1st is that he was a dick.