This is a useful flowchart/infographic from Lapham’s Quarterly for those who routinely get accused of witchcraft:
Hopefully your weekend went well enough that you didn’t need this. Otherwise I’d feel bad I didn’t post it earlier.
Weekend Moment of Zen 7-22-12
Interesting that the death sentence is available to secular authorities, and the Church has a complex process for determining if the accused is a witch.
But there is no mention of weighing the woman in a scale containing a duck. Nor of any townspeople being turned into a newt.
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I thought not having a contingency plan for if your victims got better was also an oversight. Maybe this was only validated for American witchcraftery, not British.
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