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One!life (no login)
Posted Jun 23, 2009 4:55 PM
One!life > Ponder: Is watertorture witch stuff use'd!
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Confessions were extracted from 'witches' under torture - water torture was one example
The witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a horrific period in history
from which arose some notable individuals
who self-styled themselves as witch hunters
but in truth they were driven by the same compulsions
that drive the psychopathic serial killer.
Not only could they gratify their perversions at will
but they were rewarded financially
for their endeavours,
often from the funds of the victims,
who had to pay for their own torture and death.
Water torture as depicted in the image to the left
was one of many techniques
employed to extract confessions
but the witch finders were not necessarily interested
in the truth
or otherwise of the accusation - the thrill for them
was the process of getting the confession
which usually involved many bouts of torture
as the victims confessed under torture
then retracted the confession afterwards.
Once an accusation of witchcraft was made,
more often than not
against young and attractive women,
excruciating torture was the route
to an inevitable death by hanging in England
or Colonial America,
or by being burned alive in Scotland
and the countries of continental Europe.
Gratification for the witch finders
came from the terror that they induced in their
hapless victims and from the absolute power
that they exercised.
Later,
One!life
too much for me....yup!
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