Vincent Ferrero
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

How refreshing to hear someone speak of Countess Bathori not as a sadistic cannibal who bathed in the blood of virgins but as the victim she actually was. And of course you couldn’t be more correct about the Salem witch hysteria. It was far better, safer anyway, to go along with the authorities and denounce your fellow townsfolk than to stay quiet and be denounced yourself. And it was ultimately fueled by the greed for money and power of those in authority.

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