The 10 Ways Men Identified Witches In Salem Are Still Way Too Familiar
But we’re the inferior gender, right? Mmm-kay. If you say so. lol.
Y’all, here’s a story so whack I can hardly believe it, but it’s true.
One year there was an early frost that killed the crops so a guy marched his butt down to city officials and asked why witches were “allowed” to conjure up an early frost to kill the crops. I wish I was kidding, but nope.
City officials told him to go home, they’d look into it.
Which — you’d think — is a nice way of telling a weirdo to flake off.
But no. That’s not how it went down. He went home and told his neighbors, so they went down to complain, too. After all, their crops cacked, too.
Suddenly, officials had a problem. You can ignore one wackadoo, but when it’s a bunch of them? You have to deal with it. The year was 1626.
Long story short, a “witch” was tortured until she confessed to causing the frost. The Prince-Bishop killed her and took her land into his coffers.
Omg! Suddenly, the Prince-Bishop was “discovering” so many witches, he had to build a witch-house to hold them while they waited for the torture that would get them to confess so he could take their…
