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Incontrovertible Truth

Published on January 17, 2013 by in 1700s

Today an effect had a cause. The jury is still out on the execution of 9 witches in Kalisk, Poland, on this day in 1775. The Doruchow Witch Trials were prompted by the obvious victimhood of a local nobleman’s wife, who’d come down with a sickness. Fourteen suspects were arrested and tortured; thumbscrews, whipping, and

 
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