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Doug McCrae
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C15–C18 European witch trials
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Most of the work I do on history takes the form of highlighting the awful things influential voices from the past have said, such as the popular preacher Bernardino of Siena in 1427. Fundamentally that's no different to highlighting awful things influential voices from the present are saying.

When such people say that they wish to cure anyone, do you know what you should do? There is nothing better to do than cry "To the fire! To the fire! To the fire!"
One of them told and confessed, without being put to torture, that she had killed thirty children by sucking their blood; she also said that she had let sixty go free. She said that every time she let one of them go free, she had to sacrifice a limb to the devil, and she used to offer the limb of an animal.
Whether within the city or outside its walls, accuse her—every witch, every wizard, every sorcerer or sorceress, or worker of charms and spells. Do what I tell you in order that you will not be called upon to answer for it on the Day of Judgment, having been able to prevent so great an evil which might have been prevented if you had accused her.
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Doug McCrae
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C15–C18 European witch trials
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