Witchcraft, Paganism and Wicca This page is dedicated to truth & knowledge. To the learning and understanding of our faith throughout time and history. Blessed shall we be. Do you know how many Witches were burned at the stake? It is believed that some nine to ten million women were burned at the stake as witches; For being pagans, healers or merely wise or powerful women. We understand that in the madness, the victims were (women, men and children). Whatever the number may been, it can never truly be accurate; because of all those unknown thousands that died without name nor mark throughout history. Do you know how many Witches were burned at the stake in the Colonial Colonies of what is now the, United States? None. No "Witches" were put to death in the Salem Witch trials by burning at the stake. All those executed were hang but one, Giles Cory, who was pressed to death. Several others died in prison, including Sarah Osborne, Roger Toothaker, Lyndia Dustin, and Ann Foster. Did you knowAnimals were burned or killed as Witches? History shows that as the madness and fear of Witches crossed the lands, even pets or livestock could not avoid the insanity. Cat and dogs were burned for being the Witches familiar or perhaps a Witch hiding in animal form. Even a cow was hung for being a Witch. i This was our Holocaust, lest we never forget |