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Witches???

posted 7 years ago by necramonium (219)
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Why the hell is one of the main characters being blamed for being a witch for being a scientist?? The movie is said to take place in 1751, witches were not a thing anymore back than, this was only heavily present a century before that. Especially in the start where she enters a astronomers shop and adjusts his telescope he freaks out and yells WITCH!!! And than the worst part after all, the British hire a witch of their own to help them out! Who the hell wrote this crap?

[–] SILVERWING (66) 7 years ago

People were still deeply religious and not well educated at that time. The Salem witchcraft trials had taken place only a half century earlier. Superstition does not go away so easily. A Tennessee man was prosecuted for witchcraft as late as 1833. In 1878, a woman sued a man claiming that he had caused her bodily harm using witchcraft, called the Salem witchcraft trial (1878), but the case was dismissed.