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Flilix on 02 March 2019
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CaptainExplosion said:
Mnementh said:

"It was developed in England during the first half of the 20th century and was introduced to the public in 1954 by Gerald Gardner"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca

The people burned on the stakes weren't Wiccans, as Wicca didn't exist back then. I agree though that innocent people were burned over some brainless hysteria.

I know that. I'm saying the whole "Witches is teh evul, RREEEEEEE!!!!!" thing was created to suppress female healers from pre-Christian faiths.

No it wasn't. Witch prosecutions only became big in the early modern times, long after any remains of old religion and traditions in Europe had faded away.