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15 minutes ago, Liahona said:

How about a few pictures from up high...start a climbing :)

Thats up to the media team/staff.

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19 hours ago, E3D said:

Fish and Hess. 

 

Never heard of them!  :)

PS.  Haven't heard from Fish in 30 years!

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14 minutes ago, emc2 said:

Thats up to the media team/staff.

How hard is it to snap one or two STILL photos...1/2 the internet has already seen the entire show....okay nevermind dude...

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9 minutes ago, Liahona said:

How hard is it to snap one or two STILL photos...1/2 the internet has already seen the entire show....okay nevermind dude...

I will ask.

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1 hour ago, mcjordansc said:

 

I don't think any of the Salem "witches" were burned anyway. 

 Correct. None of the 19 that were executed were " burned".  Most were a hanging, others pressed to death by stone.

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4 minutes ago, BRASSO said:

 Correct. None of the 19 that were executed were " burned".  Most were a hanging, others pressed to death by stone.

(WOZ)  I am melting mmmmmeeeelllltttiiiinnnggg.

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11 minutes ago, general_tsos_chicken2 said:

weren't some thrown in the a river to see if they'd float (or drown)?  Or was that just general accusations of being witch?

As part of the infamous “swimming test,” accused witches were dragged to the nearest body of water, stripped to their undergarments, bound and then tossed in to to see if they would sink or float. Since witches were believed to have spurned the sacrament of baptism, it was thought that the water would reject their body and prevent them from submerging. According to this logic, an innocent person would sink like a stone, but a witch would simply bob on the surface. The victim typically had a rope tied around their waist so they could be pulled from the water if they sank, but it wasn’t unusual for accidental drowning deaths to occur.

Witch swimming derived from the “trial by water,” an ancient practice where suspected criminals and sorcerers were thrown into rushing rivers to allow a higher power to decide their fate. This custom was banned in many European counties in the Middle Ages, only to reemerge in the 17th century as a witch experiment, and it persisted in some locales well into the 18th century. For example, in 1710, the swimming test was used as evidence against a Hungarian woman named Dorko Boda, who was later beaten and burned at the stake as a witch.

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