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Farmer-Rick

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4. So they rounded up almost a quarter of the population
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 06:58 PM
4 hrs ago

Of Wilder, Idaho.

Kind of what the witch trials in Germany did. Between 1587 and 1593, 368 people were burned alive for sorcery in twenty-two villages, and in 1588, two villages were left with only one female inhabitant in each.

At this point they aren't burning alive the people they hate and scapegoat....at least not yet

And at the end of the witch trails it left cities completely impoverished and without the people who did the work.

"At last, though the flames were still unsated, the people grew impoverished, rules were made and enforced restricting the fees and costs of examinations and examiners, and suddenly, as when in war funds fail, the zeal of the persecutors died out."

https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.6691/2015.6691.Religion-The-Reformation-And-Social-Change_djvu.txt

Amazing the parallels of abuse and hate when people go on witch hunts.

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