Degenerate behaviors do not make the world a better place.
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4 weeks ago
Anonymous
define degenerate
if your definition comes from some dude who demands you cut up baby penises, discard it in the same bin he kept your foreskin in
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
No gun to post, and immediately thinks of penises.
Must be a euro or a Californian, or some other inhuman.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
it's not the gun's fault you feel left behind by society. it's probably the fault of you growing up breathing lead, and it's leaching out of your bones as you age, degrading your cognitive capacity to adapt to your cultural environment. or, more simply, turning you degenerate. empathy's the first to go, so what's left of your ability to analyze others is mostly down to what other people tell you to feel (sign of deteriorated critical thinking skills) coupled with projection.
realistically, whatever behavior in others is "degenerate" will either demonstrate that it's an improvement on existing behavior or eliminate itself by failing to compete. it's a problem that will solve itself without your input.
your fear of degenerate behavior is grounded, because at some level you're aware of your decline, and rightfully it horrifies you.
lead leaching from your bones though, you actually need external medical help with chelation for that, unless you want to have early dementia. anyone who grew up before the 1990s likely needs regular lead level checks, as developmentally acquired lead can be sequestered in bone tissue and the deterioration of bone tissue with age will release it, turning a previously benign accumulation of lead into an internal, chronic source of it directly into your blood.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Still not posting a gun and babbling about lead, like this is the 70's or something.
Seething eurotrash desperately trying to cope.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
it's not the gun's fault you feel left behind by society. it's probably the fault of you growing up breathing lead, and it's leaching out of your bones as you age, degrading your cognitive capacity to adapt to your cultural environment. or, more simply, turning you degenerate. empathy's the first to go, so what's left of your ability to analyze others is mostly down to what other people tell you to feel (sign of deteriorated critical thinking skills) coupled with projection.
realistically, whatever behavior in others is "degenerate" will either demonstrate that it's an improvement on existing behavior or eliminate itself by failing to compete. it's a problem that will solve itself without your input.
your fear of degenerate behavior is grounded, because at some level you're aware of your decline, and rightfully it horrifies you.
lead leaching from your bones though, you actually need external medical help with chelation for that, unless you want to have early dementia. anyone who grew up before the 1990s likely needs regular lead level checks, as developmentally acquired lead can be sequestered in bone tissue and the deterioration of bone tissue with age will release it, turning a previously benign accumulation of lead into an internal, chronic source of it directly into your blood.
No gun no opinion lol, get the fuck back where you came from.
This is factual. The only wholesome board is PrepHole and even there only the webm, favorite animal picture/webm, and daily reminder to want a platypus threads (which has been going on for years that guy is super dedicated) are safe for your sanity. Everything else in this cursed place will lead you to rot and ruin.
>PrepHole >Wholesome
bro you have to lurk more. These fuckers are source and distributors of the 3.6gb dolphin porn folder.
And don't forget their absolute sexual fixation on birds.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
you don't happen to know where one might find such a folder do you?
just so i know how to avoid it... because that sounds gross ha ha
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
birds >mmmMMMMMmmmmm
don't turn down the birdslut
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
cute scar
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>tfw you’ll never get one of her feathers as a small gift.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Do people still carry lockets of hair?
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
I mean, you can appreciate the secretary birds without actually fucking them. Right?
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
You'll note I listed 3 specific threads. The rest of PrepHole is fucking horrible. I like the deer threads the best.
also they wouldn't be "heterosexuals", they'd be bisexuals.
unless you also call gay men married to a beard heterosexual, in which case i guess you are the kind of person a beard is trying to fool, so i suppose that makes sense
I see, do you also say that all gays and lesbians who declare themselves completely 100% homosexual, but who had heterosexual encounters in the past, are "actually bi"? Do you argue that to their face? That they're not allowed to identify their sexuality themselves?
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
According to the "sexuality is a spectrum" bullshit those same people like to push, nobody is 100% anything so no, they don't declare themselves as such.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
That's just propaganda. Gays and lesbians loose their fucking minds if you say they're Bi, and Bisexuals were always the pariahs of the homosexual community until trannies became more popular.
Literally nothing makes a dyke seethe like a LUG.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
yes
if you want to be anal about definitions, be anal about it. half assing autism is for gays
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>half assing autism is for gays
Don't half ass something, be the whole ass.
is that president solidus snake? I always forget he fucking commands Raiden's white child soldier army in Africa then somehow gets voted president after lol
irc i read somewhere that hollywood depiction of human torches running around on fire is unrealistic and that if you got directly hit by a military flamethrower the temperatures are high enough to kill you pretty much instantly
unfortunately. not all of you dies at once
and the brain is rather flame resistant (see: US reports on the effects of thermobaric weapons)
loss of consciousness likely does not occur until total organ failure has deoxygenated the blood, which might be upwards of a full minute. it's impact that kills instantly - fire just destroys the ability to demonstrate that you're still conscious quickly while your still-conscious brain sends signals to nothing, protected from the flames by the skull
if it destroyed the brain instantly, the cranium would explode from the pressure of flash-boiled cerebrospinal fluid and blood
I love fire.
It is pure and raw.
It KNOWS what it must do: CONSUME.
We should use it on as many enemies as possible, to make them terrified of war with us.
I love fire.
It is pure and raw.
It KNOWS what it must do: CONSUME.
We should use it on as many enemies as possible, to make them terrified of war with us.
Sometimes I get a boner when thinking about burning people and things.
Not sure why.
https://i.imgur.com/O9igIZw.jpg
As someone who has never smelled napalm in the morning, can someone tell me how lovely it smells?
Also how did this thread get onto witches, proper witch hat size, and how fucking retarded the Salem witch hunts were?
>tell me how lovely it smells?
Smells like victory.
And burning petroleum products.
But mostly victory.
irc i read somewhere that hollywood depiction of human torches running around on fire is unrealistic and that if you got directly hit by a military flamethrower the temperatures are high enough to kill you pretty much instantly
That was fuddlore created by flamethrower manufacturers and advocates of the weapon within the army.
The reality is that, unsurprisingly, dousing a person in flaming chemicals sets him up to die a screaming, shrieking flailing pile of meat.
I bet it smells delicious.
flamethrowers kill mostly by carbon monoxide poisoning.
It's pretty hot, idk what gender they are and idc, but they made a comic were a guy goes over to his girlfriends house, meats his girlfriends big boobie sister and gets banged.
There's also one where a mother speaks to her futa neighbour over the backyard fence to ask where her son is, to which the neighbour says she has no idea. Then in the next panel we see the son is sucking off the neighbour just out of view of the mother. It's pretty messed up.
My co-worker recently went with his wife to get her crystals "charged" and then put inside a candle.
I would never put up with that nonsense in a million years. Being GF-less is far preferable.
To clarify my second rule of >hat radius up to 1 times your height on a case by case basis.
If it's a small character or a child the hats rim MUST NEVER TOUCH THE GROUND UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES/positions (though it may touch shoes when folded down)
I feel like more than this big can be counterproductive unless you have a particular style to really sell it. I feel like one of the 2hu's does it well but don't remember who.
I'd probably second
when it's diameter exceeds 2/3 your height unless you are smol in which case hat radius up to 1 times your height on a case by case basis.
I like it. It continues the mainline show's theme of being true to yourself (putting points in explosion magic or party tricks) and reaping the consequences, good and bad, from doing so. It also has a neat depiction of what it really means to be a misfit: it's not about being "quirky" or "unique", but instead the tension between personal values and preference versus societal values and norms. So, Megumin's a misfit even if she shares the same chuuni values as the village because explosion magic violates their norms. And Yunyun (bless her heart), is a misfit because she doesn't buy into the chuuni life at all.
I went to a vintage flame thrower & WW2 weapons demonstration put on my a local shooting club. A few flamethrowers, some rifles and machine guns, reenactors, and they even had a Stuart flame tank come out and light up a mockup bunker.
I wanna codify what small-medium/premium-large hat size ranges are. For a average size anime character I feel like middle of medium is 3x head diameter, large is in diameter no larger than 2/3 height of character, and small is less than 2xhead diameter. Any drawfags would be appreciated if you could have a blank/featureless character with various outlines of hats on it designating sizes.
I've never heard of either of those before, and I feel as though I walked into some back of bookstore in the middle of someone's club. Or I'm visiting another board full of unfamiliar terms and culture.
proliferation of short to medium range man portable anti-tank weapons means it's now suicide to get that close to infantry (yes even the 100+ meter range of vehicle flamethrowers)
Ever seen a video of a TOS-1 getting hit by an ATGM? Flamethrower tanks would end up like that, except they might instead get hit by something as small as an M72 or maybe even a 40mm from a rifleman
Specifically it means oath breaker or breaker of trust, as in the trust between men to follow the law. It was the label of those exiled to the wilderness and declared outside to protections of law.
Where might one risk encountering witches? Just so i know where to not go 'cause i'd hate to become a thrall haha...
Also, would a flamethrower be a viable self defence weapon against witches? >captcha HAGDM
>Also, would a flamethrower be a viable self defence weapon against witches
YES. Ever hear about burning at the stake? The Salem witch trials? They can't be drowned, so burning was the only effective means to vanquish them.
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Yes, but then they are already caught and put on the stake, restrained and defenceless. I mean if you were being put in a situation where you're gonna go out and hunt the witch or if the witch is hunting you, surely they have countermeasures for such things?
>Also, would a flamethrower be a viable self defence weapon against witches
YES. Ever hear about burning at the stake? The Salem witch trials? They can't be drowned, so burning was the only effective means to vanquish them.
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https://i.imgur.com/1M2I2SS.jpg
There's a show about militarized witches
It's terrible
Semi related do you guys know the history of the Salem Witch trials?
It was basically a Grandma/Tradwife genocide orchestrated by teenage whores and ~~*Politicians*~~ that has for a hundred years been used as a rallying cry against the exact sort of people it victimized.
They even killed the Town priest, who spoke out against them.
You look down the list of victims and it's all like "Granny Goodmuffin, Widowed mother of Twelve, known for donating money to the church and feeding local poor children cookies, accused of turning into a shadow demon and attacking the sluttiest 15 year old in New England despite being 100 miles away at the time visiting her family. Her large estate and goods were claimed by the court to offset court expenses."
They never killed a single witch. All the dead were people who maintained their innocence. The courts took the accuseds possessions.
The English caught on to this and eventually hanged their witch hunters.
First, the victims
Bridget Bishop- 60 year old Grandma who owned a tavern.
Sarah Good- A previously wealthy poor woman, married with a child and pregnant
Rebecca Nurse- 70 year old mother of nine and pillar of the community
Elizabeth Howe- 50 year old mother of six
Susana Martin- 70 year old mother of eight
Sarah Wildes- 65 year old mother of two, step mother of eight
George Burroughs- 42 year old pastor known for his athleticism
George Jacobs Sr.- 83 year old Grandfather
John Proctor Jr.- 59 year old father of 18, wealthy farmer
John Willard- Town Constable that expressed doubts about the accusations, married.
Martha Corey- 72 year old grandmother, known widely for piety and charity
Mary Eastey- 58 year old mother of eleven
Mary Parker- 55 year old mother of one
Alice Parker- Wife of a local fisherman
Ann Pudeator- 70 year old town nurse and mother of five
Wilmot Redd- Grandmother and wife of local fisherman
Margaret Scott- 77 year old mother of seven
Samuel Wardwell- 50 year old father of three
Giles Corey- 81 year old father of five
Ann Foster- 75 year old mother of five
Sarah Osborne- 49 year old mother of two
Roger Toothaker- A 57 year old doctor
Many were beaten, starved, or deprived of sleep before their court appearance, and some had already gone somewhat senile before hand and were given no representation in court.
We've been sold this idea our whole lives that there's some kind of anti-religious, feminist reading of the Salem Witch Trials but the fact is that it was a massacre of the pious and conservative for little more than the greed of the town officers. They killed the priest, they killed their own constable when he realized what was happening, they targeted women who's husbands were dead or far off on business, who's families weren't in town, and above all ideally those with lands and goods they desired.
See, the courts decided that if you were found guilty of witchcraft in court, they could repossess all your possessions and lands, thus a widow or sailor's wife with no adult male children in town, was always an attractive target.
One old man, Giles Corey, knew the law well enough to know that the court couldn't repossess his goods if he refused to enter a plea, and so he more or less dared them to flout the restriction and risk further outside scrutiny, or leave his goods to his family. They tortured him to death by crushing him slowly under a pile of rocks, asking him regularly to enter a plea. He supposedly said nothing but "Add more weight" throughout the torture, until he finally died.
Now, where do the Thots come in? Most of the accusations came from teenage girls (or a slave woman they had accused but they and the court had then turned to their purposes) of poor reputation. They're sometimes portrayed as the Masterminds of everything, but it's pretty obvious that the town officials were colluding with them on the names, tell your sociopathic high school bitch to target Misses whoever goodburger, who she already hates or wants to fuck the husband of or whatever, and then you scoop up the property.
The slave came into play because she was accused early but (presumably because killing her didn't make anyone any money) she was allowed to live so long as she would reveal her "co conspirators" which was whoever the fuck the court told her the name of.
Oh they made big shows of everything, fake seizures, fantastic stories of lightning blasts and shadow demons, but everyone knew what was up. It was a State-enforced gang kidnapping, torturing, and killing anyone it liked, and people were just terrified of standing up to them.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
More on the "accusers"
A gang of teenage girls, their ring leader was one of the oldest, Elizabeth Hubbard. Elizabeth had no parents, and was instead under the care of her Uncle, the court physician that examined the accused and saw all kinds of signs of witchery. Hubbard and her Uncle lived alone, by the way, and she was *never* referred to as his adoptive daughter or even relative after he took her in, but rather curiously, consistently as his "Maid".
Many of the "effects" of Witchcraft were pulled straight from the Doctor's past patients and medical texts, and Hubbard coached the other girls on how to act and what to say.
I should like to point out here that other doctors from around new England came to examine the "afflicted" and the accused, and none could find a single medical abnormality at work, including during full body examinations for any "witch's marks" that all witches were supposed to have, and the court physician supposedly saw.
One such physician, Roger Toothaker, was of dubious medical training but "known" as an "expert" on witches (which mostly consisted of him getting wasted at bars and insisting he'd killed a witch in the woods one time). Well liked and considered an "authority", he was an obstacle and had to be accused. For convoluted reasons he was to be sent away to Boston to stand trial, but before he could make a statement he succumbed to the tremendous injuries he had taken at the hands of his captors.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Lets see, other accusers, there was Elizabeth Booth, one of the older girls who's father died when she was young, and who briefly had a step father who also died, and who had a very bad reputation since some unknown event when she was sixteen that was later written off as "witchcraft"
Mercy Lewis, a girl who's entire family had been massacred by Indians who was... generously taken in by one of the most powerful men in town who happened to have been muscled out of his rich family's major holdings by his brothers, was currently engaged in a blood feud with a large extended family that included many of the accused, and of course stood to gain by every guilty verdict.
Marry Warren, the oldest, a bipolar servant who had always used witchcraft or illness to get attention until threatened physically, at which point she'd magically recover.
And then there's a handful of little girls and the slave, who I mentioned.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Good postan, anon.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
And people still wonder why an inquisitorial body that could regulate this shit was needed...
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
NTA but I was just about to touch on the role of the Inquisition in relation to similar things going on in Europe. Namely how they sent Inquisitors to investigate witch hunts and find a rational explanation for what was going on, which they did way more often than not. Rather than the liberal view that the Inquisition was some proto-SS gathering up muzzies and garden gnomes and torturing them to death or some other such nonsense (in the Spanish Inquisition's case, they were more like medieval ICE trying to get muslims and stay-behind agents of the Moors out of Spain), they actually saved a lot of people from illiterate mobs trying to lynch them.
And of course, following the Protestant Reformation, there was a large increase in witch hunt related killings in the breakaway nations.
I also want to touch on the trial of the Knights Templar, even though it precedes the Protestant Reformation by a few centuries, because that's also largely the result of King Philip IV and not Pope Clement V. The Pope tried to hold a legitimate trial for them, but Philip went behind the Pope's back and burned them at the stake without one. This was also a move of Philip's in attempting to supplant the Pope as the head of the Church somehow. Thankfully Philip got was he deserved, he died in a hunting accident and all his sons died young without producing male heirs of their own, so his entire male line died off and was supplanted by the House of Valois (whom I'm supposedly related to).
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Papist apologist fuck off and burn some more people alive lmao.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Protestant moron killed more Christian than Catholic and Orthodox combined. Majority of Witch trial were done by Protestant.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yes, I am a Papist. I am proud to bear the title you have given me, for I recognize the Pope as the successor of the Apostle Peter and the representative of Christ's will on earth. >burn some more people alive
Didn't happen, also we're in the flamethrower thread.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
https://i.imgur.com/tEes0zt.png
Yes, I am a Papist. I am proud to bear the title you have given me, for I recognize the Pope as the successor of the Apostle Peter and the representative of Christ's will on earth. >burn some more people alive
Didn't happen, also we're in the flamethrower thread.
Oh yeah, and for the record, Catholics never used Cheirosiphons. Orthos kept the recipe for Greek Fire a secret to themselves.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
How's that 30 Years War? What? Killed off around 8,000,000 people? Opened the way for Ottoman invasions? Wow, you really DID reform Europe. 😛
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
all the witch hunt mania pretty much exclusively happened in protestant countries because accused "witches" in catholic countries would get routinely handed over to ecclesiastical courts who would just shrug and immediately release them
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Well there is the notable exception of France who did have quite a few notable hunts. But other than them, yeah, generally speaking Catholic witchhunts were an oddity.
The only reason the Salem scandal turned heads was because it occurred well after it was no longer fashionable in England. Had it occurred 30 years previous, no one would have made much of it.
Oh no, if anything it turned heads because it was in the colonies. In England proper the last state-sponsored witch hunt wouldn't happen until 1730, the practice wouldn't stop being state-sponsored until the Witchcraft Act of 1735, non-state-sponsored but still permited witchhunts would continue to happen until the ammendment in 1824, and even then this act would continue to be invoked to persecute practitioners of so-called witchcraft like mediums or fortune tellers (without killing them, just jail time or fines) until it was finally repealed in 1957, with the last time someone was condemned of witchcraft in UK being in 1944 and the last threat of punkshment coming from 1950.
Hilariously while USA was considerably more progressive than UK on these matters their other now-ex-colonies were somehow even worse. With bonus points going to South Africa, where the Witchcraft Supression Act is STILL IN PLACE TODAY.
For comparison, after the Zugarramurdi scandal Salazar (Picrel from
https://i.imgur.com/q1DHg48.jpg
Reading this, Salazar, Picrel. Would go to Navarra and perform his own investigation, and after another bunch of months he concluded it had all been horseshit. Those condemned (or their families in the case of those who died) were given reparations, and the inquisition upped the requirements for burnings so hard that this is considered the end of the witchhunts in spain, because even some very obvious cases of satanism were condemned to ostracism instead of death. And in Spain this was THE BIGGEST scandal. I mean riots tier scandal. I mean international mockery tier scandal.
Meanwhile the French just didn't even give a shit and no further investigation was made of the Labort burnings.
So compare and contrast. The oh so terrible Spanish Inquisition burnt 6 people, who used violence to resist arrest, and self flagelated so hard and restructured itself so brutaly in response you'd think they'd have nailed Jesus to the fucking cross.
Meanwhile the witch hunters just kept burning people on the regular and didn't even mention maybe they fucked up until the Salem scandal started to turn heads.
) wound up getting promoted to the Supreme Inquisition thanks to his debunking of witchcraft theories. And after Zugarramurdi there was only 1 more case of a trialed witch in Spain, in 1611, (and it was a single woman, who had poisoned people, for which she was convicted, not witchcraft, poisoning.) after which the entire practice was put on hold until the Supreme Inquisition's act of the 29th of August 1614 would end the pause by banning the practice outright. As a reminder, this restructure came for how scandalous it was for SIX PEOPLE to be executed by a single hunt. Compare and contrast...
The state of the inquisition varied a lot. They certainly weren’t a force of rationality though.
Compared with their contemporaries they were the closest thing to a reasonable judiciary body at the time.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
The Catholic Church actually banned persecution of witches for most of it's history, insisting they were fake both before and after a very brief period.
Even during the like, ten year period persecution of witches was permitted, all Rome said was "if it is discovered someone is using evil powers against their fellow men, the law may punish them as it sees fit.". The Catholic Church even banned the witch-hunters manual as heresy, but it remained extremely popular among officials and nobles, and spread like wildfire outside of Catholic lands as well.
Sorry but the problem has always been secular politicians and judges.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
in my city five times more people where killed over religious/witchcraft in the year and a half that it took the Spanish to liberate them than in the about 500 years before and after.
And what is more we have better records of the trails in the 12th and 13th century than those held under protestant occupation.
that being said it also only took a year and a half to go from being borderline hippity hoppety to banning all civilian possession of firearms and forced manual labor.
The only thing the duke of Alba did wrong was not killing more of those involved in the spreading of protestantism and in leading it
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Personally I think the most obvious case comparison to Salem would be Zugarramundi, in Spain. Both were scandals for their time and caused the rules to change in their respective countries, and both towns have miled the shit out of the witchcraft myth around their cases afterwards. And this serves as good comparison. More so thanks to the French fiasco going on at the same time as Zugarramundi.
So, precedents. Note that both Zugarramundi and the other case I'll mention, Labort, happened within the basque regions of their respective countries. Basque France for Labort, Navarra (in Spain) for Zugarramundi. This caused 2 very large issues.
1-The basques had a lot more legends of witches than either the French or Castillians, something that caused issues when the huntings started.
2-Neither Judge Pierre du Lancre (for France) nor the Inquisitorial Council of Logroño (For Spain) had basque speakers, so they had to use translators and guides who were often uneducated serfs, which caused a lot of issues.
So the year is 1609, and yet another witch craze happened. It started on the french side, (apparently due to the expulsions into that area of garden gnomes and moors by Felipe III of Spain) so the procedure for them at the time was the king (Enrique IV) would send one of the judges (educated noblemen) to investigate and report directly to him. He sent Pierre du Lancre who got to Labort and made a comission. And any historian agrees his evidence was... Just plain wrong. Translation was a serious mistakes and most agree he just interpreted a ton of shit wrong due to it, but even besides that he didn't even keep names consistent during declarations, which is probably why during his first writing he asked the king to send an army to arrest 3000 people. Eventually he lowered that to 1500 after the king told him to pull the other one, and after interrogations his bloodlust was satiated after burning almost 200 people. This whole thing took a few weeks btw. (pt2 coming)
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
So on the meantime the Spaniards had an inquisition, so they followed procedure. The Tribunal de Logroño was designated by the Suprema, and they designated 2 inquisitorial comissioners to investigate and report to them. (Their names were striken from the record due to the scandal.) Sadly between the aforementioned cultural clash and the overall instability at the time the writings by these 2 were unreliable as fuck. Still they established that the spanish side of the issue started when María de Ximildegui emigrated to Spain from french basque country and startes gossiping about other women, claiming to be a witch that had left the Akelarre but knew who was still a practicing witch. Combine this with the region already having a ton of myths about it and well that was like throwing a match at a gunpowder store, specially after the french started hanging people.
Still from the letters of the comissioners it was decided that a little over 100 cases had any relevance, besides the kids which were immediately striken from the record for, well, being kids. Of these after months of doubts the tribunal accepted 40 arrests, of them 5 were already dead by the time the inquisitors went to grab them, 18 were punished with penitence for "reconciliation" (and only 2 of those lashing, the rest just prayer) The 6 that "resisted violently" were burnt, and the rest were declared innocent.
Ok, not that bad you might say. See here's the issue. By Spanish standards this is THE harshest witch hunt, period. So much that when Logroño told the Supreme it had approved this, they sent a letter ordering an immediate pause. Issue is, the letter came too late, and by the time Logroño told the comissioners to stop, they had already burnt the people so... woops.
In response to the mess one of the inquisitors from the Logroño Tribunal, Salazar, ordered the humanist Pedro de Valencia to make a report. Pt 3 coming.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Reading this, Salazar, Picrel. Would go to Navarra and perform his own investigation, and after another bunch of months he concluded it had all been horseshit. Those condemned (or their families in the case of those who died) were given reparations, and the inquisition upped the requirements for burnings so hard that this is considered the end of the witchhunts in spain, because even some very obvious cases of satanism were condemned to ostracism instead of death. And in Spain this was THE BIGGEST scandal. I mean riots tier scandal. I mean international mockery tier scandal.
Meanwhile the French just didn't even give a shit and no further investigation was made of the Labort burnings.
So compare and contrast. The oh so terrible Spanish Inquisition burnt 6 people, who used violence to resist arrest, and self flagelated so hard and restructured itself so brutaly in response you'd think they'd have nailed Jesus to the fucking cross.
Meanwhile the witch hunters just kept burning people on the regular and didn't even mention maybe they fucked up until the Salem scandal started to turn heads.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
The only reason the Salem scandal turned heads was because it occurred well after it was no longer fashionable in England. Had it occurred 30 years previous, no one would have made much of it.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Be glad the Inquisition didn't burn everybody, just a few
Now this is Stockholm syndrome
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>peasants sperg out and try killing their neighbors >Inquisitor strolls by >"hey now, don't do that, ok? Look, here's a reasonable explanation for whatever you're mad about, now don't do this again and leave those people alone, ok buddy?" >a thousand years later, the descendant of the illiterate peasant mobsters seethes about Chadquisitor stopping his bloodlust
Nothing personnel, kiddo
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
You illiterate retards really can't catch a break. For example, the Polish Inquisition, in its entire history, sentenced a total of 7 people to death. And I'm not even sure those weren't legitimate death sentences for actual crimes.
In Medieval Europe, if you committed a crime, you would beg whatever higher power you believed in to be tried by the Church, since inquisitorial courts were the ONLY ones in Europe at the time that explicitly banned procuring testimony and confessions of guilt through torture.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
The state of the inquisition varied a lot. They certainly weren’t a force of rationality though.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>inquisitors >rational
Now come on Anon this is taking things too far.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
There is nothing more rational than burning gn*stic scum alive with absolute prejudice.
First, the victims
Bridget Bishop- 60 year old Grandma who owned a tavern.
Sarah Good- A previously wealthy poor woman, married with a child and pregnant
Rebecca Nurse- 70 year old mother of nine and pillar of the community
Elizabeth Howe- 50 year old mother of six
Susana Martin- 70 year old mother of eight
Sarah Wildes- 65 year old mother of two, step mother of eight
George Burroughs- 42 year old pastor known for his athleticism
George Jacobs Sr.- 83 year old Grandfather
John Proctor Jr.- 59 year old father of 18, wealthy farmer
John Willard- Town Constable that expressed doubts about the accusations, married.
Martha Corey- 72 year old grandmother, known widely for piety and charity
Mary Eastey- 58 year old mother of eleven
Mary Parker- 55 year old mother of one
Alice Parker- Wife of a local fisherman
Ann Pudeator- 70 year old town nurse and mother of five
Wilmot Redd- Grandmother and wife of local fisherman
Margaret Scott- 77 year old mother of seven
Samuel Wardwell- 50 year old father of three
Giles Corey- 81 year old father of five
Ann Foster- 75 year old mother of five
Sarah Osborne- 49 year old mother of two
Roger Toothaker- A 57 year old doctor
Many were beaten, starved, or deprived of sleep before their court appearance, and some had already gone somewhat senile before hand and were given no representation in court.
We've been sold this idea our whole lives that there's some kind of anti-religious, feminist reading of the Salem Witch Trials but the fact is that it was a massacre of the pious and conservative for little more than the greed of the town officers. They killed the priest, they killed their own constable when he realized what was happening, they targeted women who's husbands were dead or far off on business, who's families weren't in town, and above all ideally those with lands and goods they desired.
See, the courts decided that if you were found guilty of witchcraft in court, they could repossess all your possessions and lands, thus a widow or sailor's wife with no adult male children in town, was always an attractive target.
One old man, Giles Corey, knew the law well enough to know that the court couldn't repossess his goods if he refused to enter a plea, and so he more or less dared them to flout the restriction and risk further outside scrutiny, or leave his goods to his family. They tortured him to death by crushing him slowly under a pile of rocks, asking him regularly to enter a plea. He supposedly said nothing but "Add more weight" throughout the torture, until he finally died.
Now, where do the Thots come in? Most of the accusations came from teenage girls (or a slave woman they had accused but they and the court had then turned to their purposes) of poor reputation. They're sometimes portrayed as the Masterminds of everything, but it's pretty obvious that the town officials were colluding with them on the names, tell your sociopathic high school bitch to target Misses whoever goodburger, who she already hates or wants to fuck the husband of or whatever, and then you scoop up the property.
The slave came into play because she was accused early but (presumably because killing her didn't make anyone any money) she was allowed to live so long as she would reveal her "co conspirators" which was whoever the fuck the court told her the name of.
Oh they made big shows of everything, fake seizures, fantastic stories of lightning blasts and shadow demons, but everyone knew what was up. It was a State-enforced gang kidnapping, torturing, and killing anyone it liked, and people were just terrified of standing up to them.
More on the "accusers"
A gang of teenage girls, their ring leader was one of the oldest, Elizabeth Hubbard. Elizabeth had no parents, and was instead under the care of her Uncle, the court physician that examined the accused and saw all kinds of signs of witchery. Hubbard and her Uncle lived alone, by the way, and she was *never* referred to as his adoptive daughter or even relative after he took her in, but rather curiously, consistently as his "Maid".
Many of the "effects" of Witchcraft were pulled straight from the Doctor's past patients and medical texts, and Hubbard coached the other girls on how to act and what to say.
I should like to point out here that other doctors from around new England came to examine the "afflicted" and the accused, and none could find a single medical abnormality at work, including during full body examinations for any "witch's marks" that all witches were supposed to have, and the court physician supposedly saw.
One such physician, Roger Toothaker, was of dubious medical training but "known" as an "expert" on witches (which mostly consisted of him getting wasted at bars and insisting he'd killed a witch in the woods one time). Well liked and considered an "authority", he was an obstacle and had to be accused. For convoluted reasons he was to be sent away to Boston to stand trial, but before he could make a statement he succumbed to the tremendous injuries he had taken at the hands of his captors.
Lets see, other accusers, there was Elizabeth Booth, one of the older girls who's father died when she was young, and who briefly had a step father who also died, and who had a very bad reputation since some unknown event when she was sixteen that was later written off as "witchcraft"
Mercy Lewis, a girl who's entire family had been massacred by Indians who was... generously taken in by one of the most powerful men in town who happened to have been muscled out of his rich family's major holdings by his brothers, was currently engaged in a blood feud with a large extended family that included many of the accused, and of course stood to gain by every guilty verdict.
Marry Warren, the oldest, a bipolar servant who had always used witchcraft or illness to get attention until threatened physically, at which point she'd magically recover.
And then there's a handful of little girls and the slave, who I mentioned.
Man, with this in mind Salem's celebration of the idea/image of the "witch", and Wicca in general really, is in incredibly poor taste, and not a little bit infuriating.
Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s true. The biggest shame is now it’s used as some sort of mini-holocaust for whores and roasties, aka, the contemporary woman >oy vey, remember the Salem Trials, shitlord
>revisionism >Women with large families in good standing were massively over represented in the victims, of which there are significant records >Almost all the accusers were teenage girls, several of which were living alone with the men that stood to gain from the trials >Everyone controlling the trials was male
How exactly is it incel revisionism to defend married women against a murderous cabal of male officials?
I still find it hard to believe there's basically 0 regulations on flamethrowers. And not just the industrial propane kind but the kind that shoots ignited napalm too.
This. Same reason there's effectively no regulations on miniguns, anyone that can actually afford the damn thing probably won't go shooting up a place.
What, there are. There's only 11 of them in the civilian market but if someone is willing to sell one of them to you, you can buy it for an absurd price
What, there are. There's only 11 of them in the civilian market but if someone is willing to sell one of them to you, you can buy it for an absurd price
You don't know shit about fuck. A minigun's parts kit cost $38,500 last time I looked. A xm556 Microgun isn't for sale, but it's regulated parts can be made relatively easily all things considered. Chainguns and other electically driven guns post 86 are Illegal for civilians. Nukes are near unobtainium for joe shmo but there are still laws against it.
why is it that a board strays "off topic" the ensuing discussion is often time high quality? I've noticed this several times on different boards that if you're not discussing the "main topic" it always seems to be better somehow.
Because you can only seriously talk about things so often without getting bored. If you talk about star trek on tv, the people who have been in stg for years will shit post as all discussion has happened already. If you do the same on k the posters may not have ever discussed it and will bring up interesting and novel ideas that further creativity and fun in the thread.
This is why mods who shit down off topic threads are fags.
You see this a lot in /v/. Most threads about actual videogames are just low effort shitflinging between two equally retarded sides. Offtopic threads are usually interesting, provided they’re not centered around topics that attract schizos like politics or religion
At this point I have to ask. Why is there so much art of this one specific character? Is her from some manga or some shit?
Also those books are going to get ruined by the water and that hairstyle is not even close to regulation friendly.
Saddly Germany never used this and destroyed all stocks after the cold war ended. It's a Handflammpatrone, disposable one shot flame thrower, shots a red phosphorous load, ignites either on contact or after 70m. It's your own personal and up close WP distribution system. Would have made PrepHoleino footage in the current trench fighting in Ukraine.
Yes, red pete is non toxic when ingested and does not self ignite as easily. both are good things for an infantry weapon. Will burn your ass just as well.
It makes smoke fine but isn't nearly as vicious as an incendiary. There's a reason why we still make WP munitions despite RP being safer in pretty much every way
>browser open in tiny window >open image without checking thumbnail >see hat with barrel sticking out >witch girl with gun hat? >this is the best thing ever >scroll down >her hat is not in fact a gun
I am so disappointed I am simply going to kill myself
>So... if she weighs as much as a duck, she's made of wood... >And therefore? >....A witch!!
One of the best dialogues ever written. It still makes me kek every time.
Any benefit I see with this design also applies to under-barrel grenades, except incendiary under-barrel grenades seem like they would be better in literally every way. Still interesting that this device existed nonetheless. If it wasn't for aluminum barrels then I wonder if something like the china lake would be able to fire incendiary rounds out like this.
I love that image. That witch is wearing a really sexy dress in that second image.
If they don't have ten kids by then he's just a simp.
>It's not bring your kids to work day
>People aren't allowed to help others unless they're having sex
You're brain is clogged with cum
Imagine helping a woman that isn't related to you or producing people related to you lol.
You can't imagine being a decent human being trying to make the world even just a little bit more of a happier place? Yeah,. you probably can't.
Degenerate behaviors do not make the world a better place.
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define degenerate
if your definition comes from some dude who demands you cut up baby penises, discard it in the same bin he kept your foreskin in
No gun to post, and immediately thinks of penises.
Must be a euro or a Californian, or some other inhuman.
it's not the gun's fault you feel left behind by society. it's probably the fault of you growing up breathing lead, and it's leaching out of your bones as you age, degrading your cognitive capacity to adapt to your cultural environment. or, more simply, turning you degenerate. empathy's the first to go, so what's left of your ability to analyze others is mostly down to what other people tell you to feel (sign of deteriorated critical thinking skills) coupled with projection.
realistically, whatever behavior in others is "degenerate" will either demonstrate that it's an improvement on existing behavior or eliminate itself by failing to compete. it's a problem that will solve itself without your input.
your fear of degenerate behavior is grounded, because at some level you're aware of your decline, and rightfully it horrifies you.
lead leaching from your bones though, you actually need external medical help with chelation for that, unless you want to have early dementia. anyone who grew up before the 1990s likely needs regular lead level checks, as developmentally acquired lead can be sequestered in bone tissue and the deterioration of bone tissue with age will release it, turning a previously benign accumulation of lead into an internal, chronic source of it directly into your blood.
>Still not posting a gun and babbling about lead, like this is the 70's or something.
Seething eurotrash desperately trying to cope.
No gun no opinion lol, get the fuck back where you came from.
in terms of a male-female relationship if they aren't related to you, yes
what about them did you want to discuss?
and it's a shame there's so little media catering to the setup shown in that image.
Valkyria Chronicles is the only thing that comes to mind besides Ripley's jury rigged thing in Alien.
The Pyro approves of Engineers upgrade.
I don't remember the Engineer using an SMG.
One shudders to imagine of what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask.. What dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty??
I think it's cool that the laws governing them are as lax as they are but the idea of actually burning someone alive is abhorrent to me.
It makes my mouth water for some reason. I think I'd get hard if I was at a burning.
is this that "grillpilled" thing I keep hearing about?
>punished griller: a man denied his meats
>burning someone alive is abhorrent to me
GTFO
>if you aren't twisted and crazy like the joker u dont belong here!
Unironically yes, its unhealthy to hang around here.
This is factual. The only wholesome board is PrepHole and even there only the webm, favorite animal picture/webm, and daily reminder to want a platypus threads (which has been going on for years that guy is super dedicated) are safe for your sanity. Everything else in this cursed place will lead you to rot and ruin.
>PrepHole
>Wholesome
bro you have to lurk more. These fuckers are source and distributors of the 3.6gb dolphin porn folder.
And don't forget their absolute sexual fixation on birds.
you don't happen to know where one might find such a folder do you?
just so i know how to avoid it... because that sounds gross ha ha
birds
>mmmMMMMMmmmmm
don't turn down the birdslut
cute scar
>tfw you’ll never get one of her feathers as a small gift.
Do people still carry lockets of hair?
I mean, you can appreciate the secretary birds without actually fucking them. Right?
You'll note I listed 3 specific threads. The rest of PrepHole is fucking horrible. I like the deer threads the best.
I mean…
Lots of factually correct wrongthink 'round these parts, best you move along.
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The vast majority of Lesbians become heterosexuals within ten years of coming out.
>The vast majority
i'd like to see this study
also they wouldn't be "heterosexuals", they'd be bisexuals.
unless you also call gay men married to a beard heterosexual, in which case i guess you are the kind of person a beard is trying to fool, so i suppose that makes sense
I see, do you also say that all gays and lesbians who declare themselves completely 100% homosexual, but who had heterosexual encounters in the past, are "actually bi"? Do you argue that to their face? That they're not allowed to identify their sexuality themselves?
According to the "sexuality is a spectrum" bullshit those same people like to push, nobody is 100% anything so no, they don't declare themselves as such.
That's just propaganda. Gays and lesbians loose their fucking minds if you say they're Bi, and Bisexuals were always the pariahs of the homosexual community until trannies became more popular.
Literally nothing makes a dyke seethe like a LUG.
yes
if you want to be anal about definitions, be anal about it. half assing autism is for gays
>half assing autism is for gays
Don't half ass something, be the whole ass.
>muh marvel reference in regards to irl things
go back to
inb4 muh dc
Be the American that Japan thinks you are!
>your post is shit btw
To be fair, pretending to be edgy and unhinged has been associated with joker memes for years.
*dies to a Japanese nationalist*
not even American but this part of Muv-Luv made me cringe so fuckin hard
is that president solidus snake? I always forget he fucking commands Raiden's white child soldier army in Africa then somehow gets voted president after lol
flamethrowers kill mostly by carbon monoxide poisoning.
irc i read somewhere that hollywood depiction of human torches running around on fire is unrealistic and that if you got directly hit by a military flamethrower the temperatures are high enough to kill you pretty much instantly
liveleak (PBUH) and rekt threads on
would beg to differ, people have gotten doused in molten iron and been up on their feet for >1min
unfortunately. not all of you dies at once
and the brain is rather flame resistant (see: US reports on the effects of thermobaric weapons)
loss of consciousness likely does not occur until total organ failure has deoxygenated the blood, which might be upwards of a full minute. it's impact that kills instantly - fire just destroys the ability to demonstrate that you're still conscious quickly while your still-conscious brain sends signals to nothing, protected from the flames by the skull
if it destroyed the brain instantly, the cranium would explode from the pressure of flash-boiled cerebrospinal fluid and blood
I hate fire. It shouldn't be allowed to be used. It's meant for cooking and heating. Both are comfy, endearing things. Not for hurting people
The Duality of man.
I love fire.
It is pure and raw.
It KNOWS what it must do: CONSUME.
We should use it on as many enemies as possible, to make them terrified of war with us.
Sometimes I get a boner when thinking about burning people and things.
Not sure why.
>tell me how lovely it smells?
Smells like victory.
And burning petroleum products.
But mostly victory.
That was fuddlore created by flamethrower manufacturers and advocates of the weapon within the army.
The reality is that, unsurprisingly, dousing a person in flaming chemicals sets him up to die a screaming, shrieking flailing pile of meat.
I bet it smells delicious.
No, they mostly kill by burning.
I don't get it.
I'd sooner do that than farm. I hate farming.
Flammenwerfers werf flammen.
Need witch mistress with one of those leg-slit dresses.
Why even life.
ops version was better
I think that's the point
Brevity is the soul of wit
>red7cat
Where's the dick?
Didn't expect that from the artstyle.
Based?
It's pretty hot, idk what gender they are and idc, but they made a comic were a guy goes over to his girlfriends house, meats his girlfriends big boobie sister and gets banged.
There's also one where a mother speaks to her futa neighbour over the backyard fence to ask where her son is, to which the neighbour says she has no idea. Then in the next panel we see the son is sucking off the neighbour just out of view of the mother. It's pretty messed up.
Heh heh, this is the artist that draws dickgirls banging boys.
many such cases
You can’t just say that and not post it
and i, the viewier, self insert as the boy!
Gib the sauce brother
My brother of african descent, the author's signature is literally right there
I checked for @witch_peasant and couldn't find anything. Something is up with this artist. Maybe they[re hiding their true handle.
I dont get it
3rd panel isn’t really needed.
based
Women/girls who are into "occultism" and "dark" things are never, ever hot.
FALSE
>(all the hot ones turn out to be lesbians)
yes, but when you are desperate it doesn't matter
Kek, 20yo me can relate way too much with that pic.
That pic is fucking golden, I actually made an obnoxious donkey+woodpecker noise out loud when I opened it
can you replicate that on vocaroo? I can't really imagine it
Some people make a kind of honking noise when they laugh, and some make a rapid "hehehehehehe" noise, I think that's what he's talking about.
I’ve fucking lived through this picture, Lord strike me down
I could've but I never have, I've always called them retarded
Occultism > “wicca”
It's all just watered down gnostic/schizo Judaism.
Eh. Explains why I’ve eaten so much more hummus since I started.
>supplementary material made by modern hacks
Just read the Nag Hammadi codices. and Mandaean texts.
"Wicca" is synonymous with "fat".
Lollol this me but with more "advanced level astrology"
Anecdotal hard agree but only for the real lady autists. Most regular women are casually into this shit.
False.
The hot ones are all with their Chad bf already, that leaves you the ugly ones.
i wish i could get that sort of thing it but i've got that dogmatically autistic analytical brain that just can't go along with it.
My co-worker recently went with his wife to get her crystals "charged" and then put inside a candle.
I would never put up with that nonsense in a million years. Being GF-less is far preferable.
Wiccan girls. The odds are good but the goods are odd.
I went on a date with one yesterday and I can deliberetly tell that you are a complete gay
Witch hats.
How big is too big?
when it's diameter exceeds 2/3 your height unless you are smol in which case hat radius up to 1 times your height on a case by case basis.
accurate
To clarify my second rule of
>hat radius up to 1 times your height on a case by case basis.
If it's a small character or a child the hats rim MUST NEVER TOUCH THE GROUND UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES/positions (though it may touch shoes when folded down)
>too big
I don't understand the question
falls within
hat diameter less than 2/3 height.
>Ranni's a hatlet
Sad!
I feel like more than this big can be counterproductive unless you have a particular style to really sell it. I feel like one of the 2hu's does it well but don't remember who.
I'd probably second
as general rule of thumb
"No."
Top left:FLAT
Top Right:Medium is premium
Bottom Left:Small Justice
Bottom Right:Bigger is Better
>Verification not required.
On an unrelated note, is Megumin’s new anime any good? Why does she wear a dress shirt in the cover?
Its a school anime. The shirt is part of the uniform. Its ok.
It's definitely tiding me over for S3
I like it. It continues the mainline show's theme of being true to yourself (putting points in explosion magic or party tricks) and reaping the consequences, good and bad, from doing so. It also has a neat depiction of what it really means to be a misfit: it's not about being "quirky" or "unique", but instead the tension between personal values and preference versus societal values and norms. So, Megumin's a misfit even if she shares the same chuuni values as the village because explosion magic violates their norms. And Yunyun (bless her heart), is a misfit because she doesn't buy into the chuuni life at all.
Also, it's super cute.
Does anyone have that comic about how the size of a witch's hats scales proportionally to the level of their magic powers?
>too big
No such thing.
Bros, I love witches.
I went to a vintage flame thrower & WW2 weapons demonstration put on my a local shooting club. A few flamethrowers, some rifles and machine guns, reenactors, and they even had a Stuart flame tank come out and light up a mockup bunker.
I wanna codify what small-medium/premium-large hat size ranges are. For a average size anime character I feel like middle of medium is 3x head diameter, large is in diameter no larger than 2/3 height of character, and small is less than 2xhead diameter. Any drawfags would be appreciated if you could have a blank/featureless character with various outlines of hats on it designating sizes.
Like this?
Based. Big enough can also double as a shelter against the elements when the wearer kneels or sits inside.
Never leave home without a good tent hat
yes. Very nice. Here's what I got.
ms paint Holo for reference.
HatlessMaidenless->~~*them*~~->Small->Hatlet/smedium->MediumisPremium->???->Large->???->MagicBoogaloo
PrepHole - Witch Hat haberdasherers
Technically milliners.
I've never heard of either of those before, and I feel as though I walked into some back of bookstore in the middle of someone's club. Or I'm visiting another board full of unfamiliar terms and culture.
A lot of us crosspost from PrepHole.
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Why don't we have flamethrower tanks anymore?
proliferation of short to medium range man portable anti-tank weapons means it's now suicide to get that close to infantry (yes even the 100+ meter range of vehicle flamethrowers)
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>using a mono tube with the other eye covered.
That's just stupid.
Ever seen a video of a TOS-1 getting hit by an ATGM? Flamethrower tanks would end up like that, except they might instead get hit by something as small as an M72 or maybe even a 40mm from a rifleman
Well too bad, this is a thread about witch hats now
you bitch. Posted pic rel before I could.
>MINES CLEANER!
I tried to get some roastie on ETSY to make one for me but none of them will 🙁
There's a show about militarized witches
It's terrible
>militarized witches
>not warlocks
For fucks sake the very word WAR is in the name.
>militarized witches
>militarized
>witches
...
>warlocks
How can you militarize what is already combat ready?
The world "warlock" is derived from "waelock" which means "liar".
Specifically it means oath breaker or breaker of trust, as in the trust between men to follow the law. It was the label of those exiled to the wilderness and declared outside to protections of law.
To be fair, if you looked at that cover and still watched it, you only have yourself to blame
Where might one risk encountering witches? Just so i know where to not go 'cause i'd hate to become a thrall haha...
Also, would a flamethrower be a viable self defence weapon against witches?
>captcha HAGDM
>Also, would a flamethrower be a viable self defence weapon against witches
YES. Ever hear about burning at the stake? The Salem witch trials? They can't be drowned, so burning was the only effective means to vanquish them.
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Yes, but then they are already caught and put on the stake, restrained and defenceless. I mean if you were being put in a situation where you're gonna go out and hunt the witch or if the witch is hunting you, surely they have countermeasures for such things?
If you hunt the witch, and they are unsuspecting, fire wins. If the witch is expecting you, idk. It'd depend on the witch.
Semi related do you guys know the history of the Salem Witch trials?
It was basically a Grandma/Tradwife genocide orchestrated by teenage whores and ~~*Politicians*~~ that has for a hundred years been used as a rallying cry against the exact sort of people it victimized.
They even killed the Town priest, who spoke out against them.
You look down the list of victims and it's all like "Granny Goodmuffin, Widowed mother of Twelve, known for donating money to the church and feeding local poor children cookies, accused of turning into a shadow demon and attacking the sluttiest 15 year old in New England despite being 100 miles away at the time visiting her family. Her large estate and goods were claimed by the court to offset court expenses."
pls splurge details, I will read whenever I wake up. I like info dumps. Hold no tangent back.
They never killed a single witch. All the dead were people who maintained their innocence. The courts took the accuseds possessions.
The English caught on to this and eventually hanged their witch hunters.
First, the victims
Bridget Bishop- 60 year old Grandma who owned a tavern.
Sarah Good- A previously wealthy poor woman, married with a child and pregnant
Rebecca Nurse- 70 year old mother of nine and pillar of the community
Elizabeth Howe- 50 year old mother of six
Susana Martin- 70 year old mother of eight
Sarah Wildes- 65 year old mother of two, step mother of eight
George Burroughs- 42 year old pastor known for his athleticism
George Jacobs Sr.- 83 year old Grandfather
John Proctor Jr.- 59 year old father of 18, wealthy farmer
John Willard- Town Constable that expressed doubts about the accusations, married.
Martha Corey- 72 year old grandmother, known widely for piety and charity
Mary Eastey- 58 year old mother of eleven
Mary Parker- 55 year old mother of one
Alice Parker- Wife of a local fisherman
Ann Pudeator- 70 year old town nurse and mother of five
Wilmot Redd- Grandmother and wife of local fisherman
Margaret Scott- 77 year old mother of seven
Samuel Wardwell- 50 year old father of three
Giles Corey- 81 year old father of five
Ann Foster- 75 year old mother of five
Sarah Osborne- 49 year old mother of two
Roger Toothaker- A 57 year old doctor
Many were beaten, starved, or deprived of sleep before their court appearance, and some had already gone somewhat senile before hand and were given no representation in court.
We've been sold this idea our whole lives that there's some kind of anti-religious, feminist reading of the Salem Witch Trials but the fact is that it was a massacre of the pious and conservative for little more than the greed of the town officers. They killed the priest, they killed their own constable when he realized what was happening, they targeted women who's husbands were dead or far off on business, who's families weren't in town, and above all ideally those with lands and goods they desired.
See, the courts decided that if you were found guilty of witchcraft in court, they could repossess all your possessions and lands, thus a widow or sailor's wife with no adult male children in town, was always an attractive target.
One old man, Giles Corey, knew the law well enough to know that the court couldn't repossess his goods if he refused to enter a plea, and so he more or less dared them to flout the restriction and risk further outside scrutiny, or leave his goods to his family. They tortured him to death by crushing him slowly under a pile of rocks, asking him regularly to enter a plea. He supposedly said nothing but "Add more weight" throughout the torture, until he finally died.
Now, where do the Thots come in? Most of the accusations came from teenage girls (or a slave woman they had accused but they and the court had then turned to their purposes) of poor reputation. They're sometimes portrayed as the Masterminds of everything, but it's pretty obvious that the town officials were colluding with them on the names, tell your sociopathic high school bitch to target Misses whoever goodburger, who she already hates or wants to fuck the husband of or whatever, and then you scoop up the property.
The slave came into play because she was accused early but (presumably because killing her didn't make anyone any money) she was allowed to live so long as she would reveal her "co conspirators" which was whoever the fuck the court told her the name of.
Oh they made big shows of everything, fake seizures, fantastic stories of lightning blasts and shadow demons, but everyone knew what was up. It was a State-enforced gang kidnapping, torturing, and killing anyone it liked, and people were just terrified of standing up to them.
More on the "accusers"
A gang of teenage girls, their ring leader was one of the oldest, Elizabeth Hubbard. Elizabeth had no parents, and was instead under the care of her Uncle, the court physician that examined the accused and saw all kinds of signs of witchery. Hubbard and her Uncle lived alone, by the way, and she was *never* referred to as his adoptive daughter or even relative after he took her in, but rather curiously, consistently as his "Maid".
Many of the "effects" of Witchcraft were pulled straight from the Doctor's past patients and medical texts, and Hubbard coached the other girls on how to act and what to say.
I should like to point out here that other doctors from around new England came to examine the "afflicted" and the accused, and none could find a single medical abnormality at work, including during full body examinations for any "witch's marks" that all witches were supposed to have, and the court physician supposedly saw.
One such physician, Roger Toothaker, was of dubious medical training but "known" as an "expert" on witches (which mostly consisted of him getting wasted at bars and insisting he'd killed a witch in the woods one time). Well liked and considered an "authority", he was an obstacle and had to be accused. For convoluted reasons he was to be sent away to Boston to stand trial, but before he could make a statement he succumbed to the tremendous injuries he had taken at the hands of his captors.
Lets see, other accusers, there was Elizabeth Booth, one of the older girls who's father died when she was young, and who briefly had a step father who also died, and who had a very bad reputation since some unknown event when she was sixteen that was later written off as "witchcraft"
Mercy Lewis, a girl who's entire family had been massacred by Indians who was... generously taken in by one of the most powerful men in town who happened to have been muscled out of his rich family's major holdings by his brothers, was currently engaged in a blood feud with a large extended family that included many of the accused, and of course stood to gain by every guilty verdict.
Marry Warren, the oldest, a bipolar servant who had always used witchcraft or illness to get attention until threatened physically, at which point she'd magically recover.
And then there's a handful of little girls and the slave, who I mentioned.
Good postan, anon.
And people still wonder why an inquisitorial body that could regulate this shit was needed...
NTA but I was just about to touch on the role of the Inquisition in relation to similar things going on in Europe. Namely how they sent Inquisitors to investigate witch hunts and find a rational explanation for what was going on, which they did way more often than not. Rather than the liberal view that the Inquisition was some proto-SS gathering up muzzies and garden gnomes and torturing them to death or some other such nonsense (in the Spanish Inquisition's case, they were more like medieval ICE trying to get muslims and stay-behind agents of the Moors out of Spain), they actually saved a lot of people from illiterate mobs trying to lynch them.
And of course, following the Protestant Reformation, there was a large increase in witch hunt related killings in the breakaway nations.
I also want to touch on the trial of the Knights Templar, even though it precedes the Protestant Reformation by a few centuries, because that's also largely the result of King Philip IV and not Pope Clement V. The Pope tried to hold a legitimate trial for them, but Philip went behind the Pope's back and burned them at the stake without one. This was also a move of Philip's in attempting to supplant the Pope as the head of the Church somehow. Thankfully Philip got was he deserved, he died in a hunting accident and all his sons died young without producing male heirs of their own, so his entire male line died off and was supplanted by the House of Valois (whom I'm supposedly related to).
Papist apologist fuck off and burn some more people alive lmao.
Protestant moron killed more Christian than Catholic and Orthodox combined. Majority of Witch trial were done by Protestant.
Yes, I am a Papist. I am proud to bear the title you have given me, for I recognize the Pope as the successor of the Apostle Peter and the representative of Christ's will on earth.
>burn some more people alive
Didn't happen, also we're in the flamethrower thread.
Oh yeah, and for the record, Catholics never used Cheirosiphons. Orthos kept the recipe for Greek Fire a secret to themselves.
How's that 30 Years War? What? Killed off around 8,000,000 people? Opened the way for Ottoman invasions? Wow, you really DID reform Europe. 😛
all the witch hunt mania pretty much exclusively happened in protestant countries because accused "witches" in catholic countries would get routinely handed over to ecclesiastical courts who would just shrug and immediately release them
Well there is the notable exception of France who did have quite a few notable hunts. But other than them, yeah, generally speaking Catholic witchhunts were an oddity.
Oh no, if anything it turned heads because it was in the colonies. In England proper the last state-sponsored witch hunt wouldn't happen until 1730, the practice wouldn't stop being state-sponsored until the Witchcraft Act of 1735, non-state-sponsored but still permited witchhunts would continue to happen until the ammendment in 1824, and even then this act would continue to be invoked to persecute practitioners of so-called witchcraft like mediums or fortune tellers (without killing them, just jail time or fines) until it was finally repealed in 1957, with the last time someone was condemned of witchcraft in UK being in 1944 and the last threat of punkshment coming from 1950.
Hilariously while USA was considerably more progressive than UK on these matters their other now-ex-colonies were somehow even worse. With bonus points going to South Africa, where the Witchcraft Supression Act is STILL IN PLACE TODAY.
For comparison, after the Zugarramurdi scandal Salazar (Picrel from
) wound up getting promoted to the Supreme Inquisition thanks to his debunking of witchcraft theories. And after Zugarramurdi there was only 1 more case of a trialed witch in Spain, in 1611, (and it was a single woman, who had poisoned people, for which she was convicted, not witchcraft, poisoning.) after which the entire practice was put on hold until the Supreme Inquisition's act of the 29th of August 1614 would end the pause by banning the practice outright. As a reminder, this restructure came for how scandalous it was for SIX PEOPLE to be executed by a single hunt. Compare and contrast...
Compared with their contemporaries they were the closest thing to a reasonable judiciary body at the time.
The Catholic Church actually banned persecution of witches for most of it's history, insisting they were fake both before and after a very brief period.
Even during the like, ten year period persecution of witches was permitted, all Rome said was "if it is discovered someone is using evil powers against their fellow men, the law may punish them as it sees fit.". The Catholic Church even banned the witch-hunters manual as heresy, but it remained extremely popular among officials and nobles, and spread like wildfire outside of Catholic lands as well.
Sorry but the problem has always been secular politicians and judges.
in my city five times more people where killed over religious/witchcraft in the year and a half that it took the Spanish to liberate them than in the about 500 years before and after.
And what is more we have better records of the trails in the 12th and 13th century than those held under protestant occupation.
that being said it also only took a year and a half to go from being borderline hippity hoppety to banning all civilian possession of firearms and forced manual labor.
The only thing the duke of Alba did wrong was not killing more of those involved in the spreading of protestantism and in leading it
Personally I think the most obvious case comparison to Salem would be Zugarramundi, in Spain. Both were scandals for their time and caused the rules to change in their respective countries, and both towns have miled the shit out of the witchcraft myth around their cases afterwards. And this serves as good comparison. More so thanks to the French fiasco going on at the same time as Zugarramundi.
So, precedents. Note that both Zugarramundi and the other case I'll mention, Labort, happened within the basque regions of their respective countries. Basque France for Labort, Navarra (in Spain) for Zugarramundi. This caused 2 very large issues.
1-The basques had a lot more legends of witches than either the French or Castillians, something that caused issues when the huntings started.
2-Neither Judge Pierre du Lancre (for France) nor the Inquisitorial Council of Logroño (For Spain) had basque speakers, so they had to use translators and guides who were often uneducated serfs, which caused a lot of issues.
So the year is 1609, and yet another witch craze happened. It started on the french side, (apparently due to the expulsions into that area of garden gnomes and moors by Felipe III of Spain) so the procedure for them at the time was the king (Enrique IV) would send one of the judges (educated noblemen) to investigate and report directly to him. He sent Pierre du Lancre who got to Labort and made a comission. And any historian agrees his evidence was... Just plain wrong. Translation was a serious mistakes and most agree he just interpreted a ton of shit wrong due to it, but even besides that he didn't even keep names consistent during declarations, which is probably why during his first writing he asked the king to send an army to arrest 3000 people. Eventually he lowered that to 1500 after the king told him to pull the other one, and after interrogations his bloodlust was satiated after burning almost 200 people. This whole thing took a few weeks btw. (pt2 coming)
So on the meantime the Spaniards had an inquisition, so they followed procedure. The Tribunal de Logroño was designated by the Suprema, and they designated 2 inquisitorial comissioners to investigate and report to them. (Their names were striken from the record due to the scandal.) Sadly between the aforementioned cultural clash and the overall instability at the time the writings by these 2 were unreliable as fuck. Still they established that the spanish side of the issue started when María de Ximildegui emigrated to Spain from french basque country and startes gossiping about other women, claiming to be a witch that had left the Akelarre but knew who was still a practicing witch. Combine this with the region already having a ton of myths about it and well that was like throwing a match at a gunpowder store, specially after the french started hanging people.
Still from the letters of the comissioners it was decided that a little over 100 cases had any relevance, besides the kids which were immediately striken from the record for, well, being kids. Of these after months of doubts the tribunal accepted 40 arrests, of them 5 were already dead by the time the inquisitors went to grab them, 18 were punished with penitence for "reconciliation" (and only 2 of those lashing, the rest just prayer) The 6 that "resisted violently" were burnt, and the rest were declared innocent.
Ok, not that bad you might say. See here's the issue. By Spanish standards this is THE harshest witch hunt, period. So much that when Logroño told the Supreme it had approved this, they sent a letter ordering an immediate pause. Issue is, the letter came too late, and by the time Logroño told the comissioners to stop, they had already burnt the people so... woops.
In response to the mess one of the inquisitors from the Logroño Tribunal, Salazar, ordered the humanist Pedro de Valencia to make a report. Pt 3 coming.
Reading this, Salazar, Picrel. Would go to Navarra and perform his own investigation, and after another bunch of months he concluded it had all been horseshit. Those condemned (or their families in the case of those who died) were given reparations, and the inquisition upped the requirements for burnings so hard that this is considered the end of the witchhunts in spain, because even some very obvious cases of satanism were condemned to ostracism instead of death. And in Spain this was THE BIGGEST scandal. I mean riots tier scandal. I mean international mockery tier scandal.
Meanwhile the French just didn't even give a shit and no further investigation was made of the Labort burnings.
So compare and contrast. The oh so terrible Spanish Inquisition burnt 6 people, who used violence to resist arrest, and self flagelated so hard and restructured itself so brutaly in response you'd think they'd have nailed Jesus to the fucking cross.
Meanwhile the witch hunters just kept burning people on the regular and didn't even mention maybe they fucked up until the Salem scandal started to turn heads.
The only reason the Salem scandal turned heads was because it occurred well after it was no longer fashionable in England. Had it occurred 30 years previous, no one would have made much of it.
>Be glad the Inquisition didn't burn everybody, just a few
Now this is Stockholm syndrome
>peasants sperg out and try killing their neighbors
>Inquisitor strolls by
>"hey now, don't do that, ok? Look, here's a reasonable explanation for whatever you're mad about, now don't do this again and leave those people alone, ok buddy?"
>a thousand years later, the descendant of the illiterate peasant mobsters seethes about Chadquisitor stopping his bloodlust
Nothing personnel, kiddo
You illiterate retards really can't catch a break. For example, the Polish Inquisition, in its entire history, sentenced a total of 7 people to death. And I'm not even sure those weren't legitimate death sentences for actual crimes.
In Medieval Europe, if you committed a crime, you would beg whatever higher power you believed in to be tried by the Church, since inquisitorial courts were the ONLY ones in Europe at the time that explicitly banned procuring testimony and confessions of guilt through torture.
The state of the inquisition varied a lot. They certainly weren’t a force of rationality though.
>inquisitors
>rational
Now come on Anon this is taking things too far.
There is nothing more rational than burning gn*stic scum alive with absolute prejudice.
We need to bring it back.
Man, with this in mind Salem's celebration of the idea/image of the "witch", and Wicca in general really, is in incredibly poor taste, and not a little bit infuriating.
Happened 300 years ago get over it mate. Funny pirates and Vikings are fine despite being horrible irl.
it just means the witches won
now, back on topic, what alchemical ingredients improve the performance of flamethrower fuel?
Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s true. The biggest shame is now it’s used as some sort of mini-holocaust for whores and roasties, aka, the contemporary woman
>oy vey, remember the Salem Trials, shitlord
wow, this is enthralling incel revisionism
>revisionism
>Women with large families in good standing were massively over represented in the victims, of which there are significant records
>Almost all the accusers were teenage girls, several of which were living alone with the men that stood to gain from the trials
>Everyone controlling the trials was male
How exactly is it incel revisionism to defend married women against a murderous cabal of male officials?
Post your gun, seething gay.
Tits or GTFO cunt
In my osprey book about flamethrowers, man-portable throwers had a maximum range of 35 meters/yards, can't remember which unit of measurement.
I still find it hard to believe there's basically 0 regulations on flamethrowers. And not just the industrial propane kind but the kind that shoots ignited napalm too.
too niche of an item. when was the last time a flamethrower was used in a way that gets the government's attention
This. Same reason there's effectively no regulations on miniguns, anyone that can actually afford the damn thing probably won't go shooting up a place.
>Same reason there's effectively no regulations on miniguns
What, there are. There's only 11 of them in the civilian market but if someone is willing to sell one of them to you, you can buy it for an absurd price
And that absurd price is the direct result of the artificial scarcity created by what?
Regulations
You don't know shit about fuck. A minigun's parts kit cost $38,500 last time I looked. A xm556 Microgun isn't for sale, but it's regulated parts can be made relatively easily all things considered. Chainguns and other electically driven guns post 86 are Illegal for civilians. Nukes are near unobtainium for joe shmo but there are still laws against it.
>PrepHole - hats 'n' history
why is it that a board strays "off topic" the ensuing discussion is often time high quality? I've noticed this several times on different boards that if you're not discussing the "main topic" it always seems to be better somehow.
because it's anons going off on a tangent and having fun with it. and fun has been in short supply here for a few years
fun has been back on the menu since the 22nd of February though.
If you consider entire pages of spam about one event and political shitflinging fun, yeah
Because you can only seriously talk about things so often without getting bored. If you talk about star trek on tv, the people who have been in stg for years will shit post as all discussion has happened already. If you do the same on k the posters may not have ever discussed it and will bring up interesting and novel ideas that further creativity and fun in the thread.
This is why mods who shit down off topic threads are fags.
You see this a lot in /v/. Most threads about actual videogames are just low effort shitflinging between two equally retarded sides. Offtopic threads are usually interesting, provided they’re not centered around topics that attract schizos like politics or religion
At this point I have to ask. Why is there so much art of this one specific character? Is her from some manga or some shit?
Also those books are going to get ruined by the water and that hairstyle is not even close to regulation friendly.
Nah, just a tacticute artist who likes tactical witches. Same with
.
As someone who has never smelled napalm in the morning, can someone tell me how lovely it smells?
Also how did this thread get onto witches, proper witch hat size, and how fucking retarded the Salem witch hunts were?
Because your enemies (and maybe some civilians) are burning instead of having to root them out. Like a thunderstorm when you’re a lifeguard
Saddly Germany never used this and destroyed all stocks after the cold war ended. It's a Handflammpatrone, disposable one shot flame thrower, shots a red phosphorous load, ignites either on contact or after 70m. It's your own personal and up close WP distribution system. Would have made PrepHoleino footage in the current trench fighting in Ukraine.
Anon, HEAT means High Explosive Anti Tank.
It's not saying it's a fire rocket.
?
Is this some sort of a weird joke/troll?
The pic is obviously just comparing sizes.
>The pic is obviously just comparing sizes.
Sure it is.
Good taste anon.
Not really a flamethrower but the M125A1 Signal Flare with "Stars" could be used as an impromptu fire shotgun.
>A Stallion-sized fleshlight
That'd look right at home in the Alien universe. Bitchin'
red phosphorus and white phosphorus act very differently
Yes, red pete is non toxic when ingested and does not self ignite as easily. both are good things for an infantry weapon. Will burn your ass just as well.
It makes smoke fine but isn't nearly as vicious as an incendiary. There's a reason why we still make WP munitions despite RP being safer in pretty much every way
Fire from flames is hot
>futa artist
And then something inside of me just snapped! I just didnt care anymore! The futa has to fuck bulma!
I can't believe these comics are 50% cute wholesome stuff like this and 50% guys getting violently gaped by chud dick
Hot
ok already whats the nsfw sourse
Red7cat
You just know
This is actually adorable. Wholesome comics and fetish porn on the side is what all artists should strive for
Are you implying they can float?
well it would make sense why they would be hard to drown then.
The official church position about "witchcraft" was that there was no such thing, it was all "female vapours"
>it was all "female vapours"
No problem. We're all autists here. Having a chance to sperg about historical practices is great kek.
Is dabbing still considered cool? I do it in front of my kids so they'll think their dad is still "with it."
it's a fair cop.
You really think she is?
Any have that comic about the oblivious Marine witch
Stop it with all this schizo babble
Thank you for posting this Pious Orthodox man.
You have broken me from the spell of coomer degeneracy.
>tfw you will never be a dark knight in service to sexy witch mommy!
Why even live, bros?!
Y’all really going to shit up a comfy thread like this? For shame, anon.
>browser open in tiny window
>open image without checking thumbnail
>see hat with barrel sticking out
>witch girl with gun hat?
>this is the best thing ever
>scroll down
>her hat is not in fact a gun
I am so disappointed I am simply going to kill myself
If it's any help, you can imagine that she has a small pistol hidden there
fixed
Both images are the same, you moron.
Visit your college library and go the Occult section. A significant part of that row of books are usually dedicated to the Salem witch trials.
Go back to the great swamp dirty pyromancer. Fools like you are the reason lordran went to shit.
>So... if she weighs as much as a duck, she's made of wood...
>And therefore?
>....A witch!!
One of the best dialogues ever written. It still makes me kek every time.
I say we bring back flamethrowers on infantry weapons.
Any benefit I see with this design also applies to under-barrel grenades, except incendiary under-barrel grenades seem like they would be better in literally every way. Still interesting that this device existed nonetheless. If it wasn't for aluminum barrels then I wonder if something like the china lake would be able to fire incendiary rounds out like this.
Wasn't the average surival time for someone on flamethrower duty in the Pacific Theatre 5 minutes?