doing the "we are the daughters of the witches you couldn't burn" thing in a catholic country making it somewhat unclear what I'm getting at
Trying to parse whether this reblog is making:
- An extremely inaccurate assumption about how widespread witch trials were in the early modern period
- An extremely specific point about the prevalence of different execution methods (most accused witches in Britain were hanged, not burnt)
- A radical claim about the ontology of nations (technically the “United Kingdom” wasn’t created until the 1800 Acts of Union, therefore nothing prior to that date happened “in the UK”)
this is an excellent question but your phone may have a concussion
