#it wasnt to say england didnt persecute and kill innocent women but wooft scotland was just on another level | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

fumblingmusings · 1 year

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Scotland, despite having a quarter of the population of England, had three times the number of Witch Trials and four times the average within Europe in the 17th century is like. Ah. My dudes. Mayhaps chill?

Like Arthur getting over the worst hump of it following the end of the Commonwealth and a near military theocracratic regime only to turn one way and his brother immediately files 600 cases to Scottish Courts like oh geez but then he to turns around another way to find Alfred has gone off his rocker in Connecticut and Massachusetts and it's like just stop ✋️ for five seconds please.

#its because of torture as a means of evidence vs confession laws #scotland had no problem keeping people awake for three days and stabbing them repeatedly until they confessed #english courts were like pardon thats fucked up #it wasnt to say england didnt persecute and kill innocent women but wooft scotland was just on another level #what's really weird is that english rates went up during the civil war and Commonwealth #but scottish cases went down during the same time because they were forced to use english court systems #like that was how overblown scottish cases were #that the increased hysteria of puritan england was *still* less than scotland on a normal day #....anyways #hetalia #hws england #hws scotland #hws america #headcanon #historical hetalia #op

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