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icymist

(15,888 posts)
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 06:44 PM Jun 2013

MP calls for women hanged for witchcraft to be pardoned

A campaign to pardon the last three women to be hanged for witchcraft in England has been backed by a Devon MP.

Temperance Lloyd, Susannah Edwards and Mary Trembles, known as the Witches of Bideford, were executed in Exeter on 25 August 1682.

Ben Bradshaw, Labour MP for Exeter, said their deaths were a "stain on our history".

The petition says "pardoning the women would acknowledge their innocence and that of more than 450 others".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-22840560

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MP calls for women hanged for witchcraft to be pardoned (Original Post) icymist Jun 2013 OP
Now this could be an interesting turn of events! Behind the Aegis Jun 2013 #1
What else floats? Really tiny stones? ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2013 #2

Behind the Aegis

(54,854 posts)
1. Now this could be an interesting turn of events!
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 11:32 PM
Jun 2013

It was a stain on their history and ours, but what is more alarming is that this shit is STILL happening in parts of the world!

(PS...I can't find that coffee spell. I have looked and looked (See...I didn't forget..LOL!) and I can't find it. I am sorry. Once I stop looking, it will turn up! Why can't cash be like that?!?!)

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