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Podcast: Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Episode: THE WITCH HUNTS NEVER ENDED: Medieval Gallows To Modern Mob Justice
Description: Read the original article (includes sources):Â https://weirddarkness.com/witch-trial-facts/From Salem's gallows where twenty innocent people swung in 1692, to modern Tanzania where elderly women are butchered with machetes for having red eyes, the pattern of witch hunts remains horrifyingly consistent: torture until confession, murder for being different, and children weaponized against their own families. What most people don't realize is that these brutal executions never stopped; they simply evolved, moved to new countries, and learned to hide behind the masks of religion, justice, and mob rule while continuing to claim thousands of lives every year.J...