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42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 December 2007 12:49AM

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Comment author: Tim_R._Mortiss 02 December 2007 11:21:14AM 7 points [-]

"the tortures the Inquisition visited upon suspected witches"

IIRC, the Inquisition, at least the Spanish Inquisition, wasn't very concerned with witches.

In Spain there simply wasn't a witch-craze comparable to the one raging in other parts of Europe, thanks in no small part to the indifference of the Inquisition. It was when the "punishment" of witches fell on the hands secular authorities that lots of women were killed.