Book Quote by Mark Twain

“I have never even seen a witch, let alone felt the need to burn one to death. We can conclude, then, that our forefathers,…

— Bobby Henderson

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

— Janet Montgomery

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take…

— John Selden

If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a…

— Greg Graffin

For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.

— Thomas Browne

“[Dan] Brown states that five million women were killed by the Church as witches. In fact, modern research has shown that the witch hunts…

— Michael Coren

“The Witch is the sacred Yew Tree, never dying, always shedding her skin like the serpent so she may ever live on in one…

— Sarah A. Lawless

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures…

— Ian Rankin

“Egged on by its revelations, and inspired by the injunction in Exodus 22:18 “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” French and German…

— Steven Pinker

“A hundred years ago they'd have burned you as a witch…" "But I'm not a witch." "I don't suppose any of them were.”

— Robert Holdstock

“back in the middle ages they burned unruly women at the stake and out of the ashes of their bones and flesh rose the…

— Leah Harris