Another book which makes you sad and angry together. The central idea is based on witch trials and hunts in Vardo. It is a work of imagination but not completely. It puts the visualisation and builds a story around what was a common trial which is actually not very old.
The word witch-hunt comes from the history of such trials where the women were killed (why do they even call them trials while it was pure hunt supported by legal power to just go ahead with the execution in the worst way possible) for the sole reason that a life of woman was not worth a thing and can be taken away for the stupidest whims of power.
The neighbours, royals or representatives of power who reported on each other as a practitioner of dark magic. More powerful they were, more likely it was easier for them to pronounce someone as witch. And it was not just limited to a small village or a country, it was a full fledged program across.
Witch hunt was prohibited by laws in 17th and 18th centuries in different countries but no one was ever tried for killing a real person in the cruelest possible way. The most common argument which at least tries to mollify the whole spree is that it was the way of those days. Well, you never left anyone to tell the history otherwise.
Power is a corruptor. A lot of people desire it but nobody knows what to do with it.
Peace
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