Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "WIRED Witch Expert Said WHAT About The Witch Trials?" video.

  1. @ It was a crusade, that means an all-out war, not a trial.
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  2.  @davepx1  Inquisition did born to prosecute heretics. Only lately, and quite reluctantly, they started to pay attention to whitchcraft. For medieval scholars, that were practically all ecclesiastics, magic didn't exist. They would have laughed at the idea of someone acquiring powers by making a pact with the devil. Magicians were scammers. The witch hunt started, for both parts, with the Reform. Also, at the start, Inquisition relied only on witness testimony, and forbid torture. Only in 1252 Pope Innocent IV introduced torture in Inquisition trials (to make them more similar to contemporary civilian trials), but under much strictier conditions than those admitted by civilian autorities. IE the defendant should have never risked death or mutilation by torture, and the confession given under torture could not be used in the actual trial. It had to be repeated by the defendant that didn't risk to be tortured again. According to some scholar that looked into the minutes of the trials, torture had been used in less than 1% of the Inquisition trials even after its introduction.
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