Re: Evil Nazis

"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> Karl Johanson <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Many murders wouldn't have been classed as such in times before
>> moderately effective investigation techniques.  Poisonings which
>> looked like someone simply got sick and died.  Children killed by
>> family members, again with the claim that they got sick and died.
>
> What makes you think the error wasn't in the other direction?

Yes, there would have been cases in both directions. Good point. And 
there would have been murderers who blamed some near by "witch" for what 
they'd done.

> If lots
> of people in your village are sick and dying, does that have to do
> with rats and fleas, or has the well been poisoned by evil people?

Or "cursed".

Karl Johanson