Re: Evil Nazis

In article <IAzLj.40507$rd2.2095@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Karl Johanson" <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "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 you are talking as early as the thirteenth or fourteenth century, I 
don't think witchcraft would have been a major issue. That's more a 
seventeenth century phenomenon.

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