In Salem, ironically the one way to guarantee you’d survive is to confess. Everyone who refused to confess was executed; everyone who did confess was left alive, because punishing witches was God’s business. This was perfectly sound logic to them.
Not that they got off scot-free; there were certainly very harsh social penalties to be paid, but you got to live.
Wow, a CELEBRITY in our midst!
A really OLD celebrity!
What was he like to work with? Did he let you call him “Jim,” or was it all “Your Majesty” this, and “Your Highness” that?
ETA: Dammit, ninja’d.
Careful: he’ll turn you into a newt.
I’ma hide behind Themenin.
Scotland isn’t really that cold in the winter despite being farer north than say New England. I’ve been there a couple of times in February and it was quite green and was able to play a round of golf. I don’t normally play but hell, it’s Scotland! It was in the upper 40’s / mid-50’s each time I went. I asked the locals and they said this was normal. Also swear I spotted a palm tree on the coast!
This. The influence of the Gulf Stream means that Scotland is wet (obviously) but relatively temperate. Inland bodies of water will freeze only for short periods. (And I say that as someone who once walked across the Lake of Mentieth when it was frozen.)
There is however a complication. The major persecutions of witches in Scotland took place during the ‘Little Ice Age’, so the modern climate isn’t exactly comparable. But the more likely explanation for any difference is just that the legal and cultural contexts of the European witchcrazes were highly variable.
Yes. Men weigh the same as very small rocks.
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Nice to see someone so precise with terminology. James Stuart was James VI of Scotland and James I of England, and since he was king of Scotland decades before becoming King of England, he is properly called James VI and I (or VI/I).