# Witches & Drugs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witches-drugs/707607>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [December 18, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witches-drugs/707607 "2014-12-18T21:01:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witches-drugs/707607/1 "2014-12-18T21:01:41Z")

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I don’t have a cite, but I read once that almost everything we think we know about witches comes from confessions extracted by the Inquisition. Personally I find it hard to take anything a woman being tortured says seriously.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witches-drugs/707607/2 "2014-12-18T21:10:39Z")

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> [@furryman](#):
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> I don’t have a cite, but I read once that almost everything we think we know about witches comes from confessions extracted by the Inquisition. Personally I find it hard to take anything a woman being tortured says seriously.

Duplicate OP. The other one (which is one sentence longer) is [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=743915).

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witches-drugs/707607/3 "2014-12-18T21:46:30Z")

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Closed duplicate.