Val Camonica Witch Trials/the First Trial 1505-1510

Famous quotes containing the words witch, trials and/or trial:

    I am no more a witch than you are a wizard. If you take my life away, God will give you blood to drink.
    Sarah Good (?–1692)

    All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.
    Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident—the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.
    Edward C. Banfield (b. 1916)