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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8206379" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't see much daylight between that and what I said earlier - you seem to be trying to imply that somehow between the periods we have better evidence for, i.e. the classical era and the middle ages, there was some secret mass persecution, which no-one remembers, there's no evidence of, and which didn't continue into the middle ages. That's a pretty wacky/wild thing to be going with. And to even get there I think rather you interpreted what I said in the most ungenerous way possible.So googling, as you suggest, says you plagiarized from wikipedia - why they heck didn't you just link wikipedia? I thought at least I'd find it was from a book that wasn't online. And that's what quoting from a source, whilst both not linking the source, and not saying it's quote is, by the way - weirdly unnecessary plagiarism. Even if you rephrase it, it's not, but you didn't even do that!What's more, the claims you're linking to on Wikipedia both have [citation needed] on them for god's sake! So your "good sources" are nothing of the sort! You have no sources! Good lord! So you literally lied about "good sources" and plagiarized at this point! Mind = blown as they say. I did not expect that. Did you just think I wouldn't check after you told me to google them? As neither claim has any kind of source, It's just junk some dude randomly wrote on wikipedia, and due to to be removed or replaced eventually. I mean, I'm assuming you didn't put them on wikipedia, here, because that seems like hard work for an internet argument with an idiot like me.Here's the actual article btw, which paints a more complex picture (er, despite the hilariously lurid illustration), especially when we ignore the unsourced claims.[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_witchcraft[/URL]You can see how the problem like really only becomes big as we get the idea of the diabolic pact, and it isn't until the end of the middle ages that anti-witch stuff really kicks off big-time.</blockquote>

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