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  1. Air For Petronella by Medusa Quartet

    Photo by Artūras Kokorevas: https://www.pexels.com/photo/shadow-of-hands-on-the-wall-11360061/

    I went to see a cello player with my sister, Raphael Weinwroth-Brown one evening. I’ve seen him once before after my sister told me how amazing his music is. There was an opening quarter before his performance, Medusa, and their songs were beautiful as well.

    One that stood out to me – and probably everyone there – is a song called ‘Air for Petronella’. Before playing this beautiful piece, they told us the meaning behind the song. It’s about an innocent girl who was tried as a witch in Ireland. She was completely innocent of the accusation and was the first person in Ireland to be burned at the stake for witchcraft in Ireland. She was accused due to being a follower of Dame Alice Kyteler who was charged for witchcraft – all of her associates were deemed guilty as well, including young Petronella. Kyteler fled for her life, leaving Petronella to be flogged and burned at the stake for the crime of “heresy”.

    Saskia Tomkins composed this melancholically beautiful piece after reading about this true story. She couldn’t sleep one night, upset about the injustice toward an innocent girl, and wrote this song for the quartet.

    https://youtu.be/LZzs3WJQUw8?si=OMCCA4lq_yxRZHl9

    As they played the beautiful but sad song, almost everyone was in tears. It’s a deep sadness for Petronella herself, and for everyone who has been put to death for doing nothing wrong. Fanaticism has claimed many lives and shows cruelty to anyone who appears to be a threat to it.

    It’s a sobering reminder of how many women (and some men) suffered throughout history for being too wise, too knowledgeable about science, for challenging current beliefs of the time, or simply being in the wrong place. This has been on my mind a lot since I saw this played live, and wanted to share it with you all.

    Medusa is an independent quarter based out of Toronto. Go Canada and live music!

    This song is a kind tribute to Petronella.

    Ireland’s First Witching Burning

    #BookReview #historicalFigures #history #independentMusic #MedusaQuartet #Music #musicRecs #Petronella #quartets #witchTrials #witchcraft #witches
  2. Air For Petronella by Medusa Quartet

    Photo by Artūras Kokorevas: https://www.pexels.com/photo/shadow-of-hands-on-the-wall-11360061/

    I went to see a cello player with my sister, Raphael Weinwroth-Brown one evening. I’ve seen him once before after my sister told me how amazing his music is. There was an opening quarter before his performance, Medusa, and their songs were beautiful as well.

    One that stood out to me – and probably everyone there – is a song called ‘Air for Petronella’. Before playing this beautiful piece, they told us the meaning behind the song. It’s about an innocent girl who was tried as a witch in Ireland. She was completely innocent of the accusation and was the first person in Ireland to be burned at the stake for witchcraft in Ireland. She was accused due to being a follower of Dame Alice Kyteler who was charged for witchcraft – all of her associates were deemed guilty as well, including young Petronella. Kyteler fled for her life, leaving Petronella to be flogged and burned at the stake for the crime of “heresy”.

    Saskia Tomkins composed this melancholically beautiful piece after reading about this true story. She couldn’t sleep one night, upset about the injustice toward an innocent girl, and wrote this song for the quartet.

    https://youtu.be/LZzs3WJQUw8?si=OMCCA4lq_yxRZHl9

    As they played the beautiful but sad song, almost everyone was in tears. It’s a deep sadness for Petronella herself, and for everyone who has been put to death for doing nothing wrong. Fanaticism has claimed many lives and shows cruelty to anyone who appears to be a threat to it.

    It’s a sobering reminder of how many women (and some men) suffered throughout history for being too wise, too knowledgeable about science, for challenging current beliefs of the time, or simply being in the wrong place. This has been on my mind a lot since I saw this played live, and wanted to share it with you all.

    Medusa is an independent quarter based out of Toronto. Go Canada and live music!

    This song is a kind tribute to Petronella.

    Ireland’s First Witching Burning

    #BookReview #historicalFigures #history #independentMusic #MedusaQuartet #Music #musicRecs #Petronella #quartets #witchTrials #witchcraft #witches
  3. Air For Petronella by Medusa Quartet

    Photo by Artūras Kokorevas: https://www.pexels.com/photo/shadow-of-hands-on-the-wall-11360061/

    I went to see a cello player with my sister, Raphael Weinwroth-Brown one evening. I’ve seen him once before after my sister told me how amazing his music is. There was an opening quarter before his performance, Medusa, and their songs were beautiful as well.

    One that stood out to me – and probably everyone there – is a song called ‘Air for Petronella’. Before playing this beautiful piece, they told us the meaning behind the song. It’s about an innocent girl who was tried as a witch in Ireland. She was completely innocent of the accusation and was the first person in Ireland to be burned at the stake for witchcraft in Ireland. She was accused due to being a follower of Dame Alice Kyteler who was charged for witchcraft – all of her associates were deemed guilty as well, including young Petronella. Kyteler fled for her life, leaving Petronella to be flogged and burned at the stake for the crime of “heresy”.

    Saskia Tomkins composed this melancholically beautiful piece after reading about this true story. She couldn’t sleep one night, upset about the injustice toward an innocent girl, and wrote this song for the quartet.

    https://youtu.be/LZzs3WJQUw8?si=OMCCA4lq_yxRZHl9

    As they played the beautiful but sad song, almost everyone was in tears. It’s a deep sadness for Petronella herself, and for everyone who has been put to death for doing nothing wrong. Fanaticism has claimed many lives and shows cruelty to anyone who appears to be a threat to it.

    It’s a sobering reminder of how many women (and some men) suffered throughout history for being too wise, too knowledgeable about science, for challenging current beliefs of the time, or simply being in the wrong place. This has been on my mind a lot since I saw this played live, and wanted to share it with you all.

    Medusa is an independent quarter based out of Toronto. Go Canada and live music!

    This song is a kind tribute to Petronella.

    Ireland’s First Witching Burning

    #BookReview #historicalFigures #history #independentMusic #MedusaQuartet #Music #musicRecs #Petronella #quartets #witchTrials #witchcraft #witches
  4. Air For Petronella by Medusa Quartet

    Photo by Artūras Kokorevas: https://www.pexels.com/photo/shadow-of-hands-on-the-wall-11360061/

    I went to see a cello player with my sister, Raphael Weinwroth-Brown one evening. I’ve seen him once before after my sister told me how amazing his music is. There was an opening quarter before his performance, Medusa, and their songs were beautiful as well.

    One that stood out to me – and probably everyone there – is a song called ‘Air for Petronella’. Before playing this beautiful piece, they told us the meaning behind the song. It’s about an innocent girl who was tried as a witch in Ireland. She was completely innocent of the accusation and was the first person in Ireland to be burned at the stake for witchcraft in Ireland. She was accused due to being a follower of Dame Alice Kyteler who was charged for witchcraft – all of her associates were deemed guilty as well, including young Petronella. Kyteler fled for her life, leaving Petronella to be flogged and burned at the stake for the crime of “heresy”.

    Saskia Tomkins composed this melancholically beautiful piece after reading about this true story. She couldn’t sleep one night, upset about the injustice toward an innocent girl, and wrote this song for the quartet.

    https://youtu.be/LZzs3WJQUw8?si=OMCCA4lq_yxRZHl9

    As they played the beautiful but sad song, almost everyone was in tears. It’s a deep sadness for Petronella herself, and for everyone who has been put to death for doing nothing wrong. Fanaticism has claimed many lives and shows cruelty to anyone who appears to be a threat to it.

    It’s a sobering reminder of how many women (and some men) suffered throughout history for being too wise, too knowledgeable about science, for challenging current beliefs of the time, or simply being in the wrong place. This has been on my mind a lot since I saw this played live, and wanted to share it with you all.

    Medusa is an independent quarter based out of Toronto. Go Canada and live music!

    This song is a kind tribute to Petronella.

    Ireland’s First Witching Burning

    #BookReview #historicalFigures #history #independentMusic #MedusaQuartet #Music #musicRecs #Petronella #quartets #witchTrials #witchcraft #witches
  5. Air For Petronella by Medusa Quartet

    Photo by Artūras Kokorevas: https://www.pexels.com/photo/shadow-of-hands-on-the-wall-11360061/

    I went to see a cello player with my sister, Raphael Weinwroth-Brown one evening. I’ve seen him once before after my sister told me how amazing his music is. There was an opening quarter before his performance, Medusa, and their songs were beautiful as well.

    One that stood out to me – and probably everyone there – is a song called ‘Air for Petronella’. Before playing this beautiful piece, they told us the meaning behind the song. It’s about an innocent girl who was tried as a witch in Ireland. She was completely innocent of the accusation and was the first person in Ireland to be burned at the stake for witchcraft in Ireland. She was accused due to being a follower of Dame Alice Kyteler who was charged for witchcraft – all of her associates were deemed guilty as well, including young Petronella. Kyteler fled for her life, leaving Petronella to be flogged and burned at the stake for the crime of “heresy”.

    Saskia Tomkins composed this melancholically beautiful piece after reading about this true story. She couldn’t sleep one night, upset about the injustice toward an innocent girl, and wrote this song for the quartet.

    https://youtu.be/LZzs3WJQUw8?si=OMCCA4lq_yxRZHl9

    As they played the beautiful but sad song, almost everyone was in tears. It’s a deep sadness for Petronella herself, and for everyone who has been put to death for doing nothing wrong. Fanaticism has claimed many lives and shows cruelty to anyone who appears to be a threat to it.

    It’s a sobering reminder of how many women (and some men) suffered throughout history for being too wise, too knowledgeable about science, for challenging current beliefs of the time, or simply being in the wrong place. This has been on my mind a lot since I saw this played live, and wanted to share it with you all.

    Medusa is an independent quarter based out of Toronto. Go Canada and live music!

    This song is a kind tribute to Petronella.

    Ireland’s First Witching Burning

    #BookReview #historicalFigures #history #independentMusic #MedusaQuartet #Music #musicRecs #Petronella #quartets #witchTrials #witchcraft #witches
  6. Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
    Christiane Steill in 1649 in Borthwick.
    Also accused: Agnes Forsyth, Margaret Admiston, Margaret Ritchie, James Dik, Margaret Hermiston, Margaret Adinstoun, Margaret Dick, Janet Gibb, Margaret Johnston, Robert Acreskine, John Haggon, Sara Leonard, James Hugo.
    wikidata.org/entity/Q43393943
    Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
    witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cf

    #ScottishHistory #WitchTrials #Midlothian

  7. Nacht über einem Hügel im Spessart.

    Kerzen im Gras. Alte Holzspielzeuge im Tau.

    Erinnerung an die Unschuldigen der Hexenverfolgung.
    Erinnerung an die Verbrannten.

    Night over a lonely hill in the Spessart forest, Germany.

    Candles in the grass. Wooden toys in the dew.

    In memory of the innocents of the witch trials.
    In memory of those who were burned.

    #Spessart #Hexenverfolgung #WitchTrials #Erinnerung #Memory #History #Germany

  8. The First Witch of Boston: A Novel "Margarets refusal to be anything other than her authentic self, rather than witchcraft, which truly sealed her fate" Sale: $4.99 to $2.49 Andrea Catalano Rating: 4.4/5 (25,521 Reviews) #HistoricalFiction #WitchTrials #LoveStory #Puritan #Boston #Books #BookSky

    The First Witch of Boston: A N...

  9. Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
    Jonet Irving in 1616 in Orkney Islands.
    Also accused: Helen Wallas, Oliver Leask, Catherine Caray, Magnus Linday, Geillis Sclaitter, Agnes Scottie, Agnes Tulloch, Helen A Wallis.
    wikidata.org/entity/Q43394115
    Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
    witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cf

    #ScottishHistory #WitchTrials #Scotland

  10. The Principles that I Live By

    Preamble To an ever increasing extent since the year of 2016, I have increasingly associated my lifestyle with intentional connections to the people who truly match my energy and vibe with me. Because of a history where I have aligned better with my chosen people, free from any societal constraints or pressures, up to a certain point where I have begun to receive warnings of trouble and gossip, I have increasingly realized that my personality might actually depend on a utopian communal […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025

  11. TIL: today is the 333rd anniversary of the last hangings of the #SalemMA #witchtrials

    Via: Historic Boston's discussion tonight.

    2 of the panelists descent from trial victims.

    eventbrite.com/x/resistance-st?

  12. Myths, fear, and propaganda distorted the truth. The Spanish Inquisition wasn't the bloodbath many believe. Discover the facts, numbers, and political motives behind one of history's most misunderstood institutions.
    #SpanishInquisition #HistoryTruth #BlackLegend #MedievalSpain #Heresy #CatholicChurch #InquisitionFacts #Moriscos #JewishHistory #WitchTrials#ArchaeologyFinds #AncientHistory #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory

  13. Myths, fear, and propaganda distorted the truth. The Spanish Inquisition wasn't the bloodbath many believe. Discover the facts, numbers, and political motives behind one of history's most misunderstood institutions.
    #SpanishInquisition #HistoryTruth #BlackLegend #MedievalSpain #Heresy #CatholicChurch #InquisitionFacts #Moriscos #JewishHistory #WitchTrials#ArchaeologyFinds #AncientHistory #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory

  14. Myths, fear, and propaganda distorted the truth. The Spanish Inquisition wasn't the bloodbath many believe. Discover the facts, numbers, and political motives behind one of history's most misunderstood institutions.
    #SpanishInquisition #HistoryTruth #BlackLegend #MedievalSpain #Heresy #CatholicChurch #InquisitionFacts #Moriscos #JewishHistory #WitchTrials#ArchaeologyFinds #AncientHistory #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory

  15. @crk5 Trump is modelled on a real life Abigail Williams in The Crucible. The witch has become the Ecoterrorist with a heart of ICE. Trump confessed to being a Witch when he complained about being the victim of a witch hunt! #WitchTrials #HellOnEarth #EcocideOligarchs #NarcissistsSalem #RealPeople #LiarsLot #MobRule

  16. @crk5 Trump is modelled on a real life Abigail Williams in The Crucible. The witch has become the Ecoterrorist with a heart of ICE. Trump confessed to being a Witch when he complained about being the victim of a witch hunt! #WitchTrials #HellOnEarth #EcocideOligarchs #NarcissistsSalem #RealPeople #LiarsLot #MobRule

  17. @crk5 Trump is modelled on a real life Abigail Williams in The Crucible. The witch has become the Ecoterrorist with a heart of ICE. Trump confessed to being a Witch when he complained about being the victim of a witch hunt! #WitchTrials #HellOnEarth #EcocideOligarchs #NarcissistsSalem #RealPeople #LiarsLot #MobRule

  18. @crk5 Trump is modelled on a real life Abigail Williams in The Crucible. The witch has become the Ecoterrorist with a heart of ICE. Trump confessed to being a Witch when he complained about being the victim of a witch hunt! #WitchTrials #HellOnEarth #EcocideOligarchs #NarcissistsSalem #RealPeople #LiarsLot #MobRule

  19. @crk5 Trump is modelled on a real life Abigail Williams in The Crucible. The witch has become the Ecoterrorist with a heart of ICE. Trump confessed to being a Witch when he complained about being the victim of a witch hunt! #WitchTrials #HellOnEarth #EcocideOligarchs #NarcissistsSalem #RealPeople #LiarsLot #MobRule

  20. Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
    Christian Neving in 1658 in Irvine.
    Also accused: Issobell Hendersone, Wallas, Agnes Wallace, Bessie Fullertoun, Annabell Gottray, Wallace.
    wikidata.org/entity/Q43392309
    Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
    witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cf

    #ScottishHistory #WitchTrials #NorthAyrshire

  21. Places and people from the Scottish Witchcraft Trials:
    Christian Neving in 1658 in Irvine.
    Also accused: Issobell Hendersone, Wallas, Agnes Wallace, Bessie Fullertoun, Annabell Gottray, Wallace.
    wikidata.org/entity/Q43392309
    Survey of Scottish Witchcraft:
    witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cf

    #ScottishHistory #WitchTrials #NorthAyrshire