> I mean we laugh at the fact we threw bound women in the water to divine whether they were witches. Off topic, but IIRC we didn't do exactly that. We threw ma

> I mean we laugh at the fact we threw bound women in the water to divine whether they were witches. Off topic, but IIRC we didn't do exactly that. We threw mainly men, and some women, bound, in water to elicit confessions. It's not that we believed there was divination happening, it's just torture. Let someone nearly drown, then pull them out and threaten to do it again. Not divining, just waterboarding.