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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Nope he hasn't been burned. Burning people alive is an old good Western European tradition (Russians always were too barbaric to use such progressive methods). Pugachev was decapitated.
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"The sentence for an individual found guilty of witchcraft or sorcery during this time, and in previous centuries, typically included either burning at the stake or being tested with the "ordeal of cold water" or judicium aquae frigidae.[162] The cold-water test was primarily a Western European phenomenon, but was used as a method of truth in Russia prior to, and post, seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in Muscovy. Accused persons who drowned were considered innocent, and ecclesiastical authorities would proclaim them "brought back," but those who floated were considered guilty of practicing witchcraft, and burned at the stake or executed in an unholy fashion. The thirteenth-century bishop of Vladimir, Serapion Vladimirskii, preached sermons throughout the Muscovite countryside, and in one particular sermon revealed that burning was the usual punishment for witchcraft, but more often the cold water test was used as a precursor to execution.[162]"
Witchcraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Finns did burn witches too. Don't take this as another "Whoaa, The Motherland is at the brink of peril! Evil forces are after it."