Hanged. Meat is hung. People are hanged.

The last confirmed execution for witchcraft in England was in 1682.

The United Kingdom (UK) did not come into existence until 1707 - when the Act of Union united England and Scotland.

The last execution for witchcraft in Scotland was in 1727, which was by burning. At that time Scotland was part of the United Kingdom, so witches WERE burnt in the UK, but only in Scotland, NOT in England.

Women. They hanged and burned women.

I can't imagine standing at one of these executions and it not occurring to me that, if these women had command of magical powers... why wouldn't they use them to escape?

Probably because it's colder up north. They need the warmth.

Central Europe went nuts over witches. The general thought is that the driving force behind the witch hunts was the Reformation and Counter Reformation that drove Christians and leadership to more extreme positions to position themselves as the "defenders of the true faith" and to attract adherents. They centered around battleground states where protestant and catholic states bordered. In areas where one faith had a monopoly they were rare. The Spanish Inquisition actually suppressed witch hunts. Witch hunts peaked with the wars of religion period around 1560 to 1630.

Socio-economic turmoil and changes in the law fed the craze with groups that could not defend themselves made into convinient scapegoats.

"In the Middle Ages, if you accused a neighbor of witchcraft and could not prove it, you faced the legal penalty they would have received. This kept accusations low."

"In the early modern era, local states took over prosecution. Authorities could arrest people based on mere rumors, try them in secret, and legally use judicial torture to extract confessions. Tortured victims routinely named friends and neighbors to make the pain stop, creating a self-perpetuating loop of mass arrests."

"The craze finally disintegrated after the 1648 Peace of Westphalia. The treaty established fixed territorial borders for religions, eliminating the open competition for souls and causing witchcraft prosecutions to plummet."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Moravia_witch_trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum

In a pretty famous case, Giles Corey refused to plea to the accusation of witchcraft against him. He was pressed to death. Each time he was asked to plea over the course of three days he replied, "more weight."

Scotland is part of the UK. You mean they were hanged in England.

We actually have a memorial near me to the women who were killed in a witch Hunt in my area.

Its funny because I thought only warlocks were hung.

Seems like a good idea, I know I've never heard of a noose killing a real witch.

We probably needed the heat. It can get quite chilly up here.