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Updated: July 25, 2026

France was the first country to stem the tide of cruelty. In 1680 Louis XIV. "issued a proclamation prohibiting all future prosecutions for witchcraft; and directing that even those who might profess the art should only be punished as impostors." In England "the last execution was at Huntingdon, in 1716;" in Scotland, at Darnock, in 1722. Such fruit has borne the command of God from Sinai.

Annie Besant - The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II.: Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History