Our good religious King James I of England declared that contrary to Reginald Scot’s heretical book “The Discovery of Witchcraft”, witches were not mentally ill individuals, instead they were evil.‚ Reginald Scot had claimed that the belief in witchcraft is “contrary to reason, scripture and nature” and that only “young ignorance and old custom” actually believed in it.‚ King James I disagreed and ordered that all copies of Reginald Scot’s book be burned.
Aren’t you glad that we live in a modern age when the government can’t make ridiculous edicts like this?