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) One question that might be swimming around in your heads is “how,” after almost 400 years, could the skeletons of two burned witches still be found where they were executed? Dr Paternoga points out that folk found guilty of being witches “wouldn’t have been allowed to be buried on blessed grounds” and they were often buried where they died. According to a report in The Express , based on the research of Anetta Stachoń, the three women who were burned alive were “Regina Wierzbic...

During restoration work at a market in Bochnia, Poland, archaeologists unearthed the remains of two women who they believed were burned at the stake back in 1679. After being accused of witchcraft and murdering a child, the women were burned alive in the town’s market. Lead archaeologist Marcin Paternoga stated what they found, “We know there was an execution here in 1679 during which three women were burned.” “We have managed to dig up two skeletons. We continue our work, and we will u...

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