In Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch, as the villagers get involved in the story of the seventeenth-century "witch" Margaret Redfern, the spectre of this is discussed, including the popular belief that the "swimming" of witches, was a Morton's Fork.Possibly justified, as popular assumption might have been that witches were burned in that universe, much as it is in ours. Anita wonders if a Pulitzer makes the nightmares easier to live with. It was captured on photograph, and the photographer got a Pulitzer Prize out of it. Hamilton's early Anita Blake books, where the supernatural is known to exist, there is occasional mention of the last time a witch was burned in the U.S. In Federico Andajhazi's The Alchemist, this is how Inés de Torquemada and her daughters die, though in a subversion they suffocate in the pyre rather than burn to death.In one short story, "A Witch to Live" a down-time noble wants to burn an accused witch in an American town, and won't take no for an answer.
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