Why did people burn witches in the past?

@NickiHijab men back then didnt like women being smarter than them either

@NickiHijab 👀 *collects wood for pyre*

@XDHyperGirlXD1 It's not even much a matter of men vs. women at the core of the issue, plenty of women were complicit and just as thirsty for blood. It's purely fanaticism vs free thinking here. Fanaticism has no gender, it can rot any mind.

@XDHyperGirlXD1 [quote] men back then didnt like women being smarter than them either[/quote]
respectively were they smarter though? men were not the ones being burnt alive were they?

@Torsten men was the ones doing it lol

@XDHyperGirlXD1 and other women