On October 29, 1390, Paris held its first witch trials because that’s what people did then. People were stupid.

Of course, people have been stupid for a long time. For as long as there have been people. And some of the stupid things that people did are also horrible, and nothing to laugh at. Of course, we do laugh at them anyway, because we’re awful.

Oh, I forgot to mention that people are not only stupid, but they’re awful, too.

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Okay, that wasn’t France. But it was funny, because we laugh at stuff like.