Talk:Alec/@comment-4046419-20120802145849/@comment-85.177.172.92-20121002073639

Thank you. Apparently the Informations are from the Illustrated Guide, so Meyer herself.

I´m personally really shocked by this, because the witchhunts was and is, one of my favourite historical subjects.

So, first off... witches were hanged in England, not burned and even then, England never really went as crazy as Middle-Europe with the witchhunts ( I´m from Germany. We had a big part in the witchhunts and according to estimates, we alone had 25.000 victims. England "only" had around 400). There wasnt even a law against witchcraft untill 1542 to 1547.

1563 it came up again and that was because of the mania in Middle- Europe. In the late 1700s, it was abolished again.

So what is to say, even if the villiage took law into their own hands, it would have been more likely that they would have hanged or chased them away. Or, to be more brutal, flock together and beated them to death.

Second. Their father is a Frankish soldier? It would make more sense if their father was a Viking, as, you know, the Vikings invated the land during that time (from 793 A.D to 1066)

Yes, I know, you will all come up with, this is fiction, but it is set in our world, so you should get the historical facts right, and if you change them so they fit your story ( For example, Tanja Kinkel did in Puppenspieler) better note it very clearly and add the real facts.

Hate me for saying this, but this is lack of reasearch!