{"id":423,"date":"2019-07-19T13:57:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T19:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penguinpetes.com\/wordpress\/?p=423"},"modified":"2020-03-24T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:29:35","slug":"new-at-spookwire-history-of-witch-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penguinpetes.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/19\/new-at-spookwire-history-of-witch-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"New at Spookwire: History of Witch Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For your leery-eyed, lurid entertainment, we round up some of <a href=\"https:\/\/spookwire.com\/a-brief-history-of-witch-torture\/\">the historic ways kinky Catholics used to torture random women accused of witchcraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since it didn&#8217;t make the cut in the article, I HAVE to rave about this TV commercial from the 1980s, Time-Life Books&#8217; <em>Enchanted World<\/em> series, narrated by the Prince of Horror himself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Time-Life &quot;Enchanted World&quot; Books (1986)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vVzVTLXGGXE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Real<\/em> witches&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; You would not believe how much these commercials were <strong>pounded into your brain<\/strong> in the 1980s. They were inescapable. On every channel. All day, all night. You ran across copies at every used bookstore and every garage sale. If you found yourself stranded on a desert island, you could gather spare copies of the <em>Enchanted World<\/em> series to build a raft.<\/p>\n<p>And always, these commercials had this impudent, condescending tone, like they were saying &#8220;Oh you don&#8217;t believe in ghosts? 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