The last witch burned alive by a mob in this country was only in 1953.

The only open place was an altar where a local witch burned candles and sacrificed pigeons.

The first witch we burned shortly after I became his priest.

It looked both thoughtful and grim, but I never saw a one on the ground that didn't look like a Puritan elder considering which witch to burn next.

"The beautiful naked witch will burn as he has burned, in the slow fire of purification!"

Did witches still burn in Salem?

As the mob pressed in, the ones in front were pushed so close it singed off their eyebrows, and this, too, they relished, as the witch screamed and burned.

Then the witches chant, vocalize or burn written statements to release the energy, which they believe casts a spell.

Another countryman enters chanting, "burn the witch" (15).

Ye canna kill a witch with steel-they must burn.