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[Photo Journal/A-Z Photo Story Challenge] W is for Witch Burning in Bratislava

by Myra Garces-Bacsal
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Myra here.

I am glad to join Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Story Challenge this week with W is for Witch Burning in Bratislava. I found this sign in Oldtown Bratislava last year.

W is for Witch Burning in Oldtown Bratislava

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Our guide told us that in this exact place in Oldtown Bratislava, a woman accused of having sex with the devil was burnt to death as a witch.

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About Myra Garces-Bacsal

Myra is a Teacher Educator and a registered clinical psychologist based in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Prior to moving to the Middle East, she lived for eleven years in Singapore serving as a teacher educator. She has edited five books on rediscovering children’s literature in Asia (with a focus on the Philippines, Malaysia, India, China, Japan) as part of the proceedings for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content where she served as the Chair of the Programme Committee for the Asian Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference from 2011 until 2019. While she is an academic by day, she is a closet poet and a book hunter at heart. When she is not reading or writing about books or planning her next reads, she is hoping desperately to smash that shuttlecock to smithereens because Badminton Is Life (still looking for badminton courts here at UAE - suggestions are most welcome).

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1 comment on “[Photo Journal/A-Z Photo Story Challenge] W is for Witch Burning in Bratislava”

  1. frizztext
    June 10, 2014

    one of my wife’s ancestors nearly was killed by the absurd anti-witch justice of the catholic church: http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/witchcraft-trial/

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