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Death by burning. An 1892 painting showing the 1682 burning of Old Believer leader Avvakum and others in Pustozersk, Russia. Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public capital punishment, and many societies have employed it as a ...
Michael Servetus (/ sərˈviːtəs /; [1] Spanish: Miguel Servet; French: Michel Servet; also known as Michel Servetus, Miguel de Villanueva, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve; 29 September 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe ...
Paranormal. Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the pseudoscientific [1] concept of the spontaneous combustion of a living (or recently deceased) human body without an apparent external source of ignition on the body. In addition to reported cases, descriptions of the alleged phenomenon appear in literature, and both types have been observed ...
Capital punishment in traditional Jewish law has been defined in Codes of Jewish law dating back to medieval times, based on a system of oral laws contained in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud, the primary source being the Hebrew Bible. In traditional Jewish law there are four types of capital punishment: a) stoning, b) burning by ingesting ...
Jan de Bakker († 1525), 1st martyr in the Northern Netherland. Wendelmoet Claesdochter († 1527), 1st Dutch woman charged and burned for the accusation of heresy. Michael Sattler († 1527), Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany. Patrick Hamilton († 1528), St Andrews, Scotland. Balthasar Hubmaier (1485–1528), Vienna, Austria.
Accused further of witchcraft practices, sentenced to death by burning, but died on the day of her execution. [21] Anne Løset: d. 1679 Denmark-Norway: Burned to death. Peronne Goguillon: d. 1679 France: Burned to death; one of the last women to be executed for witchcraft in France. Catherine Deshayes: c. 1640–1680 France
Heracles. Lichas bringing the garment of Nessus to Hercules (as Heracles was known in Roman mythology), woodcut by Hans Sebald Beham, circa 1542–1548. Heracles, who was both a hero and god, was killed by the Shirt of Nessus, which was also a Shirt of Fire. Heracles used an arrow poisoned with the blood of a Lernaean Hydra to kill the Centaur ...
M. Mahagiri. Maifreda da Pirovano. Margaret of Trent. Petronilla de Meath. Saíde Mingas. Solomon Molcho. Murders of Sefter Taş and Fethi Şahin.