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One question that might be swimming around in your heads is “how,” after almost 400 years, could the skeletons of two burned witches still be found where they were executed? Dr Paternoga points out that folk found guilty of being witches “wouldn’t have been allowed to be buried on blessed grounds” and they were often buried where they died.
According to a report in
The Express , based on the research of Anetta Stachoń, the three women who were burned alive were “Regina Wierzbicka from Prandocin, Maryna Mazurkowa of Bochnia, and Borucina of Niedar.” A report from 1995 says when Regina Wierzbicka was tortured, “she ended up admitting that she bought a newborn baby in order to fake her pregnancy so that the man she loved would marry her.” Then, Borucina forced Wierzbicka ’s lover to murder the baby and they, wait for it, “used the child ’s veins in an enchanted decoction.”
During restoration work at a market in Bochnia, Poland, archaeologists unearthed the remains of two women who they believed were burned at the stake back in 1679. After being accused of witchcraft and murdering a child, the women were burned alive in the town’s market.
Lead archaeologist Marcin Paternoga stated what they found, “We know there was an execution here in 1679 during which three women were burned.” “We have managed to dig up two skeletons. We continue our work, and we will undoubtedly come across another skeleton.”
The remains will be analyzed in order to know for sure how they died but there are clues that they were indeed burned at the stake as their bones revealed burn marks from extreme temperatures. And many people who were condemned and considered unworthy were often buried where they died and not given a proper burial on sacred land. Furthermore, if they were considered to be witches, they wouldn’t have been allowed to be buried on blessed grounds.
| UPDATED: 07:23, Tue, Jan 12, 2021
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Archaeologists made the chilling discovery 341 years after three women were accused of witchcraft and infanticide and were burned alive at the town s market. Burning at the stake was a method of execution practised in the Medieval era - fifth to 15th centuries - although it was still carried out as late as the early 18th century. The painful execution was reserved for people accused of witchcraft and heresy, with its most famous victims including the English protestant bishop Hugh Latimer in 1555 and the French saint Joan of Arc in 1413.