Zero witches were burned at the stake in the United States

Zero witches were burned at the stake in the United States.
Just Google the damn thing before you write a stupid screenplay.

It's not about being hisotircally correct - it's about telling a story. Movies are fiction and are not designed to be, nor have any obligation to be, historically accurate. You want a history lesson, peruse a text book.

Also:

* Cars don't explode when they roll over (every action film ever made).

* Shotgun blasts don't send people flying through the air (every gritty action film ever).

* Heavy metal albums don't conjur demons when played backwards (The Gate, Trick or Treat).

* Spinosaurus couldn't take down T-Rex (Jurassic Park III).

* England doesn't have volcanoes (Reign of Fire).

* Iraqi bomb squads never walk the streets alone (The Hurt Locker).

* The English never burned Colonials to death in a church (The Patriot).

* The USA never saved Europe in World War II (every American-made war film).

* William Wallace wasn't a noble hero - he enslaved, raped and murdered his own people. Also England and Scotland were not at war in 1276 (Braveheart)



It's fiction, man, either playing on popular myth, ignorance of the audience, or just wanting to tell the story they want to. Deal with it or stop watching films.

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...or the British Colonies in North America. The ones who were executed were hanged except for one guy at Salem who was pressed to death. No one was ever burned in New York or anywhere else and certainly not in the 1700s. The last execution was Salem, 1692. Just Google the damn thing before you write a stupid screenplay. Would that work for anyone but me?

Works for me. But there is such a thing as poetic or literary license, and it is very common.

Like you, however, I am something of a purist (most of the time, anyway) and I am also a writer. But I want my stories to be as true-to-life as I can get them, so I do my homework.

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If you had been paying attention the supposed burning happened on Halloween night 1679 falling into your correct time period and not in the 1700's.

Come on, it's a Nick cage movie, lighten up.

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So? I don't think it's a problem if fictional movies create fictional events. You aren't that smart for knowing something so basic you thought you had to point it out and educate others.


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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.

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