{"id":4954,"date":"2014-05-27T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2014-05-27T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:31:04","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-may-27-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4954","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for May 27, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Persecuted Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having persecuted the Moslem and Jewish &#8220;Other&#8221; back home, the Spanish conquistadors did not hesitate to do the same to Native Americans. \u00a0One Spaniard observed that they enslaved so many that the Indians &#8220;no longer approach their wives, in order not to beget slaves.&#8221; \u00a0Another claimed that &#8220;the Spanish treat them worse than slaves.&#8221; \u00a0The Spanish philosopher Sepulveda called the Mexicans &#8220;uncivilized, barbarians, wild beasts.&#8221; \u00a0He lumped together Indians, women, and animals, all creatures without a soul of their own. \u00a0Considered unable to govern themselves, they were identified with savagery and evil. \u00a0Sepulveda argued that because Indians were vastly inferior to the Spanish, it was just to wage war on them. \u00a0By the same argument he could have justified the witch hunts, a war on women. \u00a0Speaking of Indians as cattle, Columbus said, &#8220;They have brought me back seven head of women, girls and adults.&#8221; \u00a0Tzvetan Todorov concludes that the Spanish saw Indians as &#8220;inferior beings, halfway between men and beasts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having seen what followed when women accused of witchcraft were declared to be less than human, we can be prepared for the way some of the Spanish went about subjecting these &#8220;inferior beings.&#8221; \u00a0They cut off the hands, noses, tongues, penises of captives; they cut off women&#8217;s breasts. \u00a0They branded slaves&#8217; faces with the initials of their owners. \u00a0They tore children from their mothers&#8217; arms to feed them to dogs. \u00a0They tested the sharpness of their swords by randomly cutting off heads or disemboweling the nearest Indians. \u00a0They beat female captives to force them to submit sexually. \u00a0To make a shot of their power they burned captives alive at public executions. \u00a0When Cort\u00e9s put down the uprising at Panuco, he burned alive all the chiefs, while forcing their songs to watch. \u00a0Even the most outspoken critic of this fury, Bishop de Las Casas, ordered a disobedient Indian to be burned to death.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bb0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062510363\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theasylumeclecti&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0062510363\">Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Persecuted Yet Truly Morbid Fact! 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