zaangalewa
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Sephardi settled in a lot of places, including the Papal States; ironically the Pope had to order the local Jews to take some 10,000 Jewish refugees in, since the local Jews didn't want to let them into their communities. France took a lot, the Turks took in a lot, the Dutch took in some, and others went to the Americas, not many but enough to be noteworthy here and there. A lot stayed in Spain.
Of some 11,000 cases tried by inquisitors in Spain from the late 15th century through the first half of the 16th, only some 1,200 or so were convicted and sentenced to death, and of those 683 were only burned in effigy, which meant they weren't actually burned, but either allowed to leave or had to move to another town or something. About 10% or so were 'conversos' thought to be secretly practicing their old religion and had lied under oath about converting, and this would include Muslims, not just Jews, and the rest were Protestants or some other types of 'heretics' or other.
It's also noteworthy how few 'witches' and other superstition driven deaths there were in the Catholic Spanish and Papal states; most of those were in the the northern kingdoms and eastern kingdoms.
The myth that 2 million witches were burned from the inquisition of the Catholic Church was made from the Prussians in their so called culture fight, where the 'tolerant' Prussians fought against Catholics. Still today most people believe in this myth. Indeed in the Middle Ages to believe in whitches was just simple called a superstition - same so today. But in the beginning modern era did happen indeed masses of such burnings - on reasons, which were lies - but it were "only" about 50,000 witches and sorcceres who were burned. And as well Protestants and Catholics did do so. Prostestants burned about 90% women and 10% men - Catholics 50% men and 50% women. And where the inquisitions had been strong nearly never such burnings had happened. The lies of the Prussians seem to be harmless - on the other side: In the areas of Germany and Poland where this few real and many fantasy burnings theoretically had happened much later in history the Holocaust found the most victims. If this is more than only a random principle then there is perhaps a dimension of evil fantasies which is much more dangerous than we normally are able to think.
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