The iconography of the burnt witch was better to demonize them afterwards, since it looked like hellfire. But yeah they were just killed, no grilled marshmallows.
Tbh, for 17 years of my life I thought that people were burned following the Salem trials. Guess it was just an honor saved for European “witches”.
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