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To: Carl Shaw who wrote (213632)	1/1/2002 10:22:47 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 769670

You're welcome, glad you feel better. Too bad most of what we think we know of the Spanish Inquisition comes from Anglophile historians. One early 'history' of the Dominicans begins with "Seven Spanish devils left Toledo one morning...." One little known fact is the Inquisition killed zero witches. It was the Protestants from Northern Europe who indulged in that. When a woman accused of witchcraft was brought before the Inquisitors they usually found she was not quite right in the head and let her go. Another myth is the torture chamber. It was the Germans who invented the iron maiden, and the thumbscrew and the rack were used in the Tower of London, not by the Inquisitors.