Death by burning
Death by burning (also known as immolation) is an execution method involving combustion or touching to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of capital punishment. Many societies have used it as punishment for crimes such as treason, heresy and witchcraft. The best known execution of this type is burning at the stake where the condemned is tied to a big wooden stake and a fire lit under them.
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An 18th-century illustration of a wicker man. Engraving from A Tour in Wales written by Thomas Pennant
The burning of the Cathar heretics
Burning of the Knights Templar, 1314
Representation of a massacre of the Jews in the 1349 Anti-Jew riots, that was justified by allegations that Jews were behind the Black Death Epidemic. Antiquitates Flandriae (Royal Library of Belgium manuscript 1376/77).
The burning of a 16th-century Dutch Anabaptist, Anneken Hendriks, who was charged with heresy
