Burning stakes are the primary method that Christians use for burning Witch’s bodies.
Saint Augustine claimed that burning stakes and bruloirs were justified because hell is a cruel place and cruelty that lasts for less than an hour is preferable to cruelty that lasts for eternity.
In 1590, so many wooden stakes had been erected for burning Witches in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, that the site looked like a small forest.
In 1631, most of the villages and towns near Cologne, Germany, featured numerous stakes outside the walls with women bound to them and burned for Witchcraft.
