How can you identify a witch?

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1 Throw her off a cliff. If she is a witch she will use her magic to fly and save herself. Burning the body isn't necessary as death from falling has shown she was not a witch after all.

2 Strap her to a chair and dunk her repeatedly into a river until she drowns. If she is a witch she will confess (she can't fly away here since she is tied to a chair). Once a confession is heard, execution by flames is the only way to destroy the evil soul. Otherwise she will reincarnate as a witch in another body.

Identification is obtained by pointing your finger at the ugliest old hag in the town to blame after something bad happens such as the crops doing badly that year.

Official Book of Witchcraft, 1588.
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Throw them in water. If they float they are in league with the Devil and are certainly witches. If they sink and drown, then they are not witches.
 
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You don't. Belief in witchcraft is heathenism. Anyone engaging in demonstrable altering of reality is in fact performing a miracle, and those can only come from God.

Ye olde witch trials were almost entirely performative and were levied at people who would have overall been pariahs anyway; the Inquisition (pick one, really) demanded hard proof of witchcraft, but their accusers were never able to dredge anything conclusive up; it was the locals who were doing this, not any broader authority. Malleus Malificarium is quite literally some of the horniest German monk schizoposting committed to paper.

However, if you are, in fact, dealing with someone you believe to be a witch, you just have to weigh her to see if she weighs the same as a duck. If she does, she's a witch.
 
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Did they braid your hair in your sleep while taking the form of a cat? You will never know, because being awake enough to know means you are a witch, yourself. Heathenism and the Holy Church have simply resolved these problems in the past by murdering the herbalists and charging the Christians more money for salvation.
 
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