“Boiling heretics and malefactors alive, commonly in oil but occasionally in water, was practised throughout Europe until a comparatively late period.”

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

Source: Woman, Church and State (1893), p. 267

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American abolitionist, writer 1826–1898

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