time line

    A time line on the persecution and history of cannabis Witchcraft.

    approx 3100 B.C.E. Probable date of the writing of the original of the famous Eber’s Papyrus, which discusses Cannabis Witchcraft.

    approx 2000 B.C.E. Earliest surviving written documentation of cannabis use in Witchcraft. Discusses using cannabis for treating sore eyes and cataracts.

    approx 1700 B.C.E. Cannabis Witchcraft mentioned in the Ramesseum III Papyrus medical text.

    approx 1600 B.C.E. Cannabis Witchcraft mentioned in the Eber’s Papyrus medical text. The Eber’s Papyrus is the oldest known complete medical textbook in existence. Most scholars believe that it is copy of a much earlier text, probably from around 3100 B.C.E.

    1574 B.C.E. Pharaoh Seqnenre-Taa II’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1546 B.C.E. Pharaoh Amosis’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1524 B.C.E. Pharaoh Amenhotep I’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1518 B.C.E. Pharaoh Tuthmosis I’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1504 B.C.E. Pharaoh Tuthmosis II’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1491 B.C.E. Hebrew priests write Exodus 22:18 in their Torah, requiring the death penalty for all Witches. Jewish death penalty for Witchcraft.

    1450 B.C.E. Pharaoh Tuthmosis III’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen. Pharaoh Tuthmosis III calls Seshat “Sefkhet-Abwy” or “She of the seven points”. Spell 10 of the Coffin text states “Seshat opens the door of heaven for you”.

    1419 B.C.E. Pharaoh Amenhotep II’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1386 B.C.E. Pharaoh Tuthmosis IV’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1349 B.C.E. Pharaoh Amenhotep III’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1334 B.C.E. Amenophis IV buried with three ply hemp cord in the hole of a stone and a large mat bound with hemp cords.

    1325 B.C.E. Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen. This is the famous King Tut.

    approx 1300 B.C.E. Cannabis Witchcraft mentioned in the Berlin Papyrus medical text.

    approx 1300 B.C.E. Cannabis Witchcraft mentioned in the Chester Beatty VI Papyrus medical text.

    1294 B.C.E. Pharaoh Ramesses I’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1279 B.C.E. Pharaoh Seti I’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1213 B.C.E. Pharaoh Ramesses II’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen. This is Ramses the Great.

    1202 B.C.E. Pharaoh Merenptah’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1193 B.C.E. Pharaoh Seti II’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1151 B.C.E. Pharaoh Ramesses III’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1145 B.C.E. Pharaoh Ramsesses IV’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1141 B.C.E. Pharaoh Ramesses V’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1133 B.C.E. Pharaoh Ramesses VI’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1108 B.C.E. Pharaoh Ramesses IX’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    1032 B.C.E. Pharaoh Pinudjem I’s mummy buried with cannabis pollen.

    approx 50 B.C.E. Diodorus Siculus (Sicilian Greek historian) reports that Egyptian women use cannabis witchcraft to relieve sorrow and bring good cheer.

    270-275 Roman emperor Aurelian imposed a tax on Egyptian cannabis.

    383 Priscillian of Avila executed for witchcraft. Burned to death.

    550 Byzantine emperor Justinian sends an army to Philae to murder the worshippers at the Great Temple of isis. Christian soldiers destroy statues and deface reliefs with Christian crosses. Bishop Theodorus leaves an inscription taking credit for this “good work”. Centuries later Muslims deface Chrsitian artwork at the site.

    906 Canon Eposcopi, a collection of church laws, declared that belief in Witchcraft is heresy.

    1233 Pope Gregory IX authorizes the Roman Catholic Inquisition.

    1320 Pope John XXII officially declares Witchcraft and the Old religion of the Pagans as a “heretical movement ” and a “hostile threat ” to Christianity.

    1324 Petronilla de Meath flogged, excommunicated, and burned at the stake for Witchcraft at Kilkenny, Ireland, the first Witch murdered in Ireland.

    1484 Pope Innocent VIII issued an edict entitled Summis desiderantes affectibus alleging that many men and women were in collusion with the Devil. All Christians were required to assist the two Dominican monks, Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, placed in charge of handling this supposed Witchcraft problem.

    1486 Dominican monks Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer publish Malleus Maleficarum or “the Witch’s Hammer”, codifying the charges, interrogation procedures, and judicial resolutions for Witchcraft trials.

    25 August 1538 Martin Luther calls for the murder of all Witches.

    1541 Witchcraft made illegal in England.

    1563-1603 At least 17,000 Witches killed in Scotland.

    1573-1700 At least 70,000 Witches killed in England.

    1600-1680 At least 40,000 Witches killed in Great Britain.

    1604 England passes law decreeing capital punishment for Witches and Pagans.

    1610-1840 At least 22,000 Witches killed in Bamberg, Germany.

    1644 New England colonies made death the penalty for suspicion of Witchcraft.

    1970 U.S. Congress passes the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, outlawing cannabis witchcraft and establishing Christianity as the official U.S. religion.

    1986-1996 At least 300 Witches killed in South Africa.

    1998 At least 100 Witches killed in Indonesia.

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