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* In ''Manhwa/TheTarotCafe'', Pamela's mother (a midwife) was accused of witchcraft after the baby she was delivering and the child's mother both died. She confessed to witchcraft just so that she could plead for her daughter's safety and was burned at the stake. Pamela was later accused of witchcraft because she could see the future and because she rejected a creepy old priest's advances on her. Because she'd been exposed to the blood of a dragon, she was immortal and survived. A later story has her kidnapped by a group of religious fanatics who use her tarot cards as proof that she's a witch and try to kill her. Seeing as she's immortal, they don't succeed.
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BurnTheWitch in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Various factions present at [[spoiler:Eren's tribunal are rather paranoid about him (understandably) and want him dissected but then start accusing Mikasa of being a Human Titan too (much less understandably). Mikasa quickly puts a stop to this by demonstrating just how good she is at slicing things, which scares her would-be accusers off]].
* In ''Anime/BelladonnaOfSadness'', [[spoiler:this is what happens to the protagonist, the GirlNextDoor-turned-HotWitch Jeanne. Her husband Jean tries to rescue her, but he ends up turned into a HumanPincushion]].
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
** This almost happens to Casca during the Conviction arc after her corrupted child summons several ghosts to protect her from Bishop Mozgus's ColdBloodedTorture at the Tower of Conviction, which drained him in the process. She's rescued by Isidro, who later becomes one of Guts's new set of TrueCompanions.
** [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior As a child]], Lady Farnese often took [[{{Pyromaniac}} great joy]] in assisting her town's burning of heretics.
* Vincent narrowly escapes getting hung for witchcraft in ''Manga/{{Bizenghast}}''. Later, we get Maphohetka, who definitely had some kind of supernatural ability, as evidenced by her surviving being stabbed in the chest, and is an antagonist to Dinah. In her defense, Maphohetka may be innocent of whatever she was accused of (since the exact nature of Bizenghast's misfortune is never revealed) and the townspeople do actually verge on the "evil and bigoted" side (keeping up their witch lynching traditions well into the late 19th-early 20th century).
* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', back in the Middle Ages, the immortal woman Fraulein Kreutune was tried as a witch and sentenced to various forms of torture and execution, including being burned. Since she was immortal, none of them worked.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** ''Code Geass'' has this when a mystical trap causes Lelouch to see images of C.C.'s past, including multiple gruesome "deaths" -- one of which was, of course, burning at the stake. Justified in that C.C. is both [[HealingFactor immortal]] and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld ageless]], plus she became immortal when she was a servant/slave girl in medieval times, meaning she ''did'' indeed live through the time when people were doing this sort of thing. It doesn't help matters that official sources both inside and outside the anime call her a witch.
** It also happens to Joan of Arc and Jeanne the Witch (who later becomes C.C.) in ''Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally''. [[spoiler:Nunnally herself almost]] suffers the same fate.
* ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'':
** The episode that features ''Literature/TheSixSwans'' (mentioned below) has Princess Elise falsely accused of killing and eating her son by her WickedStepmother (who, in this version, [[CompositeCharacter is also]] the local HotWitch). She's tied up to a cross and about to be burned when she's rescued by her brothers, who then put on the magical shirts she made to undo their curse and return to their human forms; the youngest Prince/Swan returns the unharmed baby to her. Then the Witch tries to summon a powerful wind... [[KarmicDeath and reignites the witch-burning pyre, burning herself to death instead]].
** Averted in the ''Brother and Sister'' episode, where the WickedStepmother runs away and averts being burned. She's mentioned to have eventually died off-screen.
* In ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', Asia Argento was praised by the Church for having HealingHands. Unfortunately, when it was discovered that her power works on everybody, including devils (she healed the devil Diodora Astaroth while thinking he was human, and he in fact planned this to alienate her from the Church), the Church accused her of gaining the power by a DealWithTheDevil and ordered her execution. Luckily, she meets the heroes.
* This is the ultimate fate of [[spoiler:the local BadassPreacher Colette ''and'' her followers]] in ''Manga/InnocentsShounenJuujigun'', since [[spoiler:she ran an underground church that offers godliness to those that would be unable to afford it under the strict rules of the Catholic Church]].
* Minoru Murao's manga ''Manga/{{Knights}}'' opens with an attempted witch burning, as a [[CorruptChurch corrupt priest]] is accusing the 13 year-old [[TokenMiniMoe Nina]] of witchcraft. He fails, and Nina is [[RescueRomance rescued]] by the [[MeaningfulName Black Knight]] and his [[MsFanservice might-as-well-be-naked companion]]. Later, the protagonist (and [[KnightInShiningArmor knight-in-training]]) Mist reveals it was merely a plot to seize her noble family's assets, since the Church is entitled to a witch's property without justification or investigation.
* In ''Anime/MahouTsukaiChappy'', when Chappy and her brother Jun come to Earth, they decide to not tell anyone about their powers to avert being burned at the stake.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** Evangeline says that despite being a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], she often had to escape such burnings during the middle ages, occasionally getting caught. She laughs about it as something highly amusing these days (the listeners were understandably horrified).
** There is also Asuna [[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/2/06/ threatening]] to expose Negi early in the manga.
* ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'', as a series whose protagonist is the reincarnation of Joan of Arc, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urYuIvZ2seg includes]] a scene that features Joan's fiery martyrdom.
* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', [[spoiler:Joan was one of the ''Puella Magi'' and the GrandFinale of the TV series shows her with her Soul Gem in her hands as she's about to be burned at the stake]].
* In ''Anime/RageOfBahamutGenesis'', as Joan of Arc is about to be publically burned, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94LB3KTGQMI the crowds try to save her]] and fight the local knights for her. [[spoiler:Joan is so broken by her ordeals ''on top'' of watching the populace being hurt for her sake, she [[DespairEventHorizon gives in to despair]] and [[FaceHeelTurn inhales the demon's concoction]], which turns her into a {{Tykebomb}} of a demon and flies away with one objective: slay the Archangels holding Bahamut's seal.]]
* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', there are only two kinds of witches -- the stereotypical doomsday witches which are hunted down due to their destructive nature, and the [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire cute friendly witches]], which are also hunted down due to their destructive counterparts.
* In ''Manhwa/TheTarotCafe'', Pamela's mother (a midwife) was accused of witchcraft after the baby she was delivering and the child's mother both died. She confessed to witchcraft just so that she could plead for her daughter's safety and was burned at the stake. Pamela was later accused of witchcraft because she could see the future and because she rejected a creepy old priest's advances on her. Because she'd been exposed to the blood of a dragon, she was immortal and survived. A later story has her kidnapped by a group of religious fanatics who use her tarot cards as proof that she's a witch and try to kill her. Seeing as she's immortal, they don't succeed.
* [[DarkMagicalGirl Sally Schumars]] almost went through this in the ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' CD dramas, but [[spoiler:Farfarello]] rescued her.
* Going by the flashbacks, the eponymous ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin'' (with firestarter powers) was a normal, devout girl who got burned at the stake for being a witch. Or maybe that mysterious old lady was just messing with Robin's mind. In modern times (in Japan) they just get captured and shipped off... and, as the heroes learn to their disgust, drugged, put into PeopleJars and [[HumanResources used to make]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the anti-witchcraft drug]]. Either way, it all apparently stems from a long-standing prejudice against them, even though most people have forgotten where it came from to begin with.
* In ''Manga/AWitchsLoveAtTheEndOfTheWorld'', witches were persecuted out of fear by humans after coexisting for many years. The manga's opening ExpositionDump shows witches being killed this way in witch hunts. [[spoiler:In a subversion, the only named character to die in a witch hunt so far, Iris, was actually killed after an unspecified method of torture.]]
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BurnTheWitch in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Various factions present at [[spoiler:Eren's tribunal are rather paranoid about him (understandably) and want him dissected but then start accusing Mikasa of being a Human Titan too (much less understandably). Mikasa quickly puts a stop to this by demonstrating just how good she is at slicing things, which scares her would-be accusers off]].
* In ''Anime/BelladonnaOfSadness'', [[spoiler:this is what happens to the protagonist, the GirlNextDoor-turned-HotWitch Jeanne. Her husband Jean tries to rescue her, but he ends up turned into a HumanPincushion]].
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
** This almost happens to Casca during the Conviction arc after her corrupted child summons several ghosts to protect her from Bishop Mozgus's ColdBloodedTorture at the Tower of Conviction, which drained him in the process. She's rescued by Isidro, who later becomes one of Guts's new set of TrueCompanions.
** [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior As a child]], Lady Farnese often took [[{{Pyromaniac}} great joy]] in assisting her town's burning of heretics.
* Vincent narrowly escapes getting hung for witchcraft in ''Manga/{{Bizenghast}}''. Later, we get Maphohetka, who definitely had some kind of supernatural ability, as evidenced by her surviving being stabbed in the chest, and is an antagonist to Dinah. In her defense, Maphohetka may be innocent of whatever she was accused of (since the exact nature of Bizenghast's misfortune is never revealed) and the townspeople do actually verge on the "evil and bigoted" side (keeping up their witch lynching traditions well into the late 19th-early 20th century).
* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', back in the Middle Ages, the immortal woman Fraulein Kreutune was tried as a witch and sentenced to various forms of torture and execution, including being burned. Since she was immortal, none of them worked.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** ''Code Geass'' has this when a mystical trap causes Lelouch to see images of C.C.'s past, including multiple gruesome "deaths" -- one of which was, of course, burning at the stake. Justified in that C.C. is both [[HealingFactor immortal]] and [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld ageless]], plus she became immortal when she was a servant/slave girl in medieval times, meaning she ''did'' indeed live through the time when people were doing this sort of thing. It doesn't help matters that official sources both inside and outside the anime call her a witch.
** It also happens to Joan of Arc and Jeanne the Witch (who later becomes C.C.) in ''Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally''. [[spoiler:Nunnally herself almost]] suffers the same fate.
* ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'':
** The episode that features ''Literature/TheSixSwans'' (mentioned below) has Princess Elise falsely accused of killing and eating her son by her WickedStepmother (who, in this version, [[CompositeCharacter is also]] the local HotWitch). She's tied up to a cross and about to be burned when she's rescued by her brothers, who then put on the magical shirts she made to undo their curse and return to their human forms; the youngest Prince/Swan returns the unharmed baby to her. Then the Witch tries to summon a powerful wind... [[KarmicDeath and reignites the witch-burning pyre, burning herself to death instead]].
** Averted in the ''Brother and Sister'' episode, where the WickedStepmother runs away and averts being burned. She's mentioned to have eventually died off-screen.
* In ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', Asia Argento was praised by the Church for having HealingHands. Unfortunately, when it was discovered that her power works on everybody, including devils (she healed the devil Diodora Astaroth while thinking he was human, and he in fact planned this to alienate her from the Church), the Church accused her of gaining the power by a DealWithTheDevil and ordered her execution. Luckily, she meets the heroes.
* This is the ultimate fate of [[spoiler:the local BadassPreacher Colette ''and'' her followers]] in ''Manga/InnocentsShounenJuujigun'', since [[spoiler:she ran an underground church that offers godliness to those that would be unable to afford it under the strict rules of the Catholic Church]].
* Minoru Murao's manga ''Manga/{{Knights}}'' opens with an attempted witch burning, as a [[CorruptChurch corrupt priest]] is accusing the 13 year-old [[TokenMiniMoe Nina]] of witchcraft. He fails, and Nina is [[RescueRomance rescued]] by the [[MeaningfulName Black Knight]] and his [[MsFanservice might-as-well-be-naked companion]]. Later, the protagonist (and [[KnightInShiningArmor knight-in-training]]) Mist reveals it was merely a plot to seize her noble family's assets, since the Church is entitled to a witch's property without justification or investigation.
* In ''Anime/MahouTsukaiChappy'', when Chappy and her brother Jun come to Earth, they decide to not tell anyone about their powers to avert being burned at the stake.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** Evangeline says that despite being a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], she often had to escape such burnings during the middle ages, occasionally getting caught. She laughs about it as something highly amusing these days (the listeners were understandably horrified).
** There is also Asuna [[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/2/06/ threatening]] to expose Negi early in the manga.
* ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'', as a series whose protagonist is the reincarnation of Joan of Arc, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urYuIvZ2seg includes]] a scene that features Joan's fiery martyrdom.
* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', [[spoiler:Joan was one of the ''Puella Magi'' and the GrandFinale of the TV series shows her with her Soul Gem in her hands as she's about to be burned at the stake]].
* In ''Anime/RageOfBahamutGenesis'', as Joan of Arc is about to be publically burned, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94LB3KTGQMI the crowds try to save her]] and fight the local knights for her. [[spoiler:Joan is so broken by her ordeals ''on top'' of watching the populace being hurt for her sake, she [[DespairEventHorizon gives in to despair]] and [[FaceHeelTurn inhales the demon's concoction]], which turns her into a {{Tykebomb}} of a demon and flies away with one objective: slay the Archangels holding Bahamut's seal.]]
* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', there are only two kinds of witches -- the stereotypical doomsday witches which are hunted down due to their destructive nature, and the [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire cute friendly witches]], which are also hunted down due to their destructive counterparts.
* In ''Manhwa/TheTarotCafe'', Pamela's mother (a midwife) was accused of witchcraft after the baby she was delivering and the child's mother both died. She confessed to witchcraft just so that she could plead for her daughter's safety and was burned at the stake. Pamela was later accused of witchcraft because she could see the future and because she rejected a creepy old priest's advances on her. Because she'd been exposed to the blood of a dragon, she was immortal and survived. A later story has her kidnapped by a group of religious fanatics who use her tarot cards as proof that she's a witch and try to kill her. Seeing as she's immortal, they don't succeed.
* [[DarkMagicalGirl Sally Schumars]] almost went through this in the ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' CD dramas, but [[spoiler:Farfarello]] rescued her.
* Going by the flashbacks, the eponymous ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin'' (with firestarter powers) was a normal, devout girl who got burned at the stake for being a witch. Or maybe that mysterious old lady was just messing with Robin's mind. In modern times (in Japan) they just get captured and shipped off... and, as the heroes learn to their disgust, drugged, put into PeopleJars and [[HumanResources used to make]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the anti-witchcraft drug]]. Either way, it all apparently stems from a long-standing prejudice against them, even though most people have forgotten where it came from to begin with.
* In ''Manga/AWitchsLoveAtTheEndOfTheWorld'', witches were persecuted out of fear by humans after coexisting for many years. The manga's opening ExpositionDump shows witches being killed this way in witch hunts. [[spoiler:In a subversion, the only named character to die in a witch hunt so far, Iris, was actually killed after an unspecified method of torture.]]
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