How to treat false prophets 2

I read in one of Montaigne’s essays an account of what the Scythians used to do to makers of false predictions. They bound them, he says, hand and foot, laid them in an ox-drawn cart filled with brushwood, and burned them. What a relief for some of our own cherished pundits that such practices never caught on in Britain.

David McKie ‘Clouded crystal balls’ The Guardian, Thursday 6 November, 2003