Many people have magical powers ("witches", male or female) but their use is a capital crime; public burnings at the stake were replaced only a few years ago by private burning in jails.

At many places, public burnings of foreign cloth were organized.

The Ku Klux Klan nailed a Beatles album to a wooden cross, vowing "vengeance", and conservative groups staged further public burnings of Beatles records.

With the publication of the bull, sporadic public burnings of Luther's works began to take place in Germany in accordance with Pope Leo X's instructions.

Affiliates of the radical right organized public burnings of his volumes.

Before the CCA was adopted, some cities had already been organizing public burnings and bans on comic books.

The president also expressed frustration that under the law, nothing could be done other than citing the church under a local ordinance for public burnings.

The church system also organized public burnings of boxes of condoms.

There were public burnings of thousands of religious icons.

Davenport is also noted for his "Bonfires of the Vanities", the public burnings he organized in New London.