Why The Salem Witch Trials Were Nothing Like You Think - Hilarious Helmet History
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- The Salem Witch Trials were more like a mid-credits scene in an 'Ant-Man' film rather than the 'Avengers' sized witch hunts happening literally everywhere else.
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Now I'm not an expert here, but I'm pretty sure that's not a helmet.
Aren't hats just pussified versions of helmets? :P
arent helmets just hats for people who need head protection?
Hat's are boneless helmets
can I get uhhhhhh 🅱️oneless helmet
that's no helmet, that's cultural appropriation
"She turned me into a newt."
"A newt?"
"I got better."
The Crucible isn't meant to be an accurate history of the Salem witch trial. It's about McCarthyism during the Cold War. It's saying the hunt for communists was as ridiculous as the hunt for witches.
Fire up the torches, time for the greatest witch hunt ever
Bethany Brose exactly!
It wasn't really though. I mean, sure, it was overblown and paranoid, but communists were actually at least real and there were Russian agents who were trying to subvert the US (which obviously also happened the other way too).
Bethany Brose read witness by Whittaker Chambers and the Venona papers.
the crucible is based on the Scarlett letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne which written in the 19th century...so no. thanks for trying though.
It's interesting to me that you didn't mention probably the biggest misconception of all. That the Salem witch trials took place in what's today known as Danvers. Salem today is what was known as Salem Town, Danvers was Salem Village, where the trials and executions etc. actually took place.
Christie Lynn one day my parents will love me
He did explain that
Actually the trials and executions took place in present day Salem, Salem Village (modern day Danvers) was where most of the accused lived as it was all farms
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It was pretty much the entire north shore. There’s very few towns in the area that don’t have some kind of connection to the witch trials.
Helmets can be hats but hats are not necessarily helmets
noxabellus kinda a square/rectangle situation really.
This video always causes me to think about the fact that most of my high school history class argued that the Salem Witch Trials was a more significant historical event than the Trail of Tears... they were idiots.
It should also be noted that lynch mobbing some guy or gal is soo much easier when there is no palpable authority to stop it. You know, cause they're all out at war doing more important shit.
"Witches aren't real" - that's going to piss off a lot of modern day pagans...
Anyone who unironically calls themself a pagan deserves a crusade
@@denverbritto5606 pagan lives matter
@@denverbritto5606 Anyone that mocks and ridicules another based solely on a very broad self label like "pagan" without actually knowing shit about them deserves a crusade
@@denverbritto5606 educate yourself
@@unknownartist8136 self-identified pagans are the ones who need an education
Salem is one of the nicest places I've ever been! They are very accepting and very nice! It's a beautiful town!
Puppysankittens I can't tell if that's sarcasm or an actual compliment, you've stumped me, that doesnt happen often
accepting nigguh or no
accepting, not excepting
You are obviously under the control of witch magic!
I get it. That's pretty clever there. I almost missed it.
That "more weight" happened in real life. I did a project on it.
R Nickerson Corey’s gravestone was on my street, I think they just moved it though
@@Richard_Nickerson probably wanted to die quicker, crushed by rocks means slow asphyxiation with too little weight.
@@Richard_Nickerson very true
I love him.
Rawrist y
Rawrist 👌👌
*GASP* Rawrist! Yay! Didn't know you watched cracked!
Hey, Rawrist, I can tie this all back to GoT...
Do you know why witches fly on brooms? Because brooms look like shooting stars and meteors, which were thought of as demons or witches, given that they caused destruction. A big falling star was once even thought of as a fallen angel named Light Bringer (or Lucifer if you speak Latin). It brought about the long winter in medieval times, referred to today as The Little Ice Age, which was followed by war over resources, famine and disease. Sound familiar? We even saw the meteor in season one of GoT. It's based on this Freemason version of actual history, including the really ancient history!
Hey, Rawist! Didn't expect you here. You have a good taste in videos, though.
"and if you disagree with me you probably have good reason too"
Sir, this is the internet, you forgot your rage...
In fairness, Miller's "The Crucible" WAS more inspired by McCarthyism than it was by the historical events it portrays.
annajane8890 I mean... Yeah. He threw in all that cringy stuff about a man sexually abusing his servant and cheating on his wife and tried to make him some kind of tragic hero. Like maybe if you hadn't have cheated on your wife with the housekeeper then she wouldn't be going to jail??
Witches are real. My sister in law is one. She says wiccan. I say witch.
I think he simply meant the particular witches and what they were being accused of simply wasn't real. What they were being accused of was binding their soul to Satan, sending their spirits out to torment people and committing supernatural deeds. I know a friend who is a Wiccan and that is wholly dissimilar. I hope that makes sense.
emptyvoices31 I agree
The difference is that a Wiccan restrains themselves from practicing black magicks intended to cause harm to others, whereas a regular witch does not, esp not if Santeria or Voodoo.
rex mundi Wiccan practices magic but that doesn't mean she's a witch.
If you look it up Wicca is just a nicer way of saying witch, this was done on purpose to protect practitioners from narrow minded people who persecute witches.
As a decedent of a woman hung during the trials, actually in Salem, thanks for setting the record straight. At least as straight as it can.
Daniel Gengler descendant?
may I ask who you're a descendant of?
Rebecca Nurse.
Daniel Gengler Interesting, thanks for sharing. May your ancestor Rest In Peace.
+Daniel So you got a little witch in you?
Witches aren't real? Tell that to my ex wife
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Boomer humor
Ok Boomer
What do you mean, witches aren't real? She turned me into a newt!
You thought I would say I got better, didn't you? No, all that happened was that Robert Evans made brandy out of me.
(Honestly, read "A Brief History of Vice." I'm not being paid to say this, it was just really fun.)
did she weigh the same as a duck?
BUILD A BRIDGE OUT OF HER!
wicken?
Isaac Mayer what also floats?
really really small rocks
The "more weight" thing actually happened, Giles Corey only ever said more weight when they wanted him to confess to being a witch
Cory wasn't executed...he refused to give a plea of innocence or guilt and was being coerced into entering a plea. He was killed but this technically was not a form of execution
Issa execution. If he didn't plea, he would die.
Eric Badgley They also accused him of witchcraft because he had no heirs and the state wanted his property, and they could take it if he was dead.
Alex Meyer I just hate it when my neighbor accuses me of being a witch and my government uses it as an excuse to murder me and steal my shit.
Alex Meyer no, he had heirs. That's why he refused to enter a plea. Because, no matter if he pled guilty or pled innocent (and was later found guilty) his property would be confiscated, but if he refused to enter a plea, he would just be dead and his estate would pass on to his children/wife
You have read the book and he has not. Good on you!
I'm related to one of the "Witches", her name being Martha Carrier 😂
Wait... if there's no such thing as witches, who turned me into a newt?
Jane Lin god
Jane Lin I did ಠ⌣ಠ
But did you get better?
A vet. Vets do a lot of newtering.
Drugs~
lol I life in Bamberg Germany... just learned something new about my hometowne :D nice
Wow! Congrats on pronouncing the ü in Würzburg as an actual ü and not a u.
(signed, a native German speaker)
Also signed as a witch?
German vegan crossfit witch...
This channel needs more recognition
So the modern understanding of witch hunt (like McCarthyism) comes from an older understanding of witch hunt (hunting witches), which itself was actually, secretly the modern understanding of witch hunt all along?
themarquess yep
Humans can be pretty predictable
Just discovered this show, but I need more than just 6 of these. Dang good.
He looks like he gives great helmet.
Being pressed to death was a common punishment for refusing to plead Guilty/Not-Guilty in court. They were placed with their back against a wedge with a door or a plank of wood over their chest and they had rocks put on the door until their back broke. It was also used once in ancient Greece to cure a twisted spine.
Not to sound nerdy, but... I really like the music in the background!
Alexandra Kopko you're a nerd and I'm judging you
How is jazz in any way nerdy? It's not bloody Chopin.
fred McLovin it was sarcasm.
@attckonutube I don't think @fred McLovin was talking to you
It kind of reminds me of the Magnificent Seven theme tune.
That was the single most comforting video I've ever watched on this channel.
ok iDubbz calm down
edit: I take this back.. This guy is awesome. Don’t judge a book by its cover
HAVE A GREAT OAT he is pretty cool but I Dubbz has a certain badass doesn’t give a crap about your feelings kinda thing
Scott Harrison
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😂😂 "probably, I don't know when this video comes out" 😂😂
It's sad when human beings turn on each other.
funzjag
Yes, cat. It was.
so all of time is sad because humans have turned on each other forever.
mavfan1 all of space and time is indifferent
time and space are incapable of indifference.
funzjag it's not sad when human beings turn each other on, though, right?
What I got from this: Dank memes caused the Salem Witch Trials.
I find it funny that I'm playing rn Town of Salem. I've been lynched too.
lolomomario c l a i m ?
Definitely replayed that last part of the video 10 or 11 times. Very satisfying
Actually, witchcraft is a real practice, similarly, so is wicca, which is a pagan religion.
Lost Guns I practiced in the wiccan religion for years, I am Not a pagan! Do some research before categorizing people. What you said is equivalent to saying that Baptists are black.
Daisy Lais Pagan: A religion not widely practiced, especially if polytheistic. By definition, Wicca is, in fact, a pagan religion. I myself practice the wiccan religion, and witchcraft and I have no problem calling myself a pagan. Besides, why are you so angry about this? There are plenty of other pagan religions that are perfectly fine.
Thank you, witches are real
Daisy: was in the pagan community for over thirteen years, and everybody I knew regarded Wicca as a subcategory of Pagan. Your views are kind of unusual.
Daisy Lais Wiccan's are pagans. If you this that they aren't then you're probably confused about the definition of pagan or doing Wicca wrong.
Wow that turned surprisingly uplifting at the end there thank you i needed that.
Confirmed: the Salem Witch Trials were MEMES
These are still some of my favorite videos on TH-cam
Sources?
That is a nice last phrase you said there. Well done.
I'm from the future.
Errmm, do you want the good news or the bad news?
the witch trials were one big meme
I read a article that describes the begging of the salem witch trials, at first three woman were on trial for the bewitchment of the teens in the video. To of the woman pleaded innocent(obviously), but one of the three said she was a witch and sighed the (you won't believe) devil's book, while describing black dogs, red cats, and (for some reason) yellow birds. This jumpstarted the trials, aside from everything you said
They also hanged a dog because they thought it was possessed :(
Bryan BlueFish The hell is wrong with people?
Princess Ameatia
relegion
kaas saus Yes, because in the bible Jesus totally says "Thou shalt hang every possessed person always".
Seriously Mr Kaas, stop trying to use religion as a scapegoat to excuse the rest of humanity from their stupidity.
Honestly, it's just the British, they hung everyone for everything back in the day.
I 💘 the idea of The Salem Witch Trials being a case of teenagers just 1 using each other 😂
Anyone else here from Würzburg?
"if you think war didn't cause the whole Salem freak out ....... I'll allow it "
and here I was expecting him to say "YOU'RE A WITCH"
Actually, witchcraft is a craft practiced by actual witches. Saying witches aren’t real because you don’t believe in magick is like saying christians aren’t real because you don’t believe in God.
You believe in christians?
Thank you for that end bit. I needed to hear that.
angelpushpin
I hope it helps you sleep, because you're going to need it for the next 8 years.
Witches do exist just aren't green old women hunched over Dusty old tomes... It's a nature/fertility religion. Similar to a Shaman. Modern my known as Wiccans....
Grimmy Mischief he probably meant: the stereotypical witch (with the flying on broomsticks, pact-making with Satan etc.) doesn't exist. Also magic doesn't exist.
While all wiccans are witches not all witches are wiccans.
Very interesting and informative. Thanks!
Your idea of witches isn't real.
Witches, as in wiccans, are real...
True wicca died out in the dark ages. Modern "wiccans" are just poorly imitating a religion almost nothing is truly known about, whose practitioners lived in an entirely different era in entirely different conditions. It's kind of insulting to the earlier practitioners to claim that your beliefs and rituals are the same, because they really aren't. We don't have the necessary historical context or understanding to revive it.
Wow, you get to talk about history and wear a variety of hats and helmets?
You, sir, have quite the dream job.
I learned that Giles got crushed to death for his family's sake. If there was a confession all of their property would be taken and they'd starve, so he died to protect them :(
"When a bunch of Americans lose their minds, all at once, those periods of insanity tend to be temporary."
the key word here is "tend"
hm, I guess I was lucky enough to have a good history teacher. I expected all my ideas about the Salem witch trials to be fake but they were all spot on to this video.
Witchcraft is a religion, so witches are real. (though it's not called witchcraft now but that's beside the point)
Witchcraft is not a religion but a craft and a practice. Paganism and Wicca is a religion though. Paganism is like a big umbrella with many sub-categories and Wicca can sometimes be involved as well. I myself am not a Pagan nor a Wiccan but a witch so I can not speak for them completely. I practice witchcraft but do not follow a religion. I thank you for letting others aware that it is real though. Not many people seem to believe. :)
NeatScribbles fus roh
dah hagraven
NeatScribbles that by definition it in makes you Pagan.... Damn milennials
Yeah but in this context of people having magical powers by consorting with the devil. That’s not real
Excellent video! This is very interesting.
he's kind of obnoxiously smiley... I mean this is pretty grim stuff. I'm creeped out and I think above employee needs a psyc eval.
That's a really nice message. Thank you
except there have been plenty of wars without witch trials occurring afterward.
That's a logical fallacy. You can't take an anecdote and apply it to all other situations.
hotshot nice try, but I think you misunderstand the fallacy. If they said war (p) gives rise to witch trials (q), and i said since there was no war (p), there cannot be a witchtrial (q), then you would be correct. But what I am arguing is about cause and effect. the video is claiming that witch trials follow wars. what I am arguing is that witch trials is just one possible outcome, given that we can examine literally hundreds if not thousands of conflicts and discover that witch trials do not follow. We can also find examples of witch trials that occur at any time without reference to a prior conflict. What I am arguing is that there does not seem to be a hard rule p to q. rather p may lead to q, or not. I would point out that perhaps you need a certain cultural mindset (superstitious fundamentalists) for the with trial to be a more likely outcome. but really, to argue that witch trials will *always* follow war is difficult to prove.
hotshot anecdote? ok you lost me now. the point I am making is that the reason many towns in Massachusetts resorted to witch trials (specifically) was due to their fundamentalist religion. It took inversion by Boston authorities to end these trials. The people of Boston considered themselves members of the Enlightenment, and were quite embarrassed by these witch trials which they considered to be throwbacks to the middle ages. Given that wars do produce stress in populations, it would be surprising if nothing occurred. Political purges are common, such as what occurred in Germany after WWI.
I would be more interested in learning in what way these people were stressed, and why would witch trials occur, given modern attitudes of the time. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
Yes, there were. And there were also wars and revolutions were democracy and republics didn't come about. The thing the video is suggesting is that the witch trials were a manifestation of the fear, insecurities and trauma created by a post-war/currently at war society.
My Father was a hardcore witch and head of a coven. Man do I have some stories for everyone... someday. He even made a demon summoning portal in our living room. I only knew him from the age of 13 - 16, but I grew up in a semi haunted house. Hearing voices and seeing things at corner of our eyes were common. If you want to get an idea how it works, read Mysteries of Infernal Evocation on Sacred Texts.
So the witch trials were just an old 4chan board making medieval memes?
In my town in MA there's a road called "Salem End Road," I've heard it's because at the end of it people were safe from the witch trials.
Russia! Russia!! Russia!!!
Witch! Witch!! Witch!!!
I've heard that when they were paying restitutions to the families of victims, the families of a few accusers got payouts too -- which presumably shows there was still some sneaky politics going on.
Anyway I enjoyed this and learned a few things I hadn't known.
first it was fred now George 😭(tell me if you got the reference)
Music Trix I’m going to McDonald’s want anything?
Obviously Fred and George Lanchester the British automobile pioneers ;-)
You give a bibliography while talking and I fucking love it
Nice 👍
There is some thought that tainted grain may have played a factor in the Salem trials specific case. There has been evidence found from what records survived the era saying that they had discovered a mold on some wheat grains, and there are many types of mold that would have been far less noticeable and far more insane. One strain that is native to the region creates a strange side effect when it infects barely, upon infecting barely, the mold mutates, and when consumed, it creates mild hallucinations, convulsions, paranoia, foaming of the mouth, and in rare cases, complete paralysis. And some historians believe that it's possible that such a mold could have contributed to the histaria as the town got it's food from the same field where a similar but less harmful mold was discovered only a few years later
"Witch trials made people feel like they were being constructive" that's how I feel about 90% of the SJW scene right now.
last dog standing Sounds about right.
Are you talking about the fringe 1% of leftists that could be categorized as SJW's and can't change absolute shit in society because everyone knows they're insane, or are you talking about all the reactionary "sKePtiCs" that continuously milk money out of this over-used, irrelevant and inconspicuous "SJW" label to entertain mindless masses that can't even be fucking bothered to look beyond the thousands of "fEmiNiSt fAiLs #9999" and keep throwing shit at an essentially non-existent scapegoat *_just like the fucking witch trials?_*
Get a grip, "SJW" is just a complex marketing campaign used to milk money. SJW's literally have no fucking power.
Everything I learned about the Salem Witch trials I got from watching Sabrina The Teenage Witch. That episode opened my eyes I'll tell you!
Witches are real. But it's really more of a religion with it's own different sects. I just wanted to say that.
One of my family members did research on our family and we were the fourth highest accusers of people being witches in Salem.
Retr0Beau I️ like to eat eat eat apples and bananas
just here to say that witches are real. Ever heard of Wicca? Pagans, and the many branches of Craft / Ritual religions?? I would say you'd be in for a surprise should you ask any of em
If anyone is interested in an alternative hypothesis, Silvia Federici's "Caliban and the Witch" places European- and modern - witch trials at the feet of internal struggles for primitive accumulation and the construction of women as a dispossessed and subjugated class. Specifically it was the economic power of peasant women who enjoyed historically high wages and social position after the Black Death wiped out many Europeans that created a backlash we know as witch trials.
wish cracked wasnt so politicaly bias. but who cares better channels on youtube anyways
Sean Kraus Yeah, you should go watch those other channels. You know, and stay away from politicaly bias. It could be catching.
In my case I just don't want to hear political nonsense anymore, too much angry politics nowadays, bad for the soul or whatever.
I never realized that in the internet game Town Of Salem, that the default names for people were based off of the actual names of people that died during the trials
"Witches aren't real" hahaha, you haven't been to Africa
Ophias Dzamara touché
When you're from Mass and you're eating dunkin while watching this. Drank some Sam Adams last night too.
The root cause if witch trials as a while was religion.
Kinda? I mean, the Catholic church can''t really blamed, because they were educated enough to know that witches aren't real, so they didn't actively hunt witches, but the uneducated people believed in witches.
when the catholic church accused someone of witchcraft they were pretty much just looking for an apology. they would only torture and execute people that didn't confess, so if you ever travel in time and find yourself in a catholic witch trial just confess your heart out. the best example of this is probably the spanish inquisition, because that all just ended in thousands of bullshit, and in many cases contradictory, confessions of crazy orgy-parties with satan. and then a few years later spain was like "come on guys this is just dumb", and then outlawed witch trials, and i'm not sure, but i think they were one of the first to do that. the catholics mostly used witchcraft accusations as a way to kill of people that disagreed with them and didn't really believe in witches. the protestants though, that was a crazy bunch of bloodthirsty witch hunters. i really don't think you can even talk about the german witch trials without mentioning martin luther, because he was pretty much the main psycho behind it all, at least for a while. the protestants genuinely believed in witches and they weren't all nice with the confessions either. if you travel in time and end up there you're kinda just dead a soon as you've pissed of a priest.
not saying the catholics are innocent though, because i think they kinda started it. and they did execute a fair amount of people too. but considering the circumstance (and its kinda hard to be a really nice accuser in a witch trial) the spanish inquisition was pretty alright. not what you'd expect! nobody expects the spanish inquisition
Your sense of comedy and historical facts make me want to go deaf and blind
Ughhh come on don't make liberal jokessss
Interesting. DIdn't know about the wars going on at the same time. The only thing I remembered was the plague that spread right before and only really calmed down a little later than the witch trials.
Keep political opinions out of your videos
Lord Cheese25 So you're against free speech...
free speech ya ninny unsub if ur offended
I feel you, dude. While Trump doesn't really try to make it hard to make fun of him (probably because he doesn't care about being called names), purposefully singling out one person to incessantly mock in literally every video gets old very quick. Ingenuity is a fantastic thing.
That mass roast was on point
It feels so good NOT being an American.
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This is the 1690's bud. You know what the Slavs were up to in the 1690s? Yeah, neither does anyone lol
Meh... I mean, while racial tension and corruption on both sides of the political platform are up, so is the economy.
Yeah a decent health care system will do that
Politicians trying to gain power by out witch trialing each other made me laugh really loud.
i automatically thought of Harriet's Magic Hats
when he said the helmet history lol
I remember one theory from a movie saying it was about territory disputes or simply to acquire land in general.
Am from Bamberg. Kind of expected getting ignored (not in person, my town i mean) when clicking this video. Weird feeling as I realized this isnt going to happen, even weirder when you went a bit into detail. Thanks, I guess?
Btw, all the german cities you mentioned are interesting and worth a visit. Not only, but also because of the history we have here. Also, it's beautiful here.
Also: I'd say we were sucessful. I don't see any witches around.
Vincent Price stared in an ABSOLUTLEY horrifying movie about the Cromwell era English witch trials. Its called the Conqueror Worm and it is a real piece of work...
More weight! Most epic last words ever spoken!!!
On the contrary, it is the Salem Witch Trials that gave rise to the assumption of innocence in US courts. The Witch Trials also gave us the badassest last words of all time: When Sarah Goode was executed, her last words to Rev. Nicholas Noyes were "You are wrong! I am not a witch any more than you are a wizard, and if you kill me, God will give you blood to drink." Fifteen years later, Nicholas Noyes died of a hemorrhagic fever, choking on his own blood.
finally a silver lining! subscribed
The 80 year war only had at most 12 years of real kinetic conflict. I also remember it being two conflicts combined which then makes the total of years 80.
Connor McGregor vs Mayweather, or this guy vs my history teacher from college.....I choose option number two!! 😂😂😂😂😂
What an unexpectedly nice note to end it on
When Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible it was a at the height of McCarthyism. He wrote it as opposition to the figurative witch hunts that were taking at the time. It influenced how people saw the actual historical event though