Dark Age Britain's War With Witchcraft | A Century Of Murder | Timeline
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- Four hundred years ago, hundreds of innocent people were killed as an obsession to stamp out Satanism swept the British Isles. Dr Suzannah Lipscomb investigates the events of this dark period in our history.
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Even 400 years ago, I think it's strange that nobody seems to have asked this one question: If the accused people were really witches with supernatural powers, why didn't they use these powers to defend themselves from their torturers?
Exactly what I was thinking
Only a witch would ask such a question... :)
@@maxgonzalez214 That's what Homer Simpson said!
Exactly so ... The stupidity is astounding, as is the corruption
@@maxgonzalez214 Blessed Be!
Imagine being a woman with a mental illness or just being weird in this time.
Yessica Corona I'd be gone in a week, probably.
I would have got me for sure I’m a very quite and have few friends 👫
I'd start a revolution 😂 joke that's impossible during that time
Yessica Corona or being ahead of ur time and a free thinker
Yessica Corona I'd be dead, for sure.
I often narrate my life with this ladies voice in my head
She has the most soothing voice ever
don't give me any ideas... hahahahah
A magnificent compliment.
One human truth: what we do not understand, we fear. What we fear, we hate. What we hate, we destroy.
Well, SOME folks, such as the Trumpite clan, are like this. OTHERS, however, strive to find out more about what they don't understand - this is the flip side of humnity, and it uses tools such as science and philosophy: the exercise of reason and logic in order to try to make sense of things we don't understand fully. A sizeable portion of the human race reacts to the Unknown in this manner - but its too small by far, and the ones who react with fear and hatred, are far more vocal and violent - and power hungry, alas: they want everyone else to think and believe the way they do, even if it takes much evil: lying, violence, warfare and the like. If we could teach logic, problem solving on a cosmic or abstract level, and the scientific method in our educational system MUCH better than we do now, we would see progress in fighting fear, hatred and mass hysteria.
I'll use this phrase with your permission.
Because of da SAX
didn't u say this during the last video too?
Earle Frost I agree completely.
If I were accused, I would have "confessed" and named all of my accusers as part of my convenant.
They wouldn't have believed the accused witches if they named the "wrong" people aka the wealthy or the powerful. I'm sure some did try that tactic.
You can be accused of being a witch but if found falsely accused of being a witch and you are put to death and god knows you are not a witch then the executioners and the judge and the government or politicians including kings and queens running the case are damned or condemned by god.
Coven.
Some people did that.
You are a simple witch. Girls like you were phased out of witch organizations long time ago.
Just an excuse for people to be serial killers legally ..
Elizabeth L it was a sad world back in the day 😢😢😢
Nope. Wrong.
@@helixsnow3722 How is it wrong? Do you actually believe in witches?
@@bigtimejames8641 still is a sad world
Elizabeth 24 It is also a classic case of stupidy and self- righteous behavior.
"So what do you do?"
"I'm a witch hunter"
"Freelance or fulltime?"
Side hustling
Hopkins: "Name the others!" Me: "Mathew Hopkins, don't ye dare pretend you didn't dance naked in the moonlight with the rest of us!"
Yes, and received a witch's staff.
My thoughts exactly
exactly someone says they saw me there in the ranks of the witches I'd just say "well given that you claim to have seen me there, how do we know that you're not a witch yourself? Why else would you have been there? how do we know you're not just accusing me to stop me from calling you on that fact?
The hysteria about it reminds me of now. Pick a group to harrass and add in idiots who can't think for themselves.
Frances Powell 1st world countries today are the same way, about sexual crimes involving minors. Such as America, European countries, Canada, and Australia.
Frances Powell nothing has change still the same
@@adamjensen518 Aside, of course, for the vast difference of that pesky innocent until proven guilty thing.
So... as it turns out, not at all of a like.
It's a standard mob mentality.
It's a way to keep people from following their own path rather than following "the norm" - thus turning people into controllable sheep.
...labeling someone we dont even know and without any evidence seems to have repeated itself to this day
Labels are scary
Always and ever
I am so grateful to be born in this day and age, even with it's numerous flaws.
yeah, as bad as life may seem, this is the best time to be alive.
There are still christians that believes that witches today, should be burned, but the laws in America prevents it.
Born more grateful for where you are born.
Yes dear but were you burned in a previous life? Beware all religious people. These wicked men and women were expelled from Britian after they raped and murdered their way across England and caused a civil war and beheaded Charles the First. And they genocide and raped their way across the now US and founded all manner of human sorrows in the name of their mad god. Just look at Fox News to see the hatred of women and children. The catholic church is the greatest terrorist organization known to mankind and never forget that the last woman burned at the stake in America was in the 1870s. The Puritans were wicked through and through as are all Fundamentalist maniacs.
@@joannebattersby8365isn’t that the truth. Well said.
To torture another person or anything living is the act of evil itself.
Dr. Lipscomb is one of my favorite presenters. She has a way of bringing history back to life and engages her audience.
LivingTheSaltLife she’d get it anorl
She is lovely☺️
LivingTheSaltLife is the accent ;)
She is really good at presenting history, even when it’s awful.
Yup, found her a while back (I was like eleven or so) and I just love the amount of respect and empathy she holds for the victims of such events.
Usually I don't cry when I see brutality, but I was literally about to break down when Elizabeth was hanged and the brutality she had to face that she was literally tortured to confess. And knowing that it all actually happened in reality is just worst. Thinking of being sleep deprived like that literally killed me inside
Razia Lodi Same... That poor woman didn’t deserve any of it. None of them did.
The Catholic Church has done enough cruelty. No saints here.
@@eviken1982 You are so right. The atrocities that were committed under 'the cross' and 'in the name of' are astounding.
Catholic church is an organised cartel.
@@blackbaron9012 Believe it or not every major drug cartel is highly organized and supplied with surveillance and counter-surveillance technology, on par with the DEA.
I also read people who were accused of being witches was to obtain the accused person's land and property or if a woman refusing to sleep with a man who desired her.
Ya, it was impossible for those men to believe a woman wasn't dtf
Possibly because witches have traces of their magic on that piece of land. It is ideal to take that land before other witches find their trail. It would be cause for blackmail.
@@gerloke914 what ? That statement made no sense at all
Or if they just didn't like that person, or an enemy of sorts. it was truly horrific.
I've heard that too. especially if the man in question held a higher social status than the woman or if the man was already married, since he could then say "well why would I be attracted to her naturally when I am already married? Therefore the only way is that she must be a witch"
Honestly this made me cry that poor old lady
plot twist: Hopkins was a witch himself
I believe that these men tricked the world into believing women and others were witch. A wolf in sheep's clothing if you will.
Remember when fairly odd parents did a spoof on this and the Crocker ended up actually being a witch 😂
The human sacrifice for the sake of power isn’t far off
Of course he was, he was a legalistic pos as well, and everyone that accused these Women.
Correct.
My husbands family has ancestors who testified in the 1692 Salem MA witch trials here in America.
It had always been a very embarrassing part of family lore and none of it was ever talked about. My husband's parents knew very little about it and my husband even less. When our son was in 8th grade in the late 1990's he was on a school trip focusing on the witch trails...when a friend pointed out our son's full name in the archives. It seems that the man .... who we were so honored to call our son after... had been a witness for the prosecution and had helped cause the horrid death of a close family member.
It's a SICKENING part of family history that will never go away. Needless to say..
our son now goes
by his middle name.
My grandfather was in the SS, talk about sickening :p
Tell your son that he stands in good company. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne changed the spelling of his name, adding the w to Hathorne, to protect his career from guilt by association. His own family stood to gain property because of these trials.
Another generation to better the name
*@leeanne scott* ~Oh, that is sincerely fascinating...and somewhat 'chilling' (in the 'trad' sense), as well. But, of course, your son - and family - have to realise that he/they really cannot be in any way 'held accountable' for that which happened hundreds of years ago; but it truly is interesting...!
If we travel back in time we could all find family we are ashamed to call our relatives. One branch of my family tree has been in the U.S. since the 1600's I would not be surprised to come across some violent act.
I'm too emotionally attached to the old lady to handle this
Sounds to me like Matthew Hopkins just had a personal vendetta against people he didn't like.
...and, whom he didn't even *know...!*
No, he wanted to get rich, and saw an opportunity.
moorek1967 Who were all women ....
Reverend Lowes wasn’t a woman
Kinda like h1tl3r
I had typhus when I was 13, it's no joke. Even with modern medicine I spent almost a month in the hospital and almost died. I can't imagine many could survive it back then in those kind of conditions.
Claritey typhus and tuberculosis are two completely different diseases though
@@Hacks4FPS They mention 4 prisoners dying of typhus before their trial as well as Hopkins likely dying of tuberculosis....so both were mentioned in the video.
Wtf. Not relevant
@@lucylovic They mentioned several prisoners having typhus in the video, that's why I mentioned it.
@@Hacks4FPS um yes of course they are but they mentioned both tuberculosis and typhus in the video. I didn't talk about it for no reason.
Such a dark and sad place to be back in that time 😢😢
But today, there are still christians that wants witches killed, regardless if they are good witches. They have no idea that Wicca has nothing to do with Satan.
"If she weighs the same as a duck, then she is made of wood, and therefore... a WITCH!"
"She turned me into a newt!-"
*Silent pause*
"I got better..."
kiss me
"How do we tell if she is made of wood?"
"Build a bridge out of her!"
😂😂😂 I love this! Just finished watching that bit. 😏
@@thatoneactor1020
How?
*Gasp*
Unless you're a witch too!
Man is, by far, the most cruel of beasts.
Absolutely. Ask the animals they eat.
Sadly, one great woman was also killed with utmost inhuman way due to being accused of being a witch: Joan of Arc.
Joan of Arc was a not a "great woman"....she was delusional. Either she was lying about her visions, or she was mentally unstable.
Red haired Gangstah and Anne Boleyn
Neelia The girl likely had some form of schizophrenia. Combine that with such a religious environment as was prevalent back then, I'm not surprised her visions took on a spiritual bent. That doesn't mean that she didn't try to use them for good. As I recall, she tried to help others.
@@leanie9660She was a woman who loved her country and her people, and had to do anything including lying to have them follow her...
Red haired Gangstah Yes and she too was no "witch" but she did communicate with her own god. As a powerful and strong woman I am sure she was a great "threat" to any man around her not comfortable with themselves. Sad indeed.
I think a lot of innocent people got killed. very sad and dark times
what is interesting is not how many innocent people died but how many true evil witches died and what they done exactly.
Yes it was 😓😞😔
@@LadyWhinesalot yikes ! ScientistALIII is a real lunatic ! "True witch"? Wtf ? Well, all bible-thumpers must believe in witches, so he's in foolish company.
Drke time d
@@ScientistALRIII silly comment
How brutal feel sad for the innocent victims 😔
The little girl testifying against her own family!! That is brutal.
That is so creepy and I agree with you 💯 too. 😮
I give the British credit about being honest about their past history, not so much about the recent. Most countries are not honest at all.
eric gilbert i
Most of those documentaries are total BS
King George IV actually changed the name to Windsor because German anti sentiment after WW1
Germans are masochists concerning that matter.
If you heard them talk about India, you wouldn’t be so impressed.
I feel so bad for poor old Elizabeth...
This is really insane, they can just point out someone that they don't like as a witch
Same Today
I'm so sad for that old Elizabeth
The truly horrifying aspect is how the Devil's Mark could be any mark on the body. Yes we can look back and say how it makes no sense considering all of us have moles or age spots. Yet for anyone with the unfortunate luck of being unliked or simply being named by someone else, that natural occurence was enough to convict.
If I lived in that century and was accused, can i say that my pursuers were witches too? Obviously, once accused, you were to die, I would rather bring those who accused me down as well to my watery firery grave.
I was thinking about that too.
Lol thank god I was thinking about that the whole time 😂 I would rather drag everyone that pushed me down with me than to die alone
Depending on how much they believed you to be a witch, you might have just earned yourself harsher torture for daring to accuse those who were "holier than thou", in the same way that someone under interrogation by the Inquisition could not have possibly gotten away with accusing Torquemada or his henchmen of being conversos.
Falsely accused of being a witch or falsely accused of doing something that you didn't do such as murderer but found guilty by a judge and god knows you are not guilty and you are put to death for being a witch the people that accused you and running the case are damned or condemned by god. Government politicians including kings and queens judges executioners are damned by god because they run your case of being a witch back then even to day judges can be damned god knows all. Judges politicians kings and queens souls are on the line they judge you in life they can be damned if they found you guilty but you are not guilty.
The actor who played Hopkins really looked like a psychopath. It was creepy.
Yes!
It's so sad what some humans will do to other humans.
Chimpanzees and Humans are the worst except humans plan
Even more hideous what they do to animals. I understand they actually eat them. Horrible!
Part of me wonders if Elizabeth gave names because she thought they’d spare her life. She knew they’d torture her until she confessed to being a witch, so maybe she believed giving names would be her savior.
she probably did and couldn't help herself, she wouldn't have been the first to do so.
Karma returned to Hopkins!
What goes around comes around!
It's amazing how the Fearful tend to get such power. So much power that it destroys. Then you add the Sheepoles crying out for justice and they have no idea why just running with the crowd so they won't be noticed and then pointed out themselves.
I would have been hanged for sure! I have beauty marks all over my body. I would be DOOMED!
This is a clear example of why we must defend freedom of and from religion. I think of things like this when I hear people saying they wish we had prayers and the Bible back in American schools and we need to be a Christian Nation. Because if you have any alternative belief who's to say you wouldn't face trials for crimes against "God". So awful and sad.
Debra and the other one; Christians are not to blame, religion is not to blame. People in power using religion and God and a person's beliefs to gain control over the masses is the problem. I can't argue with ignorant people because Truth and knowledge evade those minds. You have shown your ignorance in your response. You clearly don't understand my comments nor do you have an accurate view of history therefore you cannot clearly see the real causes of current issues in society. Rather than exploring the real reason behind the issues you view them through the lens of your preconceived ideology. Good day to you
Talitha PedroAmbrosio I percieve the problems thtough the TRUTH. A lack of morals is caused by a denial of GOD/ JESUS & not giving your life to them. All the societal problems I mentioned & many more I did not mention, all are an effect of a non- belief in GOD & man's sin. No ignorence here, except on your end.
Replace "witches" with "political dissident" and you have a modern day witch hunt. Don't think mankind has evolved in 400 years.
I'm on your side Talitha. It takes extreme ego-driven delusion to believe that you alone are correct about the origin of the universe and the existence of something that is supernatural, and can therefore neither be proven or disproven. Everyone must take on faith what they believe happened or didn't happen at the universe's inception. No one has the right to enforce those beliefs as laws that take precedence over individual rights and freedom which are laid out by the US Constitution. Didn't the God of the Bible create man- Adam and Eve- with free will and the ability to exercise choice? Doesn't it say that only God alone has the right to cast judgement?
James 4:11-12 (NIV): "11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister[a] or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you-who are you to judge your neighbor?"
Religion has no place in schools, and i think there should be no religious schools anywhere in the world. We have church,mosque,synagogue etc!!
Ofcourse they confessed of being a witch after hours and hours of torture.. I think I would too.. poor ladies :( and men
I know. It's to cruel.
I once stayed up for two and half days. Not voluntarily. I was dealing with a medical issue, but there is a reason why sleep deprivation is considered torture. I thought I was going to die it was so bad. Prolonged sleep deprivation hurts. You feel like you'd do anything just to fall asleep. I realize these people didn't know any better, but superstition and religious zealotry have caused untold human misery. Christian, Islam, they're all murderous and sadistic ideologies.
Not at it's heart they're not. You have to be careful with that line of thinking. Don't judge the bunch based off a few bad apples.
One could argue that science is evil because of eugenics and the belief that there are those who are genetically inferior.
Who's more to blame - let's see. Hopkins & Sterne? The State for letting them do it? Or the Public who were equally at fault in my opinion.
I think Hopkins was compensating for something.
PrettyGingerWitch absolutely
PrettyGingerWitch YES look at that staff though!!! :')
LOL totally getting your meaning 😉😉
I'd say so
Incel
seems that people are more evil than the accused witches
Absolutely heartbreaking 💔 Poor woman confessed because she was just exhausted n tired of the abuse 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Maybe it's just my nature, but every time I watch these documentaries on Witches it makes something deep inside me boil in absolute rage. It's like a part of my soul is mourning. My chest just aches.
🤣🤣🤣 look at your profilepicture
@@pyrolover9537 😃😃🙌
I wonder what makes a man so angry and bitter, that hej devotes his life to killing people like this? Did he really believe in this? He must have...
Hopkins probably want to be rich.
Signe Aarøe Jørgensen money, power, women etc
Product of religion
The two old people broke my heart 💔💔💔
Everyone needs a hobby :)
If I was Elizabeth, I would accuse Hopkins of being the head Warlock and make up the biggest grandiose story about him.
maybe he would have been hanged next to her .... 😅
Mob rule: not a good idea in 1645, not a good idea today.
And yet here we are with political mob rule and mass hysteria
Never understood why people talk about democracy as though it were a good thing. It's just prettied-up mob rule.
And that is why China use to be the most powerful country. It already had a proper judicatory system, many aspect still be used today. Of course, their judicatory system still suck compare to the modern system, but compare to then western world, it was way better.
What the Chinese use to do, is under the Emperor, there is the State Department. The State Department is usually administer by the Prime Minister or by the Emepror assisted by the Secretary of State (although much like modern US, the Secretary of State is the one in practice administering the State Department) subject to the State Department there is the Justice Department, subject to the Justice Department there are two independent bodies including the Imperial High Court and the Imperial Police (similar to modern FBI and US Marshal service) Local judicatory is simpler, with many judges appointed by the local magistrate and the Magistrate is the Chief Justice. The concept of defense lawyers was introduced during the Ming dynasty other believe it is the Song dynasty, where all people stand trial are allow to have legal defense, search warrant system was also introduced in the Ming dynasty, although it search warrant was been used on and off, due to not all Emperors use it, it is only when this idea was pass to the west, did the Americans first make search warrant a permenant system been used.
@@juiweiyang1033 Got any evidence for the idea of the search warrant being cribbed from the Chinese?
Independent development is a thing, you know.
Mob rule is still solemnly practiced in Congress today, where an accusation is emotionally just as good as a conviction.
To live at the great age of 80 was a special thing in those days
Poor Elizabeth😭! It broke my heart seeing her being treated this way. It always makes me sad when I hear women crying or in pain.
10:16 If I were born in this era, I would have suffered worser because I am... Well... Peculiar.
@L.L.V.N you would have died in childhood lol.
Dr Lipscomb is such a lovely person!
"Matthew Hopkins had transformed himself into something new and terrifying..." Serial killer. I see in these comments that others have noticed this too.
Women’s sexuality seems to be feared to the point they were murdered
tulipchic34 Women having any power has always been feared and continues to be to this day.
Especially looking at the feminists
Sure you get women who can handle power well
I mean, look at the Queen of England and the Duchesses
But then you also get those who had nothing going for them, nothing of value to provide for society
Who suddenly gets a giant power trip and use it to get everyone around them to bow to their power unless they want to be black listed like the Feminists
It's those women who people fear when it comes to power
Nope. Not even close
Indeed, John Lowes' female sexuality was indeed his undoing.
@@ulyssesdenice5071 yikes !! Been dumped lately ?
This is a perfect example of how men are terrified of women who are powerful. This has been going on for millennia in some fashion. All over the world. Control women. Today psychological and domestic abuse is just as bad, but no one wants to really talk about, we just were only able to vote a minute ago, and I still wouldn’t be wise to leave my doors unlocked at night - for fear of being raped, kidnapped or brutally murdered. Heaven forbid a woman walk alone at night, in any city in the world. The pendulum can’t swing back fast enough. But it will.
Please he was doing what his wallet required while using God to justify it.
3monsters014 so it's not different from now 😂
3monsters014 I totally agree with you
Lol defender alert! ~
So….. religious leaders….?
Loose lips sank ships.
Hopkins ego grew so large he needed a priest too. Hindsight he seems to have been working with a dark authority.
If anything, he was more evil and more of a witch than anyone of the people he killed. He might just have been a witch or even Satan himself disguised as a Christian in order to incite terror upon the world.
Depressing what people will do to become "important and famous."
Those who point the accusing finger is guilty them selfs
the acting feels so real i keep forgetting they're actors
In the Netherlands witches were weighed (still one left in a little town called Oudewater, near Utrecht) if you were found to be to light you were tossed in the water, if you stay floated (most people would try to stay afloat) you were a witch. If you sank (and drowned) you were not a witch. Witches were burnt at the stake.
Atittaya Vollebregt I’ve heard this story also, when I was visiting a friend in Amersfoort. He even showed me the old bridge, where people used to tossed the accused witches. It really gives the creeps, just to think if it.
She keep saying torture could not be used so they used sleep deprivation. Except sleep deprivation, slapping, being forced to walk up & down the floor for days, & no food or water are all FORMS OF TORTURE! So I think we can conclude that they broke the law to get what they wanted & that was to build their name as being the best witch hunter around & in history.
Oh, I wonder if this Clark woman must be an ancestress of mine. My maternal line ancestress was Janie Clark and we have no idea where she came from.
My mom was a Clark before she married my dad, I was wondering the same think and wondering if I cam from her line possibly.
Trace your family history through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
@@stewartritchey7602 Shameless plug? I doubt they could help. This would have been Catholic or Prodestant. LDS wasn't even a thing back 400 years ago. So, no they couldn't trace their lineage through LDS. They would have better luck through a genologist or Ancestry. I'm not coming after your branch of Christianity, I'm just stating a fact.
The recreation of the torture was bad enough, I could not even imagine living in that time!
This is what happens when you let previously powerless people wield power; they get on a power-trip. I'm not saying there aren't people who wield their power responsibly, because they are. Too bad they didn't have psychiatrists and psychologists ack then
I'm glad some people finally stood up to and spoke out against Hopkins, shame it took so long though (to be fair the people who had enough authority to stop him were probably a bit distracted by the civil war before then).
Damn some of these people aged really well. 42 years since the previous episode and they haven't aged a day.
The Salem Witch Trials had many contributing factors, but it began as a way for one family to take another family's land.
If you denounced a witch" who was convicted on confession, you obtained half of their property. The Crown got the other half. That is why Giles refused to confess. They were torturing him (to force confession) by piling stones on a door on his body. His last words were "More Weight!"
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne was a direct descendent of Salem Witch Trials Judge Haythorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne COLLECTED WRITINGS has many short stories revealing the evils of the Puritanical church of his day.
That guy with the silly hat and stick (Hopkins) was nothing but a power-hungry murderer...
So Hopkins was a glorified hitman?
No he was a glorified serial killer.
yes 😱
All those witches and not one could cast a spell on Hopkins so he have a stroke?
I mean, they probably weren't witches, maybe one of them were But they maybe needed ingredients to cast a spell like that. Also, they'd probably get in trouble.
Excellent production and acting! Thank you!
If I was accused and sentenced to death as a witch I would have shouted to the heavens for God to forgive them, just like what Jesus did.
Me too ✝️
They clearly had nothing else to do smh poor old woman I’m furious even watching this
Sooo they were killing people to make extra money? What has changed? Sigh I wish these narc bullies would get a real life
Glad I'm alive in this day and age, people back then we're so stupid
But even today, there are still christians that believes that witches should still die. They have no idea that Wicca has nothing to do with Satan.
@@patricksaxon3983 Witches nowadays are less likely to curse people then Christians imo. In fact, most are peaceful, and will not hurt others.
Stupid people will always exist. The best we can do is give people a proper education and teach them to be reasonable, instead of resorting blindly to violence.
People are still pretty stupid sadly.
The sad thing is the people didn’t stop this madness because the death of many innocent people, but because he was taking their money.
Hopkins, what a brute, hope his soul never rests easy
20:46 Or in other words, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne did what's *"Best for Business"* at that time.
If Hopkins had been born in this day and age, I have no doubt he would thrive in the corporate world.
The Confucian Atheist Probably not. Too much competition.
The Confucian Atheist Or in the alt right. Wonder if Katie Hopkins is any relation .....
Wish there wasnt so many ads. But its a really good documentary besides that
use an adblocker
I am grateful for the preacher who accused Hopkins
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thank you for sucha great video😉
This is irrelevant, but when the bearded old man was confessing after being drowned, the captions showed "familiar fried turkey" lol
very nice! very educatif
My 8th grandaunt was convicted in Salem, MA. She plead guilty and later was released. She named her daughter Deliverance.
Mathew Hopkins is the kind of man, I want to take on the black site and do it to him what he has done plus waterboarding
I'm just really fascinated by those old times. The evolution of the language is so cool. It seems perhaps "s" and "f" were related or even once the same. Also, the word trial used to be spelled "tryall" as in try-all. Really interesting. I'd love to read more!
No, the minuscule s was just written in a « long s » style whenever it was between two other letters !
Knowledge is power, they said. But knowing nothing can be dangerous.
Christianity and superstition, made this gruesome killings come true.
Thank you.
I'm glad he got his comeuppance though it wasn't nearly enough
this is why i mind my business and let my shine before all and stay in my own miiiind lol
I wonder how much Lead Poisoning played into this over the top Behavior ?
A.D. Green Probably a fair bit. Along with others such as food poisoning from things like moldy bread which is thought to have been a major cause for the "fits and visions" during the Salem trials.
I felt as if the documentary was cut from the middle of its time-lenght .. is part 3 or another documentary that examines the town of Salem on its way ?
no reason it should. This is about witch trials in UK
The end of Hopkins was not as stated, he was sentnfor trial and actually held in Colcherster castle, to this day a sign on one of the cells in the castle is clearly marked as being where he was held before trial.
His torture included plunging a neddle into the spine of many women who he accused, and many were not just poor people but those of statue in the commuity, he really was one of the most evil of men of the time and much of written history records this in Essex and Norfolk and Suffol.k
Okay but the guy who plays John Hopkins in this is mad cute .
Thank Heaven I'm not the only one to think that
This was human sacrifice.
Witch hunting
@@larrylylde4318 no.
18:15 So glad there are also some smart people around!
referring to the 18:18 clip? hahahahahahaa
jio roy What is it?
It’s so dumb because whoever Hopkins accused of witchcraft was tortured until they confessed to get the torture to stop. Did the people not realize that it’s a bit strange that they only confessed after days of non stop torture? Super frustrating