Y’all Professor Brock was my academic advisor in college 🥹 I can tell you that she is just as energetic and knowledgeable in every one of her 90 minute classes at 8 AM as she is in this video. She made my college experience SO much better. It makes me so happy to see everyone appreciate her as much as we do at our school!
She seems so full of passion and love of educating others! ♥ (Could you ask her if she could make some of her lectures available online? I, personally, would love to see more of her!)
omg hey clare lol! couldn’t have said it better myself, she is such an inspiration for me and i’m so happy to know her and to see all of her success 🥹 she truly deserves the best
It's so nice to see one of these where the expert is allowed to actually TALK. No choppy editing, just answering each question so enthusiastically. She was amazing!
@@lvcky93 did you even watch the video...? She actually does an awesome job at explaining what was happening religiously at the time and offers a very balanced perspective. She explained exactly what you're saying in length...
I also like that random music louder than the dialog isn’t drowning out the expert here. A couple of these wired interviews had out of place music that would suddenly start when the expert was reading the question and it was hard to hear.
@@lvcky93 At 6:15 she clearly said divine intervention was critical and crucial in the trials on whether or not a believed innocent person would be allowed to be killed.
I love how "and feeding them corn" was the part where "it gets a bit weird". This was by far the most interesting and entertaining expert I've yet seen in this web series.
I read your comment after finishing the video and went "nah, there's no way this video was FORTY MINUTES". Scrolled back up and, well, apparently I *have* been sitting here for almost an hour watching this - and I would also love to do it again! lol
So... What's your point exactly?... You say "for people who want her back" then say it's a forty minute video and you want two more... Are you just telling these specific people who want her back that you want two more videos?... I just don't understand why you wrote what you wrote the way you wrote it...
@@RedTail1-1 jesus, dude. Their point was this video was already double the length of the average Tech Support video, so in theory we should "have enough" but she was so good multiple people are demanding even more content with her.
obsessed with her energy. she's just excitedly talking about horrible torture methods and the vilification of women with a bright smile and a cheerful vibe and truly showcasing her expertise. more of her pleaseeee
I had Dr. Brock about 12 years ago for Early Modern European History and Historical Methods and her enthusiasm is exactly the same. She also looks exactly the same. I absolutely love seeing her thrive like this. She deserves all good things.
Not sure I'd call it "brutal". I'd expect an expert to not only focus on a few hundred years when witchcraft has been around since before Ancient Rome.
@@MorinDrenn79that's not how expertise works. To be an expert you have to specialise. She clearly is an expert in 16th-17th centuries. To become an expert at the same level in Ancient Rome and Greek magical beliefs, she would need to do another Masters, another PhD, years of research, and she would need another separate video to cover that at an expert level, unless you want half the time to each period with a lot of platitudes and generalities, for which we wouldn't need an expert. The period dñshe talks bout is much more relevant to us in the present and to shaping the current ideas about witches.
9:27 The VVitch actually spent a LOT of its budget on making sure costumes and sets were as historically accurate as possible. Which honestly paid off so so well.
@@joshj7012 it's not a jumpscare film. Don't judge it on that basis and if you don't give it a chance on its own terms you aren't gonna enjoy it. Eggers is obsessed with the time and place, and explaining it. Maybe the family drama is the scariest bit. The threat of an inhospitable world populated by dangerous animals and hostile locals. It's all about the environment, the emotion, confusion and hysteria. The fear of a usurping young woman, bringing a new generation's sexuality and questioning of authority to topple her parents' stable world. But the images of floating women, the goat milk turning to blood, the goat whispering to the children, the apple possession, the witch grinding up the baby. It's so amazingly evocative! It puts the teeth back on the witch, made funny and amusing and harmless by Wizard of Oz/Hocus Pocus.
I was with her until she called The VVitch one of the best films ever. It was so terrible that the wife and I turned it off after about 30 minutes. The constant depiction of animal abuse was too much.
I took a capstone class as a History Major at the University of Missouri called “Witchcraft and Deviance in the early modern ages” the reason I took it was because I forgot I had to do a capstone to graduate and it was the only one with seats open. I thought it was going to be a totally ridiculous blow off class. It was one of the most interesting and informative classes I’ve ever taken, Professor John Frymeyer if somehow you’re reading this I hope you’re doing well. Great video!
My ex-gf took the same thing at a University in Ontario (Canada) so its cool to know its probably not super uncommon! I do remember her saying it was a lot more involved than she'd originally pictured, though. Definitely not a bird course.
@@littlesmallworld123 At University of Alberta (Canada) I took Studies in Witchcraft and the Occult with Glen Fairen. Fascinating. It's an extremely popular course and hard to get into sometimes.
I took a Witchcraft class as an Arts and Humanities elective for my degree and it was not at all what I expected. I love history so it was a fascinating class.
Lucky indeed! I would have loved to have taken one of her classes. Unfortunately I suspect she was but a kindergartner if not younger when I was in college.
I would love to take her class! I just took a (literature, not history) class last semester about Monsters and Madness and as an engineer it was fascinating. I just love how much these monsters and creatures can tell us about ourselves.
The most attractive trait a human being can possess is being enthusiastic about something, and then being actually educated on that topic. This is peak humanity. I pity those that think subservient ignorance is desirable. Those people never truly get to experience life.
I prefer enthusiastic intelligence. I completely agree with your statement though. It’s baffling why would anyone would subject themselves to a state of complacent ignorance. Perhaps, they do so because it is easy?
What do you expect? Mediocrity is the new excellence these days. People can’t even bother to change out of their jammies or sweats when they go to the store anymore.
She's the kind of specialist people will ask back. With reason. She speaks passionately, makes well-placed jokes, smiles a lot. She must be an excellent teacher. So, yeah, put her back. Let's flood Wired's feed with history questions for her.
My wife is a descendant of Ann Putnam who did a lot of the accusing at Salem. She is also now very proud to consider herself a witch and hopes to balance out that scale with positivity.
So replacing the guilt of being descendant of a charlatan by becoming one yourself? Like witches aren't real, that's the entire point why that trial was so scary, ordinary people accused of MAGIC. And people who claim they're witches are basically con artists who want people to believe they know MAGIC.
@@peterknutsen3070why is religion ridiculous? Because it can't be proven? If that's the case, even science can't be truly proven. If it is for other reasons, please do tell me, I am curious. Please not that I am not a religious person, but I can see some value in it that shouldn't detriment anyone's life.
Agree - plus I learned (a) "Elect" can be an adjective, and (b) those Calvinists actually had doubts about this; I just assumed that they just assumed... Anyway, I do want to watch that movie now.
When I was in uni, I particularly loved being in classes where you can tell the professor is super passionate about what they're teaching. She seems like one of those professors and I would have LOVED to take one of her classes! She seems so energetic and happy to talk about this subject and suuuper knowledgeable 🥰
Isn't it just Disney having timed the show release so that the finale comes near Halloween? I mean, it's like when the crappy movie 2012 premiered on a Friday the 13th.
Love the longer video. Truly feels like I’m looking into the window of this experts profession and passion, rather than just a glance through a door peephole.
Susanna (North) Martin, was my 8th Great grandmother. She was hung in 1692 in Salem as a witch. The real reason she was hung was for backtalking the men in charge.
Elizabeth Howe,who was also hanged for witchcraft in 1692,was also known for being tempery.She was also an owner of property in her own right.Imagine!! She was my grandmother's 8 times great aunt.
Ive always heard that the witch hats were actually 'brewers hats'. Female beer brewers would wear long hats so that people can find them in a crowd. who knows if its true, but sounds believable... In addition, women would brew these beers in their large cauldrons (brew kettles), use random apothecary ingredients to add bitterness to the brew (since hops werent really available back then), use cats to keep away mice out of the grain, and hang a broom over their door to let others know that beer was available. after the reformation got started, anything "intoxicating" was deemed as heretical, so these brewers were demonized and labeled 'witches'
It would be interesting to know how many of those tried for witchcraft were female brewers. I've not come across any cases, I can think of. But that doesn't mean there aren't any. Also, bonus fact (for those unaware and intrested) a female brewer was a Brewster. Now a common matronym.
There's a great video on this that discusses that the associations of with tall hats and broom emerged in the modern age--so there isn't evidence of any correlation between them and witchcraft at the time
I live in Salem and I’m watching this before I go out and celebrate my favorite day of the year but keeping in mind the victims of the terrible tragedy that happened between 1692-1693 that, years later, will lead to Salem being a safe haven for all those who feel othered. Happy Halloween everyone, and great video! Very informative!
at 16.40 ; Fear .of spectre of harm to children” , what a good point with many examples, the jews, the communist, the witches, IS this not THE accusation, that makes the weighties argument for people to accept the torturing and harming those accused of witchcraft/being communist/jews . It seems the final false claim, that make people so angry and fearfullm so they are ready to inflict terrible suffering against other humans, And as today, where some trumoians are accusing democrats of organised pedophilic abuse, babykilling etc , part of getting ready to extermiante ?
Insane that people in the 16th century would "have confidence that God wouldn't let an innocent person die". Like. Didn't that happen everyday with starvation, disease, etc.? So infuriating
Even today there are millions of exceedingly foolish theists who think similarly. They might not be dumb enough to think they don't have to worry about murdering a person who doesn't deserve it in a torturous witch ordeal, but they absolutely have that kind of thought about other things.
Like seriously you were screwed either way with their mindsets. When drowning someone alleged to be a witch, you live your a witch and will be killed if you die well.....guess that's that🤪. Because God sure wasn't coming for ya.
The question is a lot more complex than that and the explanation is that humans' logic is flawed and contradictory when mixed with superstition. In some cases believers would take the old shortcut "the ways of the Lord are misterious" in cases they couldn't explain or do much about (like people starving to death), in some other cases they would actively trying to do something about it and so they were definitely not leaving something into the hands of God. For example, they had rudimentary medicine practices and theories, they weren't just leaving a person be healed by God; they were aware of some diseases and figured out prevention for those, and so on.
I can't believe this video is 40 minutes long. Prof. Brock is such a great speaker and has such energy and needle-point accuracy on witches and all the related subjects in this video that it just flies by. I can only imagine how her classes fly by. Edit: Prof! this is what I get for watching videos at 4am!!
She's one of those academics who are just an absolute joy to be around. The energy, the dedication, the jokes and yet still serious. People like her can talk for HOURS and it's still fun to listen to!
I’d seriously consider getting another degree just to have her as my lecturer. what a wonderful, bubbly and knowledgeable woman! please bring her back for more! 🙏🏽
Dr. Brock is a national treasure and a gem. So knowledgable, intelligent, well-spoken, funny, and convivial! Please invite her back for more history discussions!
I as a practicing Witch, I disagree. She has no true understanding of Witches and Witchcraft. She’s barely scratched the surface of the sacred practice and history. Her knowledge is basic elementary.
@@RoyalWitch first off, how would you know what understanding she has or hasn’t on the subject? She’s answering the questions posed to her and those questions are on the historical perception of , treatment of and reaction to witchcraft and witches during the 16th and 17th century, which is the history people are most familiar with. She isn’t demonising witches, nor questioning their practices or intentions in any way.
What an absolutely fantastic and educational piece. I could watch hundreds of videos of her enthusiastically explaining any other historical topics! 10/10.
13:10 My uni has an ancient lit reading group and we read some passages of the Witches Hammer and also looked at the latin as well. The texts are actually pretty funny in a “can’t believe someone sat down and wrote this down” sort of way but was also scary because you’re so aware of how much pain those texts caused
We read fragments of the Malleus Maleficarum in high school and I was shocked. Respect to those poor women and these guys had some weird fetishes. I feel so grateful that now I can do and say whatever I want.
Gotta say, this is one of the more fun WIRED videos I've watched. Love Mikki's personality. Very fun, expressive, and I liked how much she indulged in talking about her own interests related to the subject. Also super cute to compliment people's usernames.
This expert does a phenomenal job explaining all these things. I love that it is flushed out and easy to understand. Not to mention, she was super engaging and clearly knowledgeable in her field. Awesome video.
@ I’ve heard that. But in America, we hear that black cats bring bad luck, and that they are witches’ familiars. My own view of it is that I’m lucky to have such good pets.
I have a black kitty and yes I make sure he stays in on Halloween. Although cats should never be outside if it can be prevented. Sometimes they just escape though.
Yeah unfortunately stupid s* like the satanic panic and untreated mental illness make me glad my little void is an inside only cat. I don't think it's as common anymore, but I remember when I was a kid there were a few halloweens where stray black kitties were unalived horribly. 😓
@KasumiRINA Nope, When burning was the punishment for witchcraft, everyone would burn. And since mostly woman were punished as witches, they were burn to most. It was mostly done in Catholic countries, because they thought that burn clears the soul and shortens the stay in purgatory
Bravo! 👏🏼 Give this lady her own channel! 🧙🏼♀️🔮🪄🐈⬛ Oh how lucky your students must be to have such a well spoken & enthusiastic teacher! 🤩 LOVED THIS! I learned so much 🕯️📖🖤
10/10 This has been my favorite of all the tech supports I've watched. This lady's brilliant mind and ability to so easily communicate complicated concepts is a national treasure and she must be protected at all costs.
This is one of those videos where I wished TH-cam allowed more than one Thumbs-Up! Amazing, engaging, and clearly passionate about the subject. Why didn't I have a history professor this good in undergrad??
Giles Corey's story gets even worse. He went to every single trial. He accused his own wife of witchcraft. He killed a young boy for coming onto his property and stealing an apple- two other children had gone missing on his property. Kinda crazy he gets remembered for something he probably didn't even say.
@@cl5470 Yeah I like that she brought up Giles, because he's certainly the most famous example of a man accused of witchcraft, but I wish she had mentioned that we already have the term "warlock" to refer to a male practitioner of witchcraft. Meanwhile J.K. Rowling borrows the term wizard to refer to male witches in her books. Either way, the word "witch" is usually gendered, but we really shouldn't make a big deal about it because it's all semantics. So, in short, witchcraft isn't only for the girls.
@@johns8364Originally, the term 'warlock' didn't refer to witchcraft practicing males. It was associated with crimes like treason, oathbreaking, and providing false testimony. Male witches were simply referred to as (male) witches. In the Harry Potter universe, the word 'warlock' is only used in the title 'Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot'. The institution seems to have, at least, a judicial function, and some of its members are ministry officials (the Minister, head of the Magical Law Enforcement, etc.). Whether 'warlock' can be used to designate regular members of the Wizengamot, is not specified in the books.
You can always tell when a professor is probably LOVED by their students, and she’s one of them. I watched a 40 minute video on witches from a historical perspective and they felt like 10. She’s so nice and funny but at the same time super professional. Would love to take her class, even if it’s at 8:00am 😂❤
@@JBTriple8 I love The Northman, a dark subject but every scene is visually stunning. The most gorgeous looking film involving child murder I've ever seen.
The part about “harming the children” as a political tool really made me take a step back when considering how politicians use the exact same argument now against lgbtq people.
Excellent video. In some ways, nothing much has changed: instead of village gossip and superstition, we have the internet, social media, and conspiracy theories: “childless cat ladies” was also a accusation and method of identifying medieval witches.
I always say that The VVitch should have been marketed as a Puritan fairy tale (of the old, dark, scary, cautionary tale style of fairy tale) instead of a 'horror' movie. It is absolutely a horror film -- but there are a lot of people who like 'horror movies' who expect that to mean a very specific kind of thing, just as Mikki says. It's a shame. It's really a lovely film.
Man, if I had a professor/teacher like that in any subject, I would’ve paid a lot more attention. Her personality and sense of humor make her very engaging to listen to and information just instantly clicks. More educators should be like that.
Fun fact: the Dutch city of Oudewater was the only one in Europe that received the privilege for a fair weighing process of people accused of being a witch, granted by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Consequently, nobody here was ever convicted of being a witch.
About the Hats: During the years of the "infamous" Spanish Inquisition Jews that refused or rejected the Judeo-Christian Creed were intentionally forced to wear pointy hats on their heads as a part of their everyday attire so that other people would 'know' that they had rejected the 'faith'. And they were also denoted publicly as "Maranos", it literally means Pigs, a clear reference to Un-cleanliness or Un -Godliness.
This is a great video. Just worth noting: Mary I (Elizabeth's older half sister) is generally considered to be the first queen regnant of England. There was also Empress Matilda and Lady Jane Grey that you could also make cases for as the first queen of England.
I went looking for this too, because Mikki said they edited out her self-correction--first unmarried queen--and she's trying to get them to clarify that edit!
One of the most interesting things I've heard about witch hunts is that in the very early days of Christianity, accusing someone else of being a witch was actually often considered by the church to be heresy. Because if you are accusing someone of being a witch, you are claiming that they possess a magical power that was not granted to them by God, and the belief that anything that isn't God-ordained could bestow that kind of power was blasphemy.
Not just in the very early days. This was a conviction that lasted well into the late middle ages. When Heinrich Kramer started his own witch hunts in Innsbruck, that was one of the reasons why he got into hot water with the local Bishop and was kicked out eventually. I think this sentiment mostly changed after Luther's reformation had started spreading through Europe. People were kind of shocked that God had allowed the church to be split that way, and if He allowed many thousands of believers to be led astray, maybe that was proof of the Devil having power on earth.
That's actually true. The popes were frequently forbidding witchcraft accusations. And the accuser was more likely to be punished than the accused. That only changed around the 15th century
I mean well, not the very very early days, but in the relatively ‘early days’ of Christianity yes, it was more so just the belief of witchcraft itself which was considered heretical (like today). But this was still long before the “witch hunts” of the Late Medieval or Early Modern times. It was I think around the 1200s or 1300s when witchery was not only believed in, but started actively gaining a bad reputation and accumulating much civic fear. Of course along with medicinal (albeit malefic) plants like henbane, belladonna, mandrake and scopolia all compounding and snowballing this bad reputation of magic and the connection to/with herbs. The ‘same’ kind of thing still happens in the Amazon basin today among indigenous communities, but via Brugmansia-mediated sorcery instead. Or like with Latua in southern Chile. But they have the whole; ‘shamanism-sorcery’ paradigm down there. However, when there is a Christian-Sorcery paradigm within a given cultural framework, things get more dicey and Hollywood-esque. It also showcases only one “side” being allied to or ‘working with’ nature. Whereas in the Amazon, both separate parties are still sided with nature, not desacralizing it such as with the Church and its intentional downplaying of the magical/malefic role plants played, but while “upplaying” the supposed significance of Satan.
Yeah, the Catholic Church never had witch trials, because they deny that witches actually have any power. The Inquisition actually went after Cathars and false converts (people who converted to catholicism but practiced their original religion in secret). And the Inquisition was actually much nicer than the local governments. They also didn't punish people who confessed, only people who didn't, which is really weird.
How can anyone speak so happily about these atrocities? It's maddening enough that these things actually happened, but that we turn them into child's play and touristic attractions really is beyond me.
She's so great at helping us to understand a) how the beliefs came about at the time and b) how we still see a modern version of "burning at the stake" (getting "cancelled" *eyeroll*) because of misunderstandings, misinterpretations, misogyny and all sorts of other things that start with "mis."
Trying to use "women did/believed it too" to say witch persecution wasn't about gender is like saying pick-me girls aren't a product of misogyny Bring Dr. Brock back! I have such a soft spot for professors who enthusiastically share knowledge of their expertise with their students 🥺
it wasnt necessarily. Women, to some extent, might've just been the more convenient targets to outbursts of mass hysteria, since they tended to have less legal safeguards or ways to represent themselves
Prof Brock is the epitome of passion and a well appreciated (well paid) educator. Take a passionate, enigmatic human, who has knowledge on a particular topic, give them young/fresh minds (and younger crotch goblins), low pay, horrible conditions, annnnd you'll get most educators. Now prof Brock here has all of the above but clearly good working conditions, is paid according to their time, and well, wow, a lecture that anyone can enjoy! Moral of my rant is, anyone can have the passion to teach, not all systems support teachers to DO THEIR JOBS. Yes, I'm just a tired teacher, thanks for listening.
@@sarahhughes4437 Actually it is. I’ve practiced for 23 years. I wouldn’t have continued if it was fake. But it’s not what people think it is. It’s not Harry Potter magic.
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Y’all Professor Brock was my academic advisor in college 🥹 I can tell you that she is just as energetic and knowledgeable in every one of her 90 minute classes at 8 AM as she is in this video. She made my college experience SO much better. It makes me so happy to see everyone appreciate her as much as we do at our school!
She seems so full of passion and love of educating others! ♥ (Could you ask her if she could make some of her lectures available online? I, personally, would love to see more of her!)
I suppose everyone had a crush on her she's just next level human being
omg hey clare lol! couldn’t have said it better myself, she is such an inspiration for me and i’m so happy to know her and to see all of her success 🥹 she truly deserves the best
She is also freakin' gorgeous! Her intelligence only adds to that.
@@frunobulax5this. Like it's not even fair. She must be a cyborg.
It's so nice to see one of these where the expert is allowed to actually TALK. No choppy editing, just answering each question so enthusiastically. She was amazing!
@@lvcky93 did you even watch the video...? She actually does an awesome job at explaining what was happening religiously at the time and offers a very balanced perspective. She explained exactly what you're saying in length...
I also like that random music louder than the dialog isn’t drowning out the expert here. A couple of these wired interviews had out of place music that would suddenly start when the expert was reading the question and it was hard to hear.
She didn't watch the video @@AlexandraMussar
@@lvcky93 At 6:15 she clearly said divine intervention was critical and crucial in the trials on whether or not a believed innocent person would be allowed to be killed.
@@lvcky93you be dumb.
“But the children” in moral panic-hearing a lot of that still. She does a great job of making these connections. Loved this!
It's an archetype... It's always with us...
Everything old is new, time is a flat circle, etc...
Q anon & the whole story of Clinton sacrificing babies under a pizza parlour? Yep people still buy the same lines
@@thomaslove6494 it is actually shocking for any civilized country to learn about USA having Salem Witch Trials and Project 2025 in modern day.
Seeing it so much today in the way some folks rail against trans people.
No idea who does the scouting for WIRED, but they always find THEE BEST subject matter experts who are an absolute delight to listen to.
They just have connections.
They have some really good ones, but not every one is. Still given they do a lot they seem to come out ahead.
No
@@gxhcbchchvfhbxsddvp96trg youre dumb.
@@gxhcbchchvfhbxsddvp96trg were you there in the 1600s and 1700s?
Her enthusiasm is intoxicating and only surpassed by her depth of knowledge! Excellent video
careful, we don't want to get her accused of something
Yup, she is awesome!
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"CAN MEN BE WITCHES OR IS IT ONLY FOR GORLS"
AVERAGE HIPSTER LEFTIST TIKTOK GIRL WOWZERS I LOOOVE BEING A FEMINIST SUPPORTING TRAIN IDEOLOGY
Grab the scale and a duck!
I love how "and feeding them corn" was the part where "it gets a bit weird".
This was by far the most interesting and entertaining expert I've yet seen in this web series.
i mean feeding penises corn is pretty wild lol
Why would a P eat corn? 🌽 Prudes in churches think this generation is whacky?
For people who want her back, this is a FORTY MINUTE VIDEO. This is already two videos! ..... and I would love two more!
I read your comment after finishing the video and went "nah, there's no way this video was FORTY MINUTES". Scrolled back up and, well, apparently I *have* been sitting here for almost an hour watching this - and I would also love to do it again! lol
So... What's your point exactly?... You say "for people who want her back" then say it's a forty minute video and you want two more... Are you just telling these specific people who want her back that you want two more videos?... I just don't understand why you wrote what you wrote the way you wrote it...
@@RedTail1-1 jesus, dude. Their point was this video was already double the length of the average Tech Support video, so in theory we should "have enough" but she was so good multiple people are demanding even more content with her.
I wish many of the topics that wired covers in these video series would be this long or more.
It's "two videos" in the sense that a 2.5-hour movie is "two movies," which is to say, I guess... if you decide that's how long videos are?
obsessed with her energy. she's just excitedly talking about horrible torture methods and the vilification of women with a bright smile and a cheerful vibe and truly showcasing her expertise. more of her pleaseeee
SHE IS A WITCH!!!
Yesss we love witches!
I was thinking the exact same thing!!!
I had Dr. Brock about 12 years ago for Early Modern European History and Historical Methods and her enthusiasm is exactly the same. She also looks exactly the same. I absolutely love seeing her thrive like this. She deserves all good things.
Oh she looks exactly the same does she… she isn’t aging…. A WITCH!!!
I feel like if she was my history teacher I never would have fallen asleep.
Wait, she hasn't aged in 12 years? Uh oh... I think she might be a...
"Im just the expert" BRUTAL
she got them TOGETHER
Not sure I'd call it "brutal". I'd expect an expert to not only focus on a few hundred years when witchcraft has been around since before Ancient Rome.
@@MorinDrenn79that's not how expertise works. To be an expert you have to specialise. She clearly is an expert in 16th-17th centuries. To become an expert at the same level in Ancient Rome and Greek magical beliefs, she would need to do another Masters, another PhD, years of research, and she would need another separate video to cover that at an expert level, unless you want half the time to each period with a lot of platitudes and generalities, for which we wouldn't need an expert. The period dñshe talks bout is much more relevant to us in the present and to shaping the current ideas about witches.
I’m sure she’s had to use that plenty in the academic world!
gagged him 😭
I can't remember who first said this, but "Do not fear witches. Fear the men who hunt them." Sound advice.
I've been afraid of Christians since early childhood.
"For some reason we are told to fear the witches, rather than those who burnt them alive." ♥
Tattoo-worthy quote, tbh
" For some reason we are told to fear the witches, rather than those who burnt them alive. " ❤
@@peterknutsen3070 grow up then
Videos like this prove that history isn’t boring
9:27 The VVitch actually spent a LOT of its budget on making sure costumes and sets were as historically accurate as possible. Which honestly paid off so so well.
yeah Eggers did that with The Northman as well another Brilliant film
Maybe, but it was boring.
@@joshj7012 history is often boring
@@joshj7012It was only boring to an uncurious mind.
@@joshj7012 it's not a jumpscare film. Don't judge it on that basis and if you don't give it a chance on its own terms you aren't gonna enjoy it. Eggers is obsessed with the time and place, and explaining it. Maybe the family drama is the scariest bit. The threat of an inhospitable world populated by dangerous animals and hostile locals. It's all about the environment, the emotion, confusion and hysteria. The fear of a usurping young woman, bringing a new generation's sexuality and questioning of authority to topple her parents' stable world. But the images of floating women, the goat milk turning to blood, the goat whispering to the children, the apple possession, the witch grinding up the baby. It's so amazingly evocative! It puts the teeth back on the witch, made funny and amusing and harmless by Wizard of Oz/Hocus Pocus.
She is INCREDIBLE !!! She has so much fun answering, you can tell it's really her passion, and she is SO knowledgable !!
I was with her until she called The VVitch one of the best films ever. It was so terrible that the wife and I turned it off after about 30 minutes. The constant depiction of animal abuse was too much.
Finally, a real witchcraft and wizardry professor
I took a capstone class as a History Major at the University of Missouri called “Witchcraft and Deviance in the early modern ages” the reason I took it was because I forgot I had to do a capstone to graduate and it was the only one with seats open. I thought it was going to be a totally ridiculous blow off class. It was one of the most interesting and informative classes I’ve ever taken, Professor John Frymeyer if somehow you’re reading this I hope you’re doing well. Great video!
My ex-gf took the same thing at a University in Ontario (Canada) so its cool to know its probably not super uncommon! I do remember her saying it was a lot more involved than she'd originally pictured, though. Definitely not a bird course.
@@littlesmallworld123 At University of Alberta (Canada) I took Studies in Witchcraft and the Occult with Glen Fairen. Fascinating. It's an extremely popular course and hard to get into sometimes.
MIZ!!
I took a Witchcraft class as an Arts and Humanities elective for my degree and it was not at all what I expected. I love history so it was a fascinating class.
I took a class on Witchcraft, Magic and Religion as an elective at Concordia University (in Montreal) and it was amazing too !!
I was lucky enough to take one of her classes when I was in college and she's so wonderful! Truly an academic inspiration
Lucky indeed! I would have loved to have taken one of her classes. Unfortunately I suspect she was but a kindergartner if not younger when I was in college.
I would love to take her class! I just took a (literature, not history) class last semester about Monsters and Madness and as an engineer it was fascinating. I just love how much these monsters and creatures can tell us about ourselves.
She teaches about witched?
@@Dexx837 She is a historian. She teaches the history of why people believed in witches and what became of the accused.
@@Dexx837She’s a historian of the Scottish Reformation with a particular interest in historical views of witchcraft
As a young historian, I feel so inspired by her. She's so enthusiastic and explains everything so easily. This is such a great video.
The most attractive trait a human being can possess is being enthusiastic about something, and then being actually educated on that topic. This is peak humanity. I pity those that think subservient ignorance is desirable. Those people never truly get to experience life.
I prefer enthusiastic intelligence. I completely agree with your statement though. It’s baffling why would anyone would subject themselves to a state of complacent ignorance. Perhaps, they do so because it is easy?
@@ascotalexanderbruce Interesting way to say you're proud of being an uninteresting moron
@@ascotalexanderbruceIt’s “to each their own”. Any educated man would know that.
What do you expect? Mediocrity is the new excellence these days. People can’t even bother to change out of their jammies or sweats when they go to the store anymore.
She's the kind of specialist people will ask back. With reason. She speaks passionately, makes well-placed jokes, smiles a lot. She must be an excellent teacher. So, yeah, put her back. Let's flood Wired's feed with history questions for her.
wow. just wow.
Smiles a lot?? You are telling on yourself - you would be a witch accuser
My wife is a descendant of Ann Putnam who did a lot of the accusing at Salem. She is also now very proud to consider herself a witch and hopes to balance out that scale with positivity.
How do you enter a name that’s bolded and have a search attached to it?
Ann Putnam 🔍
@@InnerGigglesit's a thing youtube does automatically now about potential subjects of interest
So replacing the guilt of being descendant of a charlatan by becoming one yourself? Like witches aren't real, that's the entire point why that trial was so scary, ordinary people accused of MAGIC. And people who claim they're witches are basically con artists who want people to believe they know MAGIC.
She is delivering all this gruesome information about witch trials and torture with an almost disturbingly chipper smile, lol.
She prob knows how ridiculous it is to be punished for something like this
Yeah I noticed that 🤔
@@RLeezyDeezyReligion is ridiculous. The only thing one can do is to laugh.
If you were a woman talking about the persecution of your gender knowing the current state of our country you’d want to not be so down
@@peterknutsen3070why is religion ridiculous? Because it can't be proven? If that's the case, even science can't be truly proven.
If it is for other reasons, please do tell me, I am curious.
Please not that I am not a religious person, but I can see some value in it that shouldn't detriment anyone's life.
I love how she completely nerds out when they ask about the movie The Witch lol
Agree - plus I learned (a) "Elect" can be an adjective, and (b) those Calvinists actually had doubts about this; I just assumed that they just assumed... Anyway, I do want to watch that movie now.
And Hocus Pocus!
I would too! That commenter knew nothing about horror
I could listen to a 5 hr version of this EASILY shes so smart and well-spoken!!
This lady is literally the best history teacher
Too bad she lies so much.
@@WinstonSmithGPT enlighten us
@@WinstonSmithGPT elaborate
being hot helps
Being hot only helps if you are the kind of shallow person who mostly judges someone's worth based on their appearance.
When I was in uni, I particularly loved being in classes where you can tell the professor is super passionate about what they're teaching. She seems like one of those professors and I would have LOVED to take one of her classes! She seems so energetic and happy to talk about this subject and suuuper knowledgeable 🥰
she needs a podcast I'd listen to her every day!
thanks for your time and letting us pick your brain.
She has podcast episodes and lectures on TH-cam
The timing with Agatha All Along finale is superb. Chefs kiss.
Isn't it just Disney having timed the show release so that the finale comes near Halloween?
I mean, it's like when the crappy movie 2012 premiered on a Friday the 13th.
LMAO. I love that my mind was there too, and then I was like, OHHHHH, it's definitely because of Halloween and not just my favourite witchy show lol.
yes omg
Ironically, Agatha was introduced into the comics in 1969; essentially, she's been here all along. 😅
Except this video is actually watchable and not insufferable hyier cringe.
We need more enthusiastic educators like her - I’d be wide awake at 8am listening to this.
i love her energy omg!!! i love how enthusiastic she is talking about these stuff. please invite her again if possible❤
Love the longer video. Truly feels like I’m looking into the window of this experts profession and passion, rather than just a glance through a door peephole.
Susanna (North) Martin, was my 8th Great grandmother. She was hung in 1692 in Salem as a witch. The real reason she was hung was for backtalking the men in charge.
oh, we're going back to that, fast.
That'll do it.
Yeah...@@linebrunelle1004
Elizabeth Howe,who was also hanged for witchcraft in 1692,was also known for being tempery.She was also an owner of property in her own right.Imagine!! She was my grandmother's 8 times great aunt.
That is very interesting and very unfortunately, doesn’t surprise me. How were you able to find the information about the real reason for her hanging?
I would take every class she offered. She’s fascinating
“She made it impossible for me to churn my butter” made me holler 😂
Ive always heard that the witch hats were actually 'brewers hats'. Female beer brewers would wear long hats so that people can find them in a crowd. who knows if its true, but sounds believable...
In addition, women would brew these beers in their large cauldrons (brew kettles), use random apothecary ingredients to add bitterness to the brew (since hops werent really available back then), use cats to keep away mice out of the grain, and hang a broom over their door to let others know that beer was available. after the reformation got started, anything "intoxicating" was deemed as heretical, so these brewers were demonized and labeled 'witches'
I wrote a comment along those lines as well, with a little more history mixed in.
It would be interesting to know how many of those tried for witchcraft were female brewers. I've not come across any cases, I can think of. But that doesn't mean there aren't any. Also, bonus fact (for those unaware and intrested) a female brewer was a Brewster. Now a common matronym.
There's a great video on this that discusses that the associations of with tall hats and broom emerged in the modern age--so there isn't evidence of any correlation between them and witchcraft at the time
@@samanthas8756 See my reply to @mrchuffy8320 .
by far, my favorite in this whole series. Such a delightful exposition, with a very charming professor.
Dr. Brock will always be one of my favorite professors I’ve had!
she's hot AF
I live in Salem and I’m watching this before I go out and celebrate my favorite day of the year but keeping in mind the victims of the terrible tragedy that happened between 1692-1693 that, years later, will lead to Salem being a safe haven for all those who feel othered. Happy Halloween everyone, and great video! Very informative!
Humanity sure has a way to go the complete opposite direction when things go terribly
Well said! Out of curiosity, how's the cost of living up there?
at 16.40 ; Fear .of spectre of harm to children” , what a good point with many examples, the jews, the communist, the witches, IS this not THE accusation, that makes the weighties argument for people to accept the torturing and harming those accused of witchcraft/being communist/jews .
It seems the final false claim, that make people so angry and fearfullm so they are ready to inflict terrible suffering against other humans,
And as today, where some trumoians are accusing democrats of organised pedophilic abuse, babykilling etc , part of getting ready to extermiante ?
@@MortMe0430 very high unfortunately, I pay $2000 for a one-bedroom and it’s hard to find much lower than that
@@nbunnysnowboard yikes :(
I could listen to her answer these kinds of questions for hours. What a fun video.
Insane that people in the 16th century would "have confidence that God wouldn't let an innocent person die". Like. Didn't that happen everyday with starvation, disease, etc.? So infuriating
Even today there are millions of exceedingly foolish theists who think similarly. They might not be dumb enough to think they don't have to worry about murdering a person who doesn't deserve it in a torturous witch ordeal, but they absolutely have that kind of thought about other things.
Like seriously you were screwed either way with their mindsets. When drowning someone alleged to be a witch, you live your a witch and will be killed if you die well.....guess that's that🤪. Because God sure wasn't coming for ya.
They blamed the starvation and disease on satan 🙃
@@lwilso9152 Exactly, "if they starved to death, they probably weren't praying enough" or the like.
The question is a lot more complex than that and the explanation is that humans' logic is flawed and contradictory when mixed with superstition. In some cases believers would take the old shortcut "the ways of the Lord are misterious" in cases they couldn't explain or do much about (like people starving to death), in some other cases they would actively trying to do something about it and so they were definitely not leaving something into the hands of God. For example, they had rudimentary medicine practices and theories, they weren't just leaving a person be healed by God; they were aware of some diseases and figured out prevention for those, and so on.
I can't believe this video is 40 minutes long. Prof. Brock is such a great speaker and has such energy and needle-point accuracy on witches and all the related subjects in this video that it just flies by. I can only imagine how her classes fly by.
Edit: Prof! this is what I get for watching videos at 4am!!
Dr. Brock
Dr. Brock. Prof. Brock, even.
She knows very little about. She couldn’t explain Salem and merely touched on the Inquisition. But 2 minutes anwers is more than kids today can take
She's one of those academics who are just an absolute joy to be around.
The energy, the dedication, the jokes and yet still serious. People like her can talk for HOURS and it's still fun to listen to!
I’d seriously consider getting another degree just to have her as my lecturer. what a wonderful, bubbly and knowledgeable woman! please bring her back for more! 🙏🏽
You can always audit a class without getting credits or a degree
Where does she teach? I think I need to audit the class as well.
@@InnerGiggles washington lee university, virginia apparently...
Dr. Brock is a national treasure and a gem. So knowledgable, intelligent, well-spoken, funny, and convivial! Please invite her back for more history discussions!
I as a practicing Witch, I disagree. She has no true understanding of Witches and Witchcraft. She’s barely scratched the surface of the sacred practice and history. Her knowledge is basic elementary.
@@RoyalWitch first off, how would you know what understanding she has or hasn’t on the subject? She’s answering the questions posed to her and those questions are on the historical perception of , treatment of and reaction to witchcraft and witches during the 16th and 17th century, which is the history people are most familiar with. She isn’t demonising witches, nor questioning their practices or intentions in any way.
What an absolutely fantastic and educational piece. I could watch hundreds of videos of her enthusiastically explaining any other historical topics! 10/10.
LOVE her take on The VVitch, such an excellent movie and glad to hear about its semi historical accuracy as well
13:10 My uni has an ancient lit reading group and we read some passages of the Witches Hammer and also looked at the latin as well. The texts are actually pretty funny in a “can’t believe someone sat down and wrote this down” sort of way but was also scary because you’re so aware of how much pain those texts caused
We read fragments of the Malleus Maleficarum in high school and I was shocked. Respect to those poor women and these guys had some weird fetishes. I feel so grateful that now I can do and say whatever I want.
Gotta say, this is one of the more fun WIRED videos I've watched. Love Mikki's personality. Very fun, expressive, and I liked how much she indulged in talking about her own interests related to the subject. Also super cute to compliment people's usernames.
I want this woman to be the teacher of everything. She's just so charismatically joyful.
This expert does a phenomenal job explaining all these things. I love that it is flushed out and easy to understand. Not to mention, she was super engaging and clearly knowledgeable in her field. Awesome video.
Fleshed out
I would love to have her as a professor! She is so passionate and absolutely brimming with knowledge. I could listen to her speak all day.
I have two black cats. I try to keep them out of sight on Halloween, just in case any superstitious lunatics come around.
Here in Scotland they're considered good luck and a sign of coming prosperity.
@ I’ve heard that. But in America, we hear that black cats bring bad luck, and that they are witches’ familiars. My own view of it is that I’m lucky to have such good pets.
I have a black kitty and yes I make sure he stays in on Halloween. Although cats should never be outside if it can be prevented. Sometimes they just escape though.
Yeah unfortunately stupid s* like the satanic panic and untreated mental illness make me glad my little void is an inside only cat. I don't think it's as common anymore, but I remember when I was a kid there were a few halloweens where stray black kitties were unalived horribly. 😓
just the thought of that made me sick. people are such freaks. it goes beyond superstition and straight to delusion
This was phenomenal. I didn't even realized the video was 40min long. Bring this woman back soon!
Simply amazing! How someone’s passion about their topic can make you so interested and passionate as well. BRAVO!
This is my favorite tech support yet. Passionate people telling their stories are the best people!
I love her energy. You can practically feel the knowledge and passion for these subjects.
Remember they never burned witches - they burned women.
They burned men mostly. But women too.
84% accused were women.
@KasumiRINA
Nope,
When burning was the punishment for witchcraft, everyone would burn. And since mostly woman were punished as witches, they were burn to most. It was mostly done in Catholic countries, because they thought that burn clears the soul and shortens the stay in purgatory
“She made it harder for me to turn butter.” Well maybe Elisabeth your butter game ain’t what it used to be to be!!
Liza low-fat is what we call her
All I know is if thou wouldst like to taste butter, you're probably going to sign Black Philip's book in blood.
Bravo! 👏🏼 Give this lady her own channel! 🧙🏼♀️🔮🪄🐈⬛
Oh how lucky your students must be to have such a well spoken & enthusiastic teacher! 🤩 LOVED THIS!
I learned so much 🕯️📖🖤
Ok boomer
@ hahahahahahhahahaha I’m sorry are you a little sped?
I love this professor, she's so funny and enthusiastic! Great podcast again :)
My little siamese familiar is sitting on my legs and she perked her little fuzzy ears up when she kept hearing the word cats.
Too smart 🐈⬛
10/10 This has been my favorite of all the tech supports I've watched. This lady's brilliant mind and ability to so easily communicate complicated concepts is a national treasure and she must be protected at all costs.
“The Witch” was absolutely incredible on so many levels!
I would add to the second to last part, witch hunting still exists to this day, in a quite literal sense. Subsaharan Africa, India, Saudi Arabia…
"WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!" *hysterical sobbing*
Nah, we don't use *that* tactic anymore. 🙄
Can't tell if that was sarcasm, that's literally the only excuse this pathetic world uses now.
LOL Won't somebody think of the poor innocent pets in Springfield, Illinois?!!?
LOVE this, she is so great at sharing her knowledge and so energetic, I wish I could take her classes, too! PLEASE MORE OF HER.
This is one of those videos where I wished TH-cam allowed more than one Thumbs-Up! Amazing, engaging, and clearly passionate about the subject. Why didn't I have a history professor this good in undergrad??
And incredibly shallow on information
love the little detail of black polish!
and how even better her articulation with her hands thus became! i agree.
I could listen to her talk all day about this, not only is the topic so interesting but also her energy and pure enthusiasm is inspiring
Now a days they have a fear of childless cat ladies. So it's not over.
Im childless and catless 😮
@@vminhope3040 If the Cat Distribution System has let you down, you can go down to your local kitty jail (Humane Society) and bail one out.
I'm childless and a cat owner as well.Horror! Not a mother?? What a horrible example I am!
@@vminhope3040 I'm sure the cat is coming.
@@unseelie63 Clearly a danger to the very fabric of society!
Giles Corey's story gets even worse. He went to every single trial. He accused his own wife of witchcraft. He killed a young boy for coming onto his property and stealing an apple- two other children had gone missing on his property. Kinda crazy he gets remembered for something he probably didn't even say.
He still wasn't a witch, though.
@@cl5470 Yeah I like that she brought up Giles, because he's certainly the most famous example of a man accused of witchcraft, but I wish she had mentioned that we already have the term "warlock" to refer to a male practitioner of witchcraft. Meanwhile J.K. Rowling borrows the term wizard to refer to male witches in her books. Either way, the word "witch" is usually gendered, but we really shouldn't make a big deal about it because it's all semantics. So, in short, witchcraft isn't only for the girls.
@@johns8364 Many people don't like the term warlock and prefer even males to be referred to as witch.
@@Cypresssina yeah I get it but Warlock is such a badass word. I really wanna keep it.
@@johns8364Originally, the term 'warlock' didn't refer to witchcraft practicing males. It was associated with crimes like treason, oathbreaking, and providing false testimony. Male witches were simply referred to as (male) witches.
In the Harry Potter universe, the word 'warlock' is only used in the title 'Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot'. The institution seems to have, at least, a judicial function, and some of its members are ministry officials (the Minister, head of the Magical Law Enforcement, etc.). Whether 'warlock' can be used to designate regular members of the Wizengamot, is not specified in the books.
You can always tell when a professor is probably LOVED by their students, and she’s one of them. I watched a 40 minute video on witches from a historical perspective and they felt like 10.
She’s so nice and funny but at the same time super professional. Would love to take her class, even if it’s at 8:00am 😂❤
Love the longer and longer videos. We can always pause and come back, more content like this is better.
Robert Eggers is my favorite filmmaker. Cannot wait to watch Nosferatu 🧛
Dude is so talented it's crazy.
rewatched The Northman forgot how good it was yeah excited Nosferatu.
@@JBTriple8 I love The Northman, a dark subject but every scene is visually stunning. The most gorgeous looking film involving child murder I've ever seen.
Only watched The Northman, it was alright, nothing special though, I'll give The Witch a watch tonight.
I'm hoping he gets a chance to adapt a Lovecraft story, he'd do any of them justice.
The part about “harming the children” as a political tool really made me take a step back when considering how politicians use the exact same argument now against lgbtq people.
Excellent video.
In some ways, nothing much has changed: instead of village gossip and superstition, we have the internet, social media, and conspiracy theories:
“childless cat ladies” was also a accusation and method of identifying medieval witches.
I always say that The VVitch should have been marketed as a Puritan fairy tale (of the old, dark, scary, cautionary tale style of fairy tale) instead of a 'horror' movie. It is absolutely a horror film -- but there are a lot of people who like 'horror movies' who expect that to mean a very specific kind of thing, just as Mikki says. It's a shame. It's really a lovely film.
3:59 is Eastern Europe and Asia pretty much nobody heard of Salem, spanish inquisition is considered to be the main face of witch hunting.
she’s so enthusiastic and well-spoken in her explanations! so brilliant and beautiful
Fun fact: The original Salem, Massachusetts is now Danvers. The modern Salem is not where the trials were but a lovely tourist town.
Man, if I had a professor/teacher like that in any subject, I would’ve paid a lot more attention. Her personality and sense of humor make her very engaging to listen to and information just instantly clicks. More educators should be like that.
Fun fact: the Dutch city of Oudewater was the only one in Europe that received the privilege for a fair weighing process of people accused of being a witch, granted by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Consequently, nobody here was ever convicted of being a witch.
This is true, and you can still visit this location, as it is a small museum now.
Wow, I sat through 39mins without realizing it! So interesting! More witch knowledge please! 😍
About the Hats: During the years of the "infamous" Spanish Inquisition Jews that refused or rejected the Judeo-Christian Creed were intentionally forced to wear pointy hats on their heads as a part of their everyday attire so that other people would 'know' that they had rejected the 'faith'. And they were also denoted publicly as "Maranos", it literally means Pigs, a clear reference to Un-cleanliness or Un -Godliness.
This is a great video. Just worth noting: Mary I (Elizabeth's older half sister) is generally considered to be the first queen regnant of England. There was also Empress Matilda and Lady Jane Grey that you could also make cases for as the first queen of England.
I was looking for this comment
I went looking for this too, because Mikki said they edited out her self-correction--first unmarried queen--and she's trying to get them to clarify that edit!
@@felismaleficarium Yes! They made a lil correction note in the description of the video, right below the first time stamps.
One of the most interesting things I've heard about witch hunts is that in the very early days of Christianity, accusing someone else of being a witch was actually often considered by the church to be heresy. Because if you are accusing someone of being a witch, you are claiming that they possess a magical power that was not granted to them by God, and the belief that anything that isn't God-ordained could bestow that kind of power was blasphemy.
Not just in the very early days. This was a conviction that lasted well into the late middle ages. When Heinrich Kramer started his own witch hunts in Innsbruck, that was one of the reasons why he got into hot water with the local Bishop and was kicked out eventually.
I think this sentiment mostly changed after Luther's reformation had started spreading through Europe. People were kind of shocked that God had allowed the church to be split that way, and if He allowed many thousands of believers to be led astray, maybe that was proof of the Devil having power on earth.
That's actually true. The popes were frequently forbidding witchcraft accusations. And the accuser was more likely to be punished than the accused. That only changed around the 15th century
I mean well, not the very very early days, but in the relatively ‘early days’ of Christianity yes, it was more so just the belief of witchcraft itself which was considered heretical (like today). But this was still long before the “witch hunts” of the Late Medieval or Early Modern times. It was I think around the 1200s or 1300s when witchery was not only believed in, but started actively gaining a bad reputation and accumulating much civic fear. Of course along with medicinal (albeit malefic) plants like henbane, belladonna, mandrake and scopolia all compounding and snowballing this bad reputation of magic and the connection to/with herbs. The ‘same’ kind of thing still happens in the Amazon basin today among indigenous communities, but via Brugmansia-mediated sorcery instead. Or like with Latua in southern Chile. But they have the whole; ‘shamanism-sorcery’ paradigm down there. However, when there is a Christian-Sorcery paradigm within a given cultural framework, things get more dicey and Hollywood-esque. It also showcases only one “side” being allied to or ‘working with’ nature. Whereas in the Amazon, both separate parties are still sided with nature, not desacralizing it such as with the Church and its intentional downplaying of the magical/malefic role plants played, but while “upplaying” the supposed significance of Satan.
Belief without evidence is intellectually dishonest and a slippery slope
Yeah, the Catholic Church never had witch trials, because they deny that witches actually have any power. The Inquisition actually went after Cathars and false converts (people who converted to catholicism but practiced their original religion in secret). And the Inquisition was actually much nicer than the local governments. They also didn't punish people who confessed, only people who didn't, which is really weird.
How can anyone speak so happily about these atrocities? It's maddening enough that these things actually happened, but that we turn them into child's play and touristic attractions really is beyond me.
This has been a lot of fun, maybe one of the best of these!
She's so great at helping us to understand a) how the beliefs came about at the time and b) how we still see a modern version of "burning at the stake" (getting "cancelled" *eyeroll*) because of misunderstandings, misinterpretations, misogyny and all sorts of other things that start with "mis."
Misandry is a lot more common.
Women now are psychos who will blame men for everything THEY can’t do.
The fact that she mentioned Robert Egger's 'The Witch" all of the stars for this video!!!
She is so vibrant and knowledgeable! What a wonderful expert. Her classes must be so interesting.
Started my Halloween with this video! I looooved this! I could listen to her all day, she’s so enthusiastic & I just adored it all!
I wish I had someone like her in my life. She's so energetic, knowledgeable, enthusiastic and well spoken. What a great person loved her speech! ❤❤❤
Great interjection of the of Monty Python and the Holy Grail witch scene!
Trying to use "women did/believed it too" to say witch persecution wasn't about gender is like saying pick-me girls aren't a product of misogyny
Bring Dr. Brock back! I have such a soft spot for professors who enthusiastically share knowledge of their expertise with their students 🥺
it wasnt necessarily. Women, to some extent, might've just been the more convenient targets to outbursts of mass hysteria, since they tended to have less legal safeguards or ways to represent themselves
Prof Brock is the epitome of passion and a well appreciated (well paid) educator. Take a passionate, enigmatic human, who has knowledge on a particular topic, give them young/fresh minds (and younger crotch goblins), low pay, horrible conditions, annnnd you'll get most educators. Now prof Brock here has all of the above but clearly good working conditions, is paid according to their time, and well, wow, a lecture that anyone can enjoy! Moral of my rant is, anyone can have the passion to teach, not all systems support teachers to DO THEIR JOBS. Yes, I'm just a tired teacher, thanks for listening.
Also, this was just a great video, thanks prof! ❤
My Co-Worker is a practicing Witch yeah I'm glad Witches are getting more embraced and tolerated.
No such thing. Witchcraft isn't real
@@sarahhughes4437 Actually it is. I’ve practiced for 23 years. I wouldn’t have continued if it was fake. But it’s not what people think it is. It’s not Harry Potter magic.
@riveramnell143 you poor soul.
@@sarahhughes4437The poor soul is the person who can't see anything besides their narrow worldview.
@AngelsonEarth69 I'm actually a leprechaun, not a person. I exist as a leprechaun because I say so.
I bet your classes (even the 8am ones) are riveting! Great video!
I would take an 8am class to listen to her!
It's always good to hear a historical perspective of things
not getting the Vvitch is insane????????!what a masterpiece