The Honorable Caligula I was shown a brilliant movie based on the trials in school in the 90’s, I remember scene of the guy reciting the Lord’s Prayer in an attempt to save himself. I do believe they were an easy way to get your enemies destroyed.
It was generally a turbulent century. A huge amount of tension at home and in New England. Revolutions and the emerging New Order of the Common Wealth could not have been settling information for a new village by a new town in a new colony where a local native Indian attack could have occured at any time. I think I am writing about hysteria. The adult guys with guns may have felt a bit safer. But put ten juvenile young girls in a room on the outskirts of the village during such tensions may have been as becarlming as a room next to leather face of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Hysterical screaming is not unheard of in early teen females. Seeing a Beatle could set ten thousand off with a passion. Anything happens and just scream out loud may be the basic education if they were to be left alone. So it does not take much to trigger one then others join in. At first it may be their alarm. Call it attention seeking, if you like. Attention seeking is natural. How was Halloween passed in Massachusetts that century or in England as if it had any resemblance to modern USA Halloween with witches, ghoules and horror movie characters then the young girls may have played witches as almost normal girlish play. With out a school there there couldn't have been much else other than play to do. Then a law change in 1662 allowed spectral evidence to be used in cases of witchcraft. There was no school and so no one to teach the girls any different. So normal girlly play continued. They only get their first meeting house in 1673. From reports of the 1680s it seems the whole village seemed at each other's throats (fractionalism). All the ingredients for the milk to boil over seem to be there. There had been civil war. The Kings head was cut off the Puritains did it and they were in power 1649. More violent bloody times then all change as the Restoration begins and James II revokes the Massachusetts charter as well as removing laws that made trying of witches more difficult. King James I wrote serious works about witches and en acted serious laws against them as he hated them as he'd encounted serious problems in Scotland concening witches. He disliked the apparently lack of laws in England about witches and so set about changing laws and making them far stricter. So James II may have been like his father a strict disciplinarian concening witches. So laws were being changed against witches. So what may have been just juvenile play acting as simple as playing doctors and nurses or playing with a doll. May then have been blown out of proportion by Strict Puritan Ministers reacting and endevouring to impliment new strict laws. So just a normal thing such as a childs straw doll (educational play thing) may heve been seen as a Satanic device or effigy by Theocratic Puritan Law fearing Judges who were them selves paranoid and endevouring to rule by fear. They must have been terrorfying to young pre teen girls who'd had no education or schooling. In 1679 the Salem Village Church minister was accused of neglect. He resigned in 1683 due to tensions, conflict and fractionaism. So it all seems to amount to a lot of tension. Babys cry when there is conflict and tension at home. Girls scream . A Giggle or gaggle of girls may scream hysterically especially if they them selves have been their only company for years. Ie After five years or so they band together. They do not know exactly what was going on. So they support one an other.
My ancestor was tried, convicted and escaped jail before being executed and wink wink no one knows how. The man who accused her also went missing that night. It’s a tale you hardly ever hear about when it comes to Salem. She was from Salisbury. Mary Perkins Bradbury
I have two distant relatives that were accused of being witches and were executed in 1692 in Salem. . Martha Corey by hanging and her husband Giles Corey was crushed to death by huge stones.
Describes today's political and social climate. Despite the fact that we already have the presumption of innocence. We still conduct which hunts. It's truly sad that history is repeating itself in this way.
what do you guys think about the Salem Witch Trials?
The Honorable Caligula I was shown a brilliant movie based on the trials in school in the 90’s, I remember scene of the guy reciting the Lord’s Prayer in an attempt to save himself. I do believe they were an easy way to get your enemies destroyed.
It was generally a turbulent century. A huge amount of tension at home and in New England. Revolutions and the emerging New Order of the Common Wealth could not have been settling information for a new village by a new town in a new colony where a local native Indian attack could have occured at any time. I think I am writing about hysteria. The adult guys with guns may have felt a bit safer. But put ten juvenile young girls in a room on the outskirts of the village during such tensions may have been as becarlming as a room next to leather face of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Hysterical screaming is not unheard of in early teen females. Seeing a Beatle could set ten thousand off with a passion. Anything happens and just scream out loud may be the basic education if they were to be left alone. So it does not take much to trigger one then others join in. At first it may be their alarm. Call it attention seeking, if you like. Attention seeking is natural.
How was Halloween passed in Massachusetts that century or in England as if it had any resemblance to modern USA Halloween with witches, ghoules and horror movie characters then the young girls may have played witches as almost normal girlish play. With out a school there there couldn't have been much else other than play to do. Then a law change in 1662 allowed spectral evidence to be used in cases of witchcraft. There was no school and so no one to teach the girls any different. So normal girlly play continued. They only get their first meeting house in 1673.
From reports of the 1680s it seems the whole village seemed at each other's throats (fractionalism).
All the ingredients for the milk to boil over seem to be there. There had been civil war. The Kings head was cut off the Puritains did it and they were in power 1649. More violent bloody times then all change as the Restoration begins and James II revokes the Massachusetts charter as well as removing laws that made trying of witches more difficult.
King James I wrote serious works about witches and en acted serious laws against them as he hated them as he'd encounted serious problems in Scotland concening witches. He disliked the apparently lack of laws in England about witches and so set about changing laws and making them far stricter. So James II may have been like his father a strict disciplinarian concening witches. So laws were being changed against witches. So what may have been just juvenile play acting as simple as playing doctors and nurses or playing with a doll. May then have been blown out of proportion by Strict Puritan Ministers reacting and endevouring to impliment new strict laws.
So just a normal thing such as a childs straw doll (educational play thing) may heve been seen as a Satanic device or effigy by Theocratic Puritan Law fearing Judges who were them selves paranoid and endevouring to rule by fear. They must have been terrorfying to young pre teen girls who'd had no education or schooling. In 1679 the Salem Village Church minister was accused of neglect. He resigned in 1683 due to tensions, conflict and fractionaism.
So it all seems to amount to a lot of tension. Babys cry when there is conflict and tension at home. Girls scream . A Giggle or gaggle of girls may scream hysterically especially if they them selves have been their only company for years. Ie After five years or so they band together.
They do not know exactly what was going on. So they support one an other.
My ancestor was tried, convicted and escaped jail before being executed and wink wink no one knows how. The man who accused her also went missing that night. It’s a tale you hardly ever hear about when it comes to Salem. She was from Salisbury. Mary Perkins Bradbury
It’s so crazy and Scary 😭😭
Great channel, you deserve more subs.
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do you have multiple channels? your voice is so familiar
Nope just this one
I have two distant relatives that were accused of being witches and were executed in 1692 in Salem. . Martha Corey by hanging and her husband Giles Corey was crushed to death by huge stones.
I love this channel, only if the statue wasn't so big. But I love his voice. ✌ ❤ 🕊
Man one could only be grateful to not have been born in eras worse than the actual..
Like your narration man good stuff
Thank you
william stoughton is my ancestor
Fr? (I’m sorry if it’s weird that I’m 2 years late)
I believe her name is pronounced titchuba
Describes today's political and social climate. Despite the fact that we already have the presumption of innocence. We still conduct which hunts. It's truly sad that history is repeating itself in this way.