Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General

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  • @jongroskin729
    @jongroskin729 5 ปีที่แล้ว +993

    Never is the devil so dangerous as when he wears the mask of righteousness.

    • @1183newman
      @1183newman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @Timothy McCaskey "It takes a wicked man to do wicked things and a good man to do good things, but if you want a good man to do wicked things you will need religion for that." - Christopher Hitchens

    • @candyman5912
      @candyman5912 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Timothy McCaskey I'm with you Timothy. But I must say Pascal also gave us Pascal's Wager, which was a load of bollocks.

    • @richardjy89
      @richardjy89 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So True it is not easy doing the Lords work. Witches ARE REAL! God is ultimate reality, evil exists. The namesake of my username, judicially sentenced to death probably more people in English history, anyway. According to Wikipedia it was Earl of Warwick and not "Hardwick". The lies are subtle and not always obvious, to the untrained eye.

    • @candyman5912
      @candyman5912 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's true there are people who call themselves witches in this day and age. But as to them possessing supernatural powers?.....well I haven't seen any evidence for that.

    • @richardjy89
      @richardjy89 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Candyman Evil only exists because there is a supernatural. Without which murder wouldn't be Evil, it just wouldn't be good. In fact it may even be good for society on some level eugenically, as the infirm are slaughtered.
      Unless you would be willing to discard the notion of Evil and thus any defence against it. Witches definitely exist in so far as they manipulate reality through paradox. The simplest example being a square-circle. If things are based on consensus, truth does not exist.

  • @bscottb8
    @bscottb8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +921

    “If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.” ― Groucho Marx

    • @triplesevensix291
      @triplesevensix291 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Get that mojo working...

    • @Leftyotism
      @Leftyotism 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      lol, nice build up before the plot twist : >

    • @theredghostman9279
      @theredghostman9279 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Never let facts ruin a good story (Irish probver)

    • @michaelbaughman4017
      @michaelbaughman4017 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A black cat once shared my life a long time ago. He was born on HALLOWEEN. I miss that cat.

    • @donmcgibbon6575
      @donmcgibbon6575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ''I'd never belong to an organisation that would accept me.'' (Groucho)

  • @rebeccarippy9152
    @rebeccarippy9152 5 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    Simon Whistler, Morris M. Jennifer De Silva and Shell Harris....thank you all for your time and efforts on these videos. I enjoy them very much and recognize the work that goes into them from you all.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Whoa! Jennifer gets some attention. Nice.

  • @Nyctophora
    @Nyctophora 5 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    Thank you for covering this with such sanity and careful depth. May those poor people rest in peace.

    • @robertrichards4718
      @robertrichards4718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This sounds like something a witch would say.....

    • @seangannon6081
      @seangannon6081 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Calling someone else a witch seems like something a witch would do...

    • @Aegianlulz
      @Aegianlulz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Calling someone who calls a witch, witch, is something a witch would do

    • @aaronl221
      @aaronl221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Aegianlulz calling someone a witch who called someone a witch who called them a witch seems like something a witch would do

    • @IsntTheInternetGreat
      @IsntTheInternetGreat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lots of people here calling other people witches, which is not nice!

  • @bryanbridges2987
    @bryanbridges2987 5 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    Their first victim was an elderly old widowed woman....That is so sad.

    • @suchanhachan
      @suchanhachan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Many, many accused witches were elderly, a fair amount of them probably suffering from some form of dementia, along with others suffering from mental illness, handicaps, etc. Others were people who were a bit odd, outsiders, people who had trouble with their neighbors or caused other problems in the community...

    • @Master_Blackthorne
      @Master_Blackthorne 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      She also had only one leg. When these people were hanged, there was no trap door on the gallows to break their necks, so they died by slow strangulation.

    • @user-zy9yg2eu5t
      @user-zy9yg2eu5t 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Master_Blackthorne shouldn't be a witch then

    • @LeolaGlamour
      @LeolaGlamour 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      AfricanPride X
      There’s a special place in hell for you

    • @adr.marius5636
      @adr.marius5636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      this is why religion (especially Abrahamic ones) was and will always be trash

  • @plasmorarca1044
    @plasmorarca1044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    “Deliver them to the magistrate’ assembly forthwith in the Shire in which they dwell”

    • @ChaseMcCain81
      @ChaseMcCain81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Lol, I got that.

    • @ridgely1635
      @ridgely1635 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I get that reference

    • @TrialByDance
      @TrialByDance 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      He is a wretched sinner, utterly unworthy of God's love.

    • @darthbee18
      @darthbee18 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @timothyernst8812
      @timothyernst8812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Thou art a wretched sinner, utterly unworthy o’ God’s love. A fountain o’ pollution is deep within thy nature, and thou livest as a winter tree; unprofitable, fit only to be hewn down and burned. Steep thy life in prayer, and hope that God sees fit to show mercy upon thy corrupted soul.

  • @pauls9331
    @pauls9331 5 ปีที่แล้ว +415

    His excuse: They turned me into a newt!
    But he got better.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Monty Python fans are everywhere.

    • @ScarlettDeLion
      @ScarlettDeLion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Biographics speaking of..... how about a Biographics on the Monty Python crew ;)

    • @ashleyhyatt6319
      @ashleyhyatt6319 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      "How do you know she's a witch?"
      "She looks like one!"
      "They dressed me up like this."
      "Did you dress her up?"
      "No! No! No! Yes. Yes. Yes, a bit. A bit. We did do the hat and the nose, but she has got a wart."

    • @paulsimmons5726
      @paulsimmons5726 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He's not my Witch Finder General!

    • @mmmuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiirrrrr
      @mmmuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiirrrrr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@paulsimmons5726 ALMOST flew over my head! Lmbo!

  • @barrywerdell2614
    @barrywerdell2614 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Maybe "Sugar" the demonic rabbit (9:10) was the one guarding the cave in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

    • @deboralee1623
      @deboralee1623 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🎵Sugar,
      Ah, bunny, bunny,
      You are my candy hare...🎵

  • @kidragakas
    @kidragakas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    12:08 “Like a pair of misogynistic vampires...”
    I lost it 😂

  • @jonathanhorberry7004
    @jonathanhorberry7004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Currently designing a presentation on Hopkins for a Uni module, and finding it very difficult not to pilfer the terms "like an extremist duck to water" and "like a pair of misogynist vampires". Excellent!

  • @mikdan8813
    @mikdan8813 5 ปีที่แล้ว +505

    Remember kids:
    -Things are hung
    -People are hanged

  • @makinapacal
    @makinapacal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    There is a movie from the late 1960's called The Witchfinder General with Vincent Price has Hopkins. It is excellent.

    • @cierakitty
      @cierakitty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yes it was a very good movie

    • @seanwallace79
      @seanwallace79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lol of course it was Vincent. That amazing man would have been burned as a warlock born in earlier centuries.

    • @bootganggirl255
      @bootganggirl255 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tf I think it was horrible

    • @1183newman
      @1183newman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Its a cult classic, but i would love for a new witchfinder general movie, just keep nicholas cage away from it.

    • @michaelbaughman4017
      @michaelbaughman4017 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That scared me more than ANY if his movies.😷👍 Good movie though.

  • @geraldberliner5260
    @geraldberliner5260 5 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Vincent Price was good as Mathew Hopkins in the 1968 horror film 'Witchfinder General'

    • @warrenrhinerson6373
      @warrenrhinerson6373 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Any horror movie with Vincent Price is a masterpiece

    • @ChaseMcCain81
      @ChaseMcCain81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed.

    • @ardenalexa94
      @ardenalexa94 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@warrenrhinerson6373 agreed. Vincent always played villains well.

  • @luigicadorna8644
    @luigicadorna8644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    Puritans in England: Phew I’m glad we can finally put this ridiculous witch panic behind us.
    Puritans in America: Hold my beer...

    • @ledichang9708
      @ledichang9708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thry don't have any beer.

    • @mta4562
      @mta4562 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ledichang9708 oh, but they did. the first ship had 3 times as much beer as water. books are wonderful things, you might read one sometime. puritans also brought something like 10,000 gallons of wine. on the first ship, i mean.

    • @easyenetwork2023
      @easyenetwork2023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ledichang9708 Hold my Meade.

    • @salvagemonster3612
      @salvagemonster3612 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please. Those were not Americans. Done a century before we were a country. It was preformed by European puritans. Remember that in Europe in the past 100 years there were witch trials. This “hold my beer” junk meme has become meaningless

    • @oldleatherhandsfriends4053
      @oldleatherhandsfriends4053 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mta4562 Well the beer was only like 2-3% alcohol to keep bacteria from growing in it. Drinking water was difficult to keep safe for long travels.

  • @brakorinspaceo81
    @brakorinspaceo81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Atun-shei deserved a cameo

  • @DeannaJacksonDJsDelectables
    @DeannaJacksonDJsDelectables 5 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    "There he is!!!"
    "Where?"
    "There!"
    "What? Behind the rabbit?"
    "It IS the rabbit!"
    I'm sorry. The part of the demonic rabbit familiar made me think of Monty Python. 😂😂😂

    • @tibfulv
      @tibfulv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It wouldn't surprise me if that was the inspiration.

    • @stefanavic6630
      @stefanavic6630 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "He'll do you up a treat, mate!"

    • @andrewharper1609
      @andrewharper1609 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You're forgetting the witch trial of Carol Cleveland in the Holy Grail. Look she's got a warty nose and everything!

    • @Master_Blackthorne
      @Master_Blackthorne 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      NEE!

    • @karenknicely1788
      @karenknicely1788 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gotta love Monty Python!!!

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    1:10 - Chapter 1 - A world on the edge
    2:55 - Chapter 2 - Witchcraft & war
    4:55 - Chapter 3 - Demonology
    7:50 - Chapter 4 - A discovery of witches
    10:45 - Chapter 5 - Gynocide
    15:15 - Chapter 6 - Ding dong, the witchfinder is dead
    18:50 - Chapter 7 - A poisonous legacy

  • @seanwhite4837
    @seanwhite4837 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan was the last person to be imprison under British Witchcraft act of 1735. Back in 1944.

  • @funnyusername8635
    @funnyusername8635 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    The Pendle Witch Trials deserve their own video.

    • @willhuey4891
      @willhuey4891 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      and the area where that happen is actually haunted.

    • @justsomedude77
      @justsomedude77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@willhuey4891 no it's not.

    • @willhuey4891
      @willhuey4891 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      im talking about pendle hill because of the british show most haunted.

    • @justsomedude77
      @justsomedude77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@willhuey4891 hauntings aren't real.

  • @markokaselj125
    @markokaselj125 5 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    As a great fan of the channel, I'm now DEMANDING (:D) bio of Aleister Crowley.
    Regarding this topic, there is a cool movie called Witchfinder General from 1968. Vincent Price is playing Matthew Hopkins :)
    Have a nice day!

    • @noctemrealm6013
      @noctemrealm6013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i second this.

    • @ciaratalbot738
      @ciaratalbot738 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'd love to see this as well. Or a Vincent Price biopic.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Script was written, I proofed it myself. Simon just has to record it. Man, that guy was a weirdo.

    • @noctemrealm6013
      @noctemrealm6013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Biographics YESSSS!

    • @tiodeleve
      @tiodeleve 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Biographics CANT WAIT

  • @Bj-yf3im
    @Bj-yf3im 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I challenge you to do Snorri Sturluson, one of the most influential writers of Northern Europe who lived in Iceland during the Age of the Sturlungs (The Icelandic Civil War) and made many tributes to the king of Norway. His most famous works include Snorra Edda and Heimskringla.

  • @handsomeman-child8751
    @handsomeman-child8751 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thou art a wretched sinner, utterly unworthy of God's love. A fountain of pollution is deep within thine nature and though livest as a winter tree, unprofitable, fit only to be hewn down and burned. Steep thy life in prayer and hope that God sees fit to show mercy on thy corrupted soul.

    • @L.J.Kommer
      @L.J.Kommer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I can only assume that's the reason this video was in my recommendations.

  • @kevinhart1955
    @kevinhart1955 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    As always, Thou art a wretched sinner, utterly unworthy of God’s love. A fountain of pollution is deep within thy nature, and this liveth as a winter tree, fit only to be hewn down and burned. Steep thy life in prayer, and hope that God sees fit to show mercy on thy corrupted soul - vvitchfinder general(atun shei films)

    • @junesilvermanb2979
      @junesilvermanb2979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner...

  • @MikeVeis-h2s
    @MikeVeis-h2s ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There was a heavy metal thrash group in the 1980s called Witchfinder General.

  • @jackhamilton9604
    @jackhamilton9604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Serial Killers do a on a small scale what Governments do on a large one."
    Richard Ramirez

  • @DixieWhiskey
    @DixieWhiskey 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Fantastic horror movie. Fantastic band. Fantastic song by Cathedral.

    • @AliceBowie
      @AliceBowie ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah. Witchfinder General sticks out in my mind as being great for insane partying. Especially Free Country. Cathedral is great, I love Lee Dorrian went from napalm death to cathedral.

    • @cyrilltate7065
      @cyrilltate7065 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awesome song by Saxon too

  • @kylerobinson1985
    @kylerobinson1985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Do Boris Karloff and/or Bela Lugosi

  • @labracababrador4263
    @labracababrador4263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Remember, Thou art a wretched sinner, utterly unworthy o’ God’s love. A fountain o’ pollution is deep within thy nature, and thou livest as a winter tree; unprofitable, fit only to be hewn down and burned. Steep thy life in prayer, and hope that God sees fit to show mercy upon thy corrupted soul.

    • @Gstrangeman96
      @Gstrangeman96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thou hath committed plagiarism, a most serious crime in the eyes of God. I shall deliver you to the magistrates assembled in the court of the shire in which you dwell, where thou shall be put, to instant death.

    • @soriddosuneko
      @soriddosuneko 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Gstrangeman96 and fined 10 shillings 6 pence

  • @LinkTheSamurai
    @LinkTheSamurai 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Coincidentally, I just watched The Conqueror Worm (Witchfinder General) the other week!
    R.I.P. Vincent Price

  • @panagea2007
    @panagea2007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you for saying "Hoped you found that interesting" instead of "Hope you enjoyed that" when it's a subject we really shouldn't enjoy. I noticed the change.

  • @trethearsenal7627
    @trethearsenal7627 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I would love a video of you guys doing research and editing. Basically a behind the scenes video would be great. Keep up the good work.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Boooooring. Writers reading books and websites. Yawn.

    • @trethearsenal7627
      @trethearsenal7627 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Biographics true lol

  • @TheBigBadBeowulf
    @TheBigBadBeowulf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Sees the name Cromwell
    *LOADS ARMALITE WITH IRISH INTENT*

    • @jamellfoster6029
      @jamellfoster6029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Cromwell was a TURD!!! So lame & boring!!!! Taking away any fun including plays, dancing, & books...

    • @jm-np4mu
      @jm-np4mu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ... Sounds like the modern day Taliban / ISIS

    • @The_Republic_of_Ireland
      @The_Republic_of_Ireland 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ah a fellow Irishman of culture I see

  • @ccomega929
    @ccomega929 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    the movie The Witchfinder General, with Vincent Price, who plays The Witchfinder General, is an amazing horro film about The Witch General, also, the song The Witchfinder General by the band The Witchfinder General, is an amazing metal song about The Witchfinder General.
    i wrote this comment just to see how many times i could use the name The Witchfinder General in a comment.

  • @RoxieRoulette
    @RoxieRoulette 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I lived in Ipswich for years, and there are lots of stories that go around about the rampage of Matthew Hopkins. Aldeburgh's museum has some great stuff.

  • @kenxclout
    @kenxclout 5 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    What happened to the naughty witch at school?
    She was ex-spelled.

  • @scottplumer3668
    @scottplumer3668 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Hopkins was portrayed by Vincent Price in the film "The Conqueror Worm" in 1968. It was also named "Witchfinder General" and parts were filmed in Bury St. Edmunds.

    • @leewightman8619
      @leewightman8619 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Im gonna have to check it out

    • @TheodoreHughes-dg7rs
      @TheodoreHughes-dg7rs ปีที่แล้ว

      That movie also shows the new model army wearing red coats

  • @Serkovich_
    @Serkovich_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    How ironic, I got this in my recommendations right after finishing Salem...

  • @BaldingClamydia
    @BaldingClamydia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm seeing some parallels to Holy Grail. I guess I didn't realize how much history Monty Python was making fun of. Do you think the evil bunny is a direct reference to her demon bunny?

  • @briancross7835
    @briancross7835 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Gnarly! Now do a Biographics on the band Witchfinder General!!!

  • @tonilove8245
    @tonilove8245 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sitting in isolation in 2020 could listen to stuff like this all day. Love history and your voice is perfect.

  • @hi_thank.you.very.much_
    @hi_thank.you.very.much_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Simon whistler 🔥🔥the creme del a creme of you tube

    • @thunderb00m
      @thunderb00m 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *de la

    • @YPO6
      @YPO6 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thunderb00m de la soul

    • @dannylandrum7899
      @dannylandrum7899 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Poor man's V-sauce, but still awesome.

    • @LegionnaireScout
      @LegionnaireScout 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Danny Landrum V-sauce isnt much around anymore ...

    • @forcedtohaveahandle
      @forcedtohaveahandle 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      YPO6 Hell yeah 😎

  • @AndersonParagon
    @AndersonParagon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    A demonic Bunny? The same one from The Holy Grail

    • @iamjackalope
      @iamjackalope 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's what I was thinking too. Who knows it could very well have been the influence. There was a witch trial spoof in the movie.

  • @enragedkaiser237
    @enragedkaiser237 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Can you cover Aleister Crowley?

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Script was written, I proofed it myself. Simon just has to record it. Man, that guy was a weirdo, as I commented earlier.

    • @rudimentaryganglia
      @rudimentaryganglia 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was fascinating.Occultist and accomplished mountaineer,never weakened even by heroine.

    • @rudimentaryganglia
      @rudimentaryganglia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Austin Osman Spare would be a good one too.Not a lot of people know who he is.

    • @ahippy8972
      @ahippy8972 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Biographics can’t wait for Crowley. Can you do Tommy Robinson please? He is like the witch finder the way he’s raising people’s hatred today.

    • @solaceboy
      @solaceboy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rudimentaryganglia He was a child-molesting Satanist. Nothing fascinating.

  • @Peeker-pq2iz
    @Peeker-pq2iz 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really love your videos. So what they are condensed versions of these biographies. I feel as though you tell these people's stories without having to drag it out in a 3 hour period.

  • @gothicmom5232
    @gothicmom5232 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I like the movie "Witch Finder General " with Vincent Price. Was he related to Johns Hopkins ?

    • @brianrodney712
      @brianrodney712 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Made in 1968, this movie certainly took liberties with historical fact. Vincent Price was aged 58 years and he was playing a man in his early twenties.

    • @susanlansdell863
      @susanlansdell863 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      brian rodney Cracking film though!xx

    • @brianrodney712
      @brianrodney712 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@susanlansdell863 I agree, well worth suspending one's belief for.

    • @michaelbaughman4017
      @michaelbaughman4017 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brianrodney712 all art is at once symbol and surface. Those who see the surface are shallow. Those who go beyond the surface fo so at their own peril...all art us quite useless.

  • @kendoweeb2766
    @kendoweeb2766 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Who's here because of a radical doom metal band?

    • @patrickmoroney2991
      @patrickmoroney2991 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Or a Vincent Price movie for which the band was named?

    • @OkayCesarini
      @OkayCesarini 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      or the song by another radical doom metal band haha

    • @awesomeguyscej6186
      @awesomeguyscej6186 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Death penalty for the friends of hell

  • @curiousworld7912
    @curiousworld7912 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I visited Bury St. Edmunds some years ago and, among other things, learned of the executions. Bury is a charming town with a rich history and it's hard to relate what it is now to what happened there just a few hundred years ago.

  • @TKinfinity01
    @TKinfinity01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Believing in Witches in the past is like thinking the world is flat in the present.

    • @TKinfinity01
      @TKinfinity01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Robin de Roos
      My eyes have been opened.

    • @danhemming6624
      @danhemming6624 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would think shapeshifters or the lizard people. David Icke will explain it all.

    • @TKinfinity01
      @TKinfinity01 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danhemming6624
      That too.

    • @DanceySteveYNWA
      @DanceySteveYNWA 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or people believing in the Bible

    • @TKinfinity01
      @TKinfinity01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      DanceySteve
      Not really, being spiritual in any religion helps to fulfill some peoples lives. It’s something extra for people to latch on to. I know it seems like people are imagining it but as long as it doesn’t affect anyone else in a negative way, who cares.

  • @thenearestfire4574
    @thenearestfire4574 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "You took him from me!"
    I still remember the screaming from the end of the film.

  • @jackiealpeter4993
    @jackiealpeter4993 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hi Simon,I love yr channel since I'm a big history buff anyway. Speaking of paranoid hysteria in English history,could you please do a bio of Titus Oates who presided over the so-called Popish Plot under Charles I? Thanks,and keep up the good work!

    • @bbyng7316
      @bbyng7316 ปีที่แล้ว

      Named my staffy dog after Titus Oates. Yes please.

  • @silentfades
    @silentfades 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Your tapes are very good I like how you share the information. Thank you,

    • @i_smoke_ghosts
      @i_smoke_ghosts 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      the 80's just called and want their tapes back.

  • @garethpitcher2322
    @garethpitcher2322 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic video, always entertaining. I recommend these videos and podcasts to anyone who will listen

  • @masteryap3169
    @masteryap3169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of your best Simon. Shows what fear, ignorance, and mass hysteria can do even in the land of Shakespeare. Surprised to learn that James I, creator of the Kings James bible had also created an atmosphere of ignorance, fear and death.

    • @salvagemonster3612
      @salvagemonster3612 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He should do one based on Faucci and the fear mongering of 2020/21

  • @Madkalibyr
    @Madkalibyr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love all your videos! So interesting and elevate TH-cam as a platform

  • @sasmitha8446
    @sasmitha8446 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love all the parallels you draw to today’s world. Good job, Mr. Whistler (Or the person who wrote the script)!

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That would be Morris Micklewait.

    • @salvagemonster3612
      @salvagemonster3612 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It does bring to mind the witch finders on social media of 2020 doesn’t it.

    • @RedX99735
      @RedX99735 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Biographics do a video about James I

  • @MyTitan101
    @MyTitan101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Matthew Hopkins is my ancestor. My name is Steven Hopkins.

  • @eaglewolffox6275
    @eaglewolffox6275 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Emperor Belos AKA Philip Wittebane from The Owl House was inspired by Hopkins.

    • @s-idney
      @s-idney ปีที่แล้ว

      "Can't reason with crazy."

  • @FoxMacLeod2501
    @FoxMacLeod2501 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Something I might not have expected, indeed! Threw me off when you said "... back in August of 1945..." right around 15:35. Anyway, love the videos, even though you say some words weirdly.

  • @StefanMedici
    @StefanMedici 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He's not the Witchfinder General he's just a very naughty boy.

  • @sirdgar
    @sirdgar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hello Biographics. You are one of my favourite channels.. how about doing one on Irena Sendler…...she deserves that. so many people Watch your channel and this would be a nice gesture to tell her story. she was an incredible woman.
    A other one is Sophie Scholl. not many people know about her too. thats what i think...i could be wrong.
    Keep up the good Work...cheers

  • @MalikF15
    @MalikF15 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This guy served as the basis of Belos from owl house

  • @matthewmckenna248
    @matthewmckenna248 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Could you cover Otto Skorzney?

    • @traeherren2269
      @traeherren2269 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Brilliant idea

    • @fatlummehmeti4362
      @fatlummehmeti4362 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks for sparking my interest on googling him im enjoying him a lot thx for shareing him bro hope they make a bio of him

    • @neoamaru
      @neoamaru 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Interesting (^^)

    • @romelnegut2005
      @romelnegut2005 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thatonemferyaknow3794 I don't know if you're trolling or if you're serious.

    • @deedee4531
      @deedee4531 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out the history guy

  • @curtismantle
    @curtismantle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A sign of the times that Witch hunts are described here as misogynistic rather than understanding that witchcraft was simply associated with women. It's no more legitimate to claim it was misogyny than it is legitimate to claim that cats being considered familiars was anti-feline.

    • @skwills1629
      @skwills1629 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cats were actually not seen as linked to Withes. While it is True that a Cat could be seen as a Witches Familiar, at the Tie any Animal could have been. Cats were not special or the most common, really. Linking Cats to Witchcraft is more of a 19th Century idea.

  • @rjmacready8830
    @rjmacready8830 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dig "The Conqueror Worm" with Vincent Price-1967-for a film dealing with this.

    • @cierakitty
      @cierakitty 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very good movie indeed

  • @joporter4780
    @joporter4780 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guys narration is superb

  • @brendamurphy8654
    @brendamurphy8654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank You Simon, For Another Awesome Video!!!
    Puritan's were the worst, with how women were seen, and the belief in witchcraft! I'm a descendant of one of the victims in Salem, hung for being a "Witch"....She was an old widow, who owned a lot of property, and was very outspoken, which made her a perfect target.
    R.I.P. FOR ALL THE VICTIMS OF IGNORANCE!!! 🕇🌹❤✌

    • @bbyng7316
      @bbyng7316 ปีที่แล้ว

      You be careful then seeing as you too could be called a chatterbox?

  • @CannibalLecter
    @CannibalLecter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "General Witch Hunter" wish i could put that on my business card.

  • @LutherMasonVitaminL
    @LutherMasonVitaminL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    obligatory metal post: WITCHFINDER GENERAL \m/

    • @VladTepesVEVO
      @VladTepesVEVO 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Came here for this \m/

    • @LutherMasonVitaminL
      @LutherMasonVitaminL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@VladTepesVEVO is this an impalement joke....

    • @Ejosii
      @Ejosii 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      SHE RIDES TO THE SABBATHHHH

    • @LutherMasonVitaminL
      @LutherMasonVitaminL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Ejosii *outrageous guitar rift*

  • @matthewlawlis2421
    @matthewlawlis2421 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a cheesy name to give yourself. Just picture it: "Whats up everyone? Im the Witchfinder General. Pretty cool huh?"

    • @s-idney
      @s-idney ปีที่แล้ว

      WitchHUNTER General.

  • @mordekai_wilde
    @mordekai_wilde 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bury St Edmunds, my home town. So proud. xD

  • @michaelgreen1515
    @michaelgreen1515 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Despite excruciating geographical, historical, and pronunciation errors, and serious continuity problems - and I say this as an indigenous native of Suffolk - despite all this I am glad that it has been given an airing. Several books give a much better take on the story. The film is only good for its horror, actors, and beautiful scenery. Thank you for highlighting this horrific and much misunderstood period of English history.

  • @farmerboy9029
    @farmerboy9029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am the vvitchfinder general of the colonie of Massachusetts bay

  • @mellie4174
    @mellie4174 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    omg! such a good video! I loved the commentary linking it up to current world events.

  • @iNexTTx
    @iNexTTx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Do Ayatollah Khomeini!

  • @mosdj
    @mosdj 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thoroughly enjoyed this account of a piece of history that is practically on my doorstep! I can reach both St. Osyth and Bury St. Edmunds within an hour. More local histories please!

  • @bob-fi8ql
    @bob-fi8ql 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Philip Wittebane

  • @-Thunder-Warrior-
    @-Thunder-Warrior- 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another English Civil War personality who would make for an interesting topic would be Anthony Payne, The Cornish Giant.
    Over seven feet tall, Manservant and Bodyguard to the Grenville family, there are some great stories about the man and he remains something of a local legend around the small Cornish village of Stratton to this day.

  • @SbeveTheFirst
    @SbeveTheFirst 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Could you please cover George Harrison?

  • @christineleblanc4486
    @christineleblanc4486 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really enjoy the language & the writing. "Like a pair of misogynistic vampires the pair never entered a victim's home without an invite." "He took to it like an extremist duck to water."

  • @TheJavaMonkey
    @TheJavaMonkey 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    She turned me into a newt!

  • @bmorcus
    @bmorcus 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another awesome video, will you be uploading more podcasts? I love being able to listen to them while I drive

  • @WorthlessWinner
    @WorthlessWinner 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My school was in the town his grave was in, so we visited it :P

  • @Michael_Chandler_Keaton
    @Michael_Chandler_Keaton 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Like the good Christian he was?" Was that a slight against Christians? Because we could also say people were acting like the good Christians they were when they founded the first hospitals, charities, and universities, or when they started the abolitionist movements to end slavery in the west, etc.

  • @colinp2238
    @colinp2238 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Think of the witch trial from Monty Pythons Holy Grail and you get an idea of the logic used in those dark days.

    • @lynchet4532
      @lynchet4532 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Though using the logic of Sir Bedevere the witch does end up admitting "its a fair cop" :)

    • @colinp2238
      @colinp2238 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lynchet4532 Because she looks like one!

    • @lynchet4532
      @lynchet4532 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@colinp2238 this isn't my nose, it's a false one ! But she did weigh the same as a duck ! Therefore a witch !

    • @colinp2238
      @colinp2238 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lynchet4532 Then she's made of wood and we can BURN her.

    • @astroterf.
      @astroterf. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lynchet4532 ⁹⁹

  • @tonypintarelli877
    @tonypintarelli877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Like a pair of misogynistic vampires..." sound like certain modern politicians.

  • @madiantin
    @madiantin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    10:08 "Further, 4 had died in jail" Woah. Soooo....they went all out on the torture then? =(

    • @varolussalsanclar1163
      @varolussalsanclar1163 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Probably just starvation and/or dehydration

    • @iamjackalope
      @iamjackalope 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@varolussalsanclar1163 or dysentery or any number of illnesses but torture is still very likely as well.

    • @espositogregory
      @espositogregory 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey hey hey, they’re torturers, not doctors.

  • @gawaineross4656
    @gawaineross4656 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love your videos, Simon. You are such a rational and humane person. Bravo!

    • @tammichenard1024
      @tammichenard1024 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ...he doesn't write the scripts, he only READS them. You can tell a lot about a person's core personality by the way they read words that others have written. I guess.

  • @jamesmelt
    @jamesmelt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    At 15:36 did you say "Back in August of 1945?"

    • @dennishunt1590
      @dennishunt1590 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes Simon made the 20th Century mistake again. But fair Dinkum he's good to listen to no um's or ahh's. He is a wonderful orator.

    • @deniseg-hill1730
      @deniseg-hill1730 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I presume he meant 1645

  • @Taffer-bx7uc
    @Taffer-bx7uc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Probably one of the best job titles ever! Witchfinder General!

  • @sunlitsonata6853
    @sunlitsonata6853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Owl House fans where you at?

  • @miakalovestama
    @miakalovestama 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I absolutely adore this youtube channel. I was wondering if you would do an episode of Maurice de Pendergast the right hand of Strongbow.

  • @Calum_S
    @Calum_S 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A zealot named Hopkins. Sounds familiar.

  • @kyleclark4449
    @kyleclark4449 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Simon, this just sparked a question for Today I Found Out. What happened to the women that were not guilty of witchcraft and drowned, e.g. all of them? Were the witchfinders made to compensate for killing innocent women, or was it just shrugged off?

  • @chrishopkins209
    @chrishopkins209 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Today we're going to examine how one zealous man managed to corrupt England's soul" So this is a biopic about Nigel Farage now?

    • @chrishopkins209
      @chrishopkins209 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      And bloody proud of the fact too!

  • @icreatedanaccountforthis1852
    @icreatedanaccountforthis1852 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If she floats in a lake, she's a witch.

  • @romelnegut2005
    @romelnegut2005 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Innocent women killed because a lunatic believed that they were witches.

    • @redlightspellsdanger7177
      @redlightspellsdanger7177 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Romel Negut it’s called Christianity

    • @CorbCorbin
      @CorbCorbin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lunatics
      As in most of the populous, who were in such fear, of an invisible, make believe threat, that they let innocent people, men and women, be tried, and sometimes killed.

    • @romelnegut2005
      @romelnegut2005 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CorbCorbin Correct.

  • @furioussherman7265
    @furioussherman7265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    James I and Matthew Hopkins blamed witches for their problems much like Timmy's dad blamed Dinkleberg for his.

  • @FatherDade
    @FatherDade 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can you do mark twain?

  • @lyleslaton3086
    @lyleslaton3086 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    A fine example of what happens when authority and ego mix. Greed also played into the disaster.

  • @EveTheGuardian
    @EveTheGuardian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Was blaming witches the same as our "Thanks, Obama" back then?

    • @archer1949
      @archer1949 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gary Daniel
      A lot of Trumplickers still believe on this nonsense.

    • @EveTheGuardian
      @EveTheGuardian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gentlemen, please, can we just enjoy the free education and not talk about politics?