When The British Were Terrified Of Witches | Gods And Monsters | Timeline
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- Before he became James I of England, James VI of Scotland nearly died in a terrible storm at sea - which he believed was caused by a spell cast by witches. In this episode, Tony Robinson takes a look at how black magic and witchcraft tangibly shaped the society of our ancestors.
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i love Tony Robinson. His true passion and curiosity for history is so contagious. i watch these for hours
Anyone who can fold a top sheet that fits on a mattress perfectly, that's real witch craft.
😂🤣👍
Lmao
That's a scientific fact.
@Skunk Ape
The ones with the elastic gathers all the way around are a little trickier. It can be done, but it takes a bit of extra care.
So true
Baldrick: You know my father was a nun.
Blackadder: No he wasn't.
Baldrick: Yes he was, because I remember when this judge asked him what was his profession he said none.
Blackadder: *sighs* oh God....
Bwahahaha.
LOL!!
😋 cute!
This is absolutely terrifying. And the hatred towards women is still present in some countries.
Exactly. 😟😰
Hatred toward women remains present everywhere, the most put upon of all people, as history demonstrates.
@@juliewitt1411 yup.
And rightly so!!
I never understood how men hate women so: one of them gave you life and then other ones can provide you with a lifetime of sexual satisfaction and/or companionship.
As all wealth and property went to the church at the time of accusation, witch burning was a method to get very quickly a rich bishop.
And extreme sadism under a veil of righteous Christian values.
the true monsters were the ones blaming others of witchcraft
If I was there, I would have accused Matthew Hobkins and John Stern for being warlocks!
Sounds like something a witch would say 🤔😉
True, however... because of their ignorance they truly didn't realize at the time.. it unfortunately happens in humanity sometimes, not making it any less tragic.
True. Brings to mind Andrew Doyle’s book New Puritans.
to be fair, these people were only a couple centuries removed from believing when thunder claps in the sky, it was Thor, then moved onto thinking Angels were beyond the Sky and Demons were under the earth. Average Human Villagers were not smart for most of history, it wasn't until the 19th century that public education became more of a thing
Why not go to Benin where children are STILL killed for being witches?
Even happened in London a few yrs back. It's still with us.
The biggest lie Satan has convinced " logical" thinking people of, is that he is not real. God is real and so is his adversary "Satan". There is a spiritual war going on as we speak and God in heaven will win.
I can understand about Benin but it is so outrageous that it happened in London recently! Horrifying! 😟😰
@@LuzMaria95 www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar/01/couple-guilty-boy-murder-witchcraft
@@LuzMaria95 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_(murder_victim)
@@LuzMaria95 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_accusations_against_children_in_Africa
i've actually read the Malleus Maleficarum and I have to say WORST purchase EVER. The book makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Total waste of not only money but waste of a birthday. I spent a few hours reading this on my birthday back in march only to end up EXTREMELY confused
Research the author & read up on him. It's not going to make the Malleus make sense 100% but, it'll help a lot with the confusion.
I admire your dedication and intellectual curiosity. And hope your next birthday is better!
Along the popular line of Witchdom and Witching, was that masterstroke of Margaret Hamilton's portrayal of The Wicked Witch of the East, in the film The Wizard of Oz.
About her portrayal she later remarked:
Almost always they want me to laugh like the Witch. And sometimes when I go to schools, if we're in an auditorium, I'll do it. And there's always a funny reaction, like 'Ye gods, they wish they hadn't asked.' They're scared. They're really scared for a second. Even adolescents. I guess for a minute they get the feeling they got when they watched the picture. They like to hear it but they 'don't' like to hear it. And then they go, 'Ohhhhhhhhhh ... !' The picture made a terrible impression of some kind on them, sometimes a ghastly impression, but most of them got over it, I guess ... because when I talk like the Witch, and when I laugh, there is a hesitation and then they clap. They're clapping at hearing the sound again.
From her quite good Wikipedia bio.
No other witch portrayal cackled quite as well or entertainingly as did Margaret Hamilton's.
Also, for a trip back in time, do seek-out "The Witches Tale" with Old Nancy and her black cat Satan. It was a radio program that started back in good olde 1930, at the beginning of the Depression, and it was a hit. Here we can get a good idea of how old New England witch-talk might have sounded.
Fortunately most all of the episodes were transcribed for circulation around the States for radio broadcast, so we now have these to hear as preserved.
Old Nancy weekly introduced tales of terror to her audience with black cat Satan's most essential help.
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this still happens in some places of the world. Haiti for instance, I just read of a woman accused by her neighbour of having "turned into a cat and killed my baby".....when the police arrived to arrest her for this horrible crime, she had fled leaving her husband and children. so the police arrested her husband, leaving the children orphaned who were then taken into an orphanage. Imagine a place where the police also believe this nonsense and anyone can accuse anyone else and no proof needed. this also happens in african countries.
New Guinea is like that too
@@weblightstudio8215 Yeah, we hear about it sometimes down here in Australia.
Africa is a cesspit of superstition, and witchdoctors control everone's lives. No matter if farmer or general, they all consult them. Because of them there is no developpment in black Africa.
"...cruel and brutal, yet satisfying," not the reaction I was expecting from Tony but a memorable quote.
“Magic was big business” which competed with the Catholic Church!! This is why witches had to die.
Totally!
@Asier Linazasoro Exactly. Witch hunting really took off in Denmark under the protestant king Christian IV. I really wasn't a thing in catholic days. It was somewhat different in other countries, but in general protestants were superstitious and dangerous. It backfired at last. The priest in Thisted was sentenced for hunting witches and demons and lost his title. That was in 1696 (and really a story). Murdering and attacks on witches continued in a few cases.
@@typograf62 It is indeed true that witch hunts occurred more often in Protestant than Catholic areas, but that does not mean that Catholics were not involved, as well. Germany, where the witch trials were the most common, had both Catholic and Protestant areas with little difference between them in terms of witch trials: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_the_early_modern_period#Peak_of_the_trials:_1560%E2%80%931630
As for superstition, that's pretty evenly distributed between denominations. When your faith relies on magical thinking to begin with, there really isn't avoiding superstition, be it in the Medieval times or the modern day.
@Asier Linazasoro
Only in the early Middle Ages. During the Renaissance the Catholic doctrine changed to include belief in witches, as well.
No, it is prohibited by God in the Bible.
@Who's Zoomin Who? It's healthy for all faiths to be mocked. It teaches perspective and humility. The world doesn't revolve around your religion.
Islam could also do for a bit more mockery, but unfortunately most people in that business are also unrepentent racists.
The sad part is they weren’t even witches, just regular women who knew more than they were “supposed to”.
No, they were predatory hypnotists. "Witch" is code for hypnotic control. Despite what the books say, it's possible to break someone's will with hypnosis.
Not quite, Ray. 🤣
@@makon2824 All because you say so! Yes, that's what it is. But hey whatever.
Sure, let's go with that. Whatever helps you sleep.
@@makon2824 Your need to win internet arguments is far greater than mine. I limit mine to two posts so you "win."
Fantastic documentary series ty for posting these
Gaining a huge amount of respect for the horror movie The Witch after watching this documentary. The attention to detail really was amazing
I love this man.
How much
Him: Today, witches are the stuff of fairy tales.
All the witches watching: ummm.... yup. Keep telling yourself that sweetie.
Salt was and is used in Catholic baptism and signifies rejection of evil
Many Christian and Catholic rituals are derived from Pagan rituals. Salt casting away evil is a classic but they also celebrate mid-winter & mid-summer in Pagan fashion.
It traps ALL spirits good and evil. Don't throw salt on Casper!
Amazing what a little science and information can do for a people! Love you TONY!! TY
Not just Witchcraft but Wizardcraft, Sorcery, and other practices
Witchcraft, Warcraft and Starcraft no?
....
Some men were accused of being a witch the first known witch was male but more women were accused of being a witch.
Wizards use potions not magic that the difference between a witch and wizard
@@vampyresgraveyard3307 Gandalf def uses magic.
@@mugu2416 I often go to NASA at Kennedy Space Center and start accusing them of Starcraft... but security always escorts me out.
“Lest we should see where we are, lost in a haunted wood, children afraid of the night, who have never been happy or good.” - W.H. Auden 1939
This video was interesting but more so terrifying on how to torture someone! 😱 🦉🦇🕷🕸
Matthew Hopkins did torture people in England too. Some places required accused to recite the Lords Prayer - if they knew it.
I bet if you said it in Aramaic or Hebrew (like jesus would have done), they still would have tortured or killed you.
The story of the Pendle witches is tragic because in a sense, the accusations were possibly slightly true. A girl--probably only a teenager--named Alizon Device asked a man for some pins. It's not clear whether she intended to buy them or if she was begging but either way he refused and so she cursed at him. He fell down, partially paralyzed, and never fully recovered. It's likely he suffered a stroke. Being cursed at may have actually caused the stroke--not through magic but just because his fear or anger raised his blood pressure enough to trigger it. Alizon was stricken with guilt and begged him for forgiveness and when it came to trial she made no effort to defend herself. She believed she'd caused him harm through her curse. Maybe she even had. This kind of story is probably why people truly believed in the power of magic--without science, magic seems like the only explanation.
You make me smile Colleen!
This really hurts me to think they hurt n killed my ancestors like that. We hurt no one. It’s our law.
I don't know which is really nuts in British history: A nine year old girl like Janet accusing her own family of witchcraft or her family not treating her right at home 😮😢
Yo need to do a follow-up show on the true healing women that were tortured here! Some idiots seeing this show take this seriously as to them being witches.
The use of the word 'medieval' in this video is a complete misnomer. The witchcraft hysteria of the 16th and 17th centuries occurred during and just after the Renaissance, partly during the so-called 'age of enlightenment.'
I will save this for Halloween 🎃 night
Baldrick just appears everywhere! He sure loves to eat rats!
Stabbing a photo of your grandparents on a show that they're gonna see isn't exactly proof that people inharently believe in magic
It's proof even modern humans believe in illogical things and bad omens.
@@petethundabox5067 You have to battle murderous thoughts because you're lacking the capacity to think of it as a piece of paper. I could easily stab it because I've broken the mental barrier and know it is nothing more than paper in reality.
@@idudheebsbzdudbdhddh Dang, dart boards are just dart boards ?
@@kathrynedmunds9321 When you put a picture on them it's suddenly something else, according to some people.
When I lose a chicken I blame it on a lot of stuff... Never witches.... But ya know, my neighbor is a strange one....
The great witch-hunts did NOT take place during the Middle Ages. They happened during the Early Modern period, particularly in Protestant areas. Think on it.
they took place after the book hammer of the witch was already a top seller for a few hundred years. Thanks Crusades
@@gianttigerfilms The Malleus was published in 1486. What has that to do with the Crusades?
@Darth Revan It is a widespread misconception that the Middle Ages were particularly keen on witch hunts. They were not. Very few trials and even fewer death sentences. It's the 1600s when it really took off. Witch hunts are really an early modern phenomenon. As witnessed by James I/VI.
@@danhanqvist4237 the man who wrote it was a Crusader
@@gianttigerfilms Kramer was a clerk and an inquisitor. Not a crusader.
15:32-16:22 NAILED IT!👌😩
Is there any chance that the pre-Christian practices, Celtic rituals, persisted in secret for hundreds of years? I'm not just referring to the things which were adapted into the new religion, like the winter solstice into Christmas.
I also have a copy of the Maleus Maleficarum in my private library. Did you know that’s where giving someone “the third degree” comes from? It’s still a part of our culture today, no matter how mad the authors were.
Don't think that this kind of thinking is gone to history. Saudi Arabia held a counsel just last year that outlawed witchcraft. So they STILL believe it is real and they are seeking to press charges on people. So much for modern thinking...
It is real trust me
There are people who say they are themselves witches.
@@lindsaydickson47 Gets out torches...
@@unitor699industries Bah...
So much ? The world seems to operate at many levels of thought !
Voodoo is not based in evil, it's Hoodoo that is. Smh
'Of course none if this was real.'
Sure it wasn't. 🤥🙄
So this is King James I and VI then? I’m not from the UK but I heard it was James I which is also the VI.
The same. James Stuart, VI in Scotland, I in England. He united the two crowns.
As an African , I see some of this ignorance now because of competing beliefs. Traditional healers suffer this hatred from mainstream religions
Only one animal was harmed in the making of this show.
All this craziness seems like it might be the conflict between the roman religion and the druids.
Good point
Here in America, we elect we now elect witches into office.
Witches are real! Ever heard of Santeria? If you're Hispanic you know it ain't a game! There are
Conclusion: We are a truly despicable species
The baby bones etc was a code. I have the translation table
powerful men rejected by the women they desired. After the rejection, these men made up stories about women being witches.
There is some truth in what you say as a woman was a cow or cattle. Some pedigreed yet still nothing more than a cow.
magic is not fiction.
Religion "thou shalt not kill"
Also religion: "KILL all witches"
Torture device expert WAY too excited
As above so below .... lots of inversion snd perversion. I follow the Most High only ♥️
For the common people, who were uneducated and told what to believe by the state and church, their superstitious fear is understandable - even if it was based on a disgusting sexism and prejudice against women where any woman who was different was a target of abuse. However, the people who were educated and wrote those manuals knew they'd conjured them up from their own fantasies and based them on the confessions of tortured women or outright heresay. Even the Romans knew anyone would say anything under torture.
How easily did these witch-hunters ignore reason to satisfy their own obsessions?
Also, these women were incredibly easy to torture and get to "confess" considering all the powers they were meant to have.
What people did for entertainment before TV
@Darth Revan You can never over estimate the power of group stupid
So what did kill the chicken?
Viral infections, mostly cause for death of the fowls.
The Black Adder!
The cage of modern chicken wire .
Too many times crossing the road?
In my country all the chickens are on strike or being exported to China. Which ....witch....makes no sense as China has tons of land to raise good communistic chickens for mass consumption. Eggs! Eggs! Eggs!
They have to turn the heat on in that place.
I have a cunning plan!
But are you a cunning linguist?
Meantime, witches do exist, but are not negative, or evil - like with followers of Wicca.
My exs mum charges ppl $100 for a spiritual healing session. (spoiler alert: she couldn't heal a paper cut) so 'magic' is still perhaps big business
What nationality was she? Can you tell please?
England was no longer medieval in the 16th and 17th centuries, just a detail but there you go. And also, why weren't men accused of wizardry? Why was it only women who were tortured and burned to death? Methinks this documentary hasn't answered all the questions concerning witches!
Men were accused, tortured & murdered for witchcraft just as women were. So were children. Women however made up the bulk of victims for a myriad of reasons & have been romanticized within literature & movies, which is why witchcraft is associated more with the feminine.
I don’t think, that you understand why this happened, because people want to held some kind of power, and it can happen both ways, either for good or for bad purpose. And we only put our eyes on witchcraft , because it does harm to the community. But I grew up and seen people filled with demons possessed, and I didn’t understand how to treat them, but thankfully for the grace of God, that they been healed, but now I know we can rebuke that evil spirit, by the name of Jesus Christ. I heard people still do witchcraft, but I haven’t met one yet.
If you could bring the spectrum of your knees fulcrum, upwards let's say, you may be able to bend the fetters if you were a person of extreme normal strength.
If you think, the fetters would be more fully stretched to their extremes, severely strong people under extreme stress to escape those fetters may be able to bend the weak metal.
But how did this process WARKE?
I would love you know when it will be recognized that Men are the identified as a Witch
I wonder if the belief in magic or the fact that people would be scared to investigate magic or investigate new disciplines like science, this belief and punishment may have set us back 100s of years. Think about how much we accomplish in 30 years in medicine, so if we were to scarred to talk about our findings well that’s not how you become smarter. Imagine Louis pasture being to afraid to talk about bacteria 🦠 now what beliefs do we have today that is holding us back, I don’t know 🤷 I’m not that smart ask Tony he might tell us unless he’s a witch ohhhhhh nooooo lol 😂
Hey, Darwin was vexed for forty years about publishing his ideas !
The lie came from
Misunderstanding by incredibly ignorant people with weird imaginations. The word witch originally
Meant wise thus witchcraft meant
craft of these wis and the wise knew that anything negative.was not wise and would never yield anything worth worthwhile and that ignorance lacked light which was commonly known to be information
Thus the expression"s
"Don't leave me in the dark"
And .
The term
Enlighten me
it's actually very simple
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40,000 peopl died so experts could sell books, sound familiar Tony,,a lot of people selling books during the pandemic 😷
Denyers are the new witches !!
Spelling denier with a y is so good! 🤝🤛
Reckin I'm the target 2d. I get blamed for everything
I saw the title "When The British Were Terrified of Witches" and the first thought that pops up in my mind was "when they were turned into newts?" And if one needs to find out if their neighbor is a witch, you put the accused on a scale, with a duck.
[sigh] I can't keep up the self entertaining bit anymore.. I need to speak to other humans.
lol why show the “bird beak suit” that was used by drs?
sarikatimmi rip plague doctors
Morrigan yes they back then though that the bubonic plague spread through air thats why they were wearing these masks
The plague dr suit was to protect from bad air or what they called miasma. Since they didn't understand germ theory they simply thought that the air around a sick person would make you sick but also, graveyards and plenty of other things. They were getting close to modern science but not quite!
This was okay but didn't even touch on the reason why and how witchcraft was used as a political and economic weapon.
By the way the salt worn was a harkening back to salt as a barrier to keep negative/evil away, cleaning as well.....that's right sympathetic magic. Imagine that. )O(
Witches are very real at least where I live, a flying witch here is as common as an iPhone in the states.
why its pvt baldrick
Probably had something that someone wanted to steal.
Children who love lies, enjoy.
witch hunts were jin hunts, some people have real power.
Lots of people still believe in the literal truth about a talking snake.
No air planes with this generation thinking
"You feel bad stabbing a face of someone you know and respect or love, even in representative form" - I'm with you there.
"This means people subconsciously believe that the knife will cause damage to the people in the photograph" - You've lost me, find a better propagandist.
You have to be straight up ignoring the possibility that people are socially hardwired to not like the idea of violence towards those they care about, come on now, even talking about such things makes people uncomfortable. I worry for either the honesty or empathy of the person who made those claims.
You would really have to hate these people bad enough to do harm to them or be just pure evil.
I'm actually finding the nagging for History Hits very off-putting. I was considering a subscription but now I'm wondering just *why* he's so desperate.
True altruism isn't popular or profitable.
You she entity lifeforces (including she entity lifeforces currently existing in XY DNA template bodies) come up with the strangest notions.
And... This universe is a sim. Scientific proof already exists that it is. A lot of it. A whole lot of a lot.
And being able to access/influence the underlying sim programming is neither "magic" nor "supernatural".
Evilness is an extreme no-no right from the get-go. Across all the universes. For everyone.
Goodness needs neither your permission nor your excuses. All goodness needs from you is to do it.
It is illogical to do evilness because in the long term, all you're doing is shooting yourself in the foot.
And i fail to understand the "appeal" of shooting yourself in the foot.
RNA
Get through the episode thinking deep ponderies about fear and psychology... get to the end bit where they tease the next show.
My brain: *begins playing God Compare on repeat*
th-cam.com/video/yIAc6BiD3y0/w-d-xo.html
Meanwhile I'm flashing back to Slimy Stuart Paramedics
Women, they were women not witches. The "witch" trials was the holocaust of women.
you must be a witch!!
Oh god do not compare this to the Holocaust
Witches or not I want to see better social and spiritual distancing. Very disappointing. Nor did I see a mask which is strongly recommended when conducting spell related events.
This was made in 2011.
Dude this was recording pre-pandemic. Chill
I’m all about masks and social distancing, so don’t come for me.
Why does witchcraft mostly refer to women? Asian, as far as I know, still believe in some supernatural spells (witchcraft) which can still be found till nowadays and some of the spell crafters are not female. -_-
Now a days, witches (& wizards) are teenagers who go to a magic castle for school & ride broomsticks in a sport called Quidditch!! 😅😂 #PotterheadHere
I think we should bring back witch dunking, personally.
Your sick. The heavy wool clothing, when wet, might drown. Boots will drown. Water temp will shock to death. Social entertainment, still is !
She’s a witch, sink or swim time Ce
Magic is very real always has been. People feared what they didn't understand and the church wanted power and money. James I was a paranoid king
What if James I was right and they were witches?
gods I hate dan snow
His father wasn't any better.
Witchcraft has existed longer than their religion. Seems asinine to define witchcraft within the confines of said religion.
Come to philippines theres a lot of witch craft.... Hahaha...🤣🤣🤣 until now they all exist...😅
Witches be trippin
"I have a cunning plan."
Lol All I ever wanted was a little turnip to call my own 😉
In lieu of witches today we have the new atheists. Go at 'em Christians! Start with me.
For God so loved the world that he gave his ONLY begotten son to die for our sins whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life! Lean on Jesus in these trying times!
ALL who call upon the name of the Lord (Jesus) WILL be saved. TODAY is the day of your salvation. This world is plunging deeper into darkness by the day....
How could they believe it? Because people are stupid! Just look at Q Anon today......