Doesn’t matter how many times I see this doc I always get infuriated with how these men got away with torturing innocent people to the point of admitting anything if it meant the pain stopped
Well, this is going on today in some countries. Innocent people are tortured into admitting to whatever crime the government considers a threat to their power.
Unfortunately that's the nature of men,torture and execution have been going on for thousands of years.The 'witches' were the healers and midwives but in medieval times(with the rise of male 'physicians')the maternal and infant deaths actually rose.More innocent people(men,women and children)were tortured and slaughtered in the border wars,the Spanish Inquisition and under the Nazi regime,and they weren't all Jews.And it's still happening!
It wasn’t just the fault of men. Women were the main ones “turning in” other women. Fear, religious fervor, vindictive people, sadistic torturers, the divine right of kings AND queens, it took all kinds. It’s humanity, not just men
400 years ago = 1622, the dawn of the Age of Absolutism. Calling that point in history "the middle ages" is the kind of blunder that only a non-historian would make. Experts call the 1590s the Early Modern when referring to cultural and societal phenomena in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and the British Isles generally.
400 years ago was well past the "'Middle Ages" - nearly at the end of the Renaissance. It seems to me that it isn't so much that they were "'obsessed" by witches as that modern minds are obsessed with talking about witchcraft. Actually in the grand scheme of things the movement against witchcraft was not as big as people assume. Also.... I don't know who wrote the above comment about the Catholic Church, but in England in the 1600s, there were nearly no Catholics - England had wiped them out and become Prtoestant under Elizabeth I. This was all about the Protestants, people. And in fact, much of the anti-witch craze began as being wrapped up in anti-Catholicism. When they spoke about "'heretics" they meant it in a very religious sense.
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
This is also partly true - and lots of them had real positive spiritual knowledge - not everyone liked that...especially not masons and satanists, because they were their enemies and concurrents in spiritual things. Just turn around truth and call your opponent doing a crime youself committed - an old trick still in use today. Many of the propaganda against the Catholic curch is based on this masonic principle. An explanation why church always had to fight so hard against infiltration and corruption.
I wanted to comment that this has absolutely nothing to do with the Middle Ages, but I'm relieved to see that so many people know better. What a dumb mistake to make for a history channel. For shame.
In music, we call the period 400 years ago The Baroque- the era of Monteverdi, Purcell, Bach and Handel. Not even close to the Middle Ages- and well after the whole Renaissance (!). I’d say calling this the Middle Ages is out of bounds for a history documentary- different culture, different motivations, different values and aspirations. Would you mix up Mozart and The Beatles? Think how different these “worlds” were.
Thank you. I clicked on this video with no intention of watching it, but only to correct the title and peace out. The Medieval Church's official stance on witchcraft was that belief in its practice was a superstition. Yours is the top comment displayed, btw, thank goodness. The period could be classified as 'Early Modern' I suppose, but your label is more precise. If the producers made such a glaring error as this, I have little faith in the accuracy or veracity of the content.
Victorian historians maligned the "Middle Ages" so unfairly in order to elevate their epoch to the rightful successor to and natural evolution of Classical Antiquity, and 100 years later the trend and bias persists. I promise the reader that he or she would rather roll the dice to live in almost any station during the High Middle Ages (1100-1300) as opposed to the Iron Century (1550-1650) or even the early enlightenment (1700+) in many places. Edit: The "Renaissance" was pretty rough too. The aftershocks of the Black Death were felt for hundreds of years, people's faith in God was undermined and living standards for the vast majority weren't much of an improvement. More freedom for the once-serf maybe, here and there. Freedom to starve. The Medeival manoral system was a tightly-knit society which at least offered folk a sense of community - and people actually bathed regularly! - unlike this plague-ridden era where immersion in water was feared, wars were large and devastating and superstition was rife.
@@tamarrajames3590 so now we resort to blatant denial, "not my sacred writtings"-James ? instead of talking to thee heretic crypto, me should rather gather some gunpowder.....there is work to be done...
I went on a date with a boy one time, years ago, and it was like our 4th date, and we had hit it off very well! He was an amazing kisser! So, I thought I'd finally let him come home with me. What I didn't mention, as I didn't think it'd matter, is that my room looks like a Witch's lair! It sort of is. There's antlers, statues of various Pagan Deities, blended with statues of Saints, Christ, etc. Along with a lot of candles, antlers and animal skulls all about, and a lot o ornate boxes and such that have runes, sigils, and pentacles/pentagrams. I don't love pentacles/pentagrams as much as the Wiccans do! But they're used to symbolize Venus (Pentagrams) as well as order and protection (pentacles.). And I have a lot of other neat, Traditional Witch/Traditional Pagan objects and such. The boy stepped in my room, looked around, then crossed himself, and asked if I were some kind of Witch or something? I just giggled and told him that it depends on who you ask! I thought he was kidding! He was not! He called me The Devil's Whore! As if! Whores get paid! 😂 Then he made a hasty exit from my place! And that was that! I'd like to have at least heard why he was so freaked out? I mean, I'm a pretty nice guy! Im not flying around in my broom, goat or pitchfork, looking for babies to snatch and crops and fields to blight! It was his loss! And definitely one of the more interesting romance disasters that I've had! 😂
I made up stories for my kids and now my grandkids. The plot the boys want: dragon threatens everyone, a knight slays the dragon, cuts him up and feeds everyone. The plot the girls want: Girl all dressed up and boyfriend commits a faux pas and embarrasses himself.
@@tnekkc That should be easy to tie together! Sadly, my disaster dates and weirdo guys that I met, and some times saw for a bit, before I met my husband, of course, are anything but fictional! 😹 I'm also a big believer in the reality of Witches. A lot of people do. Particularly where I'm from
400 years ago someone could be executed for practicing witchcraft. No one would then dare be a witchcraft denier. The average IQ was higher back then. Now we punish people for being skeptical of a vaccine, questioning sex transitioning, or denying man made climate change. The only executions for witchcraft today are in some other countries, lacking our sophistication;) My 8 year old grandaughter want no witchcraft stories about her. She wants "bad boy and super girl". My 2 year old grandaughter want stories where she plays peek a boo, and eats the berries. They both want lots of emotion in the character voices... hard for an engineering nerd grandpa.
@@tnekkc You're an engineer? That's awesome! And admirable! I read stories to my nieces, nephews, and godchildren. I'm afraid that I'm not very talented with doing the voices either!
What a damn fine documentary this is. Well acted, well explained, with some of the original locations and books published at the time shown. If you've only gotten through the first few minutes, watch the rest....it's realllly good! 😁
This channel is one of the several owned by Little Dot Studios. I've already seen this video on one of their other channels (and it's even on a third channel of theirs also). They have a habit of posting videos from one of their channels to another one as if they're new videos. It's a lame habit.
@@rockintoes Absolutely I agree I'm also grateful to see this documentary here I guess lame habits can be great. I mean it sure must be hard pleasing All of Humanity All of the Time The Critical Comments in this Section And Insulting one another as well as the Creators of The Video Was Down Right Disappointing I can honestly see why some TH-cam Channels Turn the Comment Section 📴
I can only conclude that *groupthink* have been a huge thing from the start of mans history, George Orwell’s book 1984, was only a continuation of what was already in existence
Its more due to a lack of understanding of the world. My cow is sick and the old lady said a curse at me once. That must be the reason. People were very religious and were mighty scared of going to hell. They would not indight someone falsely with malicious intent. Then they would go to hell in their mind
I have a written documentation that my great great great great grandmother was the last "witch" burned in her town, if not that chunk of Denmark. To think of all the women, and the few men, who met their fate to women-hating men and fearful, gullible people is both so melancholy and so infuriating
And still in the 21st century we (as humans) still adhere to the same principles.. It doesn't matter if accusations are true or false, but whenever there is a "scandal" that triggers some of us in a way so that people kinda feel entitled or obligated to make threats / showing moral superiority by talking down on them as well as ruining their reputation whenever possible. I don't understand the motivation to harass others (and who knows what some people might attempt if they'd been given the opportunity..) or the underlying impulse to judge and strip them from their status as human being. Sorry for the derailment but the internet feels like a gigantic with hunt to me, at least in some aspects. Regarding your relative, how did you become aware of that incident? I couldn't even imagine what my ancestors did and endured.
@@EugnusMaximus honestly couldn't agree more, it's tiring at thus point. Everyone pointing fingers at everyone the moment there's a conflict of interest A few years ago i was shown a handwritten heritage book that goes back several generations. At one of the logs, there was also a newspaper article about how the last witch was burnt. The name matches the one written down as a grandparent or smth of the person logging it. The likelihood of this being a coincidence is almost null, as the name was a pretty uncommon one, and the article is old. Of course I'll never be 100% sure, but it's highly likely
@@eleutheromania_is_fyhr_alt5098 Wow thanks for your timely reply after your original comment was written like 8 month ago! I find it somewhat fascinating, in a more negative sense, to how this is still a phenomenon even tho illiteracy and poverty are at an all time low in history, I believe. Are those just extremely vocal but few and the majority remains silent out of fear for being targeted next? Or maybe something entirely else, many possibilities come to mind but I wonder what the common trigger might be. Regarding your great great great great grandmother, that's really interesting how you seemingly found out by chance. Not far fetched to conclude that it was indeed one of your ancestors. Tbh from what I imagine about those who were burned at the stake the majority probably have been actually the more decent kind of people like those who stood against this senseless murder for example, so I'd bed she made a very positive impact in her life regardless, is there some info about your documentation you'd like to share?
@@EugnusMaximus i randomly got the notification lmao, so no prolem Humans are, collectively, a strange soft of "facinating inna sort of horrible way". We really are predisposed to acting out in very stange ways. I think the trigger may be so simple as to us being the only species who has triggers at all There's not much about her, it was just jotted down as a heritage thing alongside her husband and kids. I like the idea of her, however tragic it may be, though. Just as i do with any of the stories of witches. I certainly like imagining her as part of my heritage. Thank you for humoring a, as you've started, 8 month old comment lmao. Have a wonderful day
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
Look at what's going on today. A ten year old was raped and they wanted her to have the baby. Her body can't have one. She would die. They don't care. And yes, they think sex with a ten year old is ok if there's not an abortion. Does this make any sense to you?
no this was just the act of the colonies, england and americas. i wouldn't call it middle ages. as another comment said " 400 years ago = 1622, the dawn of the Age of Absolutism. Calling that point in history "the middle ages" is the kind of blunder that only a non-historian would make. Experts call the 1590s the Early Modern when referring to cultural and societal phenomena in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and the British Isles generally. "
@@asielnorton345 at risk of being too pedantic, the video states this is British isles “400 years ago” which is mid 1620’s. Purcell : 1659. Handel:1685 and clearly both high baroque. William Byrd was definitely Late Renaissance and died in 1623, an by then English Renaissance was dead and buried with him… the point being shameful throwing about the terms “medieval” and “middle ages” by a history channel as click bait/ prurient sensationalism. Maybe they should have used the equally accurate terms “olden times” or perhaps “timey-wimey”.
@@sleepydrJ i wasnt a math major but 1590 was about 70 years before 1659 and 95 years before 1685. the English Renaissance is understood to have taken place in the 16th into the 17th century. the events take place during the reign of King James who died in 1625. the events in this video take place during the english renaissance.
It was so crazy that the villiage could get away with lying on people even their own family... i do wish there were writings engraved in the celllar were they were held
Groups always need someone to hate... even in a utopia. + a bunch of biases about foreigners/immigrants, women, and those who practiced different (even ancient) traditions... Is what I'm guessing.
@@rosemadder5547 it is a lot to unpack but ultimately not that complicated a question as the idea of witch has been repeated throughout so many disparate civilizations.
Destroying the link between people and the wise healers in their communities has always been part of the long game for whoever is creating the systems on this planet. There was a lot of competetion between traditional healers, and graduates of the new "licensing" schools (which only allowed men, btw.) The healers I'm speaking of were true wise men and women, not witch doctors who preyed on peoples fear and ignorance. These true wise healers, with thousands of years of collective knowledge, were a thorn in the side of the elite who were in the process of setting up the systems that are in place today. But, especially in rural areas, people still went to their village healer for herbs, and knowledge on how to keep the body healthy. These healers became a problem, especially after folk had gone to licensed docs, only to be poisoned or disfigured by THEIR version of "healing." People who had tried, and been harmed by, the "new" medicine, went back to the wise men & women in their local community. Any and all competion that exists for whoever is running this sh@*hole planet, must be eradicated. And they conveniently use religion and race, to create hatred and division, to make US kill each other. Fun times on this planet, eh?
Oh where is St. George? Oh where is he Oh? He's out in his longboat All on the Salt Sea Oh Up flies the Kite Down goes the Lark Oh Aunt Ursula birthed She had an old Ewe And she died In her old Park Oh!!!
There were no witch trials in Italy and Spain. Italy and Spain are catholic countries. Witchcraft trials were more conneted to protestant regions, for example Switzerland.
They would have had a stroke if They saw my large tarot/oracle collection, rune stones, spells, herbs, candles, jewelry, witch/tarot books....so i understand completely.
What Allison Devris did in freely confessing her guilt out of remorse, was darn courageous on her part. And I truly believe and think that in doing so, she can stand before God with a clear conscience. It makes me wonder if she asked His Forgiveness both during her incarceration, and before her death.
In that way, she reminds me of the penitent thief on the cross, whom Jesus forgave and reassured him of being in Paradise with Him that 1st Good Friday.
Unfortunately, this same tactic, of normalizing torture and brutality, was one of the main purposes of the events that took place during witch hunt times. Every generation has had to bear witness to some type of torture, abuse, ritual, etc., whether in person, on TV, in newspapers & mainstream news, in video games, etc. It's a way to fracture our psyches and render us numb and less human in our emotions and actions. To desensitize people (especially our young.) Also, The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
This was disappointing, but at least now I know not to trust this channel that claims to be about history but doesn't even know when the Medieval period was.
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The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
women in small hat society were all treated like queens throughout the ages......well maybe not as literally queens or similar high status figures, for this would be forbidden, but ya know what I mean - like surely something else super gorgeous ......
Sensationalised tripe for a start Seeton has a very Anglicised accent for being a Scot (or an extremely soft Scottish accent) and Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb has made her own opiniated mind up (unrequited sex etc. ) as to the reason for the event as opposed to maybe thinking and exploring from a 16th century mindset. I expected something more objective and less opinionated but instead was presented with a documentary that is like tabloid news nothing but filler made up of poor acting & overdramatic music. Watching this rubbish is like eating a donut that has been filled with pus nstead of custard.
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
Laugh out loud! Because they were dealing with their own lgbtq problems!!!! Same People, different century.....give it time folks!!!! You will figure out their agenda soon enough!!!
@@VivaCatatumbo973 No doubt, but the hysteria was WELL beyond proportion of the threat... those places that acted more sanely did just as well or better than those that went hysterical
Oh FFS some men....🙄 History makes me absolutely mad. I really hope that these poor innocent souls are finally happy and at peace. God knows they weren't here on Earth. The narcissistic Men ALWAYS blame someone else don't they.
Because evil willing witches existed. But the big witch persecutions and trials happened when modern financial capitalism developed in the Renaissance.
This is hilarious. So that is the new fad in your universities? Blaming capitalism of all things for witch hunts of the late renaissance? Wow, that takes a bit of imaginative rewriting of history!
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
ha ! I knew it had absolutely nothing to do with the heightened interest in occultism and alchemy after the first books regarding those topics came into print during the 16th and17th cent - damn you evil capitalism once more !
@@greenshp The property and lands of a convicted Witch were split between her accuser, and the King…not leaving out the Church. There was money to be made.🖤🇨🇦
@@greenshp The masonic merchant lodges wanted to get rid of economic concurrents and uncomfortable persons in society. And often get their land and property and ownings and money and so on. Sad - but true. Also see the anthropologist David Graeber about it. These lodges also infiltrated the church and the vaticanic banking system in der Renaissance and corrupted it. As today. The ideological Liberalismus and Neoliberalismus of Globalism is criminal and corrupt and social darwinist predator capitalism and usury and destructice free trade capitalism - and a destructice ideology as Ayn Rands "Objectivism". Privatize anything - and destroy the Enviroment. Also see Emmanuel Todd about it.
Yes, but no worse than what's on TV and in movies. What's pathetic, is that these were not witches at all. We should be horrified at Christian behavior and ignorance. We should never allow the accusation angrily used ever again about anyone. We see the victims of the Holocaust. These recreations are just as valid. Lest we forget.
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
@@leonieromanes7265 Perhaps , some peoples minds are like concentrate , thoroughly mixed and firmly set. Nothing in their opinion cannot be explained by natural law. Perhaps Ignorance and mass Hysteria , could Explain a unicorn. But what if it wasn't a unicorn ? What if old scratch , is actually real , and natural law don't tell the hold story, .once you seen what shouldn't be , what shouldn't be isn't as shouldn't as it should be.
Doesn’t matter how many times I see this doc I always get infuriated with how these men got away with torturing innocent people to the point of admitting anything if it meant the pain stopped
Well, this is going on today in some countries. Innocent people are tortured into admitting to whatever crime the government considers a threat to their power.
Unfortunately that's the nature of men,torture and execution have been going on for thousands of years.The 'witches' were the healers and midwives but in medieval times(with the rise of male 'physicians')the maternal and infant deaths actually rose.More innocent people(men,women and children)were tortured and slaughtered in the border wars,the Spanish Inquisition and under the Nazi regime,and they weren't all Jews.And it's still happening!
It's still happening..
It wasn’t just the fault of men. Women were the main ones “turning in” other women. Fear, religious fervor, vindictive people, sadistic torturers, the divine right of kings AND queens, it took all kinds. It’s humanity, not just men
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400 years ago = 1622, the dawn of the Age of Absolutism. Calling that point in history "the middle ages" is the kind of blunder that only a non-historian would make. Experts call the 1590s the Early Modern when referring to cultural and societal phenomena in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and the British Isles generally.
The stupidity and cruelty of people is astounding.
400 years ago was well past the "'Middle Ages" - nearly at the end of the Renaissance. It seems to me that it isn't so much that they were "'obsessed" by witches as that modern minds are obsessed with talking about witchcraft. Actually in the grand scheme of things the movement against witchcraft was not as big as people assume. Also.... I don't know who wrote the above comment about the Catholic Church, but in England in the 1600s, there were nearly no Catholics - England had wiped them out and become Prtoestant under Elizabeth I. This was all about the Protestants, people. And in fact, much of the anti-witch craze began as being wrapped up in anti-Catholicism. When they spoke about "'heretics" they meant it in a very religious sense.
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
just look up who made and financed this documentary and how their stance on witchcraft and catholicism is.....
Also see the historian Thomas E. Woods and Egon Flaig and Judith Reisman about it.
This is also partly true - and lots of them had real positive spiritual knowledge - not everyone liked that...especially not masons and satanists, because they were their enemies and concurrents in spiritual things. Just turn around truth and call your opponent doing a crime youself committed - an old trick still in use today. Many of the propaganda against the Catholic curch is based on this masonic principle. An explanation why church always had to fight so hard against infiltration and corruption.
@@feldgeist2637 can you tell is?
The real notorious devil worshiper walks freely. They were the authority, leaders, religious leaders, and elites.
I'm danish from Denmark 🇩🇰
So i find it interesting how the Danes before my time affected the English history and is excited to learn more about it.
I wanted to comment that this has absolutely nothing to do with the Middle Ages, but I'm relieved to see that so many people know better. What a dumb mistake to make for a history channel. For shame.
In music, we call the period 400 years ago The Baroque- the era of Monteverdi, Purcell, Bach and Handel. Not even close to the Middle Ages- and well after the whole Renaissance (!). I’d say calling this the Middle Ages is out of bounds for a history documentary- different culture, different motivations, different values and aspirations. Would you mix up Mozart and The Beatles? Think how different these “worlds” were.
Thank you. I clicked on this video with no intention of watching it, but only to correct the title and peace out. The Medieval Church's official stance on witchcraft was that belief in its practice was a superstition.
Yours is the top comment displayed, btw, thank goodness. The period could be classified as 'Early Modern' I suppose, but your label is more precise.
If the producers made such a glaring error as this, I have little faith in the accuracy or veracity of the content.
Victorian historians maligned the "Middle Ages" so unfairly in order to elevate their epoch to the rightful successor to and natural evolution of Classical Antiquity, and 100 years later the trend and bias persists.
I promise the reader that he or she would rather roll the dice to live in almost any station during the High Middle Ages (1100-1300) as opposed to the Iron Century (1550-1650) or even the early enlightenment (1700+) in many places.
Edit: The "Renaissance" was pretty rough too. The aftershocks of the Black Death were felt for hundreds of years, people's faith in God was undermined and living standards for the vast majority weren't much of an improvement.
More freedom for the once-serf maybe, here and there. Freedom to starve. The Medeival manoral system was a tightly-knit society which at least offered folk a sense of community - and people actually bathed regularly! - unlike this plague-ridden era where immersion in water was feared, wars were large and devastating and superstition was rife.
James also rewrote the Bible, and declared all others faulty.🖤🇨🇦
and now you're proud of yourself, aren't you
@@feldgeist2637 Why would I be? I merely stated a historical fact. It is not my sacred writings.🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 so now we resort to blatant denial, "not my sacred writtings"-James ?
instead of talking to thee heretic crypto, me should rather gather some gunpowder.....there is work to be done...
@@feldgeist2637 I’m sure that will please your God.🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 of course it will , James
Feldgeist doing righteous deeds always pleases the righteous God
I went on a date with a boy one time, years ago, and it was like our 4th date, and we had hit it off very well! He was an amazing kisser! So, I thought I'd finally let him come home with me. What I didn't mention, as I didn't think it'd matter, is that my room looks like a Witch's lair! It sort of is. There's antlers, statues of various Pagan Deities, blended with statues of Saints, Christ, etc. Along with a lot of candles, antlers and animal skulls all about, and a lot o ornate boxes and such that have runes, sigils, and pentacles/pentagrams. I don't love pentacles/pentagrams as much as the Wiccans do! But they're used to symbolize Venus (Pentagrams) as well as order and protection (pentacles.). And I have a lot of other neat, Traditional Witch/Traditional Pagan objects and such. The boy stepped in my room, looked around, then crossed himself, and asked if I were some kind of Witch or something? I just giggled and told him that it depends on who you ask! I thought he was kidding! He was not! He called me The Devil's Whore! As if! Whores get paid! 😂 Then he made a hasty exit from my place! And that was that! I'd like to have at least heard why he was so freaked out? I mean, I'm a pretty nice guy! Im not flying around in my broom, goat or pitchfork, looking for babies to snatch and crops and fields to blight! It was his loss! And definitely one of the more interesting romance disasters that I've had! 😂
I made up stories for my kids and now my grandkids.
The plot the boys want: dragon threatens everyone, a knight slays the dragon, cuts him up and feeds everyone.
The plot the girls want: Girl all dressed up and boyfriend commits a faux pas and embarrasses himself.
@@tnekkc That should be easy to tie together! Sadly, my disaster dates and weirdo guys that I met, and some times saw for a bit, before I met my husband, of course, are anything but fictional! 😹 I'm also a big believer in the reality of Witches. A lot of people do. Particularly where I'm from
400 years ago someone could be executed for practicing witchcraft. No one would then dare be a witchcraft denier. The average IQ was higher back then. Now we punish people for being skeptical of a vaccine, questioning sex transitioning, or denying man made climate change. The only executions for witchcraft today are in some other countries, lacking our sophistication;) My 8 year old grandaughter want no witchcraft stories about her. She wants "bad boy and super girl". My 2 year old grandaughter want stories where she plays peek a boo, and eats the berries. They both want lots of emotion in the character voices... hard for an engineering nerd grandpa.
@@tnekkc You're an engineer? That's awesome! And admirable! I read stories to my nieces, nephews, and godchildren. I'm afraid that I'm not very talented with doing the voices either!
@@tnekkc if you think the "average IQ" was higher 400 years ago, you show you don't understand IQ scores or testing in multiple ways, lol.
99 problems and a witch ain’t one
What a damn fine documentary this is. Well acted, well explained, with some of the original locations and books published at the time shown. If you've only gotten through the first few minutes, watch the rest....it's realllly good! 😁
This channel is one of the several owned by Little Dot Studios. I've already seen this video on one of their other channels (and it's even on a third channel of theirs also). They have a habit of posting videos from one of their channels to another one as if they're new videos. It's a lame habit.
Well, i don't follow those other channels so I'm happy they (re) posted it!
@@rockintoes Absolutely I agree I'm also grateful to see this documentary here I guess lame habits can be great. I mean it sure must be hard pleasing All of Humanity All of the Time The Critical Comments in this Section And Insulting one another as well as the Creators of The Video Was Down Right Disappointing I can honestly see why some TH-cam Channels Turn the Comment Section 📴
Woman answers: 2+2=4
Everyone : " WITCH!!!!!!!"
I can only conclude that *groupthink* have been a huge thing from the start of mans history, George Orwell’s book 1984, was only a continuation of what was already in existence
This was a really good documentary. Plus this historian and narrorater is really smart and beautiful
Witch hunts were common because people wanted the property of these often widowed women. And also it was the decline of feudalism.
Its more due to a lack of understanding of the world. My cow is sick and the old lady said a curse at me once. That must be the reason. People were very religious and were mighty scared of going to hell. They would not indight someone falsely with malicious intent. Then they would go to hell in their mind
I have a written documentation that my great great great great grandmother was the last "witch" burned in her town, if not that chunk of Denmark. To think of all the women, and the few men, who met their fate to women-hating men and fearful, gullible people is both so melancholy and so infuriating
And still in the 21st century we (as humans) still adhere to the same principles.. It doesn't matter if accusations are true or false, but whenever there is a "scandal" that triggers some of us in a way so that people kinda feel entitled or obligated to make threats / showing moral superiority by talking down on them as well as ruining their reputation whenever possible. I don't understand the motivation to harass others (and who knows what some people might attempt if they'd been given the opportunity..) or the underlying impulse to judge and strip them from their status as human being. Sorry for the derailment but the internet feels like a gigantic with hunt to me, at least in some aspects.
Regarding your relative, how did you become aware of that incident? I couldn't even imagine what my ancestors did and endured.
@@EugnusMaximus honestly couldn't agree more, it's tiring at thus point. Everyone pointing fingers at everyone the moment there's a conflict of interest
A few years ago i was shown a handwritten heritage book that goes back several generations. At one of the logs, there was also a newspaper article about how the last witch was burnt. The name matches the one written down as a grandparent or smth of the person logging it. The likelihood of this being a coincidence is almost null, as the name was a pretty uncommon one, and the article is old. Of course I'll never be 100% sure, but it's highly likely
@@eleutheromania_is_fyhr_alt5098 Wow thanks for your timely reply after your original comment was written like 8 month ago!
I find it somewhat fascinating, in a more negative sense, to how this is still a phenomenon even tho illiteracy and poverty are at an all time low in history, I believe. Are those just extremely vocal but few and the majority remains silent out of fear for being targeted next? Or maybe something entirely else, many possibilities come to mind but I wonder what the common trigger might be.
Regarding your great great great great grandmother, that's really interesting how you seemingly found out by chance. Not far fetched to conclude that it was indeed one of your ancestors. Tbh from what I imagine about those who were burned at the stake the majority probably have been actually the more decent kind of people like those who stood against this senseless murder for example, so I'd bed she made a very positive impact in her life regardless, is there some info about your documentation you'd like to share?
@@EugnusMaximus i randomly got the notification lmao, so no prolem
Humans are, collectively, a strange soft of "facinating inna sort of horrible way". We really are predisposed to acting out in very stange ways.
I think the trigger may be so simple as to us being the only species who has triggers at all
There's not much about her, it was just jotted down as a heritage thing alongside her husband and kids.
I like the idea of her, however tragic it may be, though. Just as i do with any of the stories of witches. I certainly like imagining her as part of my heritage.
Thank you for humoring a, as you've started, 8 month old comment lmao. Have a wonderful day
There is nothing worse than fear of the unknown.
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Knowing you’re about to be tortured and killed is pretty bad.
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
Read the mercies and witches of manningtree they're great representation of that period of time.
She turned me into a NEWT.
I got bettter.
It’s a false nose!
I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t just say what ever just to make it stop. Humans can be so stupid.
Look at what's going on today. A ten year old was raped and they wanted her to have the baby. Her body can't have one. She would die. They don't care. And yes, they think sex with a ten year old is ok if there's not an abortion. Does this make any sense to you?
no this was just the act of the colonies, england and americas. i wouldn't call it middle ages. as another comment said " 400 years ago = 1622, the dawn of the Age of Absolutism. Calling that point in history "the middle ages" is the kind of blunder that only a non-historian would make. Experts call the 1590s the Early Modern when referring to cultural and societal phenomena in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and the British Isles generally. "
The title of this is way off. The events in this doc take place during the Renaissance.
After the renaissance
@@sleepydrJ the English renaissance was during the 16th and 17th centuries. It was later than Italian.
@@asielnorton345 at risk of being too pedantic, the video states this is British isles “400 years ago” which is mid 1620’s. Purcell : 1659. Handel:1685 and clearly both high baroque. William Byrd was definitely Late Renaissance and died in 1623, an by then English Renaissance was dead and buried with him… the point being shameful throwing about the terms “medieval” and “middle ages” by a history channel as click bait/ prurient sensationalism. Maybe they should have used the equally accurate terms “olden times” or perhaps “timey-wimey”.
@@sleepydrJ the events start in 1590. This is during the British Renaissance.
@@sleepydrJ i wasnt a math major but 1590 was about 70 years before 1659 and 95 years before 1685. the English Renaissance is understood to have taken place in the 16th into the 17th century. the events take place during the reign of King James who died in 1625. the events in this video take place during the english renaissance.
It was so crazy that the villiage could get away with lying on people even their own family... i do wish there were writings engraved in the celllar were they were held
This happened throughout Europe.
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Groups always need someone to hate... even in a utopia.
+ a bunch of biases about foreigners/immigrants, women, and those who practiced different (even ancient) traditions...
Is what I'm guessing.
Plus.....
The patriarchy. Women consider it right away.
@@rosemadder5547 it is a lot to unpack but ultimately not that complicated a question as the idea of witch has been repeated throughout so many disparate civilizations.
Só witches
Witches are real. Their existence is fact.
Destroying the link between people and the wise healers in their communities has always been part of the long game for whoever is creating the systems on this planet. There was a lot of competetion between traditional healers, and graduates of the new "licensing" schools (which only allowed men, btw.) The healers I'm speaking of were true wise men and women, not witch doctors who preyed on peoples fear and ignorance. These true wise healers, with thousands of years of collective knowledge, were a thorn in the side of the elite who were in the process of setting up the systems that are in place today. But, especially in rural areas, people still went to their village healer for herbs, and knowledge on how to keep the body healthy. These healers became a problem, especially after folk had gone to licensed docs, only to be poisoned or disfigured by THEIR version of "healing." People who had tried, and been harmed by, the "new" medicine, went back to the wise men & women in their local community. Any and all competion that exists for whoever is running this sh@*hole planet, must be eradicated. And they conveniently use religion and race, to create hatred and division, to make US kill each other. Fun times on this planet, eh?
Suzannah Lipscomb is ridiculously beautiful.
If these "witches" were replaced by pastors, preists, imams, and other religious "leaders", i would be totally for it.
Abrahamic religions are all about control, especially control of women and girls.
The original culture war.
We sure do alot of bad thing for God. Then and now.
Wow if alredy the title is a lie glad that so many noticed
Bryant Gunter, Anne's father was brother to my 14th great grandfather, John Gunter Gent.
There were so many ads I forgot what I was watching.
Hitchens was right.
Indeed.
Oh where is St. George?
Oh where is he Oh?
He's out in his longboat
All on the Salt Sea Oh
Up flies the Kite
Down goes the Lark Oh
Aunt Ursula birthed
She had an old Ewe
And she died
In her old Park Oh!!!
Host is so so fine
Only if you are going to harm me right back at you baby right back at you.
It's was not Catholic Church but protestants
Both actually.
There were no witch trials in Italy and Spain. Italy and Spain are catholic countries. Witchcraft trials were more conneted to protestant regions, for example Switzerland.
@@karo9491 true, but they used a Catholic document to excuse it. Even though they bad mouthed the Catholics.🤷♀️
The Catholic Church had the Inquisition.
@@pennynorthcutt5833 you are right, but this was not about inquisition.
The maids know everything
First minute and I'm already thinking, "social credit score"
The Father took over.
Recycled Documentaries on Saturdays became routine
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They needed a scapegoat.
They were obsessed with Witches because they listened to god the worthless and its never ending nonsense. Amen
Because it's witchcraft,
wicked witchcraft,
even though I know it's strictly taboo...
They would have killed me, had I lived in that era.... I use herbs for healing....
I have a large nevus mole on my neck and love astrology. So I probably wouldn't of been safe either. Women and girls were at the mercy of men then.
They would have had a stroke if They saw my large tarot/oracle collection, rune stones, spells, herbs, candles, jewelry, witch/tarot books....so i understand completely.
What Allison Devris did in freely confessing her guilt out of remorse, was darn courageous on her part. And I truly believe and think that in doing so, she can stand before God with a clear conscience. It makes me wonder if she asked His Forgiveness both during her incarceration, and before her death.
Who is the lady that is the narrator
Suzannah Lipscomb
B&D culture backed by the state.
Ignorance was the drive, lots of it.
In that way, she reminds me of the penitent thief on the cross, whom Jesus forgave and reassured him of being in Paradise with Him that 1st Good Friday.
Just the facts will do. I don't really need graphics depictions of torture. geez.
I agree. This is torture as entertainment and pretty vulgar.
Why sugarcoat it?
Unfortunately, this same tactic, of normalizing torture and brutality, was one of the main purposes of the events that took place during witch hunt times. Every generation has had to bear witness to some type of torture, abuse, ritual, etc., whether in person, on TV, in newspapers & mainstream news, in video games, etc. It's a way to fracture our psyches and render us numb and less human in our emotions and actions. To desensitize people (especially our young.) Also, The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
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No witches??????
Huh
Seems a lot like what’s happening in America now
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Suzanne Mayfair?
Exactly what I mean. And the reason I am not scared is it's their death for what Frank Black did over their. I will not help.
This documentary doesn't even know what time period they are talking about. I love TV man, the dumbest people get to make the programs.
This. Apparently, they don't know that 400 years ago is not "medieval society" lol
Just like the civil war.
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This was disappointing, but at least now I know not to trust this channel that claims to be about history but doesn't even know when the Medieval period was.
How is healing another became witchcraft.... evil at that but rape slavery oppressive behaver is ok ...
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The christian women in europe were so poor in the medievel .it was the worst thing you can ever imagion . To be a women in europe at the medievel .
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
women in small hat society were all treated like queens throughout the ages......well maybe not as literally queens or similar high status figures, for this would be forbidden, but ya know what I mean - like surely something else super gorgeous ......
@@feldgeist2637 Or super dangerous.🖤🇨🇦
well they had to do something about the witches!! cant have witches free-roaming across the lands, absolutely not!
i hope youre being sarcastic
@@asburycollins9182 WITCH!!!! WITCH!!!!!! YOUR A WITCH!!!!
Well of course its sarcasm.
Humanity sucks
Geillis Duncan??? As in Outlander??
Sensationalised tripe for a start Seeton has a very Anglicised accent for being a Scot (or an extremely soft Scottish accent) and Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb has made her own opiniated mind up (unrequited sex etc. ) as to the reason for the event as opposed to maybe thinking and exploring from a 16th century mindset. I expected something more objective and less opinionated but instead was presented with a documentary that is like tabloid news nothing but filler made up of poor acting & overdramatic music. Watching this rubbish is like eating a donut that has been filled with pus nstead of custard.
Why??? Because they committed heinous evil acts.
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
Witches is a code word for the Israelites.
Laugh out loud! Because they were dealing with their own lgbtq problems!!!! Same People, different century.....give it time folks!!!! You will figure out their agenda soon enough!!!
Idiotic statement that displays your own ignorance
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400 years ago is NOT "medieval society"!!! Stop spreading false information.
Simple, men were afraid of women’s wisdom and strength
Simps are Simple that's for sure
mass hysterias happen all too frequently, such as search for communists in 1950s and the covid-mania of 2020-2022
Except people died from covid.
@@VivaCatatumbo973 No doubt, but the hysteria was WELL beyond proportion of the threat... those places that acted more sanely did just as well or better than those that went hysterical
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Oh FFS some men....🙄 History makes me absolutely mad. I really hope that these poor innocent souls are finally happy and at peace. God knows they weren't here on Earth. The narcissistic Men ALWAYS blame someone else don't they.
If rothschilds lived in the middle age 💀
because it was easier to say "because witches" than try to figure out why things were happening around them..
Because evil willing witches existed. But the big witch persecutions and trials happened when modern financial capitalism developed in the Renaissance.
This is hilarious. So that is the new fad in your universities? Blaming capitalism of all things for witch hunts of the late renaissance? Wow, that takes a bit of imaginative rewriting of history!
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
ha ! I knew it had absolutely nothing to do with the heightened interest in occultism and alchemy after the first books regarding those topics came into print during the 16th and17th cent - damn you evil capitalism once more !
@@greenshp The property and lands of a convicted Witch were split between her accuser, and the King…not leaving out the Church. There was money to be made.🖤🇨🇦
@@greenshp The masonic merchant lodges wanted to get rid of economic concurrents and uncomfortable persons in society. And often get their land and property and ownings and money and so on. Sad - but true. Also see the anthropologist David Graeber about it. These lodges also infiltrated the church and the vaticanic banking system in der Renaissance and corrupted it. As today. The ideological Liberalismus and Neoliberalismus of Globalism is criminal and corrupt and social darwinist predator capitalism and usury and destructice free trade capitalism - and a destructice ideology as Ayn Rands "Objectivism". Privatize anything - and destroy the Enviroment. Also see Emmanuel Todd about it.
yikes. this was a little unnecessarily graphic.
Yes, but no worse than what's on TV and in movies.
What's pathetic, is that these were not witches at all. We should be horrified at Christian behavior and ignorance.
We should never allow the accusation angrily used ever again about anyone. We see the victims of the Holocaust.
These recreations are just as valid.
Lest we forget.
The majority of people burned as "witches" were women who were healers and midwives, and who had great knowledge of herbs and plant medicines. This knowledge needed to be wiped out, so the "modern medicine" system that we have today could be ushered in. At one point it was illegal, with death as punishment, for women to act as midwives or offer any type of herbal remedy. The knowledge is slowly coming back, but so much was lost that can never be returned to us.
What makes you think all of them were wrongly convicted , what makes you think witch's aren't real and that they aren't evil.
Perhaps unicorns are real too 🤔
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Perhaps , some peoples minds are like concentrate , thoroughly mixed and firmly set.
Nothing in their opinion cannot be explained by natural law. Perhaps
Ignorance and mass Hysteria , could
Explain a unicorn. But what if it wasn't a unicorn ?
What if old scratch , is actually real , and natural law don't tell the hold story, .once you seen what shouldn't be , what shouldn't be isn't
as shouldn't as it should be.
Hmmm Gelis Duncan that makes me think of Outlander
8:02 "Pillywinks"...is one of those words that just sounds a lot more Fun than it really is....🗜☜😩