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it is with a matter of local pride that I state .. nay.. accuse you of witchcraft... your map is back to front, upside down, leftfield in negative, the wrong way round.. tipsy tervy.. perverse..Satanic..... we in the south east are of Parliament; the Sassenachs, the yokels, the Danes, the scots, welsh, Irish, Goons and Pixies are the Royalist scum.. long live the London apprentice, the levellers and the New Model Army.. this will not stand! Witch ! witch witch
With their tiny minds and loud mouths they’re too stupid to be self aware. “When people can’t control how they feel they try to control how others behave” John Cleese.
Fun fact: In the landlocked African country of Eswatini, it is illegal for a witch to fly their broom at an altitude greater than 150 meters. Doing so can result in a fine equal to roughly $33,000 USD
if by unpredictable you mean its halfway through the video before he starts talking about the actual Witch-finder General Vincent Price, i mean Matthew Hopkins.
How easy to manipulate mass crowd hysteria no matter what times you're in. There's another manipulator type even much worse than witchfinder, that's called politician.
The advent of the internet has kinda highlighted jut how dumb we are as a species. Virtually the entirety of human knowledge is a few clicks away, yet some people still believe the Earth is flat...
@@PaternalSun I'm getting more and more convinced that we are confusing knowledge with believing any old shit, as long as it sounds plausible. The coronavirus fiasco has helped considerably. Those sharing their view that anyone who didn't get a vaccine should be left to die, because emergency hospital treatment should be denied, to me, are no different than those who believed the witches nonsense and wanted to burn them at the stake.
Guess the recent Covid mass hysteria resulting in hundreds of thousands non Covid excess deaths is proof of that. The Witch hunts were not nearly as lethal.
I grew up hearing ignorant is bliss. Your comment doesn't match this thoughtless, unchallenged claim. Therefore I disagree with you about how fear and ignorance are lethal combination
My ex accused me and my family of being witches/pagans to my manager… which seems like a joke to normal people but my workplace is Christian and they genuinely looked suspicious of me afterwards. It’s crazy to think that some people still have these mindsets to this day and if my situation was 400 years ago I’d be swimming with the fishes😬
Seems to me the real problem here is with your employer and all those “Christians” you work with. Unless you are actually employed by a church your religion (even if it is just a rumor of you being pagan when you aren’t) is NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS!!!! Of course, the “Christians” you work with believe in religious freedom for them and no one else.
I'm autistic, so have always been "a bit different". I can't help but wonder how many people, women especially, were killed this way due to things like neurodivergence...
Probably not many. Sorry to say but depending on how noticeable it was they'd be killed as babies for being fairy changelings. Due to the differences in how kids with autism would have acted when very young it was assumed they'd been swapped as until a certain age they'd have developed fairly normally so the apparent "sudden change" was put down to the obvious choice of "a fairy stole my baby" and said baby would either be burnt as fairies are afraid of fire or they were left out in a near by wood in the hope the fairies would swap it back as they'd been caught.... Accept they probably never went back as it was often an excuse for a unwanted child... It was often people who caused problems for the village or whatever, old widows who needed feeding etc but still was happy to give their opinion. Many traditional healers were killed causing more death than the actual trials themselves. Loads of knowledge was lost. It shows how stupid humans can be especially when you add religion m
Shakespeare made his feelings toward Puritans known in his play "Twelfth Night" and the Puritans made their feelings toward Shakespeare known when they pulled down the Globe Theatre in 1644.
They use to call me witch hunter in school not because I was cool or popular but because my only friend was a girl with a mental illness and she use to tell everyone she was a witch - I miss you Abbie
Ah. One of those girls. It's kind of fascinating just how common the Girl In Highschool Who Tells Everyone She is a Witch is in the wild It's gotta be, what ... like 1 in 500? At least?
In 1645, Aquila Chase, his wife Ann, & her brother were all admonished in absentia by the Ipswich MA quarterly court for gardening on the sabbath. AQ sold his property to his brother Samuel & “removed to Newburyport.” They survived that era and here I am! Lol great vid. My Chase/Wheeler line came here from Somerset abt 1640 I reckon.
Agreed. Has Thoughty2 already forgotten those convicted at Nuremburg? How about King Leopold II of Belgium, Mao, Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, Putin... gosh, I could fill this whole page of worse!
It's amazing how many people that for fear of evil became the very evil they feared. The evil they found in others was the evil found first in their own hearts.
thats happening to this very day. we have humans amongst us who righteously hate other humans and deem them evil just because they have real human reactions to mounting stresses. yeah because lashing out is inherently evil… sure. do you have an evil cat or dog? evil this. evil that. that is evil. this that and the other thing? yup. all of it is PURE evil, and with no differentiating severities or contexts. everything negative I dont like is the work of the devil. if death happens and I benifit somehow? its the work of god. if death happens but it didnt benefit me? devil shit! unironically the mindset of most YT comments you will see whenever evil is mentioned. consistently throughout history, we have had a dark heart we project into others. we see what we want to.
14 women and 6 men were executed in Salem and at least five died in prison. I'm a direct descendent of an accused witch who was broken out of the jail by his friends and he hid far from Salem until the madness was over and also indirectly related to the two Parker women Mary and Alice who were hung there. I have three witch's nipples on me so I can only guess that the apple doesn't fall far from the witch-tree.
My many many greats grandmother was accused and imprisoned toward the end of the trials. Her family was able to scrape up the money to have her released and not long after the trials stopped. Her son went on to marry the daughter of another accused woman.
@@SquidGains Well, since you asked..heheee ! 🧙♂They are certain little moles you get when you age. Mathew Hopkins died at the age of 27. Sheriff of Essex County George Corwin who signed the warrants for the arrest and execution of those in Salem only lived to the age of 30. One gets the feeling that those involved with the conviction of "witches" based partially on these moles actually knew very little about the body's aging process, and alas, they passed on before they could learn firsthand.
Fascinating. Many thanks. For those who haven't heard of it, there's a classic 1968 Vincent Price film called The Witchfinder General, also starring Ian Ogilvy (from Return of the Saint) shot in East Anglia. And for a lighter-hearted take, The Witchfinder from 2022 is a fantastic BBC2 comedy series starring Tim Key (Sidekick Simon from Alan Partridge).
Here in Virginia in 1706 Grace Sherwood was given "Trial by Ducking" (their spelling) and she was thrown into jail for being a witch. There's actually a statue on the spot today. But the actual last witch trial was in 1878 in Ipswich Massachusetts when a Lucretia Brown blamed Daniel Spofford of attacking her with his mind. This is often called the "Second Salem Witch Trial" because Ipswich is just north of where the first witch trial happened.
I was reminded of the first series of Black Adder and the Witchsmeller pursuivant, played by the brilliant Frank Finlay! 😂😂 Everything was a sign of a witch, including feeding carrots to a horse! If you haven't seen it, or the series, it's a must!
Blackadder in general is pure comedy gold tbh....if you haven't already I would recommend blackadder goes forth as it covers WW1 and while a comedy the final scene is gut wrenching
My ancestor Micheal Cleary burned his wife accusing her of being a witch in 1895, her family helped cover it up and he received 20 years in prison for manslaughter despite admitting to killing her and burning her over the course of 7 days. Her witchyness? She was a decorated and highly talented seamstress, was financially independent, outspoken in believing in women's rights and unfortunately had multiple mental health problems (many of which are now known to run in the family) Her name was Bridget Cleary.
Didn’t something in the lake supposedly get her and “switch” her with a changling? Or am I thinking of a different case? As an aside, my 10th grt grandmother’s sister was the first accuser in America. It was pre Salem. She had just given birth, lost him and was going herself. She accused the neighbor of it all…. What is anyone to do in that situation. Influential or not. In those days anyone could risk the same accusations, if they defended the accused against the accuser. Even if it’s the family of the accuser. Such a sad, and difficult situation for sure.
@M.Campbell-Sherwood it's a different case, that's very unfortunate about that history. It's incredibly sad that people didn't know what trauma could so to people at the time
@@plaidshirtanomaly nods. And yes it is unfortunate. People could be so ignorant back then. I think the laws are still basically the same for that crime, in Britain. They’re pretty lenient compared to Americans. Even in Canada. I have a friend who’s family was somehow involved in a rather awful M/self harm attempt. The self harm didn’t succeed and the guy got out after 10 years, or so. It was all over his ex wife moving on. She didn’t want to press charges, or something to that effect, immediately after. By the time he did she had changed her mind and wanted to. Unfortunately there was nothing she could do. Isn’t that the good ole British and Canadian Gov for you? I honestly feel for her, she literally lost everything because of him and he only got like 10 ish years. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that one.
The witch finder general was involved in the case of the Pendle witches not Salem. Unless he traveled overseas. He was in England not Salem. We don't have castles here.
What, no mention of the excellent Vincent Price film WITCHFINDER GENERAL, based on Hopkins' activities? I've been to Salem - it's a big tourist trap now for everything witch-related. If it's still on the boards, take in the new production of Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE - definitely worth seeing.
My life has been a complete and total misery ever since Bigfoot stole my precious girlfriend in the middle of the night. 😒 He even took all her clothes and the T.V. 😔
Well, honestly, there is no evidence than any witches were put to death. There were lots of ordinary women and some ordinary men put to death. None of them were actually witches. That’s the real tragedy.
To this day I still feel like they insulted a pirate by refusing to do business with “ the likeness of him.”And the pirate, insulted, went to a sea witch & cursed them. That’s just too weird for normal explanations to me. Thanks for the show. Always love them.
Could you imagine? My veins close up when a doctor comes within arms length of trying to draw blood from me, always have..On top of all a psycho calling you out as a witch is absolutely terrifying! 😫
Stereotyping means nothing to me. It's more about a person & their values & mindsets. That rather or not we are friend's or beyond & so on. Beyond all such factors. Great video's man 👍
The Apple TV series called “see” has an awesome Witch Finder General who leads a terrible army of Witch Finders who hunt down “witches” (who are sighted people). Awesome series!!
before anything, belated happy birthday, Arran! hope you had a blast 🎉 i never thought witchfinder generals were really a thing in history. years ago i only read about one in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens (totally enjoyed that book) and i thought witchfinder generals were fiction. i completely condemn this period in history when a lot of innocent women (and men) were executed just for being different. man, ppl during those times were a bunch of weirdos. rest in peace to the victims 🙏
It's not that different today, people are just cancelled instead of killed for daring to think differently than the new "puritans" (social justice warriors and "follow the science" types.)
My BIG Life question has been "WTF Taco Bell?" Well, this summer I found out when I reconnected with Carol who sat in front of me in HS 50 years ago. Carol was an Industry chef for TB...McD's and Starbucks. Now she does genealogy and did my chart. My ancestor, Mary Barnes was hanged in 1662 in Ct for having opinions. It seems to be genetic. Carol's ancestor was hanged in Salem. And our ancestors have crisscrossed ever since. I also found out I'm a Bush cousin. Oh well....🙄
@@kmdn1 That is cool. 😄 Do you know when your family first got here? I wonder what Bush would do if we ran up and hugged him? Or said "We're here to visit".
I really enjoyed that bit of history. It was discussed in my history class that a theory for the mass hysteria of witches in Salem had more to do with ergot poisoning but no one went out and dug up with corpses to test the marrow or anything.
I know someone who has one of the original copies of Malleus Maleficarum. His family used to be witch hunters way back when, he ended up becoming a druid
Check out the book Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West by prof. Edward Dutton. He broke down where witch stereotypes came from, why “witches” were executed (spoiler their crimes were more physical than spiritual), and the similarities of witches and feminism
what also made them witches were red hair and being left-handed... I live less than hour from Salem and Danvers (the original Salem Village) and yet have never been. Maybe this year I'll finally get there.
A friend of a friend accused me of stealing once and I was so offended but it was a good lesson because I never accused anyone in my life without solid proof, knowing how it felt. She found the money eventually in an envelope under some papers.
Arran is an absolute genius. He keeps changing the title and thumbnail of all his videos so that people will go, "hey did i watch this? Meh i guess ill watch it" then when they realize they have already watched it theyll just stick to the end cos they are already watching it and its still interesting
I did notice that my observation/ comment was deleted lol 😂 I would not recommend the strategy of shitting on my eyeballs before I even know what you’re talking about
Considering for a billionth of a microsecond the ease with which someone could be convincingly accused of witchcraft, I have to wonder why a girl with a little more imagination than average did not accuse the "witchfinder general" of being one. That might have shaken things up a bit, eh?
Did the thumbnail for this change? I swear it used to be the Witchfinder General with a psychotic grin on his face. Now, he's just staring calmly out at me.
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There are still witch hunts everyday 😢.
it is with a matter of local pride that I state .. nay.. accuse you of witchcraft... your map is back to front, upside down, leftfield in negative, the wrong way round.. tipsy tervy.. perverse..Satanic..... we in the south east are of Parliament; the Sassenachs, the yokels, the Danes, the scots, welsh, Irish, Goons and Pixies are the Royalist scum.. long live the London apprentice, the levellers and the New Model Army.. this will not stand! Witch ! witch witch
French--I get a lot of people on the farm from France because I live close to New Orleans, so...I need to pick up some of the lingo.
You bring us the best story, thank you.
The best part of false accusations is how rarely they come with apologies when you're proven innocent of the charge.
With their tiny minds and loud mouths they’re too stupid to be self aware. “When people can’t control how they feel they try to control how others behave” John Cleese.
So true.
Well, you’d be dead at that by point.
@rachelann9362 wow. In all cases, all the time huh? Too bad I didn't speak generally. Dang I'm dumb.
Fun fact: In the landlocked African country of Eswatini, it is illegal for a witch to fly their broom at an altitude greater than 150 meters. Doing so can result in a fine equal to roughly $33,000 USD
Very sensible.
Safety first
How do they catch them?some form of speed camera?
@@Trebor74 Traffic Faeries obviously.
they are trafficing faeries
The most unpredictable channel on RUclips. You never cease to amaze us . Thank you
Agree 👍
You wrote that 1 minute after the video was released.
You get no credit for trying to be the first comment
if by unpredictable you mean its halfway through the video before he starts talking about the actual Witch-finder General Vincent Price, i mean Matthew Hopkins.
@@PhreekPestilencethese videos get released to members early
yea he is the best educational channel ever
How easy to manipulate mass crowd hysteria no matter what times you're in. There's another manipulator type even much worse than witchfinder, that's called politician.
Pelicans havent hurt anybody.
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People were just a blop of idiots easily manipulated. It is no different to day sadly.
Not bad dude 👍
The comical twist is that collectively, we are just as stupid now, as we were then. We just can't see it in the present, as easy as in the past.
The advent of the internet has kinda highlighted jut how dumb we are as a species. Virtually the entirety of human knowledge is a few clicks away, yet some people still believe the Earth is flat...
@@PaternalSun I'm getting more and more convinced that we are confusing knowledge with believing any old shit, as long as it sounds plausible. The coronavirus fiasco has helped considerably.
Those sharing their view that anyone who didn't get a vaccine should be left to die, because emergency hospital treatment should be denied, to me, are no different than those who believed the witches nonsense and wanted to burn them at the stake.
And as easily controlled, as evidenced by COVID restrictions and experimental treatments that were blindly followed by billions
There's no literal burning but today being called a racist is pretty much the equivalent. We're not more enlightened, just lazier.
Guess the recent Covid mass hysteria resulting in hundreds of thousands non Covid excess deaths is proof of that. The Witch hunts were not nearly as lethal.
Fear of the unknown and ignorance are, to this day, a potential lethal combination.. Thanks Arran, very much appreciated as usual.❤
I grew up hearing ignorant is bliss. Your comment doesn't match this thoughtless, unchallenged claim. Therefore I disagree with you about how fear and ignorance are lethal combination
He also had an economic interest in the people's deaths, as he got a percentage of their estate.
Sounds like he was an old fashioned con man.
My ex accused me and my family of being witches/pagans to my manager… which seems like a joke to normal people but my workplace is Christian and they genuinely looked suspicious of me afterwards. It’s crazy to think that some people still have these mindsets to this day and if my situation was 400 years ago I’d be swimming with the fishes😬
Nothing has changed. These days there's a new group of people who fit the categorymof witch/heretic: they're the people labeled "anti-vaxxers".
How do we know he’s lying? The river is the only way to find out I suppose
Magic is absolutely real. We just call it marketing, psychology, and sociology now.
Seems to me the real problem here is with your employer and all those “Christians” you work with. Unless you are actually employed by a church your religion (even if it is just a rumor of you being pagan when you aren’t) is NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS!!!! Of course, the “Christians” you work with believe in religious freedom for them and no one else.
Kind of sounds like you're blaming Christianity for that, if you're even telling the truth.
If you're interested, the witchhunts in Lorraine, Sweden and Bavaria of the second half of the 16th century probably raised comparable numbers
we look at what they did as utterly insane. imagine what they are going to look back at us and think.
That they/them literally having a seizure at Trump's inauguration will be studied for centuries
I'm autistic, so have always been "a bit different". I can't help but wonder how many people, women especially, were killed this way due to things like neurodivergence...
Probably not many. Sorry to say but depending on how noticeable it was they'd be killed as babies for being fairy changelings. Due to the differences in how kids with autism would have acted when very young it was assumed they'd been swapped as until a certain age they'd have developed fairly normally so the apparent "sudden change" was put down to the obvious choice of "a fairy stole my baby" and said baby would either be burnt as fairies are afraid of fire or they were left out in a near by wood in the hope the fairies would swap it back as they'd been caught.... Accept they probably never went back as it was often an excuse for a unwanted child... It was often people who caused problems for the village or whatever, old widows who needed feeding etc but still was happy to give their opinion. Many traditional healers were killed causing more death than the actual trials themselves. Loads of knowledge was lost. It shows how stupid humans can be especially when you add religion m
or like me with epilepsy prob would think i was possesd by some demon
Yes. Seizures were assumed to be demonic possession.
I’m still wondering where this myth of only women being accused of being witches came about?
When men and even animals were accused
@darkstrifequeen1458The ones who can bathe themselves and speak eloquently with poise would probably fly under radar.
These stories always make me sad. How easily they took a life. Life, that is THE most important thing in the world.
Shakespeare made his feelings toward Puritans known in his play "Twelfth Night" and the Puritans made their feelings toward Shakespeare known when they pulled down the Globe Theatre in 1644.
They use to call me witch hunter in school not because I was cool or popular but because my only friend was a girl with a mental illness and she use to tell everyone she was a witch - I miss you Abbie
rollercoaster of a sentence
@@ConfusedWalrus73 my life is a theme park
How tf do you end up having a mentally ill girl as your only friend? What a fked up childhood lol
Ah. One of those girls. It's kind of fascinating just how common the Girl In Highschool Who Tells Everyone She is a Witch is in the wild
It's gotta be, what ... like 1 in 500? At least?
@@kmdn1 it’s pretty common at least where I’m from but not many actually go full 💯 into it like my friend did
Never fail with new video. Something new, old, different but always interesting!
The sound tracks used on this create perfect atmosphere. As always, very nicely done 👏
Vincent Price did a fantastic job of playing Hopkins
I love ur work alot sir 🔥🔥 ur way of narrating any story is second to none 🤩👌🏼
Witch hunting still exists today everywhere you might go, it just comes in various forms and isn't usually about literal witches.
This man teaches me so much, so easily, so quickly, so creatively and makes it all so enjoyable. Literally the only RUclipsr I watch.
What is funny is that this is still a very active mass hysteria phenoma in Africa and yet not a word about it
Thank you for an insightful and respectful look at this low point in history!
In 1645, Aquila Chase, his wife Ann, & her brother were all admonished in absentia by the Ipswich MA quarterly court for gardening on the sabbath. AQ sold his property to his brother Samuel & “removed to Newburyport.” They survived that era and here I am! Lol great vid. My Chase/Wheeler line came here from Somerset abt 1640 I reckon.
Evil? Yes. The MOST evil? Not by a long shot.
Agreed. Has Thoughty2 already forgotten those convicted at Nuremburg? How about King Leopold II of Belgium, Mao, Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, Putin... gosh, I could fill this whole page of worse!
It's amazing how many people that for fear of evil became the very evil they feared. The evil they found in others was the evil found first in their own hearts.
Became? Become.
thats happening to this very day. we have humans amongst us who righteously hate other humans and deem them evil just because they have real human reactions to mounting stresses. yeah because lashing out is inherently evil… sure. do you have an evil cat or dog? evil this. evil that. that is evil. this that and the other thing? yup. all of it is PURE evil, and with no differentiating severities or contexts.
everything negative I dont like is the work of the devil. if death happens and I benifit somehow? its the work of god. if death happens but it didnt benefit me? devil shit!
unironically the mindset of most YT comments you will see whenever evil is mentioned.
consistently throughout history, we have had a dark heart we project into others. we see what we want to.
The real evil was the angry mob we made along the way??
Well said Buck.
This channel is such a gem
14 women and 6 men were executed in Salem and at least five died in prison. I'm a direct descendent of an accused witch who was broken out of the jail by his friends and he hid far from Salem until the madness was over and also indirectly related to the two Parker women Mary and Alice who were hung there. I have three witch's nipples on me so I can only guess that the apple doesn't fall far from the witch-tree.
My many many greats grandmother was accused and imprisoned toward the end of the trials. Her family was able to scrape up the money to have her released and not long after the trials stopped. Her son went on to marry the daughter of another accused woman.
Interesting. You could get a cool novel out of that.
I think i read that in Salem it was believed to be caused by a bread mold that poisened people.
What is a witch's nipple? Not sure I want to know.
@@SquidGains Well, since you asked..heheee ! 🧙♂They are certain little moles you get when you age. Mathew Hopkins died at the age of 27. Sheriff of Essex County George Corwin who signed the warrants for the arrest and execution of those in Salem only lived to the age of 30. One gets the feeling that those involved with the conviction of "witches" based partially on these moles actually knew very little about the body's aging process, and alas, they passed on before they could learn firsthand.
Fascinating. Many thanks. For those who haven't heard of it, there's a classic 1968 Vincent Price film called The Witchfinder General, also starring Ian Ogilvy (from Return of the Saint) shot in East Anglia. And for a lighter-hearted take, The Witchfinder from 2022 is a fantastic BBC2 comedy series starring Tim Key (Sidekick Simon from Alan Partridge).
RUclipsr Atun Shei Films sometimes features the Witchfinder General.
Love to watch your vids whenever I get the chance. Find it amazing that I had never heard of you up until 2 months ago, what a pleasant channel.
Always informative as well entertaining!
Here in Virginia in 1706 Grace Sherwood was given "Trial by Ducking" (their spelling) and she was thrown into jail for being a witch. There's actually a statue on the spot today. But the actual last witch trial was in 1878 in Ipswich Massachusetts when a Lucretia Brown blamed Daniel Spofford of attacking her with his mind. This is often called the "Second Salem Witch Trial" because Ipswich is just north of where the first witch trial happened.
I was reminded of the first series of Black Adder and the Witchsmeller pursuivant, played by the brilliant Frank Finlay! 😂😂 Everything was a sign of a witch, including feeding carrots to a horse! If you haven't seen it, or the series, it's a must!
Blackadder in general is pure comedy gold tbh....if you haven't already I would recommend blackadder goes forth as it covers WW1 and while a comedy the final scene is gut wrenching
@@xXxD0m0Aki0KunxXx absolute gut punch that ending. I've seen all the seasons.
My ancestor Micheal Cleary burned his wife accusing her of being a witch in 1895, her family helped cover it up and he received 20 years in prison for manslaughter despite admitting to killing her and burning her over the course of 7 days. Her witchyness? She was a decorated and highly talented seamstress, was financially independent, outspoken in believing in women's rights and unfortunately had multiple mental health problems (many of which are now known to run in the family) Her name was Bridget Cleary.
Didn’t something in the lake supposedly get her and “switch” her with a changling? Or am I thinking of a different case?
As an aside, my 10th grt grandmother’s sister was the first accuser in America. It was pre Salem. She had just given birth, lost him and was going herself. She accused the neighbor of it all…. What is anyone to do in that situation. Influential or not. In those days anyone could risk the same accusations, if they defended the accused against the accuser. Even if it’s the family of the accuser. Such a sad, and difficult situation for sure.
@M.Campbell-Sherwood it's a different case, that's very unfortunate about that history. It's incredibly sad that people didn't know what trauma could so to people at the time
@@plaidshirtanomaly nods. And yes it is unfortunate. People could be so ignorant back then. I think the laws are still basically the same for that crime, in Britain. They’re pretty lenient compared to Americans. Even in Canada. I have a friend who’s family was somehow involved in a rather awful M/self harm attempt. The self harm didn’t succeed and the guy got out after 10 years, or so. It was all over his ex wife moving on. She didn’t want to press charges, or something to that effect, immediately after. By the time he did she had changed her mind and wanted to. Unfortunately there was nothing she could do. Isn’t that the good ole British and Canadian Gov for you? I honestly feel for her, she literally lost everything because of him and he only got like 10 ish years. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that one.
Three Sovereigns for Sarah was an excellent 1980s made for TV movie staring Vanessa Redgrave about this topic. Still crushing it this year Arran😊
“Heyyy, 42 here”
that video was excellent in portraying the true madness of it all
Aside from all this, none of the real witches were ever caught. They were far too smart and crafty.
great video!
The witch finder general was involved in the case of the Pendle witches not Salem. Unless he traveled overseas. He was in England not Salem. We don't have castles here.
I think putting butter on your toast after the jam is a definite give away.
I from colchester and he used colchester castle to ‘interogate’ witches, lots of stuff about him in there. Also, he is buried nearby at mistley heath.
EEEH, Very informative Thoughty love!!....Top Man!🙂
What, no mention of the excellent Vincent Price film WITCHFINDER GENERAL, based on Hopkins' activities? I've been to Salem - it's a big tourist trap now for everything witch-related. If it's still on the boards, take in the new production of Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE - definitely worth seeing.
Excellent film
It all started over here in England, Colchester to be exact. Elizabeth 1’s Witchfinder General came from Colchester
My life has been a complete and total misery ever since Bigfoot stole my precious girlfriend in the middle of the night. 😒 He even took all her clothes and the T.V. 😔
Sounds like you dodged a silver bullet! I think you owe god a favor!
@@inconnu4961 😦😦😦
This would make a great country song🪕🙃
@@myscreen2urs 🥺🥺🥺
@@myscreen2ursit indeed would make an awesome countrysong
Thanks for this.
the first 2 1/2 minute of storytelling and presentation are just hilarious. Those videos truly must be the work of witches
J'ACCUSE!!!!!!
I love the way you get the information across, but do it with a wicked sense of humor. Keep up the good work sir
That "I is a witch" tattoo almost took me out! 😂💀😂
Yes being a witch was never appreciated by people. So many put to death. Great subject and thanks for sharing.
Well, honestly, there is no evidence than any witches were put to death. There were lots of ordinary women and some ordinary men put to death. None of them were actually witches. That’s the real tragedy.
To this day I still feel like they insulted a pirate by refusing to do business with “ the likeness of him.”And the pirate, insulted, went to a sea witch & cursed them. That’s just too weird for normal explanations to me. Thanks for the show. Always love them.
I always admire people of our past accused of wrongdoing. For me it is decades of social suffering, but for them torture. What's the difference 🤔
We need more space videos! But keep up the good work.
You forgot about the gigachad who only said, "More weight!", during the Salam Witch Trial.
Could you imagine? My veins close up when a doctor comes within arms length of trying to draw blood from me, always have..On top of all a psycho calling you out as a witch is absolutely terrifying! 😫
Stereotyping means nothing to me. It's more about a person & their values & mindsets. That rather or not we are friend's or beyond & so on. Beyond all such factors. Great video's man 👍
The Apple TV series called “see” has an awesome Witch Finder General who leads a terrible army of Witch Finders who hunt down “witches” (who are sighted people). Awesome series!!
Thanks bro,you rock!💪👽
before anything, belated happy birthday, Arran! hope you had a blast 🎉
i never thought witchfinder generals were really a thing in history. years ago i only read about one in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens (totally enjoyed that book) and i thought witchfinder generals were fiction.
i completely condemn this period in history when a lot of innocent women (and men) were executed just for being different. man, ppl during those times were a bunch of weirdos. rest in peace to the victims 🙏
How do you know his birthday date?
It's not that different today, people are just cancelled instead of killed for daring to think differently than the new "puritans" (social justice warriors and "follow the science" types.)
When is his birthday?
@@nathalie_desrosiers july 15th
@@seras_hokushin and how did you know this date hmm? a WIIIIIITTTTTCHH!!!!!!!!
Fascinating as usual!
My BIG Life question has been "WTF Taco Bell?" Well, this summer I found out when I reconnected with Carol who sat in front of me in HS 50 years ago. Carol was an Industry chef for TB...McD's and Starbucks. Now she does genealogy and did my chart. My ancestor, Mary Barnes was hanged in 1662 in Ct for having opinions. It seems to be genetic. Carol's ancestor was hanged in Salem. And our ancestors have crisscrossed ever since. I also found out I'm a Bush cousin. Oh well....🙄
You are all over the place....it seems
They hunted for people with genes that gave them rh- negative blood. Look it up
Oh shit, I'm a cousin removed something something of George W. Bush as well 🙃 So I guess you and I are distantly related too! Nice to meet you
@@kmdn1 That is cool. 😄 Do you know when your family first got here? I wonder what Bush would do if we ran up and hugged him? Or said "We're here to visit".
@@whydahell3816 But I had to have a lead in to the story. 😄
my mom used to tell me witches were around when there were sounds on the ceiling
I learnt this previously in history and it still shocks me how men could just accuse women of being witches
welllll.......
It is something a witch would say! Burn the heretic!
P.S. Just a joke, but modern witch hunts are widespread on Twitter.
Your profile pictures well funny
Wish we could turn back time...to the good old days
Now women can accuse men of anything and it’s believed
I really enjoyed that bit of history. It was discussed in my history class that a theory for the mass hysteria of witches in Salem had more to do with ergot poisoning but no one went out and dug up with corpses to test the marrow or anything.
Cats experiencing racism 😂😂
Brilliant bit of writing, thanks.
These days Witch Hunters get cases filed against them as sex offenders.
What are you talking about?
These days they are called Democrats.
This idiotic remark has 23 likes , oh poor humanity!
@@tellyboy17 im not american but aren't "republicans" closer to crazy religious extremist nut jobs than "Democrats"?
There is a great spanish movie called "Akelarre - Covent" about witches in the Basque Country. A must seen
Please make videos more often. I feel like I wait awhile for your new videos. Great storytelling brotha!!!
Cant rush quality, my guy!
“Though god-fearing, it was far from stable”. You say that although it is paradoxical.
you explained away the horror of the Salem trials!!! THANK YOU.
do not live in christian communities and you are perfectly safe.
Great job on this video.
LOVE your videos!!!
I know someone who has one of the original copies of Malleus Maleficarum. His family used to be witch hunters way back when, he ended up becoming a druid
Check out the book Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West by prof. Edward Dutton. He broke down where witch stereotypes came from, why “witches” were executed (spoiler their crimes were more physical than spiritual), and the similarities of witches and feminism
Love books, but this comes across as a total waste of time.
@@gazepskotzs4 to each his own
Edward Dutton is a disgraced lunatic. He would have been burning witches back in the day.
I think that witches was just the old way of saying Karens!!
20 Salem "witches* were put to death: 19 by hanging, and one, Giles Corey, by being pressed to death by a huge pile of rocks.
Thanks
Lord, don't forgive them, they know what they're doing.
what also made them witches were red hair and being left-handed... I live less than hour from Salem and Danvers (the original Salem Village) and yet have never been. Maybe this year I'll finally get there.
Wow you've grown up so much since I started watching you 8/9 years ago 🤗
A friend of a friend accused me of stealing once and I was so offended but it was a good lesson because I never accused anyone in my life without solid proof, knowing how it felt. She found the money eventually in an envelope under some papers.
Arran is an absolute genius. He keeps changing the title and thumbnail of all his videos so that people will go, "hey did i watch this? Meh i guess ill watch it" then when they realize they have already watched it theyll just stick to the end cos they are already watching it and its still interesting
Psychic?
Sounds like something a witch would do .. looks at Arron suspiciously
love the history and creepy videos on the channel. So when a creepy history video comes out im always hyped
My Ex had a third nipple'...I should have seen the sign's!!🤣🤣
He has the best voice for making RUclips content. Love this channel and its content. Excellent work there ,Moustache!
So, Witch Finder Thou-Shall-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer wasn't available?
I was hoping this would be about Sergeant Shadwell.
@@jamesbell7696 Aye, laddie. Condensed milk, and nine sugars.
Puscifer
Nope Edmund pulsifier was
They would also regularly accuse children as well.
Spotting witches these days is much easier, they normally have blue hair and pronouns in their bio's.
And rings on their nose
Lol
That’s a total lie and you know it. They’ll just identify as a non-which
Or purple
LMFAO and zero common sense
Witches are still hunted in many places in this world…
Yes. Because"religion" is still very active.
As an epileptic woman. In the 16th century, they would have killed me for being a witch. 200 years later, they would have put me into insane asylum.
Yup!
I agree with identifying witches by noting they buttered a slice of toast after the jam. I'm sure that's mentioned somewhere in Numbers.
No, no references in the Book of Numbers to either butter or jam...
“It must be the work of witches.”
Yes, that sounds reasonable. Now where did I put the matches?
I swear I actually learned more from this guy than all the teachers in my school life haha
4:06 was that a deliberate mispronunciation of arrivederci just to see if anyone was paying attention to the ad?
It's correctly pronounced arbaybadarchey. I learned that from a mouse in Minnesota.
@robertbruce4618 thankfully I've never been to Minnesota, so thanks for that
A witch hunter would have a hay day, in today's society.
They're arent even hiding it anymore!
I did notice that my observation/ comment was deleted lol 😂
I would not recommend the strategy of shitting on my eyeballs before I even know what you’re talking about
Considering for a billionth of a microsecond the ease with which someone could be convincingly accused of witchcraft,
I have to wonder why a girl with a little more imagination than average did not accuse the "witchfinder general" of being one.
That might have shaken things up a bit, eh?
Did the thumbnail for this change? I swear it used to be the Witchfinder General with a psychotic grin on his face. Now, he's just staring calmly out at me.