I’m reading The Crucible in my English class and it really explains the Salem Witch Trials well. It bewildered me that the characters in the book were actual real people
Fun Fact: many historians, myself included, familiar with the weather conditions of Salem at the time believe that many of the "manifestions" the afflicted girls experienced to be a result of Ergot poisoning. Ergot is a fungus that grows on grains like rye and wheat. The weather during 1691-1692 was extremely wet and the harvest was put into storage in dark damp conditions as well, prime conditions for the fungus to grow. Symptoms of ergotamine poisoning include hallucinations, fevers, tremors, and even gangrene. When baked, the ergotamine would lose some of its strength, and you would be left with the 17th century equivilent of LSD on blotter paper (ergot is the source of the naturally occuring compound of lsd). Combined with the strict religious society that was Salem village and Salem township, and a misunderstanding of hallucination, the religious authorities of the day took the young girls tales of (likely hallucinations) curses and witchcraft at face value in the beginning then opportunists within the village took advantage of that to attempt to settle grudges and resentments and a chance to "better" themselves socially by siezing the landholdings of the accused.
I recall reading “The Crucible” my junior year of high school and the stoner of the class mentioned this fact as the we were talking about it in a group. My wonderful (yet a little naïve) English teacher was fascinated by the fact he knew this. Everyone but her knew that he sold marijuana after school but he was too cool to snitch on so the entire class burst out laughing instead
@@thelastvalkyrie1998 thats pretty cool! I did a very intensive study on Salem in my first year of grad school for a research project. It was very enlightening.
If true that would make a phenomenon of nature the source of an historic butchery. It's the questionable morality of the judges that still withstand. I'm pretty sure there are still mysteries now that makes us judge people. (So many different mental disorder or the virus in cat that make people like zombie)
There are many historians who don't buy it. first of all, the weather affected everyone's crops equally. Second, many of these fits were selectively timed on demand in the court room during trials. Third, the hallucinatory type of ergotism occurs only with a deficiency of vitamin A. Their fish, meat and vegetable diet was very rich in vitamin A. And fourth, no one reported any of the other symptoms of ergotism: vomiting, burning, abdominal cramps, great thirst, profound weakness, diarrhea, slow, weak pulse, numbness, tingling, dilated pupils, anuria and even generalized gangrene, especially of the extremities.
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 *When you express an opinion contrary to the opinion of most other people in a comment section. Its not just one ideology.
I had a 11th Great-Grand Aunt that was hanged for Witch Craft during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, her name was Mary Towne and she was hanged on September 22nd, 1692 In Gallows Hill at Salem
There is quite a lot of evidence that children will give highly fanciful accounts of things if pressed, there was a spate of it back during the 90's with overly suggestive psychologists so it is pretty well researched.
@@vorynrosethorn903 This reminds me of the story of the boy who said he died and went to Heaven, met Jesus, angels, departed loved ones, etc. When he came to in the hospital, his suprised and I assume overjoyed family recounted everything the child claimed to have seen and asked him questions in great detail. Eventually, his account became a wildly popular book in religious circles. It even became a movie. Only when the boy got a bit older did he admit that the pressure of the whole situation led him to make up the story and that he felt that he couldn't stop once it got famous. I don't think we should judge him to harshly though. He was just a kid, who experienced something extremely stressful (almost dying) and may have been inadvertently pressed by keen adults to testify that imagined events did in fact happen.
Gotta talk about other witch trials and hysteria's in the early Americas beyond Salem! I live in Southern MD, and in the late 1600s a woman named Moll Dyer was accused of this by settlers. Insane story. She's supposedly the basis for the Blair Witch Project movie.
It's still happening in the medical system. They've changed the diagnosis of "hysteria " but women and men also are still persecuted. Just more "civilised " and through medicine.
I remember hearing something about the people from the witch trials may have been hallucinating due to some fungus on the ingredients in the bread they ate. Once the fungus went away, the witch trials slowed way down.
And the weather conditions talked about at the time would've made it ideal for that kind of fungus to grow too, after the weather improved and the fungus went away all of a sudden things got less crazy around there.
There was a diary from one of the girls that stated they were having a tea party And When the parents wanted to go home that's when they started throwing a fit
0:33 ‘they were prominent throughout Medieval Europe during the 16th and 17th century’, that wasn’t Medieval times mate, that was during the Renaissance, a time of ‘enlightenment’. Medieval Witch Trials were very rare and even the Spanish Inquisition had very strict rules, codes and signs to look out for during investigation of potential Witches, meaning they’d have to be pretty damn sure you were a witch to be accused of such.
Malleus Maleficarum was written in 1486 and it was a staple book for Spanish Inquisition and Catholic church in putting down people accused of witchcraft.
I live in modern day Salem Village (Danvers, MA) the name was changed to drop associations of the trials as Salem village had most of the events happened there. Salem was centered on the port and it’s merchants and business from it. Salem Village was and still is focused on agriculture. Our town is mostly inland with rolling hills and flat farm lands, but we do have small neighborhood in town that is on the ocean and today connect by road to Salem proper. Salem originally was HUGE , Danvers also was large and broke into other parts of towns which are Peabody and Middleton MA today. Danvers is a large town today and since I’ve been a kid has slowly brought in more people who like the small town feel with the big town offerings. We have homes from the 1600’s and 1700’s that are marked with the year built and owner. You can’t get this level of preservation and rich local history, you did my town proud And the locals are very invested in the town and making sure it’s great for the future. and sadly are beginning to lose its small town feel!
Feminism history's portrayed witch hunts as being intended as patriarchal subjugation rather than mass hysteria (notable they ignored that they tended to break out during periods of breakdown of traditional authority during times of chaos, church belief tended to be that magic wasn't real and that even if someone freely confessed to it that was simply proof that they were mad). Such history's have largely been debunked as relates to the witch hunts but still haven't been widely corrected outside of historical circles on their ideas of gender relations and the norms of people in the past (believe it or not Christians were very socially conservative and didn't tend to approve of cheating or find it morally defensible, likewise women tended to be even more devout than men and as such tended to be fervent supporters of the predominating social order and were defensive and proud of their role in society rather than feeling repressed by not being forced down the coal mines, or at least being the one's given the easier work down the coal mines).
@@vorynrosethorn903 Yeah, women being in support of patriarchal systems so fervently tends to come about from propaganda and brainwashing mate. Why do you think feminism picked up rapid steam over the past few centuries? Because the brainwashing by our awful male ancestors was finally being broken by the women of our world. To this day, the patriarchy has its toxic influence and it’s still a long journey yet, but we’ll get there one day, and when we do, the patriarchy will be dead.
i mean the official numbers for the salem witch trial deaths were 14 women and 6 men so there were mostly women. also the first witches accused were three women. still is interesting how hollywood doesn't portray many men as witches even though there was quite a significant amount more male witches than shown by modern day media but for the most part women were accused more.
An even more solem reminder why we must shun religion and all it's deluded lies and distorted mind control for total power and monetary gain. * Look at Muslim over reach in Indonesia right now * Christian attrocities * Hindu and * Budhist attrocities * Russian Orthodox attrocities etc. etc.
I have 3 great grandaunt ancestors involved with that. One was hanged September of 1692, the others was pardoned and also have 2 grand grandmothers involved, a 10 year old and her mother. both pardoned by newly elected governor while in prison.
Something I never understood is if they confess why werent they killed, if they didnt confess they were killed. Like in the movie "The Crucible," Hale begged and pleaded for John Proctor to confess because he knew Proctor was innocent and didn't want an innocent man killed.
I can understand their thinking. If you confess, it means you want to part your old ways and return to Puritan beliefs. However if you don't confess, it means you are willingly accepting compact with the devil.
Ah a time when your boss and co workers were actually witches and you acused your way to the top of society before being acused yourself and being burned as a witch ❤️
highly recommend the book/play/movie “the crucible” by Arthur Miller, its very accurate to the real events while also telling the amazing story of the people of victims(and assailants) of Salem
@@LTUDovydas history doesn't repeat, it rhymes. Modern cancel culture is concentrated only on Twitter, while these witch trials were so prevalent you are better off not living among other people.
@@RebelWvlf Conservatives do the most cancelling. They are terrified of anything that isn't in their 2000-year old fairy tale book. Jehovas Witnesses are the worst though (I knew someone who was one and they took away almost everything he loved from him until he finally left)
Okay, I noticed something very dumb here. They believed the devil needed someone's permission in order to imitate said person's appearance? That makes no sense. Isn't the devil supposed to be the most evil being in existence? Why would he ask for someone's permission/consent for something? People back then had some seriously weird logic. I'm asking this as someone who believes in God BTW.
I’m not sure but I think it’s because they thought you had to sell your soul to the devil for him to have any power over you and fulfill any deal struck with him and so with your soul he appeared as a ghost of the witch
The logic likely stems from Job's trial. The devil needed permission from God to rid him of his family and possessions. Then the devil again needed permission to inflict him with a skin disease, one that could not take his life.
Hey, that’s religious logic for you. It is the same person that created the trial of water, in wich the accused was tied up and thrown into a large body of water (a river or a lake). If they sunk and drowned they were exonorated while if they floated it was taken as a sign of witchcraft. Either way, the accused died.
What happened here was completely unforgivable. I don’t know what caused the mass hysteria to break out to begin with, but it seems to be a common trend throughout history (and not just distant history, many recent incidents have proven this as well) that the ones who point the finger are often guilty of what they’re accusing others of doing. For example: The people screaming the loudest about Global Warming are the biggest contributors to environmental and Carbon pollution. The people who preach about how evil and unethical slavery is are the ones who profit off of it. It’s not unreasonable to wonder that if there was really some form of witchcraft being practiced in Salem at the time, it was being done by the same people who were placing the noose around innocent people’s necks
I’ve been to Salem. As a lover of the paranormal there’s tons of activity. One place I visited was Gallows hill memorial. While I was there and doing just a little investigating I felt as if I was being strangled or choked almost as if I was being hung. Another site which is now a baseball field I felt the ghostly hands of women gripping on to my shoulders and arms with felt like they were clingy for dear life, as if they could cling and I’d be able to save them. Those tortured souls haunt those hollowed grounds and many (at least that I’ve encountered) aren’t evil. You will feel different leaving there
@@boipocket2020 I know that’s a symptom of anxiety but no. When I say I felt those emotions I meant it. When I felt like I was being hung I meant as if there was an actual noose around my neck, the air was getting thinner, my mouth was increasingly getting dry and I kept getting colder. I know some people don’t believe but I have pictures and videos to prove I interact with said spirits
My favorite Salem Witch Trial story actually came from Bewitched. Samantha is accused of being a witch, she admits it, and shows them what a real witch can do, showing all the others weren't witches, lol.... That would have been interesting to see in real life. Wonder how the historical record would have described it. 😁
Dear Simple History if you ever read this, please do a video aboiut the Bamberg, Wurzburg, Fulda and Trier witch trials. Please do a video about Heinrich Kramer and his Malleus Maleficarum. Please do a video about the Walpurgsnight.
I see that this story right here is true because hundreds of years ago and that century, and Salem Massachusetts, there was a lot of men, women and children, being accused of witchcraft and becoming witches, because I see in that state, lots of people, fear that type of evil and back, then many other villagers would track down and kill anyonewho portrays themselves as a witch around the people within this village back in the day here.
Well greatly appreciated fellows!! Congratulations. Old Salem still stands as of today since May 2022 when the final witch was exonerated from the old witchcraft trials of 1692!😁😁😁😁🇺🇸
She was also the last to be released from jail. Prisoners were charged for their room and board. She was a slave. She had nothing. Paris, her owner, disowned her and refused to pay. She had to wait until someone else bought and bailed her. People didn't confess because confessors forfeit all their property and became the least desirable employees. It could be a different kind of death sentence.
But, there are ways of telling if she is a witch. Like if she weighs the same as a duck on large scales, she must be made of wood. And Witches burn because they're made of wood. Both wood and ducks float in water. Therefore, if she is at the same weight as a duck, she's a witch.
Very sad fact: Sarah goods daughter, Dorothy, was the youngest person to be accused and imprisoned during the trials. She was only 4 years old. She spent a total of 10 months in jail. She had been coaxed and forced to give a false confession against her mother and herself. Upon her release, she was too traumatized and psychologically ill to ever have a normal life. A 4 year old girl was robbed of her mother and her life. All of it over a baseless accusation.
When fear, panic, folklore, and lack of logic and being uneducated came together in 1692! So glad I wasn't born in that time frame. There was also a theory that some wheat they were growing and using to bake with was contaminated with a fungus that caused those that ate it to have illusions, that caused this whole episode!
ergot fungus yes i have heard that too.....hense the prayer " give us this day our daily bread" the illusion of grandure and invisible thread. The invisible clothes mentality perpetuated by contaminated wheat and total stupidity fortified by peer pressure and mob mentality.
One of the crimes of the accused was the crime of speaking in a unknown language while in prayer. This is the same crime that early Christians were accused of by the both the Jewish San Hedran and later by the Roman's. All through the history of the church this accusation has been hurled at the true believers. Vaughn
Short notice: 16th. to 17th. is in no way middle ages. Indeed witch trials and the fear of witches ans their Male counterpart rose with the Start of the renaissance.
Fun fact: Some of the girls ended up getting accused of Witchcraft themselves when they got older.
Well well well how the turn tabled...
how the turn have tabled
But what did they expect in a world full of dumb people with zero objectivity.....
@@ebubechiibegbula5968 things didn’t change that much we’re just simply 20% more smarter temperature the 16th century
@@randomrhino7500 15th
Giles Corey was a badass. When they were piling stones on him and asked for a confession, he would only say, “more weight”.
@****PUTIN' bruh
My man died so his kids could actually own his land since he never gave a confession.
Oh yeah lol did you read the crucible?
I remember that. Brutal yet kickass.
@@patrickreilly7658 reading it in class rn this video is clutch
Being accused of being a wizard sounds badass at first
You're a wizard, Ronald
You’re a wizard, Fox
I thought the male version of a witch is a warlock?
Never talking, just keeps walking. Spreading his magic.
In modern terms/fantasy, yes
You forgot to mention Giles Corey being 80 years old and if he had confessed they would of taken his property from his kids.
I’m reading The Crucible in my English class and it really explains the Salem Witch Trials well. It bewildered me that the characters in the book were actual real people
I love the crucible unit!!! It’s a great unit and I’ve had debates later on because most of my junior class was also in English 3.
The main problem being the Abigail wasn’t the way she’s portrayed in the book and movie
I hate that damn unit
Same I just got done with that days ago
Yes I’m reading Frankenstein rn but next year I’ll be reading the crucible
Fun Fact: many historians, myself included, familiar with the weather conditions of Salem at the time believe that many of the "manifestions" the afflicted girls experienced to be a result of Ergot poisoning. Ergot is a fungus that grows on grains like rye and wheat. The weather during 1691-1692 was extremely wet and the harvest was put into storage in dark damp conditions as well, prime conditions for the fungus to grow. Symptoms of ergotamine poisoning include hallucinations, fevers, tremors, and even gangrene. When baked, the ergotamine would lose some of its strength, and you would be left with the 17th century equivilent of LSD on blotter paper (ergot is the source of the naturally occuring compound of lsd). Combined with the strict religious society that was Salem village and Salem township, and a misunderstanding of hallucination, the religious authorities of the day took the young girls tales of (likely hallucinations) curses and witchcraft at face value in the beginning then opportunists within the village took advantage of that to attempt to settle grudges and resentments and a chance to "better" themselves socially by siezing the landholdings of the accused.
I recall reading “The Crucible” my junior year of high school and the stoner of the class mentioned this fact as the we were talking about it in a group. My wonderful (yet a little naïve) English teacher was fascinated by the fact he knew this. Everyone but her knew that he sold marijuana after school but he was too cool to snitch on so the entire class burst out laughing instead
@@thelastvalkyrie1998 thats pretty cool! I did a very intensive study on Salem in my first year of grad school for a research project. It was very enlightening.
Or it was just selfish, lying, horny white girls getting people murdered to steal and save face.
If true that would make a phenomenon of nature the source of an historic butchery. It's the questionable morality of the judges that still withstand.
I'm pretty sure there are still mysteries now that makes us judge people. (So many different mental disorder or the virus in cat that make people like zombie)
There are many historians who don't buy it. first of all, the weather affected everyone's crops equally. Second, many of these fits were selectively timed on demand in the court room during trials. Third, the hallucinatory type of ergotism occurs only with a deficiency of vitamin A. Their fish, meat and vegetable diet was very rich in vitamin A. And fourth, no one reported any of the other symptoms of ergotism: vomiting, burning, abdominal cramps, great thirst, profound weakness, diarrhea, slow, weak pulse, numbness, tingling, dilated pupils, anuria and even generalized gangrene, especially of the extremities.
When you express your opinions on Twitter:
*here the clip you all was born to see:*
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When you're conservative on Twitter
True
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 Now that's even more worse
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356
*When you express an opinion contrary to the opinion of most other people in a comment section. Its not just one ideology.
I had a 11th Great-Grand Aunt that was hanged for Witch Craft during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, her name was Mary Towne and she was hanged on September 22nd, 1692 In Gallows Hill at Salem
One of my several times great grandmothers was one of the first few hung in the Salem witch trials, her name was Martha Carrier.
So sorry about this 😢
@Can't fix Stupid yes
Damn how do you trace your ancestry?
@@dexxed674 I have an all access ancestry account so that’s how I trace mine
Seems like the accusers had more occult like practices than the accused...
There is quite a lot of evidence that children will give highly fanciful accounts of things if pressed, there was a spate of it back during the 90's with overly suggestive psychologists so it is pretty well researched.
@@vorynrosethorn903 This reminds me of the story of the boy who said he died and went to Heaven, met Jesus, angels, departed loved ones, etc. When he came to in the hospital, his suprised and I assume overjoyed family recounted everything the child claimed to have seen and asked him questions in great detail. Eventually, his account became a wildly popular book in religious circles. It even became a movie. Only when the boy got a bit older did he admit that the pressure of the whole situation led him to make up the story and that he felt that he couldn't stop once it got famous.
I don't think we should judge him to harshly though. He was just a kid, who experienced something extremely stressful (almost dying) and may have been inadvertently pressed by keen adults to testify that imagined events did in fact happen.
Those who preach the loudest always have skeletons in their closets.
@@playedit0ut290 not even in the closet anymore.
Their Puritans enough said
Gotta talk about other witch trials and hysteria's in the early Americas beyond Salem! I live in Southern MD, and in the late 1600s a woman named Moll Dyer was accused of this by settlers. Insane story. She's supposedly the basis for the Blair Witch Project movie.
Same well I'm going back home to southern MD flying from college
It's still happening in the medical system. They've changed the diagnosis of "hysteria " but women and men also are still persecuted. Just more "civilised " and through medicine.
I wonder if it's where we get the saying when the schidt hits the fan...." we are in Dyer Straits" ??
I remember hearing something about the people from the witch trials may have been hallucinating due to some fungus on the ingredients in the bread they ate. Once the fungus went away, the witch trials slowed way down.
And the weather conditions talked about at the time would've made it ideal for that kind of fungus to grow too, after the weather improved and the fungus went away all of a sudden things got less crazy around there.
Yes
@@Trynt33 though i suspect that mass hysteria and attention seeking also played a part.
There was a diary from one of the girls that stated they were having a tea party
And
When the parents wanted to go home that's when they started throwing a fit
One of them said they did it "for sport".
Please do a video on the battle of Delville wood. As a South African it would be truly amazing to see our troops remembered on this channel.
Thanks..
Gives a whole new meaning of "suffer not the witch to live"
It’s interesting that H.P. Lovecraft’s setting for all things weird “Arkham” Massachusetts was based on Salem.
0:33 ‘they were prominent throughout Medieval Europe during the 16th and 17th century’, that wasn’t Medieval times mate, that was during the Renaissance, a time of ‘enlightenment’. Medieval Witch Trials were very rare and even the Spanish Inquisition had very strict rules, codes and signs to look out for during investigation of potential Witches, meaning they’d have to be pretty damn sure you were a witch to be accused of such.
Malleus Maleficarum was written in 1486 and it was a staple book for Spanish Inquisition and Catholic church in putting down people accused of witchcraft.
Yeah, that's a common mistake.
@@RebelWvlf Still not the Middle Ages
Plus, the whole witch hunting thing only really happened in Protestant areas, not Catholic ones.
@@federationprime I wanted to say that but I wasn't sure at all.
“After finding himself accused of being a wizard”,
I’m sorry, that got me there.
My English class just started learning about the Salem witch trials by reading the crucible so great timing!
Same here. We just finished the crucible in my ELA 5/6 class.
Awesome... great curriculum required reading. shame their isn't an islamic version. What are your thoughts on religion now??
I live in modern day Salem Village (Danvers, MA) the name was changed to drop associations of the trials as Salem village had most of the events happened there. Salem was centered on the port and it’s merchants and business from it. Salem Village was and still is focused on agriculture. Our town is mostly inland with rolling hills and flat farm lands, but we do have small neighborhood in town that is on the ocean and today connect by road to Salem proper. Salem originally was HUGE , Danvers also was large and broke into other parts of towns which are Peabody and Middleton MA today. Danvers is a large town today and since I’ve been a kid has slowly brought in more people who like the small town feel with the big town offerings.
We have homes from the 1600’s and 1700’s that are marked with the year built and owner. You can’t get this level of preservation and rich local history, you did my town proud
And the locals are very invested in the town and making sure it’s great for the future. and sadly are beginning to lose its small town feel!
It is surprising despite men being accused of witchcraft, Hollywood loves to portray witches mostly as women
Men aren't as easy to drown
Feminism history's portrayed witch hunts as being intended as patriarchal subjugation rather than mass hysteria (notable they ignored that they tended to break out during periods of breakdown of traditional authority during times of chaos, church belief tended to be that magic wasn't real and that even if someone freely confessed to it that was simply proof that they were mad). Such history's have largely been debunked as relates to the witch hunts but still haven't been widely corrected outside of historical circles on their ideas of gender relations and the norms of people in the past (believe it or not Christians were very socially conservative and didn't tend to approve of cheating or find it morally defensible, likewise women tended to be even more devout than men and as such tended to be fervent supporters of the predominating social order and were defensive and proud of their role in society rather than feeling repressed by not being forced down the coal mines, or at least being the one's given the easier work down the coal mines).
@@vorynrosethorn903 Yeah, women being in support of patriarchal systems so fervently tends to come about from propaganda and brainwashing mate. Why do you think feminism picked up rapid steam over the past few centuries? Because the brainwashing by our awful male ancestors was finally being broken by the women of our world.
To this day, the patriarchy has its toxic influence and it’s still a long journey yet, but we’ll get there one day, and when we do, the patriarchy will be dead.
i mean the official numbers for the salem witch trial deaths were 14 women and 6 men so there were mostly women. also the first witches accused were three women. still is interesting how hollywood doesn't portray many men as witches even though there was quite a significant amount more male witches than shown by modern day media but for the most part women were accused more.
A solemn reminder that we must be skeptical of baseless claims, and ever vigilant for true justice in the face of false accusations.
An even more solem reminder why we must shun religion and all it's deluded lies and distorted mind control for total power and monetary gain.
* Look at Muslim over reach in Indonesia right now * Christian attrocities * Hindu and * Budhist attrocities
* Russian Orthodox attrocities etc. etc.
Not only that. Approach things rationally.
I waited very long for this video 🇬🇧
I have 3 great grandaunt ancestors involved with that. One was hanged September of 1692, the others was pardoned and also have 2 grand grandmothers involved, a 10 year old and her mother. both pardoned by newly elected governor while in prison.
I find it funny that as I am researching the Salem witch trails this video get uploaded
I think nutty history uploaded one about it too.
*here the clip you all was born to see:*
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Bro the class im in is doing this subject thanks for the upload.
"She turned me into a newt"
A newt?
"I got better"
What else floats?
A DUCK!!!
Simon whistler posted a video yesterday on this thats cool timing
Something I never understood is if they confess why werent they killed, if they didnt confess they were killed. Like in the movie "The Crucible," Hale begged and pleaded for John Proctor to confess because he knew Proctor was innocent and didn't want an innocent man killed.
I can understand their thinking. If you confess, it means you want to part your old ways and return to Puritan beliefs. However if you don't confess, it means you are willingly accepting compact with the devil.
if you confess your sin it was Christian duty to forgive- not confessing means you arent contrite
If you confessed you lost all your property, and that could be a slower death sentence because confessed witches are the least undesirable employees.
We just started covering this in class, thank you Simple History. Very cool
Ah a time when your boss and co workers were actually witches and you acused your way to the top of society before being acused yourself and being burned as a witch ❤️
everyone knows the only way to find out if someone is a witch: to measure her and a duck's weight
Now it’s accusations of racism.
@@Justin-pe9cl fr
@@jvcardoso1997 i thought it was building a bridge out of them. Lol
@@Justin-pe9cl hmmm... usually when I see those accusations it's well deserved.
highly recommend the book/play/movie “the crucible” by Arthur Miller, its very accurate to the real events while also telling the amazing story of the people of victims(and assailants) of Salem
It's not exactly accurate no. It's dramatized of the events
"More weight"
- John the -Baptist- Badass.
Salem resident here. Salem Town actually. Well done.
Three Sovreigns for Sarah is a good movie about this case. The late Ann Petry wrote a book many years ago about Tituba.
Imagine you dislike your neighbor so much but all you need to say is “ I think she’s a witch”
I'm living this😅 seriously. Dangerous minds are the problem. They are the spell casters.
@Mr. King of course lmao
yeah "I want more farmland and another house....my neighbour's a witch"
Great content, very interesting. The main reason I subscribed
Haha.. I'm in the program. My husband joined it, at least he stood up for his wife.
Getting canceled is now the equivalent of being accused of witchcraft.
history repeats itself
@@LTUDovydas history doesn't repeat, it rhymes. Modern cancel culture is concentrated only on Twitter, while these witch trials were so prevalent you are better off not living among other people.
@@RebelWvlf Conservatives do the most cancelling. They are terrified of anything that isn't in their 2000-year old fairy tale book. Jehovas Witnesses are the worst though (I knew someone who was one and they took away almost everything he loved from him until he finally left)
@@RebelWvlf “iT RyEmes” 🤓
Accurate.
Okay, I noticed something very dumb here. They believed the devil needed someone's permission in order to imitate said person's appearance? That makes no sense. Isn't the devil supposed to be the most evil being in existence? Why would he ask for someone's permission/consent for something? People back then had some seriously weird logic.
I'm asking this as someone who believes in God BTW.
I’m not sure but I think it’s because they thought you had to sell your soul to the devil for him to have any power over you and fulfill any deal struck with him and so with your soul he appeared as a ghost of the witch
The logic likely stems from Job's trial. The devil needed permission from God to rid him of his family and possessions. Then the devil again needed permission to inflict him with a skin disease, one that could not take his life.
Hey, that’s religious logic for you. It is the same person that created the trial of water, in wich the accused was tied up and thrown into a large body of water (a river or a lake). If they sunk and drowned they were exonorated while if they floated it was taken as a sign of witchcraft. Either way, the accused died.
@@florians9949 didn’t they try to pull them out if they sunk sometimes?
@@OceanAce God letting the devil do horrible things because 1600s logic.
my school JUST started ''teaching'' this. But good video as always!
do tehy teach also a bit about the euopean witch hunts?
wow! very interesting, love how they get deep into the details of what happened
We have not progressed from this if we think about it.
I just learned this in class last week
What happened here was completely unforgivable. I don’t know what caused the mass hysteria to break out to begin with, but it seems to be a common trend throughout history (and not just distant history, many recent incidents have proven this as well) that the ones who point the finger are often guilty of what they’re accusing others of doing. For example: The people screaming the loudest about Global Warming are the biggest contributors to environmental and Carbon pollution. The people who preach about how evil and unethical slavery is are the ones who profit off of it. It’s not unreasonable to wonder that if there was really some form of witchcraft being practiced in Salem at the time, it was being done by the same people who were placing the noose around innocent people’s necks
We r still facing this in Africa unfortunately
“Things were so much better back then”
Back then:
Last Podcast on the Left said it best on why the Salem Witch Trials happened "Life was hard and everything sucked"
I’ve been to Salem. As a lover of the paranormal there’s tons of activity. One place I visited was Gallows hill memorial. While I was there and doing just a little investigating I felt as if I was being strangled or choked almost as if I was being hung. Another site which is now a baseball field I felt the ghostly hands of women gripping on to my shoulders and arms with felt like they were clingy for dear life, as if they could cling and I’d be able to save them. Those tortured souls haunt those hollowed grounds and many (at least that I’ve encountered) aren’t evil. You will feel different leaving there
Let me guess: the memorial was on top of a hill and you felt like you were being strangled as soon as you reached it?
big if true
ngl but you described one of the symptoms for anxiety unless that was your intention from the get go
@@boipocket2020 I know that’s a symptom of anxiety but no. When I say I felt those emotions I meant it. When I felt like I was being hung I meant as if there was an actual noose around my neck, the air was getting thinner, my mouth was increasingly getting dry and I kept getting colder. I know some people don’t believe but I have pictures and videos to prove I interact with said spirits
@@MrSamulai it was at the base of the hill. The feeling didn’t start instantly. It took a few minutes to start.
Very sad...
I remember reading the Crucible when I was in high school.
js saved me from a 45 minute documentary on the salem witch trials 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I was just in salem recently.
we're actually reading "the crucible" in english class so this is a nice surprise
love the video
When your at the gym but Giles Corey is your spotter
I see you simple history boosting that animation budget.
humanity proving intelligence is reaching them
but humanity is faster
People will do terrible things when they're afraid.
Good keep up the good work
And in proud tradition, new england is still known for its support of witch hunts to this day.
"If she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood"
"and therefore"
"A WITCH!!!!"
Was the area on the maps shown, Ipswich. Originally settled by people of Ipswich England. My hometown
My favorite Salem Witch Trial story actually came from Bewitched. Samantha is accused of being a witch, she admits it, and shows them what a real witch can do, showing all the others weren't witches, lol....
That would have been interesting to see in real life. Wonder how the historical record would have described it. 😁
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about Abigail Williams I thought she had A bigger role
Why would a witch make a cake that identified herself? That doesn't even make sense lol
When she reject you so u tell the village chief she's a witch 🤣
Dear Simple History if you ever read this, please do a video aboiut the Bamberg, Wurzburg, Fulda and Trier witch trials. Please do a video about Heinrich Kramer and his Malleus Maleficarum. Please do a video about the Walpurgsnight.
I believe Salem Village is now called Danvers. I'm a lifelong resident of Massachusetts but I've only been there once in my life.
I remember I didn't know who billy Joel was and everyone reacted like this lol.
Thats cool we are learning about this in school
do you leanr aslo a bit about the european witch hunts?
Sounds like Massachusetts to take over 300 years to clear someone's name in court given how long it takes them to pave roads.
Lynn Massachusetts gang what’s up 💪🏽
“I told the witch doctor I was in love with you, I told the witch doctor I was in love with you.”
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she made my heart go ....broom brooom broooooom
It terrible and scary during the Witch Trial
I see that this story right here is true because hundreds of years ago and that century, and Salem Massachusetts, there was a lot of men, women and children, being accused of witchcraft and becoming witches, because I see in that state, lots of people, fear that type of evil and back, then many other villagers would track down and kill anyonewho portrays themselves as a witch around the people within this village back in the day here.
Do “The Battle of Alcatraz” sorry for asking but it’s a memorial we must remember those innocent officers
I remembered fear street watching thise
convient timing. I just finished reading the crucible in my english class
Fun Fact: According to the channel Ask a Mortician. The site of the Salem Witch Trials is now a parking lot of a Walgreens OOOOooooooooOOOOOOOO
Well greatly appreciated fellows!! Congratulations. Old Salem still stands as of today since May 2022 when the final witch was exonerated from the old witchcraft trials of 1692!😁😁😁😁🇺🇸
Good video
The only one to "confess" to witchcraft is the one to survive. That's pretty funny
She was also the last to be released from jail. Prisoners were charged for their room and board. She was a slave. She had nothing. Paris, her owner, disowned her and refused to pay. She had to wait until someone else bought and bailed her. People didn't confess because confessors forfeit all their property and became the least desirable employees. It could be a different kind of death sentence.
it's either denying and dying, or accusing someone else
But, there are ways of telling if she is a witch. Like if she weighs the same as a duck on large scales, she must be made of wood. And Witches burn because they're made of wood. Both wood and ducks float in water. Therefore, if she is at the same weight as a duck, she's a witch.
That's my hometown!!!! Born and raised a witch, metaphorically speaking!!
I hope those stupid girls knew what kind of trouble they caused before their end.
Very sad fact: Sarah goods daughter, Dorothy, was the youngest person to be accused and imprisoned during the trials. She was only 4 years old. She spent a total of 10 months in jail. She had been coaxed and forced to give a false confession against her mother and herself. Upon her release, she was too traumatized and psychologically ill to ever have a normal life. A 4 year old girl was robbed of her mother and her life. All of it over a baseless accusation.
It was just a ploy for wealth snatching. People still do it today, only they use lawyers and loopholes.
In that point of time, it was all complete insanity!
Sistahs, sing!
there's my town Topsfield
5:15 why do they have flashlight?
THEY ARE WIZARDS 😱😱😱
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When fear, panic, folklore, and lack of logic and being uneducated came together in 1692! So glad I wasn't born in that time frame. There was also a theory that some wheat they were growing and using to bake with was contaminated with a fungus that caused those that ate it to have illusions, that caused this whole episode!
ergot fungus yes i have heard that too.....hense the prayer " give us this day our daily bread" the illusion of grandure and invisible thread. The invisible clothes mentality perpetuated by contaminated wheat and total stupidity fortified by peer pressure and mob mentality.
We are literally reading the crucible in English class right now
One of the crimes of the accused was the crime of speaking in a unknown language while in prayer. This is the same crime that early Christians were accused of by the both the Jewish San Hedran and later by the Roman's. All through the history of the church this accusation has been hurled at the true believers. Vaughn
Short notice: 16th. to 17th. is in no way middle ages. Indeed witch trials and the fear of witches ans their Male counterpart rose with the Start of the renaissance.
karens of this time accused random people as witches.
My maternal grandfather's paternal ancestry had one important member:
The first guy to put a bond out for a witch's death.
do something on concord MA
History is repeating itself
My great great great grandmother was hung at the trials.