When you had a lecture about the Salem Witch Trials today and didn't care, but Dankula is talking about the same exact thing and I'm here for the premiere.
Important note: even in spite of all we've learned here today, the inquisition was actually quite progressive for it's time, as it strictly limited the use of torture (which was very common in secular courts), allowed the defendants legal representation, and issued death sentences much less often than in municipal proceedings where petty thieves usually were sent to swing. However, all this pales compared to the fact that the Inquisition rose above its contemporary courts in placing the burden of proof on the prosecution. And the Spanish Inquisition ended witch trials in Spain a full century before the rest of Europe because it required scientific proof of witchcraft - not just eyewitness accounts. Among protections afforded accused heretics was that if you were called before the Inquisition, you were required to make a list of all your enemies. Anyone on that list was forbidden to give evidence against you because it was presumed to be false and motivated by spite. In fact, in many cases, accused criminals intentionally maneuvered to get their cases brought before the Inquisition, because they were confident of getting a fairer hearing than before the ordinary courts. And even if torture were to be used, the Inquisitors gave the accused numerous chances to repent. They would first demand confession verbally. They would then explain, in hideous detail, what would happen to them if they did not confess. Only then, if they still did not repent for their sins, would they resort to torture. It should also be noted that, at the time of the Inquisition, interrogations under torture were commonplace, as then-prevalent conventional wisdom held that testimony was only reliable if extracted under torture. Lastly, at the time, modern notions of religious pluralism and freedom of conscience were unthought-of, even among many of the victims of the Inquisition.
@@IsaacClodfelter by the standards of it's day, it was. Is it really fair to laude someone as backwards when they tried so very hard to be progressive?
@@benthomason3307 When comparing them to modern day standards, yes. I don't disagree the institution of the inquisition was progressive for its time. I just don't think we should go out of our way to hold up all the bad they didn't do. I don't know, they were still torturing people,
@@georgeohwell7428 I'd say it's more because of stuff like the terrifyingly high number of adults who think we don't live on a globe or that space is fake.
It's noteworthy that the guy who wrote the Melleus Malleficarum was excommunicated, and his book was banned everywhere in the Catholic world. but then John Calvin happened. He loved the book, and the rest is history.
@@RegularFish2 John Calvin died in the 1560's, the Medieval Period is most often considered over with either A. The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 or B. The Discovery of the New World in 1492. So no, it isn't Medieval, more like Late Renaissance or Early Modern Period. Witch Hunts existed during the Medieval Period, as Dank mentioned, starting up in the mid 1300s in particular, possibly because of the Black Death of 1348-49. However, they did not kick into high gear until the 1500's with the Protestant Reformation. Most witch hunts and witch burnings, were Protestant affairs. This is why the rates of Witch Trials were MUCH higher in Holland, England, British North America, and most of all Germany than they were in, say, Italy or France. Germany had it's highest rate of Witch Burnings during the 30 Years War from 1618-1648.
To my understanding, some of the witch doctors over in certain parts of Africa also commit Cannibalism and collect ingredients by killing, maiming, or grave robbing. I believe that's one of the dangers posed to albinos.
@@johnfalkenrath6485 🤣already seen, ya it was messed up that the guy went to the sister of a guy he killed and told her, essentially, I'm your brother now.
I just gotta say Dank's little post-intro "Pleze leave a like and a cömment on thes vedyo coz it rreally helps me en the algarrethm [snicker]" makes my day every time I hear it. So I left a like and a cömment, may the algarrethm favor ye Dank and no wetches curse ye.
@@kylevolbrecht9255 And ye must undergo thine holy baptism through vaccination. The Vaccination Baptists who believe it should be voluntary and, Fauci forbid, those who refuse, are all heretics.
@@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation Believe in the Fauci, the government is all good, vote democrat, Orange man bad, white privilege, All cops are bastards, etc... I can't drop more dumb idiocy or I'll sick.
My favourite story is the one in Nigeria where they arrested a goat for robbery because they claimed it was a witch who shapeshifted into another animal, in the wonderful ye olden times of...2009.
Pendle witch trails were interesting. Lancaster Castle still has the cells they were held in. Absolute pitch black when the door gets locked. Got put in one as a kid on a day trip,it was mint 😁
One reason I've heard that Giles refused to enter a plea was he knew that, if tried, his children had a very good chance of losing their inheritance, as his properties would become subject to seizure by the state.
This is true. It is also believed that the reason they lynched him was he was both the largest landowner in Salem, and also the most hated man in Salem. By all accounts he was the Ebenezer scrooge of Salem, but with a habit for beating people and children, sometimes to death (His 15 year old indentured servant).
@@Khornecussion A person practicing witchcraft is called a witch, male or female. A man practicing witchcraft is often mistakenly called a wizard (a word from Northern Europe), a *warlock* (a word from 14th century England), a sorcerer, or shaman (a term for people who practice magic in Siberia).
Some of the methods used to see if one was a witch relied on this exact kind of question. One of them involved putting the accused in a cage and placing it in a deep body of water. If the accused floated, they were the real deal. If they drowned, they were innocent, albeit posthumously. Take a guess as to what happened every time.
"There are thousands of these things all over Europe. Let me tell you about one that was interesting." Oo, I wonder where that could be. "In Scotland...." What were the odds!?
"Malleus maleficarum" is very Warhammer-y, and GW knows it, I reckon. Ask the Ordo Malleus, the "Office of Hammer". The book's german name is pretty sweet, too. "Der Hexenhammer".
The faeries thing now seems silly, but it's just because Disney has Disneyfied folklore into much less interesting and bland versions of what came before. Iirc, one type faeries were thought to be forest mischievous spirits (that would sometimes appear like dwarves, not just sprites) and one thing they would do was kidnap children and replace them with some evil doppelganger/changeling, and more rarely even take adults with them to the "fairy kingdom" or something along those like, much like Peter Pan, except they weren't thought to be butterflies.
I'd recommend reading about the Korrigans if that subject interests you. They're supposed to be dwarves (although much smaller) living in forests humans don't go to. They're extremely mischievous and revengful yet they'll help you if you propose a deal. There's a story one of my relatives used to tell me where a little girl, who lost her way into some unknown woods, stumble upon 3 of them. They help her out against food and show the path to her destination. This happens a couple of times, until she doesn't have anything to trade. So they decide to bring her to their place, which is supposed to be a giant hole. No one ever saw the girl after that.
I still want to see The Radioactive BoyScout. He's no Vlad or a war hero, but the KID built a reactor in his shed with some smoke alarms with the help of professors. Please... and Thanks Dank
Nice Fact about James the IV (Or First if you'd like): He was quite obsessed with Witches and made quite a big deal out of it. When he inherited the English throne one William Shakespeare wrote a play pretty much especially for him which had quite a bit in the way of Witches: Macbeth. Also there was apparently some episode when he went to either Oxford or Cambridge and a few students cosplayed as witches and came to greet him as the "descendant of Banquo", which he quite appreciated. Odd fellow.
The Salem Witch Trials are part of the least impressive witch trials ever. The only thing that's exceptional about the Salem Witch Trials is that they happened late in the era of witch hunts. Still, a great episode.
Arthur Miller wrote a play about them, that's how they were popularised. Most people ignore history unless someone bothers to make a movie or show about it.
It didn't help that John Endicott took over the church and town so he could have complete control. Then he kicked out the Quakers, telling em don't come back. When they did come back he had em killed. Takes a real bastard to kill Quakers.
Since you mentioned Tirol in this episode, how about you make an episode about Andreas Hofer, an Austrian hero/guerilla fighter who managed to defeat the french army two seperate times during the Napoleonic Wars? He was such a badass that during his execution after not being shot the right way, told the firing squad to "shoot better".
The witches wrote the laws against the witches to make people who can't read the OT never be capable of figuring out what a witch is. It's only explicitly described in the most important book in human history.
Every COVID 19 mandate is exactly like these laws. As soon as they started detaining people where I live for being in close contact with an infected person, I thought “this is going to get bad is it’s already looking like witch trials” and that was almost 2 years ago.
Man I can’t help but love the smirk you give when announcing RAID SHADOW LEGENDS. 😂 love all the content along with the mad lads series. Keep it up my guy, you’re doing phenomenal! ❤️
You ain't a witch until you try to tell the future by gyromancy by spinning around like a genuine idiot. Step 1. draw letters on the circumference of a circle. Step 2. spin around inside the circle of the circumference untill you stumble on a letter ad nauseam until an illegible sentence is formed or till death or madness intervened.😂
How do graphically represent expressions of antilogic as they are comprised by the interrelating 3 components of rheotric? Do you think you know what a spell is?
dank when i verbally pointed out that witches are very real: *ducking down checking surroundings for women with one too many piercings or tats* "mate yer gun e get us hexed"
Funny how things have moved on and humanity has evolved. We now know if you want to go after someone for (reasons) and destroy them without any evidence, facts or logic, don't accuse them of being something that makes YOU look insane. Accuse them of being something that exists but is difficult to prove!
So interesting an informative. Another fantastic video. I took a course on the history of witches/witch trials in college. Not only did this cover the subject perfectly, it was 1000x more entertaining lol. Very well done.
"The Malleus Malificarum, most Warhammer name I've ever heard" Oh, you mean like the Ordo Malleus? The Grey Knights? The Space Marines specifically tasked with *hunting demons and suspected heretics?*
One thing Dank didn't mention about King James (VI of Scotland, I of England) is that the man quite literally wrote the book on black magic and witchcraft (denouncing it, that is) - "Daemonologie", one of the main sources William Shakespeare used in writing Macbeth.
When anyone asks "How could people have been so ruthless and cruel back then", I always reply with a brief analogy: We basically lived in the Warhammer universe. You know how in Warhammer, the forces of Chaos were real, literal entities, and the Inquisitors would nuke entire planets because there was a CHANCE that MAYBE one person was an agent of the dark gods? Yeah, back in the day, the Devil was thought to be exactly as real and as powerful as the Chaos Gods. Of course they took no chances and burned everybody. Do you have any idea the absolute horror a Chaos.. I mean Satanic foothold on Earth could cause? Take no chances! For the Emperor!
They also didn't burn everyone, quite a lot of people were found to be innocent. The severity of the hunts also depend on the region. It was worst in Germany, where the hysteria was at its highest, but here in Denmark the king actually made a decree in the 1570's which forbade torture until they were convicted (they were tortured after to force them to name co-conspirators) so no harm would come to them if found innocent, he also made a law which forbade witches to be put to death in local trials and restricting the death penalty to the regional court. There was also a burden of evidence, though it wasn't much, insults followed by misfortune were seen as proof enough as correlation must be causation. Until the early 1600's there was also a distinction between white and black magic in Denmark, as white magic wasn't punished very often. I could go on, but I do think Dankula's video is very good, he gets a lot of things right. A few last things that I would like to mention before I go: 1: The case of the scottish king returning from Denmark. He was actually not on the boat as far as I know, we were sending him his bride to be and her boat nearly sank. What was significant about this case was that witches in both Scotland and Denmark confessed that they tried to sink the ship, so this was seen as the work of an international coven, trying to undermine god's order. The scottish king saw himself as chosen by God and thought that as God's favorite king, satan and his minions hated him more than anyone. The little brother of the future scottish queen would go on to become king of Denmark and he was deeply traumatised by the event and as such he began persecuting witches harder, making a decree to officially outlaw white magic and persecuting those who fail to hunt witches properly. 2: The papal bull Dankula talked about did give Kramer the power to be an inquisitor in Germany and it did acknowledge the existence of witches, but the concern of the pope was not witches, but heretics. Kramer was the one who was obsessed with witches. The official catholic stance was and would remain, that magics of the devil were just illusions and only God's miracles could alter reality. This is also why witch trials were almost not a thing in catholic countries. Kramers Maleus Maleficarum had a copy of the papal bull in it for legitimacy, but the pope actually denounced his work and fired him from his position. 3: The decline in witch trials did not happen because people realised magic isn't real, but because by the 18th century the beliefs on the power of the devil had come ful circle and most now believed he did not have the power to grant witches magical power. As such they scoffed at the uncivilised countries (Denmark) who would continue to hunt witches a little longer, as they were still in the unelightened belief that the devil had much of any power. That's about all I have, if you or anyone else wants to know something about witches I know quite a bit, I had a class about it last semester at my university.
@@thegreatestpepe ironically, the catholic "inquisitions" were very lax on witches and would usually sentence Them to lashing or banishment rather than Death. When they did order execution it was usually by hanging, followed by burning the corpse.
21:13 "Far less than the amount that took place during the mass hysteria caused by the Malleus Maleficarum". *20th of March, 2018* "Man guilty of hate crime for filming pug's 'Nazi salutes' "
I read a bit of the Malleus Maleficarum. The section I read was less about how people deserved to die and more "My sexual hangups projected onto everyone else, the book."
Funnily enough bunch of modern practitioners of maleficium actually look at Malleus Maleficarum as a source of basic information about witchcraft before looking into actual manuals or grimoires. Dude wrote a witch hunters guide to killing witches and only people who read it today are aspiring witches.
the reason giles corey did plead anything was if he pleaded guilty he would lose his property and be given to the government if he pleaded not guilty he would be found guilty so he said nothing so his son-in-laws would inherit his property
“Witch Hunt” by Rush is one of my favorite songs, and it may not get deep into its history, but it’s take on the mindset of people afraid of difference and the threat of the unknown is quite well written.
i lived in a town that still had its witch burning post out the front of the church. it was fenced off with a plaque explaining it. its a stone post with metal rings for chaining/tying someone to.
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Maleus malefricarum that you mention became the inspiration for the Van Der graaf generator song "white hammer" worth a check out hombre
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He got me lmao
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I thought about red flag laws personally...
The TRUTH in this is what makes it so funny. HOA Boards deserve a Cursing.
"Local authorities still only considered sorcery a mild offense" is my new favorite Dankula quote.
"Come on guys I was just sinking ships for shits 'n giggles no need to burn me"
Nevermind the quotes, that thumbnail has the man straight-up looking like Count Palpatine Dankula.😂😂
Sorcery...... That reminds me OF YA BOI RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!
Nah you want something to believe in pagan rituals are another level, honestly didn’t believe in anything like that but what you see don’t lie.
In Asia they always said that widows and orphans were most bothered.
Always a threat to "sleep with me of be called a witch"
When you had a lecture about the Salem Witch Trials today and didn't care, but Dankula is talking about the same exact thing and I'm here for the premiere.
My thoughts exactly
KEK
The play "the crucible" was written to cover for commies
simps gonna simp ; ) jk
A fun teacher can make all the difference
The German name for the Maleficarum is “hexenhammer” which is actually more epic sounding in my opinion.
Chant it 6 times, 6 ways in 6 tongues and you will summon Styxhexenhammer666.
@@sekundarkonto6360When you hear it clank.....clank.......clank
You'll know he has arrived
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İt's actually malleus malificarum. Which sounds fairly epic.
@@garrysekelli6776 its called hexenhammer in german, thats a fact, what are ya on about m8
@@comradeurod9805 that's not the original title. That's a translation.
Fun Fact: the Salem Witch Trials ended the moment the Mayor's wife was accused.
what a weird coincidence
Rules for thee but not for me
Sounds like a rather Democratic sort of fellow
If only it ended sooner
perfect example. Look at pics of Crowley, compare them to Barbra Bush, then tell me witches are all harmless larping and dress up.
"What makes you think she's a witch?"
"Well, she turned me into a newt!"
Its "watch, she'll turn me into a newt"
@Nick Kempster "Burn her anyway!"
@@Bender_B._Rodriguez Newts are known for their natural regenerative ability's . The man was not lying.
@@Adventure3Man no
"I got better."
"The grim darkness of the distant past, there is only witch hunts." -Confirmed 40k degenerate. 10/10
Without a word of a lie, were probably the least degenerate fanbase out there. We gatekeep pretty good.
slaanesh.
All I'm saying
From what I know he has a Black Templar army.
Immediately went digging for this comment.
@@Yaebi_The_Zombie was hoping either Templars or Ork bois
Important note: even in spite of all we've learned here today, the inquisition was actually quite progressive for it's time, as it strictly limited the use of torture (which was very common in secular courts), allowed the defendants legal representation, and issued death sentences much less often than in municipal proceedings where petty thieves usually were sent to swing. However, all this pales compared to the fact that the Inquisition rose above its contemporary courts in placing the burden of proof on the prosecution.
And the Spanish Inquisition ended witch trials in Spain a full century before the rest of Europe because it required scientific proof of witchcraft - not just eyewitness accounts.
Among protections afforded accused heretics was that if you were called before the Inquisition, you were required to make a list of all your enemies. Anyone on that list was forbidden to give evidence against you because it was presumed to be false and motivated by spite.
In fact, in many cases, accused criminals intentionally maneuvered to get their cases brought before the Inquisition, because they were confident of getting a fairer hearing than before the ordinary courts.
And even if torture were to be used, the Inquisitors gave the accused numerous chances to repent. They would first demand confession verbally. They would then explain, in hideous detail, what would happen to them if they did not confess. Only then, if they still did not repent for their sins, would they resort to torture. It should also be noted that, at the time of the Inquisition, interrogations under torture were commonplace, as then-prevalent conventional wisdom held that testimony was only reliable if extracted under torture.
Lastly, at the time, modern notions of religious pluralism and freedom of conscience were unthought-of, even among many of the victims of the Inquisition.
Hmmm, thank you. That was quite an interesting read.
Fkn Nerd…
Wow, the inquisition sounds sooo nice.
I hope my sarcasm was apparent.
@@IsaacClodfelter by the standards of it's day, it was. Is it really fair to laude someone as backwards when they tried so very hard to be progressive?
@@benthomason3307 When comparing them to modern day standards, yes.
I don't disagree the institution of the inquisition was progressive for its time. I just don't think we should go out of our way to hold up all the bad they didn't do.
I don't know, they were still torturing people,
When he says "Witches" it sounds like "Wet Cheese"
you being a scotist
you wanna try my wet cheese? 🤣
"Burn The Wet Cheese!"
I read this within the first 30 seconds of the video and now can’t unhear it. Thank you.
swear i thought wet cheese had something to do with witches or something
We've got a lot of people walking around today in 2021 who would 100% participate in the Salem Witch Trials.
would that be because of the millions of attention "witches" on social media?
@@georgeohwell7428 I'd say it's more because of stuff like the terrifyingly high number of adults who think we don't live on a globe or that space is fake.
@@non_brewed_condiment Scientists are trying to tell us this very thing but with fancy sciency words and confusing concepts.
Twatterinas can't walk because of their genes and body positivity.
You probably would too. Stop being so arrogant.
"In the grim darkness of the distant pass... there is only witchhunts."
Nice.
*past**
@@prot07ype87 *piss
One of US!
Death to the false emperor
I always thought the official inquisitorial motto was ; "A plea of innocence is guilty of wasting our time."
Bruh, I thought Jack Dorsey made Twitter
I think that actually was a quote from Fyodor Karamazov.
Funny enough, that's mostly propaganda.
"There is no such thing as a plea of innocence in my court. A plea of innocence is guilty of wasting my time, guilty!" - Fyodor Karamazov.
Or innocence proves nothing
It's noteworthy that the guy who wrote the Melleus Malleficarum was excommunicated, and his book was banned everywhere in the Catholic world. but then John Calvin happened.
He loved the book, and the rest is history.
Most of the crazy things Christians have done in the last 500 years can be blamed, to some extent, on John Calvin.
Yup - he should have honestly put more emphasis on this.
@@francavable isn't that in the very late medieval period
@@RegularFish2 John Calvin died in the 1560's, the Medieval Period is most often considered over with either A. The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 or B. The Discovery of the New World in 1492.
So no, it isn't Medieval, more like Late Renaissance or Early Modern Period.
Witch Hunts existed during the Medieval Period, as Dank mentioned, starting up in the mid 1300s in particular, possibly because of the Black Death of 1348-49.
However, they did not kick into high gear until the 1500's with the Protestant Reformation. Most witch hunts and witch burnings, were Protestant affairs. This is why the rates of Witch Trials were MUCH higher in Holland, England, British North America, and most of all Germany than they were in, say, Italy or France. Germany had it's highest rate of Witch Burnings during the 30 Years War from 1618-1648.
@@francavable oh those wacky protestants
In Africa witches still get "found and dealt with" on a weekly basis.
To my understanding, some of the witch doctors over in certain parts of Africa also commit Cannibalism and collect ingredients by killing, maiming, or grave robbing. I believe that's one of the dangers posed to albinos.
@@drfye yep
@@drfye Watch his MadLad on General Buttnaked.
@@johnfalkenrath6485
🤣already seen, ya it was messed up that the guy went to the sister of a guy he killed and told her, essentially, I'm your brother now.
I was thinking he may touch on that but i guess its another wormhole than the 'historical' ones
I just gotta say Dank's little post-intro "Pleze leave a like and a cömment on thes vedyo coz it rreally helps me en the algarrethm [snicker]" makes my day every time I hear it. So I left a like and a cömment, may the algarrethm favor ye Dank and no wetches curse ye.
Today we still have Spells... Charms are just "Key Words" that boost the algorithm... And Curses are those that get you demonized or banned.
Interesting take on it
Charms like cloth masks that keep the evil covid demon away.
@@kylevolbrecht9255 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@kylevolbrecht9255 And ye must undergo thine holy baptism through vaccination.
The Vaccination Baptists who believe it should be voluntary and, Fauci forbid, those who refuse, are all heretics.
@@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation Believe in the Fauci, the government is all good, vote democrat, Orange man bad, white privilege, All cops are bastards, etc... I can't drop more dumb idiocy or I'll sick.
In the grim dankness of the modern day, there is only memes
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Burn the Virtue Signalers... Thou shall not suffer the WOKE to live.
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Memes live forever but memes never die.
My favourite story is the one in Nigeria where they arrested a goat for robbery because they claimed it was a witch who shapeshifted into another animal, in the wonderful ye olden times of...2009.
Back then, if you were ever accused of witchcraft the smartest move would have been to accuse your accuser of witchcraft.
"Sir, you are accused of VVitchcraft, how do you respond?"
"Uhh, they are the real witches."
"Understandable, have a nice day, sir."
"it is virus, bacteria, and parasites that cause these tragedies."
Sounds like witch propaganda to me.
Pendle witch trails were interesting. Lancaster Castle still has the cells they were held in. Absolute pitch black when the door gets locked. Got put in one as a kid on a day trip,it was mint 😁
Visited something called St.brieviles (sp?) Castle as a kid, they had a trap door to throw prisoners in, it used to flood at high tide so they'd drown
Did you die tho
@@scootza1 yes
@@stuartsutton2548 damn, rip man
One reason I've heard that Giles refused to enter a plea was he knew that, if tried, his children had a very good chance of losing their inheritance, as his properties would become subject to seizure by the state.
This is true. It is also believed that the reason they lynched him was he was both the largest landowner in Salem, and also the most hated man in Salem. By all accounts he was the Ebenezer scrooge of Salem, but with a habit for beating people and children, sometimes to death (His 15 year old indentured servant).
He basically pulled a Dwyer.
"But it wasn't long until it made a comeback" *skips from the pagan Roman empire to the 13th century like it's a couple of weeks apart*
- Casually skips again to XVI century protestant countries -
"Its like an HOA but slightly less evil." BRILLIANT!
God this would’ve been absolutely awful to live through, thank God society’s moved past these grizzly times and think rationally-
*Sees Twitter*
2/3 of witches executed were men, women most affected.
Nuh-uh. 2/3 men executed weren't witches. ... They were warlocks. hehe.
3/10 suicides are women, women most affected. I am sensing a pattern here.
1/4 homeless are women, damn patriarchy!
@@Khornecussion they were manwiches.
@@Khornecussion A person practicing witchcraft is called a witch, male or female. A man practicing witchcraft is often mistakenly called a wizard (a word from Northern Europe), a *warlock* (a word from 14th century England), a sorcerer, or shaman (a term for people who practice magic in Siberia).
The simplest question people should have asked: Why did none of these supposedly powerful witches just use their sorcery to escape?
Some of the methods used to see if one was a witch relied on this exact kind of question. One of them involved putting the accused in a cage and placing it in a deep body of water. If the accused floated, they were the real deal. If they drowned, they were innocent, albeit posthumously.
Take a guess as to what happened every time.
No somatic or verbal components
Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave, you're far too big brain to be here. Please take your logic someplace else
sounds like something a fellow witch would ask
@@HarlanHughes they had the same set up for Bakers who sold small loaves of bread
"There are thousands of these things all over Europe. Let me tell you about one that was interesting." Oo, I wonder where that could be. "In Scotland...." What were the odds!?
"Malleus maleficarum" is very Warhammer-y, and GW knows it, I reckon. Ask the Ordo Malleus, the "Office of Hammer".
The book's german name is pretty sweet, too. "Der Hexenhammer".
The faeries thing now seems silly, but it's just because Disney has Disneyfied folklore into much less interesting and bland versions of what came before. Iirc, one type faeries were thought to be forest mischievous spirits (that would sometimes appear like dwarves, not just sprites) and one thing they would do was kidnap children and replace them with some evil doppelganger/changeling, and more rarely even take adults with them to the "fairy kingdom" or something along those like, much like Peter Pan, except they weren't thought to be butterflies.
I'd recommend reading about the Korrigans if that subject interests you.
They're supposed to be dwarves (although much smaller) living in forests humans don't go to. They're extremely mischievous and revengful yet they'll help you if you propose a deal.
There's a story one of my relatives used to tell me where a little girl, who lost her way into some unknown woods, stumble upon 3 of them. They help her out against food and show the path to her destination. This happens a couple of times, until she doesn't have anything to trade. So they decide to bring her to their place, which is supposed to be a giant hole. No one ever saw the girl after that.
I still want to see The Radioactive BoyScout.
He's no Vlad or a war hero, but the KID built a reactor in his shed with some smoke alarms with the help of professors. Please... and Thanks Dank
Think Qxir did a vid on him
Plainly Difficult did an excellent episode on that. The man's whole channel is about disasters. You'll love his channel
@@WhuDhat qxir is awesome.
@@gyromurphy Yea I've seen a couple good ones. I'm just curious to see if he is considered a Mad Lad or not. I've asked so many times...
Building your own nuclear reactor isn't the hard part. Ensuring it remains stable and you don't irradiate yourself is the hard part.
Nice Fact about James the IV (Or First if you'd like):
He was quite obsessed with Witches and made quite a big deal out of it. When he inherited the English throne one William Shakespeare wrote a play pretty much especially for him which had quite a bit in the way of Witches: Macbeth.
Also there was apparently some episode when he went to either Oxford or Cambridge and a few students cosplayed as witches and came to greet him as the "descendant of Banquo", which he quite appreciated. Odd fellow.
The Salem Witch Trials are part of the least impressive witch trials ever. The only thing that's exceptional about the Salem Witch Trials is that they happened late in the era of witch hunts.
Still, a great episode.
Arthur Miller wrote a play about them, that's how they were popularised. Most people ignore history unless someone bothers to make a movie or show about it.
And to people in the US its a hey we had them too, it wasn't just a European thing
@@ThrashTillDeth85 we gotta stay fashionable like our euro cousins
It didn't help that John Endicott took over the church and town so he could have complete control. Then he kicked out the Quakers, telling em don't come back. When they did come back he had em killed.
Takes a real bastard to kill Quakers.
I'm totally getting that book and displaying it on my coffee table.
17:12 when Count said the torture device was called "the boot" i thought of that Australian Simpsons episode
Drops right as I have to start my essay on the Crucible lmao
Be sure to reference Razorfist's Hollywood Was Always Red video.
Does every high school have to read that? Why that one? 😂
It was written to cover for commies
@@mikepaulus4766 got an F bc I alluded that it was a cover for commies 😔
"Witches didn't exist. Communists did."
"More Weight" ought to be a family motto. Someone slap that line on a coat of arms like an American Haldane.
Since you mentioned Tirol in this episode, how about you make an episode about Andreas Hofer, an Austrian hero/guerilla fighter who managed to defeat the french army two seperate times during the Napoleonic Wars? He was such a badass that during his execution after not being shot the right way, told the firing squad to "shoot better".
Based
Crazy how the Salem witch trials ended up as just another tourist gimmick.
It sucks, the traffic is absolutely terrible in October
Yes I'm scared of magicians too. They Can make booze disappear so quickly my head spins.
The Malleus Maleficarum was one of the most surprising books I've read. It reads like a legal document, which I really didn't expect
"In the grim darkness of the distant past, there are only... witch hunts"
*[High Marshal Helbrect liked that]*
suffer not the unclean to live, uphold the honor of the emperor, abhor the witch, destroy the witch, accept any challenge, no matter the odds
You cant just ban SANGUNALA my lord
I bet you would do an amazing video about the Baltic fleet during the Russo - Japanese War
Ah yes, that cluster fuck where the Russian navy thought they were being ambushed by the Japanese navy, in the North Sea...
Check out Drachinifel Voyage of the Damned parts 1&2.
Or Monty Python 🤣
@@flintyleader7168 and that was only the beginning. the whole thing is just as disastrous.
BlueJay's video on it is brilliant
Laughed and cried a little, knowing now that Scotland also has Home Owners Associations
The amount of WH40K references is incredible. Amazing video as always.
And we brought back these laws against "evil" spells... it's called censorship and the Protection Against Harassment Act 1997.
The witches wrote the laws against the witches to make people who can't read the OT never be capable of figuring out what a witch is. It's only explicitly described in the most important book in human history.
Every COVID 19 mandate is exactly like these laws. As soon as they started detaining people where I live for being in close contact with an infected person, I thought “this is going to get bad is it’s already looking like witch trials” and that was almost 2 years ago.
Dank's exposes never fail to make me lose hope in humanity.
“The Hammer of Witches”
*spoon clanking intensifies*
19:45 "But Giles, at the age of 80..."
Jesus Christ, what a tough old bastard lmao.
I just visited Salem, Massachusetts for the first time two weeks ago! A beautiful city with a fascinating dark past. Great video Count!!
I reckon it's about time dank got a raid shadow legends character based on him.
Legit make a character called "count" and give him the "dank" skin just gives you a ginger beard and a cap
I'll actually download it if this happens.
And a nazi pug as a weapon
Yes
Nazi pug attack
Man I can’t help but love the smirk you give when announcing RAID SHADOW LEGENDS. 😂 love all the content along with the mad lads series. Keep it up my guy, you’re doing phenomenal! ❤️
“There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.” -Jimquisition
Have you seen what happened to that guy lol?
God speed Jim/ Stephanie o7
Didn't god say similar in his first publication?
@@kieran6417 No, what happened?
@@1001pierre Jim Sterling became Stephanie Sterling.
Also gave up the hacky game journo shit to become a communist wrestler. None of that is a joke.
The first special character in Warhammer is actually named for Heinrich Kramer.
Heinrich Kemmler, The Lichemaster.
I am loving these halloween madlads you're firing out on a consistent basis!
You ain't a witch until you try to tell the future by gyromancy by spinning around like a genuine idiot.
Step 1. draw letters on the circumference of a circle.
Step 2. spin around inside the circle of the circumference untill you stumble on a letter ad nauseam until an illegible sentence is formed or till death or madness intervened.😂
You have to chant the spell too or it won’t work!!
“You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round”
The fuck kind of witchcraft are you practicing? Can't even summon a demon that way let alone the Devil.
Thanks, Eris was very nice after she was done giving me ridiculous ideas to try.
What is a 5 -cell and why am I asking?
How do graphically represent expressions of antilogic as they are comprised by the interrelating 3 components of rheotric? Do you think you know what a spell is?
dank when i verbally pointed out that witches are very real: *ducking down checking surroundings for women with one too many piercings or tats*
"mate yer gun e get us hexed"
Funny how things have moved on and humanity has evolved. We now know if you want to go after someone for (reasons) and destroy them without any evidence, facts or logic, don't accuse them of being something that makes YOU look insane. Accuse them of being something that exists but is difficult to prove!
So interesting an informative. Another fantastic video. I took a course on the history of witches/witch trials in college. Not only did this cover the subject perfectly, it was 1000x more entertaining lol. Very well done.
an episode on Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s brilliant strategic mind and his hilarious sieges on Castles Tattori, Odawara or Takamatsu
Ah, a man of culture!
@@Shin_Lona glad i’m not the only one!
May the Algorithm Gods accept my humble offering and bless this video.
If Raid ever stop sponsoring Dank im gonna miss that intro
0:25 Shots fired at Wiccans, nice one 👌🏻
"The Malleus Malificarum, most Warhammer name I've ever heard"
Oh, you mean like the Ordo Malleus? The Grey Knights? The Space Marines specifically tasked with *hunting demons and suspected heretics?*
Hammer of the wrongdoer?
"I don't trust them (birthday party magicians)... shifty bastards" I absolutely love that quote lmao
One thing Dank didn't mention about King James (VI of Scotland, I of England) is that the man quite literally wrote the book on black magic and witchcraft (denouncing it, that is) - "Daemonologie", one of the main sources William Shakespeare used in writing Macbeth.
When anyone asks "How could people have been so ruthless and cruel back then", I always reply with a brief analogy: We basically lived in the Warhammer universe. You know how in Warhammer, the forces of Chaos were real, literal entities, and the Inquisitors would nuke entire planets because there was a CHANCE that MAYBE one person was an agent of the dark gods? Yeah, back in the day, the Devil was thought to be exactly as real and as powerful as the Chaos Gods.
Of course they took no chances and burned everybody. Do you have any idea the absolute horror a Chaos.. I mean Satanic foothold on Earth could cause? Take no chances! For the Emperor!
They also didn't burn everyone, quite a lot of people were found to be innocent. The severity of the hunts also depend on the region. It was worst in Germany, where the hysteria was at its highest, but here in Denmark the king actually made a decree in the 1570's which forbade torture until they were convicted (they were tortured after to force them to name co-conspirators) so no harm would come to them if found innocent, he also made a law which forbade witches to be put to death in local trials and restricting the death penalty to the regional court. There was also a burden of evidence, though it wasn't much, insults followed by misfortune were seen as proof enough as correlation must be causation. Until the early 1600's there was also a distinction between white and black magic in Denmark, as white magic wasn't punished very often. I could go on, but I do think Dankula's video is very good, he gets a lot of things right.
A few last things that I would like to mention before I go:
1: The case of the scottish king returning from Denmark. He was actually not on the boat as far as I know, we were sending him his bride to be and her boat nearly sank. What was significant about this case was that witches in both Scotland and Denmark confessed that they tried to sink the ship, so this was seen as the work of an international coven, trying to undermine god's order. The scottish king saw himself as chosen by God and thought that as God's favorite king, satan and his minions hated him more than anyone. The little brother of the future scottish queen would go on to become king of Denmark and he was deeply traumatised by the event and as such he began persecuting witches harder, making a decree to officially outlaw white magic and persecuting those who fail to hunt witches properly.
2: The papal bull Dankula talked about did give Kramer the power to be an inquisitor in Germany and it did acknowledge the existence of witches, but the concern of the pope was not witches, but heretics. Kramer was the one who was obsessed with witches. The official catholic stance was and would remain, that magics of the devil were just illusions and only God's miracles could alter reality. This is also why witch trials were almost not a thing in catholic countries. Kramers Maleus Maleficarum had a copy of the papal bull in it for legitimacy, but the pope actually denounced his work and fired him from his position.
3: The decline in witch trials did not happen because people realised magic isn't real, but because by the 18th century the beliefs on the power of the devil had come ful circle and most now believed he did not have the power to grant witches magical power. As such they scoffed at the uncivilised countries (Denmark) who would continue to hunt witches a little longer, as they were still in the unelightened belief that the devil had much of any power.
That's about all I have, if you or anyone else wants to know something about witches I know quite a bit, I had a class about it last semester at my university.
based history
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@@theposhdinosaur7276 So what you're saying is, if Chaos really did have agents working to corrupt Earth, these inquisitors went way too soft on them.
@@thegreatestpepe ironically, the catholic "inquisitions" were very lax on witches and would usually sentence Them to lashing or banishment rather than Death. When they did order execution it was usually by hanging, followed by burning the corpse.
I like how in the world of animation, television, and literature, creative story telling is still alive through your channel
That fucking Gyos guy is the “give me harder battles” meme personified.
Read the Crucible. Giles Corey is a chad.
Now they’re called Congresswomen……
yea, and that one married her brother ...
SAD BUT TRUE🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
21st request for Mad Lads: “Klondike” Joe Boyle. Gold miner, boxing promoter, hockey manager, soldier spy, diplomat, and lover Of the Romanian queen.
JOE, JOE KLONDIKEEN
LOVER OF THE ROMANIAN QUEEN
That was a diplomat that
Really was gooOooOOoOOOOOOONNNEEEEEEE
Hey man, I'm glad we've got one thing in common besides your content, 40k and the bollocks ridiculous it entails.
I'm watching a 3 min 30 sec ad about baking a pumpkin spice cake. I love you Dank.
21:13 "Far less than the amount that took place during the mass hysteria caused by the Malleus Maleficarum".
*20th of March, 2018*
"Man guilty of hate crime for filming pug's 'Nazi salutes' "
Witches: *Exists*
Real-life and 40k Inquisition: " *BURN IN HOLY FIRE* "
I don't know why, but the apply salve and flying in a chair seems far more creepy to me than a broom.
'SHE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!' 😡
🤨
...
'I got better.' 😶
YO I just started a project for my history class about the witch hunts, this is perfect!
I read a bit of the Malleus Maleficarum. The section I read was less about how people deserved to die and more "My sexual hangups projected onto everyone else, the book."
So you're telling that woman who can do basic math aren't witches?!
If James Corden was a Jawa
OOH TEENEE
I heard, from a reliable source, his last words were..clear my Google search history.
Was just reading on this topic a few days ago. Nice.
Oh boy, this is gonna have some historical inaccuracy.
I don’t think anyone has ever got the witch hunt stuff right outside a few thousand page book
@Joutuber idk about that, we’ve all seen Trainspotting right lol
@Joutuber my Scottish blood must be the only reason I have at least two brain cells
@Joutuber 🤣🤣
"Oh boy, this is gonna have some historical inaccuracy."
What a random assertion.
@@Volzotran in Normandy, iceland, and Russia there were times in which men outnumbered women in the trials. Not fully inaccurate but yes.
Medieval Europe is literally another Dimension. A Grimdark Dimension.
Funnily enough bunch of modern practitioners of maleficium actually look at Malleus Maleficarum as a source of basic information about witchcraft before looking into actual manuals or grimoires.
Dude wrote a witch hunters guide to killing witches and only people who read it today are aspiring witches.
11:20, Considering the imperial inquisition in 40k has a sect called the ordo malleus aka the daemonhunters, it is quite the apt name for a book.
I can't believe that I missed this back in October when it would have been seasonal to learn about these ... like "witch pursuit things"
Let's Go Brandon!!
Ah yes. The og social justice.
There is an easy way to tell if someone is a witch. If they weigh the same as a duck, then?
“It’s like a homeowners association but less evil” 😂😂😂 lmao
Well funny you mention it dank, Hammer of the Witches is actually the name of a type of cannon in the Warhammer universe.
the reason giles corey did plead anything was if he pleaded guilty he would lose his property and be given to the government if he pleaded not guilty he would be found guilty so he said nothing so his son-in-laws would inherit his property
Completely huge missed opportunity to make a mad lad about Lauri Törni today
I'd love to see that one
Why did you put those things on The U
@@jyrki2275 it’s for an accent, he’s Finnish so they have a lot crazy wording and spelling
@@Xycomm its just Lauri in finnish
@@jyrki2275 huh, I guess I was wrong then.
That last story, about the guy that burned his wife because he thought she had been replaced by faeries, might well be a case of Capgras delusion.
“Witch Hunt” by Rush is one of my favorite songs, and it may not get deep into its history, but it’s take on the mindset of people afraid of difference and the threat of the unknown is quite well written.
i lived in a town that still had its witch burning post out the front of the church. it was fenced off with a plaque explaining it. its a stone post with metal rings for chaining/tying someone to.
I gotta admit, the witch hunters from Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt were pretty cool looking. 😎