I just discovered your channel through video shorts, and so far it has been an absolute delight! As both a history lover, and casual academic here in america, I greatly enjoy seeing and reading work from academics of all levels from around the world. Cheers friend!
What surprise me the most is the time when these things happened. It wasn't during the "dark ages" but in the age of humanism, 17th c is 150 years after the Renaissance.
@@rewboss thanks for responding. Could you make a video about Saxony, where and when is Saxony? As I understand, modern bundesland and former kingdom were not in old Saxony at all.
I love the video. Thank you Andrew. And despite the seriousness of the topic I had to laugh when at 3:28 you are talking about your source and cut the video to the pug, presumably "the source" 😆
I recommend Wolfgang Behringer's book "Mit dem Feuer vom Leben zum Tod" about the history of witch trials in Bavaria. He really shows how complex the topic is and how many players there always were for and against witch hunts.
Thank you again for picking this important Historical Topic up! The most important step against the witch-hunt was the Book: "Cautio Criminalis" of the Jesuit Priest Friedrich von Spee, first published in 1632 and later in many Editions.
An important thing you get right is that those witch hunts and trials didn't always have that much to do with the church and organized religion. It's a very common misconception to automatically associate witch hunts with catholicism, whereas in historical reality, the majority of cases originate in mass hysteria of superstitious (or greedy, or power-hungry etc.) townspeople, while the church often was only sceptical about these events at worst, and clearly against them at best. In some cases, entire villages got depopulated because everybody accused and denounced everybody else, with entire families perishing. Another big misconception is women being the sole victim group. Historians estimate up to one third of the victims were actually male. I highly recommend reading works written or co-written by Dr. Rita Voltmer on the topic. She was my teacher at Trier University when I studied history, and she is kind of the go-to super expert on everything about witches in a historical context.
The Church was initially opposed to the very idea of believing in witches, but things changed over time. By the period of time I'm talking about, it's noticeable that certainly on a local and regional level, the clergy could be very enthusiastic supporters of the witch hunts. Dieburg is in the Electorate of Mainz, where the witch hunts were particularly bad -- and the Electorate of Mainz was effectively a theocracy, with the Archbishop of Mainz being both the secular and the religious leader. The lampoon written by Drach and his friends very much criticized the Archbishop for his role, which is why they were executed for plotting to assassinate him.
Well, you can make like out of everything something that is actually a religion. And everywhere where humans have power, there will be some who will abuse their power. That also happens in politics very often (outside religion).
It is possible that I live for to long in the UK but to me "Drach" doesn't sound like "Drachen" at all but more like "Dach" (roof). Drachen can not only be a dragon but also a kite and as a boy I built a number of Drachen and let the fly.
Either that or because of the accent spoken in the region you're from. Personally I think it resembles the word Drachen (phonetically speaking) more the word Dach. (Ich bin aber halt auch nur nen Deutscher Teenager also idk)
I think it might come from German poetry. They sometimes remove the endings like "e", "er" or "en" in poems. So having Drach' reference Drachen wouldn't be surprising to me. e.g. der Erlenkoenig has the line "Den Erlenkönig mit Kron’ und Schweif? " (removed the "e" from the word Krone)
But it is not as good as the original. Why do these artists have to digitally remaster and release things, just because they think it looks and sounds better. I remember, when I was younger, watching the original when it was first released, I remember it as if it was yesterday. On a serious note, was it just a blur out a number plate?
The only difference between this and the original is that I removed a picture of what I thought was Heinrich Kramer, but was actually Erasmus of Rotterdam -- one of Kramer's fiercest critics. I don't normally re-upload videos for a minor mistake, but this was one was just very unfortunate.
@@rewbosseasy mistake to make, especially with someone that died nearly 500 years ago, when let's face it, most portraits looks like each other, but not of the people involved. However, I now need to jump into the rabbit hole and find out if that is who the bridge, in Rotterdam, is named after and why.
@@rewboss It is indeed unfortunate that a Google search for Heinrich Kramer brings up an image of Erasmus as the first result (there are no authentic portraits of Kramer). Embarrassing, yes, but I'm not sure if a re-upload was necessary; a pinned comment may have been enough. Losing the comments on the original video is no less unfortunate than the mistake itself. On the other hand, thanks for your diligence (after the original publication!) and for even caring about mistakes like this.
In der Vergangenheit hat er mehr Videos auf Deutsch gedreht. Does Rewboss speak German? - ruclips.net/video/0p6gTlUV5jA/видео.htmlfeature=shared Ich finde die alten Humor-Videos sind lustig z.B. -Gibt es Zombies? - ruclips.net/video/0E8bZ9RkQ6c/видео.htmlfeature=shared
That video reminds me somehow of people saying their "solutions" against the climate crisis are the only correct one, ignoring significant improvents in technologies they extremely dislike and ignoring scientific facts outside their favorite science.
And by somehow you mean: "I'm willing to construct a connection even if none exists, just so I can spread my biased opinion." You do realize that this is exactly how the witchcraft accusations worked? "Oh I do not have proof, but the name Drach reminds me somehow of people that have nothing to do with witchcraft, but which irk me anyway".
No he's got a good Point. The climate change problems are severe and complex. But the economical and power structure proposals by the green/ alarmist factions are often counterproductive or delusional and just ineffective
@@thomasbrecht1144 A point that has no connection to this video though. Just because YOU want to push his/your monothematic agenda as well doesn't mean he should be left unopposed.
Fair enough and I don't want to push an agenda. I suppose he means, that the opposition to the green economic ideas get publicly criticized and isolated as buffoons , although they have valid arguments
@@AleaumeAndersOne obvious connection is that witches were accused of cooking up bad weather, just as frequent flyers and warm water users are today. And gays are accused by Christian fundamentalists of causing hurricanes. Worst of all are gay frequent flyers practicing witchcraft.
Yes, but Dieburg in Germany was not the only witch-hunting town in Europe. Even in in England, the Witchcraft Act of 1542 regulated the penalties for witchcraft. Look at King James I of England, Ireland an Scotland ("King James IV"), who wrote a manual to identify witches ("Daemonologie" - in full: "Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mighty Prince, James & c."). In Germany, the last witcher was imprisoned on October 30, 2023. He is said to have used a witch's mark (स्वस्तिक) on a wine bottle. Germany be blessed!
@@schlaumensch Well, स्वस्तिक means swastika, so I suppose he's trying to paint the anti-Nazi-propaganda laws as witch-hunting laws. Which, I think, says more about him than about Germany.
@@KaiHenningsen That was my interpretation as well, but I really wasn't sure. Seemed so out of place, but then again, those people tend to proclaim their wrongheaded opinions in the most inappropriate of contexts.
@@KaiHenningsen Do you mean the "Control Council Act No. 1" or the "Network Enforcement Act" (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz)? Have you ever read Art. 5 Sec. 1 Grunzgesetz?
I just discovered your channel through video shorts, and so far it has been an absolute delight!
As both a history lover, and casual academic here in america, I greatly enjoy seeing and reading work from academics of all levels from around the world.
Cheers friend!
What surprise me the most is the time when these things happened. It wasn't during the "dark ages" but in the age of humanism, 17th c is 150 years after the Renaissance.
People assume that everyone was ignorant in the Middle Ages and intelligent after the Renaissance, but that's not how it works.
@@rewboss thanks for responding. Could you make a video about Saxony, where and when is Saxony? As I understand, modern bundesland and former kingdom were not in old Saxony at all.
I love the video. Thank you Andrew.
And despite the seriousness of the topic I had to laugh when at 3:28 you are talking about your source and cut the video to the pug, presumably "the source" 😆
I recommend Wolfgang Behringer's book "Mit dem Feuer vom Leben zum Tod" about the history of witch trials in Bavaria. He really shows how complex the topic is and how many players there always were for and against witch hunts.
Thank you again for picking this important Historical Topic up! The most important step against the witch-hunt was the Book: "Cautio Criminalis" of the Jesuit Priest Friedrich von Spee, first published in 1632 and later in many Editions.
Re-liked!!!
Lolololololo the architecture joke at the end
An important thing you get right is that those witch hunts and trials didn't always have that much to do with the church and organized religion. It's a very common misconception to automatically associate witch hunts with catholicism, whereas in historical reality, the majority of cases originate in mass hysteria of superstitious (or greedy, or power-hungry etc.) townspeople, while the church often was only sceptical about these events at worst, and clearly against them at best.
In some cases, entire villages got depopulated because everybody accused and denounced everybody else, with entire families perishing. Another big misconception is women being the sole victim group. Historians estimate up to one third of the victims were actually male.
I highly recommend reading works written or co-written by Dr. Rita Voltmer on the topic. She was my teacher at Trier University when I studied history, and she is kind of the go-to super expert on everything about witches in a historical context.
The Church was initially opposed to the very idea of believing in witches, but things changed over time. By the period of time I'm talking about, it's noticeable that certainly on a local and regional level, the clergy could be very enthusiastic supporters of the witch hunts.
Dieburg is in the Electorate of Mainz, where the witch hunts were particularly bad -- and the Electorate of Mainz was effectively a theocracy, with the Archbishop of Mainz being both the secular and the religious leader. The lampoon written by Drach and his friends very much criticized the Archbishop for his role, which is why they were executed for plotting to assassinate him.
What was the error?
I want to know too
@@johgu92 The first version included an alleged image of Heinrich Kramer, which turned out to be of Erasmus of Rotterdam.
@@renerpho Ah okay, that's a quite common mistake.
That game is called Loppa, "flea" in Sweden. There might be another name too but I forgot what
In Czech Nebe, peklo ráj, which translates to: Heaven, hell, eden. Very similar to German version, as we are more German than Slavic.
My native languages are German and English and I am so happy to have found your channel. Good stuff! Weitermachen ;>
We were just in the vicinity of Dieburg visiting the Grube Messel archaeological site. Next time we gotta check out Mephisto.
good luck. It closed down past July, and is now looking for a succesor
Sir, would you upload a video about "Rumpelstilzchen" and "Heinzelmännchen"? They are tiny people?
Dominicans are friars not monks. We can thank the Inquisition for introducing rules of evidence and disallowing confessions obtained through torture.
One of the several reasons why I left organised religion. The sheer horror...
Well, you can make like out of everything something that is actually a religion. And everywhere where humans have power, there will be some who will abuse their power. That also happens in politics very often (outside religion).
And soon Ubisoft will make a Game that plays exactly during that time period in Germany where the witch hunts will be part of the story.
I wouldn't want to go to die-burg....? Haha!
It is possible that I live for to long in the UK but to me "Drach" doesn't sound like "Drachen" at all but more like "Dach" (roof). Drachen can not only be a dragon but also a kite and as a boy I built a number of Drachen and let the fly.
Either that or because of the accent spoken in the region you're from. Personally I think it resembles the word Drachen (phonetically speaking) more the word Dach. (Ich bin aber halt auch nur nen Deutscher Teenager also idk)
I guess it is somewhat between both words. It's missing the last syllable of "Drachen", and has an additional "r" compared to "Dach".
I think it might come from German poetry. They sometimes remove the endings like "e", "er" or "en" in poems. So having Drach' reference Drachen wouldn't be surprising to me. e.g. der Erlenkoenig has the line "Den Erlenkönig mit Kron’ und Schweif? " (removed the "e" from the word Krone)
Drach IS the word Drachen with only final -en missing.
@@tickyballart4325 Jesus, you are clever
But it is not as good as the original.
Why do these artists have to digitally remaster and release things, just because they think it looks and sounds better. I remember, when I was younger, watching the original when it was first released, I remember it as if it was yesterday.
On a serious note, was it just a blur out a number plate?
The only difference between this and the original is that I removed a picture of what I thought was Heinrich Kramer, but was actually Erasmus of Rotterdam -- one of Kramer's fiercest critics. I don't normally re-upload videos for a minor mistake, but this was one was just very unfortunate.
@@rewbosseasy mistake to make, especially with someone that died nearly 500 years ago, when let's face it, most portraits looks like each other, but not of the people involved. However, I now need to jump into the rabbit hole and find out if that is who the bridge, in Rotterdam, is named after and why.
@@ap9970 Let me save you the investigation: Yes it is, as is the University.
@@actua99 Thank you. I better go look for a different rabbit hole to spend the day in 👋
@@rewboss It is indeed unfortunate that a Google search for Heinrich Kramer brings up an image of Erasmus as the first result (there are no authentic portraits of Kramer). Embarrassing, yes, but I'm not sure if a re-upload was necessary; a pinned comment may have been enough. Losing the comments on the original video is no less unfortunate than the mistake itself.
On the other hand, thanks for your diligence (after the original publication!) and for even caring about mistakes like this.
Mach ein Video wo du Deutsch sprichst.
In der Vergangenheit hat er mehr Videos auf Deutsch gedreht.
Does Rewboss speak German? - ruclips.net/video/0p6gTlUV5jA/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Ich finde die alten Humor-Videos sind lustig z.B. -Gibt es Zombies? - ruclips.net/video/0E8bZ9RkQ6c/видео.htmlfeature=shared
That video reminds me somehow of people saying their "solutions" against the climate crisis are the only correct one, ignoring significant improvents in technologies they extremely dislike and ignoring scientific facts outside their favorite science.
And by somehow you mean: "I'm willing to construct a connection even if none exists, just so I can spread my biased opinion."
You do realize that this is exactly how the witchcraft accusations worked? "Oh I do not have proof, but the name Drach reminds me somehow of people that have nothing to do with witchcraft, but which irk me anyway".
No he's got a good Point. The climate change problems are severe and complex. But the economical and power structure proposals by the green/ alarmist factions are often counterproductive or delusional and just ineffective
@@thomasbrecht1144 A point that has no connection to this video though. Just because YOU want to push his/your monothematic agenda as well doesn't mean he should be left unopposed.
Fair enough and I don't want to push an agenda. I suppose he means, that the opposition to the green economic ideas get publicly criticized and isolated as buffoons , although they have valid arguments
@@AleaumeAndersOne obvious connection is that witches were accused of cooking up bad weather, just as frequent flyers and warm water users are today. And gays are accused by Christian fundamentalists of causing hurricanes. Worst of all are gay frequent flyers practicing witchcraft.
Witch hunts are resurging. It's now called being "cancelled".
It does seem to be driven by the same kind of mentality, yes; but thankfully far less deadly. I'll take being cancelled over a death sentence any day.
@@rewboss I hope you thrive instead. More power to you and your channel!
Yes, but Dieburg in Germany was not the only witch-hunting town in Europe. Even in in England, the Witchcraft Act of 1542 regulated the penalties for witchcraft. Look at King James I of England, Ireland an Scotland ("King James IV"), who wrote a manual to identify witches ("Daemonologie" - in full: "Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mighty Prince, James & c."). In Germany, the last witcher was imprisoned on October 30, 2023. He is said to have used a witch's mark (स्वस्तिक) on a wine bottle. Germany be blessed!
I don't get the joke in your last sentence.
@@schlaumensch Well, स्वस्तिक means swastika, so I suppose he's trying to paint the anti-Nazi-propaganda laws as witch-hunting laws. Which, I think, says more about him than about Germany.
@@KaiHenningsen That was my interpretation as well, but I really wasn't sure. Seemed so out of place, but then again, those people tend to proclaim their wrongheaded opinions in the most inappropriate of contexts.
@@KaiHenningsen Do you mean the "Control Council Act No. 1" or the "Network Enforcement Act" (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz)? Have you ever read Art. 5 Sec. 1 Grunzgesetz?
@@KaiHenningsen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika