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Tony Robinson recreates the evil spells and dark rituals of medieval witchcraft. He learns how to identify, arrest and torture a witch in his quest to discover why, in the 16th and 17th centuries, our ancestors were so terrified of black magic that they executed more than 40,000 supposed witches.
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Um, I don’t know about his
statement that there isn’t a
mark on that poor dead
chicken because clearly her
neck is broken and flopping
about like a fish out of water
as he’s holding her up in the
air by her legs.
I still don’t understand the Why. Also, why only in Protestant countries? Was it to do with their original pagan roots still influencing them, or not having had Roman rule stamping out superstition? This documentary didn’t really answer its own question, which is why I watched in the first place
@Francine Miranda The Spanish inquisition never hunted witches and executed only 4000 people in 350 years. Queen Elizabeth I executed 20.000 people in 45 years.
Where the heck did you get the idea it was just protestants doing it?! Duh. Look it up. Catholic countries did it first and especially!!
It was especially prevalent in catholic countries–Spain’s persecutions made Britain’s look like a birthday party.
read 1666 by Robert Sepehr
Editor !!!!please cut this video and reduce the repetitions.
Thank God someone else said something. I am SO tired of seeing the same video cuts over and over and over
A lot of this seems speculative or just made up…
Of course it’s made up. Wait, you mean witchcraft is made up, or the history of prosecution of supposed witches is made up?
As soon as you believe it it is reality
My mom is a pagan witch
Shockingly, no discussion of who was most likely to be accused of witchcraft – women, midwives, herbalists, the poor – and what that says about the witch hunts. Or how the fantasies of witchcraft are so related to anti-semitic tropes. Or why it was so prevalent at that point in time – as social systems were undergoing massive change as Europe transitioned from feudalism to capitalism…
“Feudalism to capitalism”
God that hurt to read
@Voldemort There’s a theory that links the European witch craze with the Modern Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. There’re social, ideological and economic reasons. There’s also believed that witches were the ones that knew the medicinal uses of plants and whatnot… they needed to disappear and leave the place to the new botanical and biological scientists (and the chemical revolution, later, in Germany). There’s also reasons regarding the change of habitat for human beings… witches are related to rural areas and at that time people were starting to leave to the cities. I don’t know which one of these theories (if not all) could be true or not, and there’s a lot more. But this documentary is like simply telling what these people said they believed and that’s why they were doing what they did, but without explaining the real reasons… It’s really laughable.
@Herodotus 94 It was enough for what? The people’s belief in witchcraft was considered heresy and was persecuted by the Church.
@pirbird14 they didnt believed magic was possible, just the fact that People believed in it was enough.
@Herodotus 94 Gratian’s copy of the episcopi of 1140 includes this “The bishops and their ministers should by all means make great effort so that they may thoroughly eradicate the pernicious art of divination and magic, invented by the devil, from their parishes, and if they find any man or woman adhering to such a crime, they should eject them, turpidly dishonoured, from their parishes.”
Witch persecutions were included in a more general heresy hunt embarked upon in the 11th century as the Church attempted to institute a Christian world theocracy made possible by the decline in the power of European monarchs. See Ch. 4 “The Total Society and its Enemies”, in “A History of Christianity”, by Paul Johnson.
This is a great doc/birthday gift for me, thank you!
A DUCK!
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
I rip off all my skin tags heh. Probably gonna have scar tissue but I’d prefer that over those things
Yes, because scars couldn’t be said to be marks of the devil… There is literally no escape. Even if you had the fairest of skins with no pigmentation spots or freckles or whatever, they would either burn your skin with a prong to _give_ you a mark or your perfection would be the sign that you’re screwing with the devil, because no one could look that good.
If they wanted you dead, they’d find a way to make themselves feel good about killing you.
@Salty Syren They are quite inexpensive burn off skin tag products that are under $5 a bottle. I don’t know if Dollar Tree has any for $1 price. Good to check into. 🤔
@S I Thanks 🙂
@Salty Syren I think it might be quite cheap. Look into it. Its over the counter item. Its like a tiny spray can.
@S I no im poor lmao
So the prosecutors basically used ‘witchcraft’ to supposedly get the truth.
Horrible!
why they all hate their wives as much,,maybe they just want to become eligible for second marriage..
I used the witchcraft to destroy the witchcraft
There definitely are witches and satanists today.
Befriend them they are the most kindest and caring people you will meet.
and they aren’t evil nor do they believe in satan.
@Mark Pemberton Do they operate thousands of hospitals, orphanages and schools like the Catholic church does, hm ?
Yeah, and they’re just normal people (if not a bit dull) who want to feel like a part of something. Much, much, much more benign than Christians.
Hillary Clinton.
There ya go, keep burning those witches for your god lol. #tradition
Proof?
pre-Christianity Britain seemed a lot more fun
@Herodotus 94 That all still happens today so whats your point?
Cannibalism, head hunting, infanticide and slavery sound fun to you ?
It was bad also.
Theres accounts of cannibalism, head hunting, human sacrifice among the Celts etc. Look up wiki.and net for more info.
👆was here
LOL! Remember History is just that “His” story. Women have been subjected to all kinds of hell because someone didn’t take responsibility for their own actions. Male lust was turned on a woman because a man couldn’t control their own sexual appetite. A woman who could run land and cattle better than a man, well then it ” had to be a witch”. Seriously? Jealousy, fear, sickness, etc… no explanation for the issue, ” must have been a witch”. Some people need a reality check. Think of the time period this was happening. It wasn’t like it is now. Women were considered the property of their fathers until marriage, then they became the property of their husbands. And yes, women did horrid things too. But this comment is focused on the content of the video. Evil is only in the minds of humans.
@thewildcard person And Islam topped them all. You aren’t educated, and worse you are arrogant about it. Do some reading before you post.
@Scott doesntmatter nope not true not even today china has that honor and Europe had it 100 years before that 500 years before that Africa had it everyone had them get over it and move on
@thewildcard person except that I read the quran myself, and there’s no exaggeration in what I wrote. Islam always has been the worlds leader in slavery.
@Scott doesntmatter while I don’t doubt it Jews did it long before Muslims ever did and I’m sure it exsisted before that quit being hateful and quit looking for a historical scapegoat it’s pathetic and so are you until you grow up
@thewildcard person Islam actually enshrined slavery in its Quran as something you must mimic since copying Mohammed is holy. He not only married an underage girl, he routinely abused the hell out of his slaves sexually. Hence, the modern term “child trafficking”.
During Nam the North Viets hung war captives by the arms pinned backwards. McCain was an example of having the usual shoulder dislocation. During WW2 the Japanese atrocities were often worse than what is shown in the video including the dessecting of the living which included Americans. But this can also happen in the US. A few years ago four teens from Kentucky caught a couple and their infant children at a Tennessee roadstop. They made the couple hold the children which they then shot and then went on to kill the parents. The teens claimed that they were witches.
Baileyton rest stop in Greene County, Tenn. It was the Lillelid family killed, little boy only one survived.
Tony Robinson: explains how people sought for reason what killed a hen and misinterpreting their surroundings and how a witchhunt easily starts snowballing.
People in comments: Starting a Witchhunt after making assumptions about the dead hen.
Me: *slow clap shaking my head*
another vide where he mist the mark, tottly shafull and sad how thete are only make vides to get views but not to teach histoy with any fact of such events…
these witches DID have satanic parties in the woods
@thewildcard person Your seriously confusing… Cults are a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure so are you talking about christians? Because I thought you were talking about witches? And curses, potions, chants and voodoo still happen today, and is apart of reality even if you don’t want to believe it is real. Perhaps instead of judging things you know nothing about keep an open mind to learn about the things you dont.
@CalliopeI don’t care what you believe, I’m not spreading hate I’m right the world doesn’t conform to how you want it magic and cursing did exsist back then and cults were a thing back in England you know where alot of Americans came from time to use that head of yours now if your pagan or Wiccan then I’ll assume you have a basic understanding on how real magick works guess what it worked back then to potions chants and idol worship even voodoo were accounted for back then with evidence where did we get that idea slaves and secret society’s that came over from England you don’t have a clue to what truth and the real world is I do
@thewildcard person Your comment is very confusing perhaps you rather spread hate than learn new things here I’ll help you New Age- Wicca was developed in England during the first half of the 20th century and was introduced to the public in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant. All Wiccans are Pagan but not all Wiccans are Pagan. Each witch must follow their path as it is unique and individual as the practitioner. So unless you know the path of a certain witch trying to insult a Pagan only insults your own narrow intelligence.
@thewildcard person if you genuinely think satanic worshiping witches actually existed back then, you’re the idiot and need to read up on what fueled these witch-hunts
@Francine Miranda your an idiot new age morons and real witches from 16th century believed very differnt things
There are witches today. I think they accused these women so they could take their property and belongings
@Res Non Verba Thanks for correcting my words
It happened also in (The Colonies)The United States (Puritans in the main, I believe.)
Are..
This makes me so, so incredibly angry.
@Yovanii Red Ahh come on … whats wrong with using evil against itself ?
@Mk101T That’s not at all what they meant.
Angry enough to bring back witch hunting and burning ?
Cuz there are a whole lota people would be great to use those practices on eh ?
A guy gets rejected ” She’s a Witch “! Goes on in strict Islamic Places calling a woman a whore can get her murdered.
@incoco2 yea by the very person who made up the Bible king iAmes
Majik is fact
only if you have the IQ equivalent of your shoe size
People are so vile and dumb. If this happened to me, I’d name the persecutors’ wives, sisters and mothers as fellow witches.
Seriously!! Me too!
@mata 2 Good idea, because,you’re doomed anyway, so you might as well conjure up a spell at the trial. Call out the names of the persecutors wives, daughters, parents and soforth, then throw out your most hideous cackle and watch the men there shit their pantaloons! At least you would get a little bit of satisfaction before they execute you. You could die knowing how worried sick they would be living in terror, wondering where and when the curse would befall on them. A little psychological warfare revenge. LOL
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You needed to have a voice in society to be heard.
So like a bunch of birds hmmm.
@D well, as soon as the first one would call you a witch, that’s basically all of them…
The woke mob of today is exactly like the witch burning mobs of the middle ages. They even accuse the exact same way, barring any and all defenses or arguments, it’s just ‘burn them, their practicing witchcraft (ie wrongthink)’.
Black magic and evil is very real. What wasn’t real was the idea that everybody was a witch practicing it. They killed a many innocent person and they attached stigmas that wasn’t exactly quite true.
But don’t get it wrong, satan and his demon angels, witches, sorcerers, mediums along with black magic is very real and very evil indeed.
Meanwhile the stupid tiktok girls r trying to make the demonic fantasy great again 🤦🏻♀️
They were women🖤🧹and their executors were men🧤⛏️.
Hot take.
The only good witch is a dead witch.
Baldrick is making some quality content here.
@MegaKat Sir Robinson played the part of Baldrick in a series called BlackAdder I believe. He’s best known for that role. Very funny show and well loved.
@Mikki Hesson wow, I quite literally made it so very very clear in my reply that I don’t always get jokes, and then *proactively apologize for it* and you call me a prick for it all… when I apologized ahead of time for my lack of social cues and told you point-blank that I don’t understand that stuff. Wow. I’m genuinely sorry for whatever happened in your life that made you such a douche.
That said, I’ll tell you what I tell my kids: be kind to *everyone* because you don’t know if they’re in the middle of the worst day of their lives. Be tolerant. Because you don’t know what they’ve suffered between their birth and when you’ve met them. And be tolerant: because you don’t know shit about their culture and every family is different.
@MegaKat dont be a prick bc someone laughed.
@Mikki Hesson is there a joke or reference I’m not getting? If there’s not, I deeply fucking apologize for being an incredibly literal person that never gets a joke that’s only slightly nuanced; it’s one of my many flaws! Either way, have an incredibly lovely day!
@MegaKat the main point being *it’s baldrick!*
Great video, but this has a lot more to do with the history of Satanism than what we call Wicca these days.
@Mark Pemberton You know, this video doesn’t cover a 20th Century phenomenon, even though it’s about the Colonial period.
lolwut
@Alyssa I think so too. It’s an interesting subject. And your correction is warranted.
@Scott doesntmatter If I’m not mistaken, I think Gerald Gardner started Wicca closer to the beginning of the 20th century.
lol, popular mistake but: paganism is the umbrella term, wicca is one type (and it’s modern), satanism can be another type (there’s multiple types of satanism, some are areligious), and witchcraft is a practice of nature and energy that can come with any form of paganism but can also be done without any religion involved, or can be done with other religions. real paganism is still paganism today, and so i think what you mean is this video talks about “witch accusations” rather than “what actual witch practitioners were doing back then”. not to be an obnoxious know-it-all, i just think this stuff is fun to learn 🙂
As the son of a pagan woman (not quite devout enough that she considers herself a full blown witch), I can’t help but wonder why the stereotypes for male warlocks are so different? The closest you get to any stereotype of a warlock is something like Gandalf or Merlin, but they’re often portrayed as wise, kind, and dare I say “holy” men who are mentor figures or hold positions of power in the court of a ruler. Seems like some of the stereotypes we also associate with the clergy bled over into the common depiction of a warlock.
Definitely nothing weird going on here!
W-Anon.
Medieval people believed baby bones were ground up for nefarious purposes. Today some people believe Democrats are drinking baby blood for nefarious purposes. Seems there’s been no change in stupidity.
@Old Man from Scene Twenty Four I was just about to comment both political sides are doing nefarious things! No one is innocent.
Well in truth , a lot of our vaccines in the U.S include cells from aborted fetuses. Sooooo…..
🙈🙉🙊
@A Todaso No, that’s actually the GOPigs
Democrats do love some baby killing though
So, the women were essentially raped, perhaps they enjoyed it for the first time due to the wooing, then they were forced to confront their sin and created a story to excuse themselves. Or the violence of the rape drove them slightly mad.
@ArtisticBeauty by Hanako Aw come on. It’s imagination.
That’s a whole lot of reaching🙄
@Jane Smith I also think people were so delusional, that some women got upset that another woman in their group was wanted beyond her husband and not them, and the husbands were upset that other men wanted their wives. It’s wrong in so many ways, and these raped women weren’t given justice.
@Que No. Men, in the darkness or the daylight, in the cover of the woods when the women were looking for herbs or wild foods. Men who might have talked sweet or given them the affection they weren’t getting from husbands or violent men who tormented them. They could only talk to other women. Perhaps hysteria formed and passed the idea of the devil’s rape. Perhaps they responded with these odd behaviors trying to protect themselves from further attacks, but instead caused them further torment and death.
You think the devil raped those women?
I feel there’s an assumption being made in this show that decent people won’t stab an image of loved ones because of a deeply rooted fear of voodoo/magic. Personally, I think people aren’t comfortable with it because it’s an expression of malice and hostility. And stabbing an image says something about your true feelings for something. Not because bad juju might happen.. >_<
I agree with you Tony.
I was thinking the same thing. Emotional attachments aren’t logical and just because I give something sentimental value doesn’t mean I believe in magic. You can have emotions without believing in magic.
I do want to add, that this isn’t some childish petty quarrel. My husband worked for the family business for over 40 years. Blood, sweat, and tears. She got a house daddy paid for, vacations all over the world, trips to Vegas, really anything. We didn’t get to do those things because, well, somebody’s gotta work. But, she was daddy’s little girl, picked a perfect time to put a bug in dad’s ear when he was really vulnerable (two months after his wife died), I won’t do the whole thing. Now our retirement is gone, we were stupid enough to invest everything into the company. And we didn’t do ANYTHING to her to deserve what she did. We all ate dinner together once a week, and she somehow hid her demon teeth while smiling at us. If mom would have passed first, bless her soul, none of this would have happened. But she didn’t, and harpy swooped right in. Like quick. She had that poor grieving mans house on the market in literally two months. Another story. I could write a pamphlet on how seriously horrible this woman is. Her heart is black.
@Flain Ah now that’s a beauty. I’m doing all of them that my fellow sympathizers are giving me lol. 💝 everyone!
@Mango T send them a broken mirror and don’t have any sender address on the package
He mentions that none of these witch activities ever happened. Do we know if that is true? We have no evidence of the black masses ever happening, etc.? What about the modern version, did it arise from the historical hysteria or was it already an active religion, I wonder?
@Herodotus 94 I under stand your point. And certainly not all nobles were participating in magic let alone black magic. But many were, one only needs to look at some of the books circulating at the time to see that is true. And a lot of the time it was with the clergy, because they had proven themselves able to handle demons, when they preformed exorcisms.
@Silver Rabbit Black magic maybe but not satanic. All those nobles who were accused of satanic magic were accused by political opponents to make them look worse. Madam de Montespan was accused of participating in black masses by her enemies but all that she died was buying harmless love potions.
Satanic black magic was practiced in secret then, from the poor to the rich nobility and the clergy. Just as it is today!! . Nothing has changed. Except now programming such as this is used, to make people believe it was all fairytales. The people who are raping and Murdering children today as they did then, and who are worshiping Lucifer in black masses certainly believe it’s real.
@Herodotus 94 A. Most areas that had witch trials were protestant.
B. It was highly discouraged, usury was considered a very serious sin even if attitudes were loosening on it during this time. Notice they were loosening because it was benefiting the church because they were entering the market thus had to eliminate the existing competition.
C. By old ways I meant cultural practices like knowledge of local herbs and people who practiced medicine or spiritual leaders unaffiliated with the church. I also highly doubt there weren’t any secret pagans. Look how long Jewish people have persevered, if people want to keep their faith and survive they will even if they have to practice in secret. The witch trails upped the pressure and encourage people to abandon their old faith least they be killed.
D. Your example is bullshit. She was a nun, a member of the church and swore her virginity to God, of course nobody would suspect her as a witch. How could a women of God be in league with Satan?
The point was the targets of the witch trails were anyone who didn’t conform to the (church set) standard.
@tailsofpearlsplease dont talk about that old ways bullshit, mainstream historians have debunked long ago all the crap Margareth Murray wrote. There were no secret pagans among peasant in medieval Europe nor was there any witch hunt in middle ages but early modern times. And no, Christians were never banned from running banks (ever heard of the Medici family), or whore houses. For the most part it was the Catholic church that owned brothels.
Witches are alive and well, practicing all around you. It is absolutely as valid a religion as any xtian mythology and practice. It’s just rude to pretend that it existed only in the past.
@gryphon provenzano bLeSsEd BeE
@gryphon provenzano go screw your blessing. Gardner has a reputation through multiple sources. He just wanted to get laid.
@Princess Sparkle of the Resistance I never made one, and I never named myself that ridiculous idiocy.
@Scott doesntmatter Ah yes, the straw man argument. Not playing your game, and nothing you’ve attempted to say has anything to do with my comment. Buh-bye, little man.
@HexToast That very much depends on the witch. Of the people I know personally, one follows Wicca as a religiong/spiritual practice, another is taught in the New Orleans tradition… It seems to me to be very personal. Nothing like the nonsense and fear-based ravings of the people in this program. But it does exist and I think it is important to acknowledge that.
“Sexual Suiter” is my new fave band name
@Raul Martinez goth rock + post punk 🤣🖤
Which music genre will Sexual Suiter be playing?
@Scott doesntmatter that’s why it’s a band name and not the title of a book report
it’s spelled “suitor”
Very not necessary. Disappointed.
@Honest John shall I say presentation? JMO ✌
Disappointed in what exactly?
Witch means WISE WOMAN..and indeed she has to be to know what elements she would need at what time to add to her strength to accomplish her intention. WICCA and many other denominations are flourishing today as people are drawn to the Goddess element of the Creator. Satanists make packs with the devil and maybe some “BLACK” Arts witches..But the ones I know are all using their talents to help heal the world, nature and to assist others to KNOW Thyself. It has lasted forever…I don’t see anyone investing so much time into something that doesnt work.
You sound like a Harry Potter character. No, wait, Harry Potter makes more sense from wiccan garbage.
People are drawn to it because being your own God sounds good
You are not perfectly at home if I can say it.
Was it really necessary to molest that poor chicken to prove your point? SMH
Best channel ever
*Those same people are in power today sacrifiying people and destroying humanity with a fake pLLLandemic*
THAT WAX SEAL FILLER VIDEO IS SOOOO BAD! LMAO
Why does it always have to be a woman, a witch, and not a man? An innocent question to self for contemplating.
As always, this channel is inspiring, and also makes me think how much I would have missed if I didn’t speak some English.
@Lisa Smith that boy is called Hope and he is doing much better:)
@Que the word warlock means Oathbreaker and in today’s practice it’s becoming trendy to rename yourself with such silly old names, A witch is a witch no matter the gender is,
@Selene Thanatos ordinary people used the malleus but the official institution of the church did not, even the spanish inquisition banned that book in 1538. It was common people and some sevular rulers who used it, and it was more popular in protestant countries.
The answer is the publication of the malleus maleficarum. The guy who wrote it was a total creep (banished by a bishop at one point for being too obsessed with a woman). Even the the high religious institutions at the time thought it was too much. But it gained in popularity so it became the center of law. It described how to find a witch, why women were especially susceptible, and that you should burn witches. Before this, witchcraft was just as likely to be done by a man.
@MAC you really need to read more actual history books.
I hope, that the person/persons who came up with this witchcraft idea burn in hell themselves..
rome……… chooses enoug, if you steal “jesus” you must demonize the other
Skin tags are a symptom of diabetes.
No no they’re not
No, there is no connection to diabetics. More likely warts sometimes viruses, somtime just caused by cells going crazy because of age
@Chelsea Lopez right? Me and my mom have had two small ones through the years, no idea about my grandmother bc shes old fashioned and would never talk about that….anyways none of us have diabetes. Knock on wood.
My mom, stepmom, and I all have skin tags, none of us have diabetes
@Allisson Jacob Isaacson can be, but there are other likely “look alike” conditions
Please do not kill animals for your show.
Don’t worry, it wasn’t killed for the show.
They don’t!
I’m sure they preserved it after filming, you would not waste a farm animal.
Please stop using real dead animals in your shows, it is unnecessary. I love the show but… why kill a chicken just for a good shot?
That chicken wasn’t killed for the show.
They probably used a prop or knew of someone who raised chickens and was culling their flock. There are regulations that must be adhered to. Jeopardizing the entire film is something no one producing it would let happen. I hope my explanation is helpful.
Do you really think the producers went chicken hunting so they’d kill a chicken themselves and record it? They probably got it from a market. And there are markets that will sell unprepared chicken like that if you request. Or maybe it’s just an old chicken that died and they got it. That happens all the time.
I doubt they ate the chicken later, but just remember that a lot of the chicken that are available for sale at the supermarkets go to waste (expired, weren’t properly kept and had to be discarded if there’s a power shortage, and so on).
My point is, don’t be so scared, odds are nothing outside of what happens everyday happened there.
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard Tony Robinson say “the Tudors” throughout my entire life, I’d be a rich man.
😂 old timey documentary watcher from way back too, eh?