Witchcraft: Crash Course European History #10

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During our last several episodes, Europe and the European-controlled world have been in crisis. Wars, disease, climate changes, and shifts in religious and political power threw the European world into turmoil. People were looking for a scapegoat, and for many it was a time of magical thinking. So, maybe witches were responsible for all the problems? It was a popular idea, but, alas, the witches weren’t responsible.

Sources:
Godbeer, Richard, ed. The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2018.

Kupperman, Karen. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Plus additional personal communications.

Parker, Geoffrey. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Roper, Lyndall. Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe. London: Routledge, 1994.

Roper, Lyndal. The Witch in the Western Imagination, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012.

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  4. The Green brothers are obviously wizards. I cannot fathom any other way for them to be such enjoyable individuals 😀

  5. Don’t put a cat in the globe. Open the globe and tell the cat “Don’t go in there.’ Problem solved.

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    1. At the time it was the girls of Salem who were the judge of who were witches…

    2. Actually, the main accusers were women (a group of young girls, it’s mentioned in the video)

  22. this is your channel (too?!) I downloaded your apple tv app and it didn’t work 🙁

    at all 🙁

  23. *What if battling witchcraft was just a way to suppress women and to keep them in the kitchen?* 🤔

    1. @Brains Applied no, now having watched the video, I think you’re completely correct and this is a tactic, along with many others designed to keep big woman suppressed. Sadly.

    2. @just a random gal in fact 20% of the accused were men, between 1450 and 1800, ten to twenty thousand men were tried

  24. I didnt even have to watch this all the way through to like it the fact that this is a topic at all is so…idk im just happy!

  28. Ah who cares about witchcraft!
    Ma! Can i have another Sand “Witch”?

    **Police Storm in the door for no reason**

    *FBI OPEN UP!!!!!*

  29. Friend: You know, just because it’s a video about witchcraft, doesn’t mean you’ll get into Hogwarts?
    Me *clearly upset*: I guess.

    1. @just a random gal And what do you burn, apart from witches?
      – More witches! – Wood!
      – So why do witches burn?
      – ‘Cause they’re made of wood? – Good!
      – How do we tell if she is made of wood? – Build a bridge out of her.

    2. Umm.. 5 men were executed as witches during the Salem Witch trials. Giles Corey was pressed to death because he refused to enter an innocent or guilty plea. Was sexism a factor? Yes, but men could also be accused.

    1. coffee115 19 were executed 1 was pressed to death. I think there were some that died in prison. the entire Salem Witch trials only lasted around 9 months and NO witches were burned in Salem. The method of execution was hanging. English law did not permit the burning of witches. At least not at the time.

  33. Yay. I’ve added 5 videos to watch later. This popped up and I’m watching it now! Happy days =D

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