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I agree. I love getting interested in a subject, then finding tons of interesting videos on it! In my ancient days (when dinosaurs walked the earth!), you had to go to a local library, which never had what you were looking for, or write to a New York Bookstore to get books on the subject. As a kid, I always wanted to know everything, and it was extremely frustrating to never be able to get any information!!! Now, I google continuously, it drives everyone nuts, but to me, it's a gold mine!!!
@@drabnail777Sadly, yes we did. But unlike Salem, there was some truth in the MeToo trials. The hard part was getting to those truths through all the hysteria and lies.
Giles Corey wasn’t crushed to death because he was a witch (or believed witch). He was pressed because he wouldn’t plead innocent or guilty, as he deemed it a ludicrous accusation, not worthy of an answer, and they were trying to force him into saying one or the other. Apparently, they asked him three times for his plea, each time he would only answer “more weight” the guy was a badass! Little trivia - pressing people who wouldn’t talk is where we now get the phrase “I’m going to have to press you for an answer”.
Lol he was like I refuse to entertain these insane accusations of witchcraft and I'll die on this hill of sanity. What a pillar. What a man. He made them all look stupid.
"Why do witches burn? Because they're made of wood, and wood floats. And what else also floats, a duck. Therefore, logically, if she weighs the same as a duck, she's a witch."
Just go home get a cup of water and throw it at them it’s that simple if witches existed now a day people would be wielding water guns and the military would have big turrets that shoot water and straps with instead of gun ammo water bottles. Well not sailing witches exist
Sarah Osborn was my 8x great grandmother and one of the first accused. She died in prison. She was already sickly when her trial occurred and her health only worsened during her incarceration. There are many ideas about why she was accused but I lean toward her sons wanting the farm when their father, Robert Price, died. Sarah immediately married her farm foreman in order to protect her interest in her property, hence the name Osborn. She died in prison in May of 1693 and Alexander Osborn died suspiciously less than a year later.
Supposedly, I haven't bothered to research it myself, since I have no real interest in my mother's side of the family (yeah we don't get along) my family can trace one side of the family back to Sarah Good (or Goode) not sure how it's supposed to be spelled). Not sure how solid my mom's research was, but hey, if everything that's in the family genealogy book is true, my Dad's side goes all the way back to the Norse who settled in Ireland
Not to sound rude, but that’s pretty cool she was your ancestor! I think it’s neat when you find someone that was an important historical figure in your family tree! 😊 My whole life I’d heard we were related to the Tudors of France. I thought it was BS until my sister did one of those ancestry DNA things. Turns out it’s not BS, but it wasn’t in the legit bloodline. It was an indiscretion, obviously. Still, it’s pretty cool to me! 😊
One of the most disturbing and interesting take about these sudden "witchcraft" plague is that many of the female accusers have the history of being so bored they simply accused anyone that they don't like or agree with (first of the Karens I guessed). I forgot the infamous 2 ladies that started this bored shenanigans and got the whole town into chaos.
I wonder if the 2 girls who started it felt any guilt. Then again they were probably very proud of their handiwork and enjoyed the proceedings thoroughly.
In England during the Witch hunting hysteria there is a story of young girl accusing her own mother of witchcraft. Ironically she too was put to death for witchcraft years later by another young girl
My mother's side of the family had ancestors that were hung during the trials we visited every year to pay our respects to our family and I thank you Aaron for doing this it means alot
That's fascinating to me! When we were there we attended some places where they reenacted the trials and took a tour, this was way back in the early 90s, when Laurie Cabot (The Salem WITCH) had published a load of wiccan books and was always parading around the town in a long black cloak and unlikely platinum blonde hair, so that she looked like an extra from the tv show, "Dynasty" (very Linda Evans). Look her up and you'll have a great idea of what Laurie looked like. I was there in October, and it was exceptionally beautiful...I would love to go there once a year!
My personal favorite Salem witch trial is my families story. Mary English was accused of witchcraft and arrested, Phillip English wasn't happy about it and ended up accused himself. They were wealthy so they got sent to Boston to await trial where they paid off the guard and escaped just to return to Salem after the witch trials were a thing if the past, regain a lot of their wealth and help built Salem into a more prosperous settlement.
This is the first time in years that someone has correctly used the word "hanged" instead of the incorrect "hung". You have a better grasp of the English language than anyone who works in ordinary TV, Thank you!
Corey refused to plead one way or the other - that's where the 'pressing' came in. Had he pleaded guilty or was found to be guilty; his property could be forfeited to the government, and his children denied their inheritance. 'More weight.' Those are some last words.
@@leewoodrow It was, in some cases. Neighbors quarreled over property lines, inheritances - and an accusation of witchcraft could give the accusing neighbor a 'right of first refusal' to buy the land, cheaply, from the government. There was more than one incident of this. But it's also possible some justified this to themselves from the confirmation bias in their immediate surroundings. We forget that those directly involved in this particular mania lived in Salem village - not Salem, the port town. The village was more interior, much smaller, and fairly surrounded by deep forest - though there were clusters of these little villages. It was rural, agricultural, and more isolated; what happened in one family could effect several others. People truly believed in witchcraft, and once the hysteria began; it became almost inevitable to be caught up in. It took a couple of years for all of this to die down, and then there was quite a bit of remorse. And, as I think Simon pointed out - there was some attempt, at least, to give recompense to the freed and to the families of the executed. (Sorry for the history rant.) :)
@@bigsmall246 . . . Indeed NOT! This event would have been fairly fresh in the minds of the Founding Fathers less than a hundred years later when they set up a Constitution that demanded an absolute separation of church and state and that offered unprecedented protections for people accused of crimes. Those twenty people did not die in vain.
not really. its honestly up to people to believe. in my country people are arrested for doing black magic and they are found guilty as they are caught doing some strange shit in graveyards. i have seen people who seem like they have some mental illness like schizophrenia ect but the doctors just dismiss them as they don't find any abnormality in their brain... somehow over the years these people automatically get better. A lot of the people arrested also have to show to the police what they do and how they do. these people target the vulnerable. its basically fraud . " can you help me shaman sir, my husband doesn't like me anymore" shaman dude: yes yess why not, hand me them 10k first
Welp, the police chief's husband was caught blowing a drunk guy in the holding cell against his will a fews Halloweens ago....so maybe that curse has somthing to it.
What confuses me is the point of a witch trial is if they're a witch they'll save themselves, but since none of them ever saved themselves they should have noticed that maybe they were morons.
@@rubynibs Political at the top. Politics using religion. Religion is ripe to be exploited and it always has been. Remove the religion from the equation and it can’t be weaponized. Bare in mind too. Those at the bottom, the common people, who those ar the top need support. They whole heartedly believe in the deception. The religion IS the problem
@@guadobobey5785 i think your understanding of 'religious' is false. I would call them fanatics or more like abuse of religion. Religious is someone who is devoted to their faith, they don't bother with what other people believe in and expect the same from other people. And no religion as far as i know justify cruelty. It's not fair when you can't demonize certain race but it's okay to demonize religion.
your ignorance is laughable, i invite you to expand your knowledge of the world and increase your understanding of human nature and how corrupt our creations are like government, laws, and religions.
One time and one time only, we routed out all of the evil players without losing a single innocent. . . It was utterly baffling how the mob and the serial killer screwed up that badly.
For anyone interested in the Salem witch trials, I highly recommend the book “I, Tituba”. It’s a novel about the trials from her perspective, and I think the author presents some really interesting ideas behind the accusations and Tituba’s confession
I’ve been to Salem many many times. One of my favorite places to visit. You can feel death surrounding you as you walk the streets. When you go into the cemetery, it’s so incredibly eerie.
I've watched this but I want to say something smartalec.Today the left is using the witch accusations and trials and punishment to thier hate for conservatives especially Trump supporters.
The Ergots thing only happens during specific weather patterns in the growing season. That's where that theory comes from because based on the information we have, the season previous was a perfect season for Ergots, not so perfect for the plants.
Bruh... He skipped the best part of the guy who got crushed to death! When he was asked to confess to something he didn't do, he always said "more, more weight..." Sam 'o Nella is cool
I don't know who Sam O'Nella was, but Giles Corey was the guy who refused to dignify the accusation of witchcraft with a plea of either "guilty" or "innocent."
Y'know, why didn't any of them just claim something like: "If any harm is to come to me yada yada yada this town shall be burned in a terrible storm of fire!" or something
The reason why they are burning them in the first place is that they don’t want to incur gods wrath by ignoring witch craft. So if they don’t ignore it and instead deal with it and follow gods teachings god will protect them. At least that’s the belief anyway.
If anyone would say that it would immediately confirm that he/she is a witch. Furthermore it would simply be put to the test; just lock the person up, torture a bit, and wait a few days. If nothing happens, he/she is a liar and therfore a witch. Case closed.
I never thought I would learn or want to learn stuff on the topics he covers, but he makes these things so interesting. I learned more from this guy than school.
When your 10th great grandmother was hanged during the Salem Witch Trials and this pops up on your recommended: 😰 Martha Carrier (hanged August 19th, 1692)
I lived in Salem, Ma for 5 years, the energy there is something else. I highly recommend visiting just not around October unless you want to be absolutely mobbed, but that's an experience within itself. I wholly believe pagan practices combined with ergot poisoning or "St Anthonys Fire" was to blame, and was happening unbeknownst to the population for a very long time over here and in Europe. I'm glad you brought it up, very interesting!
"that's an experience within itself." it strikes me as an experience that revolves entirely around secondhand embarrassment. the only think to look at are Wiccan shops opened by people who are either more business oriented than they are religiously oriented - which is fine, but not worth a vacation trip - or people with that pathological fixation on death and cemeteries and black ravens and every other cliche that comes to mind. i'm genuinely unable to believe that the majority of the people who practice Wicca _aren't_ just doing it to conform to a particular aesthetic. i find myself under the impression that most of these people don't actually have any Wiccan beliefs and, instead, are more interested in the IRL cheat codes that are associated with the religion. i'm one of them goth dorks - you meet a lot of Wiccans when you look the way i do. i can never bring myself to confront them about it because i don't want to be a dick about it - but i'm never going to understand how someone could get wrapped up in this sort of thing until i get into a few heated arguments about it lol. to be clear, i understand that Wicca isn't just about casting spells, but if you've ever gone into one of these shops, you'll know that - aside from literature and general merch like clothing - everything else these shops sell revolves around spellcraft. i just don't _get it._
Hmm yes, history energy and vibes, I get those. Im a complete history nerd tho, and don’t ascribe anything supernatural with it. But it’s close with very historical places.
I love these BS theories 🤣 Anything but admitting that white dudes did some terrible 💩 And, no, that doesn’t mean “aLL WhiTe mEn BaD” lol Y’all need to grow a spine & stop with the simplistic binary thinking
You forgot the best part about Giles Corey, he was slowly crushed under stones as an interrogation tactic because he wasn't willing to lie, but if he pleaded innocent he'd be hung for lying and his children wouldn't inherit his farmland (due to laws of the town). Really quite smart of him.
Thank goodness that these days people don't accuse their peers of being something evil for the smallest perceived slight with zero evidence to back their claims. . .
Oh my gosh Giles Corey was a badass😭😭😭 Being crushed by increasing weight is meant to get a confession out of the victim. Not kill them. When asked for a confession, Giles Corey simple would say “more weight” every time. And all because he was one of those people who stuck their necks out and said that the witch hunts were bs
Fun fact: according to my grandma who is admittedly a bit of a loon, my family is descended from one of the pendle witches, I however have not done any magic recently to my knowledge. Hit me up if you want stock tips though. Stock tip of the day: Don't.
Weather or not you believe in psychics, one I seen many years ago actually said I was one of the women in salam, accused & hung... I do, however, believe in reincarnation .... I find all things witches very interesting but what are the odds IM the reincarnation of Sarah Good or Bridget Bishop? Would be super cool, but I doubt it lolol
My grandma said her moms mom was related to "la llorona" she was a Mexican folktale to scare their children to obey. Of course. I didn't believe her. But I still was fascinated.
Have you read the history of the trials. It's got some really interesting stuff. The youngest daughter who was the main witness against her mum and brother at the age of 9 or 10 and set the legal precedent that let the Salam trials happen. She was taken in by the prosocutor who was very rich and treated her to whatever she wanted until he took her to see her mum and brother hang and then kicked her out... She was later accused herself along with 15 others by a young boy who got home late with dirty ripped cloths and told his parents he'd been abducted by witches. Which they happily accepted as true.... Only after the first 5 were identified the dad started taking the son around local churches pointing out "other witches". By this time witch trials were seen as wrong by King James who'd started it all anyway and he sent people to investigate. 8t turned out that the dad was blackmailing people who he'd get h I s son to accuse if they didn't pay. Thankfully this time they were all released and the dad was hung instead. Little side as much as the British and American trials are famous it was actually very rare in both countries and far far more common in Germany and Frence where the Catholic Church held sway. In Germany they had 2 cities where nearly 300 people were killed and at 1 over 150 people were hung or burnt in one trial. Check the Würzburg witch trials which got so out of hand Priests and the very rich nobility were even caught up in it and hung and the Bamberg witch trials both on Wiki!
A Austrian book called "Hexen Hammer" or "Malleus Maleficarum" written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger also played a big role during that time and had a big influence on the executions and witch hunts in Austria. It described how to identify a witch and stuff like that
Thoughty2 has been my every morning listen on my way to work for quite some time now. My man didn't even have a mustache back when I first started watching his videos. Love the work you do man, keep it up 😁
Gotta love that good ol' Malleus Maleficarum. A.k.A the Witch Hammer. Sold almost as good as the Bible. Geralt of Rivia said it best: 'Hatred and prejucide will never be eradicated. And witchhunts will never be about witches. A scapegoat, that is the key.'
Another fun fact about Salem today: there is also a liquor store named "Bunghole Liquors" which is hilarious. Also, the majority of the activity happened in what is now Danvers (but was part of Salem at the time). I was lucky enough to have my back yard be attached to the Rebecca Nurse Farm House - Halloween was always fun! -Shawn
I was VERY surprised that the "Last Witch Trial" in the US was in 1878. Not the fact that there was an actual trial, but the fact that the case was thrown out by the judge.
I'm a bit late, but I should mention Giles Corey, who was pressed to death, wasn't actually executed for being a witch. He refused to plead, which in law at the time, meant he could not be tried, and died in "questioning" while the Sheriff pressed him for a confession, to which he famously repeatedly replied "More Weight". This led to him keeping his estate and property in death which could then be passed on to his next of kin, and was the only person during the trials who died outside of a proper execution.
I was in Salem once on Halloween. Other than an outdoor reenactment of a witch trial, with the audience as the jury, few of the activities were relevant to the actual events of the witch trials. A lot of it seemed disrespectful to the memory of the people who were wrongly accused and killed.
The Pendle witches are so interesting to learn about, especially Alice Nutter. I’m from Burnley and it’s a huge part of the local heritage. You can see Pendle Hill from my house and my mind does often wonder what those women went through and how they felt. I would love to see a video all about them:)
The word 'babbel' is actually a dialect word from my language, flemish. 1 of 3 languages spoken in Belgium. The other 2 are french and german. The word 'babbel' means to chat or to have conversation :-)
The execution of George Burroughs is a prime example of circular reasoning. And that the whole shebang was a bunch of nonsense. Ironically, The Spanish Inquisition years before had decided to abandon witch trials, as there was no evidence.
Giles was a true hero in my opinion. His death and the manner in which it took place was the direct result of his refusal to cop a plea of any kind thereby avoiding to participate in the trials for it was becoming clear there was vendettas taking place between various small groups/persons motivating the accusers. There is now a memorial for all the heroes. It is a special act few could do to refuse to lie and say they are witches even under threat of death most would reason it is a small thing and save themselves. Remarkable group of people.
Ooooo, I was born in Salem! I can't tell you how many times we were brought downtown for field trips as a kid. The witch museum scared me so badly in the 3rd grade 😂. In my late teens I lived in Salem and was told by one of the MANY psychics to get OUT because evil beings were going to take me down...😲 I did what I was told and moved a few months later 👻
Superstition is a terrible thing. I wouldn't pay any attention to psychics. Just like their religious counterparts, they have no power over you unless you give it to them
The irony of the puritans fleeing England in order to pursue freedom of religion and then persecuting witches is astonishing. I'm sure the thought never occurred to any of them at the time.
Fun fact about ergot. I used to get migraines about twice a month during my 20's-30's. My doctor prescribed ergotamine saying that if taken ASAP when I just felt the migraine symptoms coming on it might stop the headache. Well, boy howdy it sure did. If I took it within around five minutes of the headache starting it just stopped it in its tracks. (Those of you who get migraines know that you can feel it coming on) I felt GREAT... I MEAN REALLY GREAT!! Spoiler alert: when I went to get the Rx filled for about the 3rd time I found out they took it off the market. Ergot was a mold that was found in the wheat and other grains and they couldn't rely on its efficacy 100% of the time. They hadn't synthesized it yet so I was SOL in finding my cure and returned to getting the headaches till they just finally stopped a couple of years later!! I think the mold had the same effect as those funny mushrooms had but not nearly as potent!
Interesting that you mentioned Connecticut witch trials, here in Stratford, we had Goody Bassett who in 1651 was hanged about a mile from my house. We now have a very popular ice cream shop named after Goody Bassett.
I think that the guy who was crushed with stones wasn't executed. When someone was accused of a crime and didn't plead either guilty or not guilty, he was subjected to a process called "pressing." He was stretched out and stones were slowly added. Usually the accused eventually couldn't stand it a pled. Sometimes he wound up dying.
@@ginashemeth7708 I had an Aunt Jane who lived there, I wish I had known her better, she was a classic spinster, New England style school teacher in the 50s! My Dads side was from Boston....
Remember to dust off your broom sticks before taking off for flight 🧹 Have fun, I drove through there once on a trip and went by Lizzie Borden's house. Massachusetts has some great interesting history.
I’ve only gotten through about a minute of your video. I’m from Salem ma and I hate it when September/October comes. So many tourists. It’s Terrible when you have +80,000 pple just wandering around your city
that random levitating pooping dog joke got me. unrelated - don't know why everytime I watch your videos I need to resubscribe when I never unsubbed at all.
Yes because accusing is only something that comes from men.... Have you lived in a cave for the past 20 years? I really hope you get married one day son hehe
That witch pursuit thing made me laugh hella hard because it made me think of when South Park had president Garrison do everything possible to not say "witch hunt" bc at the time president Trump was saying it like every day
It's been years since I've been to Salem, but I remember it as a tacky tourist town for the most part. Plenty of good books on the subject, with as you noted conflicting opinions (economics is one partial theory - women who owned businesses, usually pubs/inns, were accused and their accusers gained the property). Once the madness got all the way up to the governor's wife being accused, folks started to rethink what they'd been doing.
This Halloween was my first visit to Salem, I wouldn’t say it was tacky, but it was very historic and well kept. The tourists were tacky, mostly just drunkenly wandering the street, some were nice but most were just rude. Tons and tons of history that was actually fun to learn about. It rained most of the weekend but only lightly.
I’m confused by the start of the video… when Salem, Massachusetts comes up it’s a picture of Bar Harbor, Maine. You can see Geddy’s, Patrick’s By The Sea, Jacks Jewelry, Galyns among other stores from Maine.
You left out an important aspect of those who were accused of Witchcraft in Salem. Proof of being a Witch was often presented as "Spectral Evidence" (which was allowed by the court system), which means the accuser claims that the spirit of the supposed Witch appeared to them in a dream and tormented them. This opened the door to allow people to accuse anyone they didn't like of being a Witch, which is what happened in Salem. It wasn't October 1692 that Governor Phips dissolved the court that allowed this type of evidence to be presented. I just spent last weekend in Salem and took in as much history as I could; it was a great experience. One of the many dark times that should not be forgotten.
I can't even begin to imagine the absolute terror a child would go through as they are informed that they will be losing their head for something they did not do...
Just throwing this out there... Magic/witchcraft does *not* automatically = Wicca Magic/witchcraft does *not* automatically = Paganism These words are *not* interchangeable. They aren't all the same thing. That is all ^_^ Cheers! 🔯
The kneeling supplicant shown in images at 4:13 and 6:44 was my ancestor George Jacobs, who was later hanged as a "wizard" (male witch). The painting is highly imagined as George was 81 years old with advanced arthritis. He was a salty old guy. When accused of being a wizard he replied, "You tax me for a wizard; you may as well tax me for a buzzard"!
