The Witchhunt that Founded Liechtenstein
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2019
- We happened to be driving past Liechtenstein on our way to filming and came across this story. I couldn't find it online in English, so I decided to make the pit stop.
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Are you currently in Liechtenstein? I live on the border
Great video as always, Evan and crew!
Just one thing. The Catholic Church was pretty opposed to the Malleus Maleficarum from the get go. The author forged a lot of documentation, so it may get confused in earlier sources, but most historians agree that it was widely panned by the Church's establishment due to its opposition to witch hunting, as well as due to its methods being found ineffective and immoral.
However, it was pretty accepted by secular rulers, probably, as you said, for political and personal purposes. In a place as isolated as Vaduz, it's pretty easy to see how ruthless rulers could exploit its lies for their own benefit.
Shut up, crickets!
ah but WHICH WITCH IS WHICH?
@Rare Earth
@2:10 you state as a fact that there are no witches ...... the hundreds/thousands of covens around the world would take issue with that. Witches do exist ..... they are even mentioned in the Bible.
“There are no witches”
Sounds like witch talk to me
He is a witch, that is why he is there looking for a safe haven.
Only way to tell is if she weighs the same as a duck.
He commands the crickets to shut up. Burn him!!!
Matt A we must test him first we must see if he is more buoyant than a duck
I've been a hunted witch for years and I found this interesting.
You would think that he could have cut out the middle men and just accused his debtors of being witches. It worked for King Philip IV
Philip the IV could only get away with that because he had the Pope under his control, and had the Florentine bankers to replace the Templars as his main source of financing. If a normal count had tried that, then he would have been left without any source of credit afterwards, and that is the best case scenario. The worst case scenario is that your creditors have someone higher up the food chain, like the emperor or the pope, save them, then have you killed.
"Spend enough time in international hot spots, and you'll learn that a lot of the worst monsters on earth are just spoiled rich kids." - Michael Westen, Burn Notice
Did you know he used to be a spy?
My favorite show. Pass the yogurt
@@coreyneal3705 Blueberry is fine?
katie_incredible or just in America
katie_incredible that might be true but there are many more abused poor people that do heinous crimes and things.
"Hatred and prejudice will never be eradicated. And the witch hunts will never be about witches. To have a scapegoat - that's the key."
-Geralt of Rivia, “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt”
A lot of Vatican wealth came from torturing and burning witches. Their parents were billed for the process and, when they couldn't pay, they lost their land.
@@marypoppins2044 Catholics were fucked.....
You can't have it both ways in interpreting the events. They can't have been ignorant superstitious people and also purposely attacking people for alternate reasons and not for the reasons of witchcraft.
@@TheRootedWord
They most definitely can.
@@junkersintutus4282 No, they logically exclude each other. If they were not attacking them as witches then you cannot accuse their ignorant superstitions of witchcraft as the cause. He claims witchcraft, then says the REAL cause instead was for money. So if it was really for money and not for witchcraft, then it wasn't for ignorant superstition. So it appears the maker of the video is the one with ignorant superstition and perhaps you.
You have an incredible gift for storytelling! What a dark history for such a beautiful place
Think that last sentence there describes all of Eurasia for the last 10,000 years
Some places are arguably less beautiful than others, but there is a dark history in any place which humans have inhabited.
I thought he did a good job too but for a few moments there he was a little too dramatic. It just looked like bad acting at those moments. But all and all he does a great job.
it is not that dark of history compared to most other nations in Europe.
@@katiekat4457 hence the disclaimer of him being idiot sometimes at the end
"The need of a scapegoat never truly goes away" facts 🔥
These days its immigrants.
"shut up, crickets!" -best part of the video
please tell me there will be a video about that time they sent 80 men into battle and returned with 81, or at least that it will be mentioned!
That was Luxemburg
@@lecros6628 no it's Liechtenstein
@@alwinpriven2400 just looked it up, you're right. My bad
@@lecros6628 yea it's ok, they're quite easy to mix up I feel
Should've called it "Witchenstein"
It's best to spell it Łichtenstein. Looks like L, sounds like W.
Shut up
@@nadjakaiser9881 I understand you being proud of your country but It was just a joke and I don't think either of us wanted to upset the Liechtensteiners.
It would be Hexenstein, then.
@@nightjaronthegate Thats fucking genius! (half polish, so i instantly got it and cursed you for your talent)
"Liechtenstein" sounds like where vampires go to retire.
You mean perfect their trade.
Liechtenstein is world leader in specialized dental equipment production. www.liechtenstein-business.li/en/economic-area/get-to-know/industry-and-trade/
@@YPO6
Now that is an unexpected piece of trivia!
Nah, that's Liechtenscrape.
@@YPO6 Nice.
As a young kid, I have had a fascination with Lichtenstein, not just because of its landscape or its historic civilizations, but the fact that I was on a computer quest on searching for the world's tiniest country. Lichtenstein was one of the first micronations I had the curiosity of finding and exploring on the map. Yet I literally had no idea of the history behind this micronation until I watched this video today. Now I know Liechtenstein was created out of a medieval purge led by a witch-hunting campaign that scarred thousands of people.
not to nitpick, but micronation is a term for nations invented by civilians that no real country recognizes. regardless, cool story!
This narrative touched my very soul. Man’s inhumanity to man is unbelievable. Thanks for sharing
. . . spoken like someone who has read the WT version of the bible. Be that as it may, it will never change. If deities haven't seen fit to correct it in some 10000 years of history, there is no reason to believe any fresh promises. Such promises have existed for ages.
I live right next to Liechtenstein! It's pronounced Va-du-ts
Shouldn't it be pronounced Fa-duu-ts?
vah-doo-ts
Are towns in that region typically clean like that? Do people there not litter and throw paper from the car windows. In the US, many people throw garbage from their car windows and even when they clean will sometimes just drop things where they stand for someone else to pick up. They see it as someone's job.
Ich bin in Feldkirch, also auch gleich ums Eck ^^
@@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 In Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany it is almost always that clean.
Discovered your channel through Angkor Wat video. I’ve been binging all day as I work in my garden. Listening, frequently having to stop work to look at video. Really nice work. Good for you.
Those who desire power should be the last to have it.
That's the problem. They are the last to have it. Comes from taking it from everyone else, see? Once it's theirs, they have to be killed to get it back.
@Savage Canadian96
So do you.
I just found your channel (all praise to the mighty Al-Gorithm) with the San Marco video. I do small town media, so while I enjoy your history and storytelling, I ESPECIALLY enjoy your production quality. The video quality and shot composition and motion is stunning. Terrific drone work...but what I really meant to compliment when I starting typing this was your sound. I had to rewatch parts of this video to stay attached to the story because I'd get hung up on whether or not you were dubbing. The crickets comment at the end finally cleared that up! Very nice work - you got another subscriber here.
This is a wonderfully powerful video, made with passion. Thank you Rare Earth!
When you see they had the power to end other people's lives with words alone you realize the real witches were the accusers.
deep
But witches aren't evil. The evil people were the accusers.
Maybe the real witches were the friends we made along the way
Out of dozens of videos I watch daily, that's... surprisingly interesting. Don't think I'll forget that now.
You got a couple of our towns mixed up. Like when you're literally standing next to the castle in the capitol Vaduz and claim it's Triesen. Interesting video though.
Your administrative divisions are not easy to comprehend :P
It's treason then...
When you live in a neighbouring country and it takes rare earth to realise that you know nothing about this countries history... 😯
Austria or Switzerland?
@@niall_sanderson Switzerland 🙃
@@martinae8601 beautiful country. Visited years ago and I've never enjoyed looking at landscapes more in my life.
Happy every single time i see a Rare Earth episode turn up, thanks for all the hard work you all put in!
I read all of the end card and I loved it. I can only imagine what goes into making this show.
00:37 "He was not only violent. But undisciplined and in germanic culture that might be worse."
Luckly not so much anymore, since the great wars. Most people dislike violence. But there is sadly still too much truth in your statement.
Not all Germanic cultures are like that.
The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Danes are different to Austrian's, Germans and Liechtensteiners, so are Norwegians and Swedish.
@@thatdutchguy2882 greetings from GERMANY , vee are wotching you :p
I am german and I am offended by that comment😜 I dont believe that a lack of diciplin was ever considered worse than violence even in the germanic culture
Holy shit!
At first I thought it was merely humour, but reading through the comments I realised that germanic people literally carry around a list of things to prioritise.
Werent they great vikings from valhalla
I'm glad I discovered your channel. I genuinely enjoy this content.
Creditors. The money would go to his Creditors. (2:57) The person who owes money is a Debtor. The person to whom the money is owed is the Creditor.
Debtor and debtee are real terms.
Like leaser and lessee
Perhaps that's why he was so broke.
Good stuff. For those of us who greatly enjoy history, this seems a little gem. I get the feeling you folks did your homework, did some serious digging, some real research. Thank you!
Thoroughly enjoyed learning this history. Thank you for the research that you did and the video.
Thanks again man. I look forward to more vids
I am the proud descendant of the only person accused and murdered after an accusation of witchcraft in South Carolina U.S.A. He was accused by a neighbour who wanted his land in monks corner, S.C. It was common to just accuse those who one held a grudge against or property that someone wanted to take.
Me too. Descendant of a woman accused by witches of being a witch. Why? So they could steal her land. However, there's more. Because the religion of the oarticular witches who accused her of witchcraft... I know it sounds twisted but due to their particular practice, it's to induce spiritual pain, not just financial. They literally feed off of the suffering of others. Truly sickening.
@@bigteddybear5962 crooked state/police still do this, police lie, make up false charges, and the state extorts money from you, nothing new under the sun
@@thoth_amon ancient triangle: David/Uriah/Bathsheba
That would make a good PBS Doc for us South Carolinians.. I never knew that had happened. Was it in the seventeenth century??
@@trevorfuson715 I don't remember the year off hand. I will have to dig out the papers that I have on him and get back to you with the details. Hopefully I won't forget as my day is quite busy. If you do not hear back from me in the next couple of days please I.M. me on Facebook I am pretty easy to find there as my name is not common.
Little Liechtenstein, the powerhouse of HOI4
it actually doesn't exist in hoi4. luxembourg does though!
The Zip Creator It does in Modern Day
The fact that they don't exist in HOI 4 is a crime.
@@michaeleisner4758 That's a mod though. I'm talking about the base game
Most of your stories are pretty interesting, and you narrate well. You're good at this stuff. I wish you as much success as you can handle, or want to handle.
Oh man, I have a picture up in my living room that I took in of that castle. Another great Rare Earth episode. Keep up the great work!
"Shut up crickets" feels like it should be on a t-shirt but I don't know if that fits with the whole brand of this channel. Great video, yet again, Evan and team!
What happened to the Woman who escaped and spoke to the Priest who understood that the witch Hunt was bogus? Please answer if you can. Thank you.
Very interesting topic. And the way you deliver it... EXCELLENT!
This vid is so BRILLIANT! Its as if I was watching an official BBC documentary about the origins of Liechtenstein.
I love this channel so much. A recent @LegalEagle video had a 4 second clip of some song about Liechtenstein that reminded me of this video from 3 years ago. So I've come back to watch again.
"Evan Hadfield who can't believe, Switzerland has a more expensive friend" xD
I'm from Basel, Switzerland, hope you come here too once, it's the home of the Basilisk dragon for example (and Roger Federer :P) if you need a story, or the earthquake destroying half of the Münster cathedral.
Love your vids, keep em coming!
I always like your chance, you always have something good to report. Your old school a true style of reporting.
Something I would call
(A Reported Story)
More power to your elbow.
I just want to say, I love all you good people do at Rare Earth. I’m always ecstatic at every upload. Keep up the good word.
Liechtenstein citizen here, I even learned something new here. Been a few years since I learned about this in school haha 😁
Lichtenstein has always been my favorite country name. Glad to learn about it.
Billy Bob glad to hear that, but it is actually spelled: Liechtenstein with „ie“, best regards from an original Liechtensteiner😊
That was really fascinating to me. I lived my whole life in Liechtenstein but never heard about this story in history class. We never really learn about our countries history anyway. Great video!
great, hoping for more "random" videos like this. well, and series. anything you do is excellent!
Congrats on 750k subs!
How on earth are these getting
You get to the point straight without BS. I like it. Thank you!
This is journalism at its absolute finest! Great stories, often niche subjects, superb research and great storytelling/presentation.
Please follow up with documentary about the family Liechtenstein and why they are bard to ever visit Slovakia
According to Wikipedia the first Prince of Liechtenstein was a Czech protestant noble who converted to Catholicism in 1599. He went on to help suppress protestantism in Bohemia during the Thirty Years War. It was his grandson who acquired Vaduz and the rest of the principality where the family now resides
Thumbs up for the Clockwork Orange t-shirt. Interesting and well made video as well. :)
That opening shot is the castle in schellenberg, i spent many days and school trips at that place :)
Amazing presentation, I was glued 😊
Money money money plus insanity that explains previous and current rulers.
He calls creditors "debtors." The guy owed his CREDITORS.
This was a very informative and fascinating video on the formation of Lichtenstein, but this blooper (@9:43) was my favorite moment of all from it!:
You have chosen not only a beautiful place, but a place with clean streets. That is a town after my own heart. And thanks for the story. I had no idea that motives were so clear. How did the people not figure that out? Geez. Historians often insist that religion is rarely the reason, but it works well as a means to an end.
A bit too clean for my taste. It has a weird sterile look to it, as if something is wrong and odd, but you can't quite put your finger on it. And because people in masses are dumb as dung, always were and always will be. The animal in your mind is often only a very thin door away from breaking out.
I live literally within sight lines of this castle and I am so excited to see you run around my region :D
I am pretty sure my ex was a witch. She even told me herself.
very nice recounting of an obscure history, thank you
CZcams just recommended this video to me and I gotta say this guy's narration and this video's editing is one of the best things I've ever seen on CZcams.
this channel is an absolute treasure
Which church is he talking about? The timing of this story is post-reformation.
Liechtenstein was always catholic
nice vid
Subscribed because your content is actually captioned and made my (and other disabled) viewing much better, thank you!
Thank my wife. She's the one doing the work. :)
@@RareEarthSeries Aw brilliant, give her my thanks, it actually increase your view counts too!
Incredible story ! And the landscapes there are just fantastic !
Every time people tell me DC is too small to be a state, I point out we're bigger than Liechtenstein.
I've only been once to Liechtenstein, but it's definitely separate from what surrounds it.
It would be interesting to check the sources for this video, specially regarding the amount of executions. Losing a tenth of a population has demographic, economic, even artistic consequences that can't be hidden, like the plague left deep scars on European society.
In a similar case, some authors have taken one sample if the executions under the Spanish Inquisition, projected them statistically (as if the Inquisition were a factory of executions with a growing quota to fill and not a court of law) and came up with numbers of massive genocide, while a long, hard look at the historical files brings way lesser ciphers. And plenty of acquittals, or people condemned to other punishments than death.
Also, at least giving the names of the characters in the description would make the research easier for those ones who want to factcheck.
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Karl_von_Hohenems
Thanks for the link to Wikipedia and consequently Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Very important to show sources. Hopefully Rare Earth will do this in future.
Great episode as always.
I've been there!
Was driving through the area and decided to take the exit for the country and add it to my list. I figured I'd stop for dinner, then continue on.
Funny part is the country is so small, I'd already driven back out again looking for something besides the one restaurant that I'd seen.
But alas, it was a Sunday, and it was literally the only place open.
And that's why I've eaten Chinese food in Liechtenstein.
"Like a gated neighborhood except with cows"
I'm dead.
For someone who doesn't believe in witches, you love them suspiciously much.
Very well done presentation. Subscribed!
Neat! We where just there yesterday, because we took a detour on a whim on our way to Dijon. There is really absolutely nothing to the experience of visiting Liechtenstein if you don´t know anything about it, so this really helps
Cuanta belleza y brutalidad cargan las historias de la humanidad.
Damn, you're an amazing orator.
I love his pace and his ability to find profundity no matter where he ends up.
*LMAO exactly!*
He seems a little TOO emotionally invested in the history of hundreds of years ago. It comes off as being kinda ridiculous...over-acting. Just tell the damn story without acting like it affects you personally, silly man.
Mike Cranapple Oh shtawp it.
We used to live near Bern and went on a weekend trip to St Gallen, then a side day trip to Vaduz. Unfortunately, as it was a Sunday, the only thing actually open was (strangely) the post office museum. My son was maybe around 4 at the time, and very... nosy. Despite the lady telling him "don't put your hand in the stamp drawers", he put his hands in the stamp drawer, and got stuck. (yes, he got into trouble, but from us, not the lady. She just laughed and said it happens every time, and rescued him.)
Hey great video, keep it up. Proud of ya
"It's Triesen then"
Great video, just a little tip, 'von' isn't pronounced 'van', that's dutch. In german, it's pronounced 'fon'
The English "O" is like the rest of the world's "A"
I'm trying to hold back from criticizing his lack of glottal fricative in the "ch" of Liechtenstein.
@@rickc2102 Well he already acknowledged that himself with the endslate thing:
"SAY IT AS LEESHTENSTEIN there's no way that's correct USE IT ANYWAY thanks brain"
Nice production my guy enjoyed your narration.
That Story was unexpectedly amazing.
One should read the credits at the end. Enjoyable^^
They always are. This isn't even close to one of the best ones.
1982? Wow thats sad lol
We actually only got the right to vote in 1984.. Yeah, it's not that great.
@@arsenique6478 wow very sad indeed :(
Here in Switzerland it was also pretty late. 1971
@@Satan-lb8pu thats still late to the game :(
@@cristianvillanueva8782 I know.
I never heard of Liechtenstein, until Heath Ledger's 2001 movie: "A Knight's Tale" came out. It's still one of my favorite movies.
Gelderland, Gelderland, Gelderlannnnnd!
Like how you use History/common sense/ as a teaching moment
in all your presentations
Keep it up canuck
Ya know I was trying to figure out what draws me to this channel you hit the nail on the head. History is supposed to be a tool and he actually uses it.
Undisciplined in a Germanic society *Prussian rage intensifies*
Wow I never knew this terrible thing that happened in such a small country. Next your going tell me Belgium is responsible for attempted genocide in Africa or something
Well they didn't just attempt it... they were a colonial power for a while.
@@garret1930 still are
Attempted? I heard they were quite successful.
In the BBC Radio comedy, Cabin Pressure, one of the characters is the Princess of Liechtenstein! And it's very correct on details, lol!
I come from an old New England family. They were Puritans and landed at Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 and lived in Essex County in and around Gloucester, Marblehead, Salem, and Danvers (known as Salem Village back then). Some still do. They lived through the Witch Trials there. One of my ancestors was called for jury duty for the trials. Not believing in witches or in punishing people for witchcraft, he skipped town and went down to Plymouth Colony and is now known by his nickname "Witchcraft Mark".
Thats the bourgeoisie for you, even still today not much has changed.
I hope there is a video in the making about that time the army of Lichtenstein went to war and returned with a man more.
Awesome storyline! Loved it! Sad, but life!
Always funny seeing videos pop up in my feed about my country of residence
@@MsHopeH not thr most eventful place, but most certainly one of the best to live in
The malleus malifecarum was a book written near the end of the burning times and it was only popular for how entertaining it was.
During the burning times (most witches were hung and not burned)
About half of the accused were men and about half of the accusers were women.
So it really wasn't sexist at all.
I love how you winkle out these stories. You have a real flair for picking up on interesting, but little known, events.
Undisciplined, spoiled from birth, no concept of money, sadist. Does this Von Hohenems guy remind you of anyone? Hmmm.....
This video reminds me of the witchcraft museum in Fritzlar. Large towns would buy accused witches from small villages at auctions, because the executions would always draw a good crowd for market day.
Love this channel!
Macedonia would make a great video. I was just visiting there and all i could think about its the connection of the history to the present
I'm a simple man.
I see Rare Earth, I click
Fantastic. Excellent Work.
That is a sad story, I have never heard this history. Thank you!