1612: The Disturbing Witch Trial That Shook Britain | The Pendle Witch Child | Chronicle
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- This is the story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine-year-old girl. Jennet Device, a beggar-girl from Pendle in Lancashire, was the star witness in the trial in 1612 of her own mother, her brother, her sister and many of her neighbours and, thanks to her chilling testimony, they were all hanged. Join Simon Artimage as he investigates the trial that sent shockwaves around medieval Britain. This is the real story behind the BBC's new hit comedy The Witchfinder.
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Yea I’m in my truck 🛻 I’m not looking at the house 🏠 but it’s raining ☔️ I’m here right next weekend and then I’m off tomorrow so I’m just thinking 💭
Are these specific episodes not available on History Hit? I downloaded it so I could watch this episode without the numerous and lengthy ad interruptions of CZcams but all I can find is some poor audio quality video of some woman sitting there talking about it while we see her on her webcam and her screen as she looks things up. It’s weird that the good production quality stuff is free on CZcams and the garbage podcaster quality stuff is on the paid service.
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in my country (peru) most peaple (city folk)dont bealive in witches. the only parts where they still do are in the countryside (the mounteins) and the joungle.
Proof of all Claims Required... Ps: Chronical Medieval = CM = 33.
The idea that 3 yr olds are allowed to testify is ridiculous. Sometimes my 3 yr old sister just makes things up for fun.
😂😂
...it's true, but the notion of child back then was not as we know it now....
That’s one reason why so many got accused. Because if someone pissed someone off or did something they disagreed with something they could just pointing fingers and acting crazy , pretending to have seizures and makin shit up. It pisses me off.
@@jmack129 right? And nowadays people dress up as witches and some people actually believe they are actually witches. 😂
@@makiroll218 I happened mainly to women but some men were accused to.
If they believed witches to be so powerful, why did nobody ever wonder why they didn't try to break out of jail?
I was thinking the same damn thing😏
Good point!
They didn't think they were Harry Potter witches.
More like takes 10 hours and tons of random material and chants to do a simple thing type witches
They were fools of idiots and uneducated..
Because the jail equaled the law And in those days the law equaled God. So they were under God’s power while they were in jail. Something along those lines.
There was a young girl in my country that accused her mother of pedophilia and harsh abuse. Sometime later the inverstigation proved that the girl made it up completely and her mother was released from the prison. Her parents were so heartbroken about her lies which she kept up for months that they decided not to pick her up from the foster home she was placed in by the authorities.
If there was ever a reason to disown your own child that would be it.
Curious to know whats the name
Probably should have put her under psychiatric care
@@dianesmiler8539 it wouldn't be big news. It's rare but not unique
I hope she eventually learned what she did
People's inability to conduct themselves in a logical manner is as palpable today as it would appear to have been 400 years ago.
Absolutely.
The scary thing is when one or more of those particular people are put into a position of power.
@@SecretSquirrelFun they'll certainly engourage people to believe in al manner of shit that isn't real, just to spread confusion and dissension
Compared to how modern day feminists behave, these so-called "witches" were almost saint-like. Would love to see a purge in government, MSM, and education of the evil feminists who have infiltrated and subverted the western world.
@@Cryo837 For most people feminism is not even a thing. Only weak minded men are affected by them. Do what you do, look after friends and family. That is what life is about. Lived that way not much gets to be a distraction
Odd man/woman out. The ones at the bottom of the social order become scapegoats
This is like a movie where they reveal at the very end that the child was the real witch the whole time
Yes! why is this not a movie!!!
My thoughts exactly!
there was no witch just men making shit up.....duh. witch hunt-wome hunt. Its was all an excues to keep the upperhand and kill women
Maybe the movie was based on or at least inspired by these events.
WOAH, thats brilliant
Legit this reminds me of when one my coworkers accused me of opening a portal from Hell. Thank goodness when this happened, it was 2018 and not 1612 or I would have been hanged or burned based on her words. What was her evidence? I threw a Halloween party and I like witches and Harry Potter. I don’t think anyone at work was able to keep a straight face when she said that. We all laughed about it but she didn’t find it funny. Trust me honey, if I could open a portal, I would be sending people through that
@@midwestnet2704 lol. My portal opening skills gone wrong, oops. My bad!
I’n really sorry to be laughing, but this is one of the funniest comments I’ve ever read 🤣
You did open a door ..the spirit realm exists babe. Sorry you don't understand how it works.. it's not a literal portal you can see but it is called an open door because it's a form of permission that's given by you when you celebrate Halloween.. which has a dark history for a reason... celebrating darkness of any kind does open a door/give permission for spiritual traffic in your home.. So does witchcraft. And yes movies like Harry Potter .. have some real spells written in them which could potentially have subtle effects on the viewers or invite certain energies into the home
I always half expect that someone somewhere pays these people to confuse others but ofcourse they're the confused ones that need help and I'm looking for reason that isn't there.
Try harder I'm ready to get out of this place LOL
The narration was great, and really liked the touch of the animation, it added a quality to expressing the story without being a distraction.
I disliked the animation.
@@philipinchina Well there's plenty of other documentaries you can see that don't have it.
@@philipinchina Same. I thought the 'head cutting off' one esp was distracting and had nothing to do with the story.
It was ridiculous lmao
I loved the animation. It felt like it brought the story to life more. As if we stepped back in time to see it, instead of being told about it in the present day etc. Idk? That's just me though.
The magistrate kept the child under his care so he could coach her into speaking the expectations of the trial, it isn’t that difficult to work that out.
If Jennet’s finals days weren’t in the jail, she could have married her way out and changed her name.
Thank you, these comments are full of sociopaths who apparently love talking about how so many children are just pure evil. Not even a thought about a rational explanation, just eager to hate on children.
@montananerd8244 damn didn't see any comments about evil children.
Children can do evil things for sure but that's because they don't have wisdom to understand complex consequences or the future.
It isn't evil. Just dangerously ignorant.
If you give a child FULL leeway and trust. And then give them power. I PROMISE YOU shit is going to get crazy.
I feel the whole family was framed because the king was cracking down on sorcery and so really bad cruel people felt this family needed to be framed because they were impoverished.
I tried telling my teacher that I'd met 2 dogs that turned into witches and they'd stolen my homework -wouldnt believe me! outrageous
😂😂😂good try
Anyone else get the feeling that the peddler was already having the stroke when Janet came across him? He might not have ignored her request for pins at all 😮
Fun fact here in my home state of South Carolina we have a town named Pendleton named after a man from Virginia that fought in the Revolutionary war. His last name originates from the same place in England where this happened!
I was born at the foot of Pendle. I only feel the sadness and subjugation of poor women and no magic. This is a great film. Thank you so much.
There wasn't any real magic, but they may have believed so and may have tried to do awful things nevertheless. Not all of these called witches were innoccent
Must have been a cold birth
@@iamnotjack.whydidichange Were you alive in those days in that area to know that for a fact?
@@rainluna9765 one of the girls literally admitted it. They tried to curse people, they had evil in their hearts
@@iamnotjack.whydidichange Which ones specifically?
My little cousin returned to school after holiday & the teacher was asking everyone “what did you do on holiday?”
This little boy screams out “I was molested by a paedophile!” Which obviously & rightfully launched a long & exhausting investigation.
Of course he did not know what a paedophile was, had not been molested, & just said it because he saw it on TV 🤦🏾♀️
Luckily for my aunt, the months of child welfare check-ins, medical exams, school follow-ups, etc got her some much needed behavioral health support for him & mom of the century award from anyone involved.
What has that got to do with anything
@@Dogdayafternoon4325The commentor is making the point that sometimes children make up stories.
@@Dogdayafternoon4325Keep up..🙄
I hope he has a father.
A much higher quality documentary than most, Professor Ronald Hutton taking part is a seal of approval. Marvelous and chilling. The point made that people believed that there was such a thing as magic and it could be used for a negative purpose is very important, it's vital to understand the times and why people died for supposed witchcraft, they actually believed they had some sort of power.
Professor Ronald Hutton adds a touch of intellect to this he’s a very knowledgeable man
Imagine being a nine year old “testifying” against your on kin. That must’ve been traumatic for anyone, even if they seemed that they were emotionally put together. 😮💨
To think she had to endure it alone years later as an adult! Talk about karma.
Democrats would have been proud
@@joeybaby2505 why doesn’t everything need to be about politics??
Happened in Nazi Times too... Gestapo sends regards.
@@joeybaby2505 Do you have to make this about today's politics?
Human sacrifice by the state against so called undesirables. Usually the poor and the powerless. Widows and orphans.
No usually political dissidents lol
@@A_Black_Sheep94 You mean Catholics?
the animation of the little girl is wonderfully creepy!
The Witch trials are proof of what happens when you conform to society, and let them dictate what you think, feel and believe
Ok, edgelord
Aka Christian Nationalism which is whats being proposed by some in America 🤮
@@ShirleyTimple *truthlord
@@joeybaby2505 you do realize you and your anti feminist friends are the same virgins that would've been burning these ladies at the stake, right?
@Sherry have you forgotten Salem???
Me ex husband accused me of “putting a love spell on him” and “cursing him” 🙄. Still to this day I laugh about it, because what in the actual audacity???
I can imagine that I wouldn’t laughing if we were living back then 😮.
I'd ask him why I'd choose him when better men exist 🤷♀️
@@1two994 I told him using a love spell on him is the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig… 🤣
@@1two994why? We know barely anything about her ex-husband
@@1two994 thats why ur going to be lonely for life
@user-rn1ds9lp7e and why ppl like u settle and are miserable
I’m pretty sure if I was alive back then they’d accuse me of being a witch because I have seizures 😂
Me too, i have cats
Or being possessed
Thankfully with seizures, you could've pointed at someone you don't like and say they hexed you, hence the fits.
Why did they draw her like that? She was poor, not a 300 year old demonic entity...
Lol. She looks menacing.
Fr isn’t she 9? Why does she look like a 90 year old
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣don't matter
Look at medieval/Renaissance drawings of kids. They're creepy like this
Ok feminist
I think it gives a very different view of Jennet to be told she *asked* for her mother to be removed from the court room. The opening words of this doco included " *after* her mother was removed.."
Witch trials have evolved overtime to other forms of baseless accusations that we still witness today. Human nature hasn't changed much
The nature of humans don't change, only the context
WMDs
Yeah, at great personal risk had I been there I would have pretty much called everyone out as idiots
Yeah, women falsely accusing men.
The editing in this video is just amazing. Whoever (I'm sure I'll see it in the credits) did that animation is very talented. I love how it was mixed into the rest of the footage. It really brings you into the story. It's just really well done.
Great programme,from Lancashire myself,read all about this as a kid,very chilling when you realise how real this all was.
The witches are still out there, they just run everything now. Including Parliament and the City of London.
What amazes me the most was Britain's progressive outlook with the Kings essentially condemning witchcraft in 1634! I knew America was ass-backwards nowadays, but holy crap, how did this ideology not cross over into the new world before the Salem Witchcraft Trials?! Insane. Great mini-documentary
Simon Armitage and the drawings just add a touch of class to an already great documentary. Best documentary I've watched.
The victims, fully believing in the reality of witchcraft, could certainly have a very strong emotional reaction to being cursed.
That strong reaction, raised levels of adrenaline and cortisol, a blood pressure spike...could lead to a stroke or heart attack. With a younger, healthier person, the dread and worry could lead to sickness in one or more ways...
From our perspective, ridiculous.
From their's?....simple reality. -weezi-💖🙏💜🙏🤠😉
Rip to all these woman who where killed for being witches ..
2/3 were men.
"The distrubing witch trial"? As compared to all the other undisturbing witch trials?
All of these witch trials were very disturbing.
What a fantastic programme. Really well done and Simon Armitage's presentation is superb throughout.
Child ratting out Family, WORST OF HER OWN MOTHER… What a shame. The little girl knew too much and I don’t think she was able to tell or decipher the truth regarding the accounts of her “ so called witness of sorcery”
Interesting that "Good Omens" named it's witch character Agnes Nutter.
It's not interesting, it's historical and funny. That what all Pratchett books are like.
This is my go to channel even before regular TV , Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime.
That's not true.
but they take these videos from normal tv and just reupload them here lol
This was incredibly well put together. Bravo!
The hanging from the swing set is possibly number one low key unintended hilarious joke!
This is no hilarious joke. Nothing funny about any of this.
@@audreyricci6383 I mean its a little funny that they turned an execution zone into a goddamn childrens park 😂😂😂 wtf were they thinking when they built that
I find it hard to judge the people who believed this stuff because you need to look at it outside our own cultural perspective. We like to talk about how illogical and backwards these people were, but logic is the ability to operate in accordance with known information. But what was the known information for the peasant class in the early 1600s, many of whom had no access to books outside the Bible? They knew what the church and local government told them. They knew a "cunning woman" had gotten angry and cursed a man who then collapsed.
They wouldn't have known about blood clots in the brain causing strokes.
This happened in the USA as well, in Salem, Massachusetts. There is a town where only witches supposedly live. They do some sort of event during October for Halloween.
After COVID I would say you can have open access directly to studies and still say shit like it's just a flu, or it doesn't exist or noone died.
Evil is evil & that’s just endemic in our culture
Loved this presentation and valuable information . Many thanks and much appreciated 😍🙏
People tend to forget there were witch trials in Connecticut in the early 1660’s as well. My ancestor was one of them they hanged.
Not before Britain there wasn’t..🤨
No they weren't.
There was also a swedish witch-kid, who could tell who was a witch, earning him food and respect. He would ooint out anyone crossing him. His reign of preteen terror would be ended when he went to far up the social ladder with his accusations, and was executed.
I thought Greta was a girl.
Yeah, the Gävle boy
He sucked.@@elsakristina2689
The guy/expert that first appears at around and after 7:00, is one of my personal favorites.
Of all the "experts" men these programs regularly wheel out, I just really love listening to him, his knowledge seems to know no bounds.
If life was a movie, I could 100 percent believe that he has the ability to travel back and forth through time, it's the reason why he keeps his hair that way...so he will always just fit in to medieval England. I mean. Come on...just look at the guy, listen to his incredible knowledge.
Ha ha, and of course the moment I decided to share my thoughts, to make this comment, it just so happens to be a video discussing witchcraft, curses, and evil spooky stuff.
I'm now going to have to find out what his name is, I just can't remember it and the program doesn't include people's names - well his name at the least. 😊🐿.
The main take away from this rambling comment is this -
The guy at 7:00 is a time traveller.
he is a legend from the ruth/peter/alex videos, he is definitely my kind of weird.
Right he even SOUNDS like from long ago. He needs a powdered whig! 🤣🤣🤣
Alas his name isn’t mentioned but, yes, I’ve seen him in quite a few things
He’s my favourite too!
If someone is a time traveler and they don't purge all "royalty" and "nobility" from history they're bad person.
Thank you very much all for this very interesting history lesson!
These forms of societal and governmental pressures are utilized even today. - You'd think that after reflecting upon and knowing this history, we would do better. Few ever have the courage to stand up and say that what is happening is persecution and unjust.
✨🙌✨ so true
Fascinating stuff, will read on for more soon!
I can't help thinking Janet was as much a victim as her family. Seeing the effects of her words, she was told to recite! Children don't know anything!!!!!!!!
Nah, she identified people when the judge tried to trick her. She was a smart cookie. People underestimate highly intelligent children and their resentments.
Excellent commentary thank you for being so informative really great commentary i am hooked on this history thank you for bringing this to light . Sheila Kelly oxford
Excellent video, thank you! 🎉
27:15 ‘tell us about it Jennet’ - Rocky Horror.
No self respecting pilgrim witch would have named her familiar ‘Paul’.
The narrator of this documentary was awesome.
Simon Armitage is a legend! Got me into poetry as a kid...I grew up to write music and hes to blame for a lot of it! 😊
As someone who lives near Pendle, it’s actually crazy how many of these surnames are still around
Imagine dying in a prison cell because a 7 year old said you're a witch 🙄
do you have a link to whoever did the animation? really like their style and would like to see more
Paranoia, fear, and turning on people means more after 2020 than it did before.
After thinking about it (and watching this show quite a bit as this is my favorite history channel I can afford), it was possible the old man was already having a stroke when he came across Alison, and when she cursed him, it was an unfortunate coincidence that he collapsed. Another sign of an oncoming stroke or ailment is seeming to wave off or mutter something. He could have been trying to tell her something was wrong and his motions were misunderstood by Alison, and she curse him at the moment he had the stroke.
I can see where Joseph Delaney got his inspiration for his Last apprentice series. Didn’t know it was based off of real areas. Really great documentary.
I loved those books
This is my favourite telling of this story. The animation really brings it to life.
This video is informative. These people are truly fortunate.
This was brilliantly presented and produced. :)
Israel does not have the right to exist
@@TexboyGamer It has EVERY right to exist. It has been there since the BC period and the most colonized people on Earth. Arab Muslims didn't arrive there until the 600's AD. If you're going to claim Jewish people don't have a right to exist where they have literally since before recorded history, then you MUST also hold that NO modern Arab nation outside the Arabian peninsula has a right to exist. I DOUBT you'd go that far, and would call such a claim bigotry.
It's very telling that ONLY the Jewish people don't have a right to exist in their own land. VERY bigoted of you to assert that.
@@NeverlandSystemKaleb Israel exists on stolen land since 1948. Before that it didn’t exist as a self-governing geographic location. Your soul will be held accountable for your support of the genocide of Palestinians and your denial of the Messiah
@@TexboyGamer It existed for centuries until it was invaded and Jews have ALWAYS LIVED THERE. Always. Saying they alone don't have a right to live where they always have is bigotry. Literally EVERY ONE ELSE that claims it has come from SOMEWHERE ELSE.
@@TexboyGamer Side note, you made a stupid assumption. I'm Messianic... sooo spout that bigotry, too, somewhere else as well.
There are millions of self proclaimed witches today
Really?
🤣🤣🤣
men and women indeed
Yeah today they are called feminists 🤣
Yup...Witchcraft is still alive and strong today 💜 it is a recognised "religion" even in the military. The path of the Witch is one that is deeply connected to the earth and gives reverence to the Goddess (the feminine, which has been suppressed, oppressed and dominated by patriarchy) whilst also recognising ones inner power, ones sovereignty...ones Magick ;)
@Joey Baby,, 😂😂😂so funny
That was a great episode!! I had never heard of that girl but wow she made an impact on the world 😟
Super documentary Thanks!
Wonderful narration .
This was so, so well done. The animation was a perfect touch to make the past come to life. I appreciate learning about this history. I had not heard of it before. Being an American, I've heard of the Salem witch trials all my life, but to learn that they harkened back to this terrible happening and the accepted testimony of a child made what happened at Salem (the acceptance of the young witnesses there) make sense. Thank you and I've just subscribed to your channel.
Excellent ,, thank you
I've seen this a few times. And after reading lots of comments about how unbelievable it is that children can be believed about such things. Being a father of 4, I can tell you one of my girls once said to her teacher we locked her in a cupboard when naughty, after watching a Harry Potter film. And they believed her, called the police and everything without even asking or questioning us about it. We were mortified!
Excellent documentary- watch it a year ago and again a year later .
So damn well done 😎👍
Most excellent!!!
The animation is incredible
Thank you, very interesting
holy shit I got 20 minutes in before I read that THAT'S SIMON ARMITAGE. The bane of my GCSE years 15 years ago.
Nice to finally put a face to a name.
Not all kids are pure or innocent. Sometimes they will say somethings that will freak you out or ruin someone's life in a flash.
Wow good work
The illustrations are quite beautiful.
Or someone said "if you memorize this and read it in court, you can apologize and go home'
Wait even if acquitted or found innocent, people had to PAY to get out of prison?! My god…
They also had something called debtor's prison which you had to stay there until your debt was paid. But how can you pay your debts if you can't leave the prison to get a job and your relatives are broke, too?
A Very Good Video 👍🏻
Fascinating documentary!
as a fan of the seventh son books it was nice to know that this has an actual history
We've come a long way and still have a long way to go. Unfortunately here in Zambia witchcraft is strictly a thing. And I believe it's the same for most African countries.
A direct result of the lack of education and access to information from other parts of the world. I hope to see that change in my lifetime.
Do you think that witchcraft is a form of manifesting? I mean, you're putting out a vibration, just with a bit more song and dance, metaphorically speaking. The universe is all vibration.
same in south america, and it is very much beleved however there are men and women who do it and to point a finger and say only women do is threatful as we can see by this history it costed many womens lives
@@jonnylumberjack6223 exactly. A direct result of access to education and medicine. Very sad.
@@annmarienuccio2349exactly, I believe in it
Love this episode
The fact that they produced a whole play while the “witches” were awaiting trial has to be one of the most unhinged things I’ve ever heard
Love these dark creepy series❤️❤️❤️
Nice
yea if only it shed light on the true moon==nsters of the time, some men. so how did Alice write all this, or could it not even be true??? someone just wrote it down
@@Tatycharmz You gonna be alright?
@@Tatycharmz Yes all of this was only too true.
45:16 "...And as a result, the judges were very soundly rebuked."
Oh, well, as long as the judges were "Very Soundly Rebuked" for sending nine innocent women to the gallows to hang, in effect murdering them...Well, that makes everything alright. I mean, they weren't merely "rebuked", they were "Very Soundly Rebuked". That makes all the difference.
My thinking is that maybe there wouldn't have been quite so many obscene miscarriages of justice if perhaps, when it was later determined that innocent people had been hung for witchcraft, the lying witness and judges who sentenced the condemned were the next ones to find themselves trying to breath past a tightening noose around their necks. That sounds fair to me.
Couldn't agree more
I've read an article that says that when they translated thou shall not suffer a witch to live that which may have been translated wrong. And that witch might mean poisoners instead. And people that poison other people certainly do exist and it's a terrible way to kill somebody. They never know who did it. That could make a soul Wonder forever. But that was just one theory.
In several books researching the original text, I've seen it be stated as Thou shall not suffer a liar to live. 🤷♀️
In the original Aramaic the quote was "you will not permit a well poisoner to live" which in a desert certainly makes plenty of sense. James had it changed with the King James translation for obvious reasons
Jennet and Alice are the inspo for Neil Gaiman's Agnes Nutter and Anathema Device in Good Omens!
And Terry Prachet contributed what to Good Omens?
Love this channel but please tell us what year they were created. Thank you.
this one has a copyright date of MMXI (2011)
yes and who made up the story, probably a man as i dont imagine alice herself wrote this nor do we have proof making this all pretty pointless
It is nearly impossible, if not in fact impossible, to convince that it is their own belief in negative words that does them harm. Their *belief* in words and not the words.
My mum was born 1912, 300yrs after this trial, not that long ago in the big scheme of things considering ppl today are living to nearly 100yo.
Yea it’s only 4-5 people ago
The artwork this doc uses to depict this family of oppressed people including the children is absurd. Completely disrespectful to all the people who were demonized in history for the sake of corrupt agendas.
My ex husband's family accused me of causing their dad's heart episode because my Dad bought me a tarot kit for Christmas
I went there to leave a flower to Alice Nutter. We are all witches.
Blessed be 💜
Great programme, really conjures up the reality of the witches curse.....
Mark Corrigan tells you all about witch trials it's awesome \m/
Years before mobile phones were a thing we were driving north just before dusk along the A59 past Pendle. And there was a witch on a broomstick. Flying north as well.
By the time I got my camera out and switched on she had transformed herself into a pilot of a motorised hang glider. 😉
I want to renovate and restore that house.
One of my personal favorites ❤