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- In this drama-documentary series, Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb goes in search of the origins of the deadly craze of witch hunts and trials that infected the British Isles 400 years ago. Through original documents and powerful drama, Suzannah uncovers the fears that drove the persecutors to such lengths and what it was like for the innocent victims tortured and executed for crimes they didn't commit.
James I’s son, Charles, pretty much ended the hunting and execution of witches. But then the Civil War engulfed England, and Charles lost control.
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Despite the grim reality this was, those actors are incredible!
nah witch trials need to make a comeback
I'm very happy that he was found out and made accountable for his heinous actions weather by coincidence or not.
Whether...
Hopkins died from a sickness, so he wasn't "held accountable". And he's fascinating
Did he even believe he was doing “God’s work” or did he just like the cash?
Rip to all of the victims. They all deserved better and I hope they have all found peace now.
He wasn’t doing gods work at all.
If he did he was real surprised when he got to hell
He just liked the cash and justified it with "gods work"
@@Newjerseyblows Like Joel Osteen?>
Those women missed out on an opportunity. 'In what guise did the devil come to you?'. 'In yours, sir. A face he wore as he said i would see him again, garbed in false righteousness'
Grifters gonna grift. £2 in 1646 is about equal to $500 (US) today (2021), so it's shocking to calculate how rich this little charlatan became over the course of a few months, for preying upon people's fears & superstitions, and turning them into the murder of innocents.
It's actually closer to about $100, not $500 but still a solid point.
Like modern televangelist and prosperity doctrine bs megastar shelter churches.
I'm so sorry for the way these people were treated. My their souls rest in peace. I'm glad beyond glad that all can practice as they see fit today.
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Me, too.
@@maxvilla5558 Practice, as in believe what we want and follow the rituals that suit us.
Even in this day and age, the most amazing atrocity occurs. 😓
@@tamaradrew3356 Even in this day and age, people argue for what these _monsters_ did. Disgusting. I was arguing with one of then a few days ago.
Way to pin all the troubles on the most vulnerable people in the community. I didn't know people ever lived as old as 80 in the 1600s
Yeah, the average life expectancy was weirdly effected by the infant mortality rates.
@@demandedcargo3919 ... and the wars
likely because it didn't happen all that often. Not like it is today where a person who died before they were 40 is almost always suspicious and it's often looked at as potentially foul play until proved otherwise. of course back then, a person in your village died, they were laid to their final rest and life went on often with little to no real interest beyond the family itself
Pretty much has been happening since the beginning unfortunately.
@@angeldougan9334 are you kidding ppl eat garbage food and go to snake oil salesmen for health. it was easier to live a happy healthy life as long as you didnt run into a witch
Cool to see actual paperwork from these awful events
I feel sorry for him. Imagine being around women all day and all they do is witch, witch, witch..................
@@atomicwedgie8176 pull your wedgie out of your butt and grow up.
I really don’t know how people sleep, then or now, knowing they killed a fully innocent person. I don’t believe all - even most - of the accusers or judges believed these women were actually witches. Simply heartless.
We witness modern day witch hunts daily now. We call it Groupthink and Cancel Culture.
Technically making poisons counts as witchcraft, I'm not saying all accused 'witches' are Indeed 'witches', but a few of them probably we're
Its easy to say now but witchcraft/witches where a real fear along many many people so yes i think many did comply and agreed in a way. Maybe you would have been one witness to it too, what would you have done? Try to stop it and be a witch yourself? Or cheer it on as the "dumb" passant you would likely be?
@@steppy3736 you just compared tortures and cruel murders to cancel culture.
@@bbqmeandyoustinkypinkypewp4298 you just compared justice to mob culture
Sad the way these people were treated. I am a Proud Pagan Witch from The Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪😁
1st degree Gardenerian since 1982. Harlem, NYC. We are everywhere. Blessed be!
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@@spencershears6497 Blessed Be
Merry met from rural SW Washington state.
@@brandyjean7015 So More it Be
I find it fascinating that through history, those who wanted to demonstrate that they were "good Christians" repeatedly chose the most grievously misinterpreted verses in the, typically, Old Testament, which Jesus, as we know, sought to correct through his teachings...Judge lest ye be judged....thee without sin cast the first stone.....etc. and this still is the case today. The story of Sodom and Lot has been used to condemn and kill homosexuals and anyone who performs some sexual act that is considered "unnatural" even though rabbis and theologians have stated that the Story of Sodom is not about sex acts or homosexuality but about how visiting angels/strangers were not treated in a hospitable way, which was a pillar of the religions of that time. The strangers, who turn out to be angels, were treated horribly, and those from Sodom were punished for it. Another...the verse in Leviticus, again about "man shall not lie with man as with a woman"...used for thousands of years against homosexuals, has nothing to do with homosexuals (or women would have been included in that verse) but with building a Jewish nation and if men were having sex with other men, there would be a lower birth rate. Rabbis and theologians have stated that it is not an anti-homosexual verse and they believe this because it is tied to another verse that a man's "seed" shall not be spilled anywhere but in a woman. Again, to keep birth rates going up. Anyway, it amazes me and saddens me how scripture is taken and used in any way one wants. In this video, in order to get what they want and if people have to die for it, then so be it. It happens above in this historically correct video as it happened in Salem later in the same century. These actions would, per my beliefs, would do nothing to raise one's esteem in Jesus's eyes. The Bible, both Testaments, have been used for such evil that so often, one forgets that it was (including the Quran) written for peaceful reasons. Sorry for having gone on.
@Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha Sadly, I do have some idea....because it is not so different than how the Bible was used against people centuries ago, and even today, in certain parts of the world. I have seen gay men thrown off rooftops, women stoned or beaten for having a hair out of place, and the list goes on...not in every Muslim country, but in some and it isn't even for spiritual reasons but for political ones that the Quran is taken apart and interpreted as the priests or Imams or whomever wants it to be. I surely didn't mean to offend you.
@@happyexpat3744 Thank you for your comment! How anyone can reply that only part of what you said was true, dumbfounds me. You are wise and I appreciate you sharing that wisdom.
ah, someone who is wise and can think logically.
Part of the reason isn't just misunderstanding text, but how the sermons are taught. They create this emotional bias and need to be right (as being wrong means hell). For centuries they use fear and emotional priming to get those who will not question or do not know how to critically think to play, "soldiers for god". They then start priming their children, you are actively taught not to question the "word of god" that is coming from a Humans mouth or lest you get persecuted. I remember being a preteen and the pastor basically said if you aren't baptised you are going to burn and that innocent stillbirths and newborns who perish, who were not baptised were going to hell for simply existing.
They wave the fear of gods wrath and hellfire above the heads of the people creating sub-servants. If you look at it, a lot of extr3mi5ts and t3rr0r1sts are devoutly religious (it creates the perfect mental and emotional environment for their creation) and only believe the interpretation they have been taught and will never critically and empathetically think. A perfect eg is the 1930-1943 leader of Germany, who was very catholic/Christian (at least in the beginning but he used it to pull people to his side). A person raised in religion is more likely to support religious rhetoric (even if it's fake and dangerous, modern examples see everything having to do with C18H26CIN3O) over logic. Look at how televangelism and mlms are linked and you see the priming in real-time. czcams.com/video/7btz0ocXDeg/video.html (to start)
If you look into the history of the crusades you see the psychological priming and manipulation in its infancy with the different popes pushing for war with Islam and Judaism saying it was for the Holy land but in reality, it was for money and power. They promised anyone who fought in the war would get a fast pass to heaven. The first crusade was the worst and most vicious due to the lengths of the brutality done to all who stood in the peasant armies path. Also, the templars, the organisation created by nobles and the church to fight " heretics" ie everyone who wasn't Catholic/Christian, were burnt at the stake because the pope and king of France in 1300 wanted money and the templars began to stand up for the right of the people (regardless of religion, at least that's the account) instead of being subservient to the will of the pope and guess the public reason that was given and the one most ran with for their burning... seriously guess... (Jeopardy music)...
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If you guessed
WITCHCRAFT, you are correct
@@scarlrtt13 You should read, if you haven't already, the "Malleus Maleficarum" (sic) which the Dominicans wrote (I live in Italy and am gay and whenever I see a Dominican, I run the other way) and is a text book on how to identify a witch. Absurd, frightening, tragic. NONE of this was in accordance with the New Testament. "Go and sin no more" was the message. "Witches", normally old women, 99% women, who simply knew herblore and were usually killed for it. I know the Roman Church does many a good thing as they are, outside government, the largest charity in the world..but they need to exorcize the old world suspicions that they keep tied to their dogma. The current pope is trying but given the conservatives he has to deal with, there is so much he can do. Could go on and on, but won't. Peace! Shalom. Salaam! Pace!
@@hsavage2899 Thank you very much. It is kind of you!
The long drop hadn't been invented. These innocent people strangled to death. So horrible.
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I pray all that committed crimes against humanes in that day burn in hell for eternity.
These ppl were so ignorant.
These witch hunters were the real evil ones
This breaks my heart to no end. And what's worse is a lot of women condemned where medicine women who did good. Smh.
Alot of the accused women were just older maid's who practiced medicine that helped a lot of people. But they were targeted for it. Some cases they may have also helped couples abort babies that they knew they couldn't have or afford for whatever reason.
@@Newjerseyblows mhmm yup
Dr Suzannah is the best narrator ever! Not just for her stunning beauty.
The things people will do when they are “righteous”.
"RIGHTUS" RIGHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
The Herbal Healers the Midwives the Animal Whisperers....
All that knowledge was targeted in those times.
That and their land they stole afterwards.
Why did no accused witches ever name these with hunters or the judge of being witches?
Yea, I was thinking the same.
Most likely because those in power would seek retribution upon the accusers family. After all, they could easily spin it as the witch was accusing the judge and witch hunters of being witches themselves because the witch worked for the devil and these men were doing "God's work". In the minds of people in that society, it would be just like the devil to try and have the "true" servants of God denounced and save his own follower, the accused witch.
Isn't that how the salem witch trials ended, because they accused some important politician's wife who had never come anywhere near the town, and the politician was finally like "oh heck no"?
I'm surprised he himself wasn't accused of witchcraft and tortured at some point. Probably would have been had TB not got to him first.
I'm reading a book about him now; "Witchfinders A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy" by Malcolm Gaskill. In the preface, there is a woodcut of Matthew Hopkins which states, " MATTHEW HOPKINS [sic] the famous WITCH-FINDER [sic] of Maningtree in Efsex [sic], whoin [sic] only one year in the reign of James I. [sic] hanged 60 reputed witches & was himfelf [sic] at laft [sic] executed for a Wizard." Gaskill states this woodcut was from the 18th century, the hangings did not occur during James I reign, and there is no evidence he was hanged as a wizard.
@@steppy3736 yeah apparently that was some wishful thinking.
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 sorry I was tired. I meant to add that was wishful thinking when it happened.
This will be ended easily if people simply just not to believe.
God's word should be practiced by our own behavior, not forcing other people to behave.
I love Dr. Lipscomb. She does the most interesting episodes and you can tell she is very into her work. Plus, she is beautiful and has a nice voice.
2 Minutes in and i already think how insane this was, its very sick and sad.
It took you two minutes.
Oh these poor old women... My heart breaks for them 😢💔
I know. It's horrible imagining a poor elderly lady being tortured and dying slowly in front of evil people, ALL watching and cheering. They're the true devil's.
Oh he has responsibility all right but so do all the people who used him as a convenient way to get rid of certain people they didn't want in their community they're just as guilty in my eyes
Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia...
I have a feeling a lot of so-called pious Christians from that particular age and other ages we're really surprised to find themselves at the gates of hell after what they thought was living a pure Life in service to God while having completely missed the point
He was much younger than I expected, only knowing about him from that Vincent Price movie. Glad to see karma prevails!
Love it. Greetings from the West of Ireland 🇮🇪😁
I've recently received info from a DNA source, and am distantly related to a few famous people. Thank God Matthew Hopkins ain't one of them.
If you come from Eastern England you are probably related to him.
“Life was nasty, brutish and short.”
This is a word for word direct quote from Tom Waits song “Come on up to the House” on his album Mule Variations.
I would be totally classified a witch at that time. Fun times.
Watched this because of youtuber Atun-Shei Films! He does a great Witchfinder General!
He does produce great content! One of my favorite channels.
This is sad😢
Thanks for sharing😊
So funny how many counties and towns in New Jersey bear the same names of places in England but were not considered part of New England and they hate us. Lol 😆
Anyone else read the title in Shane and Ryan's voice lmfao
There he is, *_THE WITCHFINDER GENERAL_*
My brain immediately went DA WITCH-FOINDAH GENURUL 👻
Hunting for witches was the 17th century's version of cancel culture.
Nothing changes: we still search for "witches" today. We just no longer call them witches.
Well...I mean we no loner torture/hang them on testimonials alone so....a BIT different imo.
@@demandedcargo3919 you sure about that? They take your job, your home, your money and before they take each one they demand you repent before there god leftism. Is that not torture? IS beating you the street not torture? Beating your family, bullying your children. Nothing has changed liberals are infact the Witchfinders of our time. Difference is the Witches fight back with fury.
I agree completely!
@@drzaius8430 ohmygosh 😂😂🙄
No torture and execution.
Losing a book deal? Not having a film contract renewed? Today's "victims" can complain on Fox News.
1650: Lets hunt witches
1750; Let's hunt slaves
1850: Let's hunt swej
1950: Let's hunt sgaf
2050: Let's hunt police
2150 Let's hunt androids
Shit never ends, humans will always need a scapegoat or to hunt something.
Watch " Witchfinder General"... Hammer horror👍
Pretty much the same as current proliferation of conspiracy theories
You mean like Epstein?
@@D-B-Cooper who?
@@cassieoz1702 you need to find a new rock, that one is too heavy.
@@D-B-Cooper and the conspiracy of systematic racism. It doesn’t exist but supposed “racists” will be today’s witches.
@@jasonpark5906 apparently you have to be white to be a racist, equity not equality.
Thank you, a lot of advertising to watch. But I enjoyed this.
I didn't see any advertising.
Did they have to make Hopkins so hot though? 🤣🤣🤣
ikr, what's with that? :D I mean sure, eye candy, which I have no probs with, but weird choice of character for it!
Jesus he just trolled the poor old victor, with the whole making the old man walk up and down the length of the room ,every few minutes, in a bizarre form of sleep deprivation
This makes me sad
The past was truly the worst
Ugh..I tried but this is disturbing for me :/ I can't watch :(
Whatever people's beliefs, there is no doubt in my mind that those hundred or so innocent de*d people were seething with bloodlust and waiting for him to join them. He's got some very angry company wherever he is, I'm sure. I hope they've made his afterlife miserable.
Short and blunt: He was a witch hunter...no witches caught, he did not get paid. Sooooo just grab some here and there to get his $$....job done...move on to yet another village or town, and continue his "business". Many were put to death for committing no crime at all.
As catholic, this is pretty messed up although I know it was a cultural norm back then but europe with Christianity and even some forms of paganism was pretty messed up
Top bloke, did a good job👍
I’m so happy I don’t believe in Christ. Shame on anyone that does
Don't blame christ, just the people! But hey I'll respect what you believe in
He died so young. Think of all his potential 😩
It is wrong to punish people that has no crime or just based on accusations regardless of the majority perceptions. However, it is still real that there are real sorcerers and witches in real life.
I love documentaries. I love history. But this is so dark that I'm feeling really bad
This is horror beyond our imagination. But they are still witch torturing, burning and killing in Papua New Guinea e.g.
How did they get Adam Driver?!
Irony, death by tuberculosis. He suffered more then the people he tortured.
Still would’ve been nice to have had the opportunity do to him what he did to those he accused of witchcraft. I can’t honestly say he suffered more than those he tortured….
Unlikely he suffered more. He was quite wealthy and would have access to the "soporific sponge" for pain management and surgeries. A sea sponge soaked in opium, mandrake, henbane, and hemlock.
good thing hopkins got rid of all those witches so we don’t have to deal with them today.
No, we just have to deal with idiots...Lots and lots of stupid people. Obviously 🙄
Hopkins will burn in hell for eternity for his part in the witch trials.
Ignorance reigned supreme!
2 Dislikes, one from the Witchfinder General & one from??,
King James VI & I, obviously!
In his short life, and even shorter career as Witch Finder General, he murdered over 100 innocent people. I do chuckle when I imagine him, waking on the other side, somewhere much warmer than he thought he would travel to... What's this Hell?!? But I was doing the Lord's work. Oh I don't think so my young Puritanical Companion, replied Lucifer. Can't imagine the Devil was too thrilled about continually being romantically linked with a passel of raggedy older ladies & the odd cranky minister. Not well done at all Matt. ps: I don't believe all of your greedy, cruel, tortuous actions compensated for what ever failing disappointed your dead Puritan Minister father either. 9
for matthew hopkins i guess multiple rejection from woman does change a man
"He read his own funeral rites" "He probably didn't trust the ungodly people around him." *is hanged by people with religious fervor*
Very interesting
Ty
The answer for almost every atrocity in the last two thousand years is Christianity
No.
People's interpretation of Scripture. Hundreds of years in the making and we still can't agree on it.
This is persecutory paganism with the veneer of Christianity.
How many people were literate back then to actually read the Bible?
You could say that about all religions.....
No. The answer for almost every atrocity in the last two thousand years is the same as today - greed and drunk on power.
@@BeerAndWarcraftoh I will but Christianity comes out number one in horrors visited on this world in the name of god
@@steppy3736 yep and let's think about who were those with the greed and power besides king's it was the church FFS the Catholic church is still doing it
Check out the NWOBHM doom band Witchfinder General.
The moral majority having a free for all?
anyone else notice that the old man in the courtroom in this trial was also in the courtroom in the trial of the Pendle witches? He calls Allison Device "devil's whore" in that trial, which happened several years earlier during the reign of James the 1st. Meaning that this guy shouldn't even be alive by the time Matthew Hopkins started his witch hunts. I bet he's either a vampire or he's a witch too but somehow managed to not get accused
You do realise its not actual video from the time, since cameras were not invented yet. They’re actors 🤦♂️
He Was Gay!!!
Way to many commercial! You destroy this wonderful channel! 😣😣
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Is he Joseph crackstone
“Hundreds of people” you mean women
Men too weren’t u watching?
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@@Zero-ev3xk The majority of people accused, tortured, and murdered were women. You didn't get Whimsinator's sarcasm. :)
@@m.f.hopkins8728 he gave examples of men who suffered in this video too. As to the ratio of women’s suffering to men’s - I really don’t know. To say only women suffered is like saying only men suffered fighting world war 2
@@Zero-ev3xk Like I said earlier, it went over your head.
The way I see it is they're all guilty the people who wanted the poor people that hang point of hiring this pathetic excuse for a man that lightly woman stripper naked woman's cut her hair strip her naked get this lady and then methods on to an old clergyman being the guy that did to him and then have him walk him up and down the room they're just as guilty if not more
18 min publicity in a 44 min video it's absurd! CZcams wtf I can put it with the 3 even 5 min ads but this...
Let’s not forget a Catholics king James that wrote your Bible did this to ppl
James I of England was a protestant, Church of England, which is not Catholic. (Ever hear of the Church of England?)
James was a convert to Protestantism & married a Protestant, & the Witchfinder & his people were Puritans - One really does have to realize almost anything can be used to justify atrocities against our fellow humans, especially when the objective is to rid ourselves of people we find troublesome, particularly disagreeable & burdens on our resources.
@@TraditionalAnglican but for religion? What happened to turn the other check
You'd think god would've let him live longer for cleansing the earth of so many she- (and one he) devils.
On the basis of nothing more than gossip... hashtag MeToo
Simps killing every Woman that told him no
Almost last.
I like your username. What's the full username, though? I can't see it all.
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FvckCZcams'sCensorshipAndTheirAdBuyers UseAdblock, Time to upgrade your 640x480 monitor lol.
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 I'm using a mobile phone, lol.
Define innocent we’re all guilty to God
Karma's a b____.
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My god I've never seen so many ads in 1 video. You'll not get another minute of my time.
Literally, _nobody_ cares.
Then get premium
You can say that about people with a disability people for African American off cultures B basically racism and stupidity I never really considered women to be more than second-class citizens anyway so aquacraft on top of that my right Mom
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