Well then, would YOU be considered a witch in the Middle Ages?

@Shoomer1988

3 ай бұрын

If I weighed the same as a duck then yes. If you know, you know.

@JOJ0606

3 ай бұрын

Well I'm left-handed, I yawn often, I like whistling and I own a cat, so might be in danger in the Middle ages

@adamwest8256

3 ай бұрын

Hey Mr Terry, you want to learn a lot about medieval society and culture and customs? Watch Shadiversity! He's an Australian KZread creator that specializes in medieval weapons and warfare. This guy is an amazing swordsman and very learned on medieval culture.

@stephenlaarkamp7344

3 ай бұрын

​@@Shoomer1988 She turned me into a newt!...... I got better....

@munkeefinkelbeen5395

3 ай бұрын

I most certainly would. I have multiple birthmarks, animals follow me, I yawn, and I talk in my sleep 😂. Oh! If you buy packs of jumbo eggs, it's fairly common to find double yolks

It's important to remember that this wasn't just "Christianity". In fact, the Catholic Church banned witch hunts at various points as a pagan practice - because it was. People under Catholic ruled societies re-interpreted their old superstitions and practices with Catholic language, so "evil spirits" were replaced by demons or the devil, but these were old folk practices. That's not to absolve Christians, though. Even though it's not doctrinal within Christianity, most witch hunts were done by people calling themselves "Christian" and evolving the practice using Christian lore. But again, officially it was banned and witch hunts were cracked down on as immoral behavior by the Church. And this wasn't some monolith of behavior over the middle ages, it was more like a weird fad in reaction to local circumstances that kept popping up over centuries - including last century (the last witch trial in the US was just after WW1). What cemented Salem in our memory is that it was one of the later ones when few others were doing anything even similar and there were newspapers to report on it far and wide. Each time witch trials cropped up, it was a local affair with its own unique rules and beliefs, and this compilation is more of a "worst excuses for a witch trial" spanning centuries of separate but related witch trials.

@Nostripe361

2 ай бұрын

Yeah. A lot of witch trials picked up during times of crisis like major wars as they wanted to blame someone or try to do something to fix or stop the problem. There is also the fun story of the guy who wrote the witch hunter book. From stories I heard He was a weird dude who got upset that he got rejected

I suspect not all the people back then sees everything weird and mysterious comes from the Devil but they are too God fearing and is afraid to be seen as evil and lose their place in Heaven, they’ll throw anyone including family under the bus.

@theologyofthebody2870

2 ай бұрын

You should do a video with you’re history knowledge

@goofygrandlouis6296

2 ай бұрын

.. Or maybe it's just a good way to steal the neighbour's farm (and wife)..

@octavianpopescu4776

2 ай бұрын

Yes, I mean, this is like if 500 years from now, archaeologists find a video of Alex Jones and say: "Those 21st century people were dumb AF" Obviously, people being people had all sorts of opinions. I think the best evidence for not everyone falling for the witch stuff are the fact that the Spanish Inquisition was called in villages by people reporting witches and heretics and stuff and the Inquisitors had to actually tell them to calm down. Or the fact that the Salem bubble of insanity was burst by... the witch hunter they called. He was the one who was like: WTF are you people doing? Last, but not least: witch trial craze was around the 16th, 17th and part of the 18th century, as in the Early Modern period, not the Middle Ages. To someone living in the 13th century, witch trials would have seemed equally insane as they seem to us. They did believe in witches, but were mostly ok with them, since they were healers. Even the Catholic Church had bigger issues on its mind (heresy).

@delanovanraalte3646

2 ай бұрын

​@@goofygrandlouis6296😂

@TristanTodd-kk9um

2 ай бұрын

​@@goofygrandlouis6296 There goes the commandments.

My brother sleepwalks, and I can really tell why people thought it's a possession. He usually swears and there was even one night in which he threw me against a wall. He was insanely strong, like, he just grabbed me and threw me as a dummy.

@jcc00045

3 ай бұрын

I'll add something else. We both have experienced sleep parálisis, but a little bit different. He saw a shadow and felt preassure on his chest. I felt cold and I could have swear someone was walking around my bed mumbling something.

@kayodeogundele5293

2 ай бұрын

Yoooo 💀

@tabathacarruthers5122

2 ай бұрын

I sleepwalk. My dad tried to stop me. I fought him and broke his necklace. Didn't remember at all when I woke up.

Well, I think this video has positively confirmed that Mr. Terry is a witch

@firstname7606

2 ай бұрын

Get the pitchforks and torches

pretty sure the Salem Witch trials did not include any burnings. Mostly hangings and one man crushed before they could get him to confess.

@JackieDaytona1776

2 ай бұрын

100% correct - 19 were hanged and Giles Corey was crushed to death. Thank you for an accurate comment on the internet

@sea-envy3137

2 ай бұрын

I remember performing a short story in high school about The Trials and some other brief history thing mentioning the stone crushing so it sticks out to me.

@JackieDaytona1776

2 ай бұрын

@@sea-envy3137 probably something from Art Miller's "The Crucible" - the geek in me is very happy lol

@sea-envy3137

2 ай бұрын

@@JackieDaytona1776 Definitely "The Crucible". Don't be fooled though most of my Internet comments are about smut... The black fungus growing on grains with hallucinogenic properties that is one possible explanation for all the witch trials

What monty python taught me is if you weigh as much as a duck you are a witch

As explained by Milhouse, on the Simpsons, sneezing is your soul trying to escape the body and saying "God bless you " crams it back in.

I remember hearing about a recent study that showed yawning doesn't actually increase the oxygen in your body, but it does lower the temperature of your brain. You're quickly sucking a bunch of cooler air against the roof of your mouth, which is close to the brain, so it cools it down. I have issues with anxiety and I've noticed a pattern that I start yawning a lot when it's acting up. There have been times when I was feeling really physically off like I might need to go to the hospital, but I figured out it was just the anxiety when I caught myself yawning. Maybe it just tends to happen when I'm over-tired, but it seems like there's a pretty clear connection between yawning the brain functioning properly.

I sleep walked a couple of times. The thing is when those commercials for sleep meds tell you not to drink alcohol while taking them, they mean literally no alcohol. I had one beer. I woke up the next day to go to work and found out I killed half a bottle of Jack, took my toaster out to the front porch, and dumped trash out there as well.

Bad as it was, when the Malleus Maleficarum was written, at least it gave a reference on what could be seen as a proof of witchcraft and what wasn't. Also, it regulated in which cases the witch was to be tried by a civilian court of law, and in which cases the church was responsible. (Clerical trials often were more lenient than civilian ones).

@Nostripe361

2 ай бұрын

Well the church was actually very suspicious of when people called someone a witch. While not impossible to get in trouble for it you had a decent chance to get found not guilty or the accessor gets in trouble for wasting resources on a false accusation. You were more in trouble if a group of locals were “investigating” you. As they were far more suspicious of you and/or want to use you for a scapegoat to blame all their troubles on. It’s why witch trials were largely used during times of crisis like the 30 years war

you saying "cats suck" is the most disturbing thing I've heard on this channel.

@Grizcat-

2 ай бұрын

My cat was sitting on my lap when he said it and we both just looked at each other

@chrisvibz4753

27 күн бұрын

@@Grizcat-same! lol

Yeah, I'd be screwed.. Owned a black cat, left handed, and birth mark. If you get a chance Weird History has some really interesting topics.

re: 7:42 - Are farts demonic. Well, I don't know about you, but I've certainly let some gas demons out of my ass. LOL

@richiesmeckgeckscas46

2 ай бұрын

That's letting demons leave your body, though.

Heyyy I have night terrors too! It’s related to sleepwalking, it’s called a parasomnia, I’ve also done it since I was a kid 😅

@toomanykatsu

3 ай бұрын

I have full conversations in my sleep (I have videos my fiance took) and I yell, if you try to wake me up I will try to hit you (which I also have video of 😂). It’s more when I’m stressed out in waking life.

another problem we lefties have, is when you need to sign something and they try to give you a pen. They try to give it to you right hand, you reach for it with the left, they pull it back, then you pull your left back and they try the right again. Have to grab it with the right hand and then switch hands. Do sleep walk and speak in my sleep. wake up with snacks on the side of the bed time to time. The misses caught me throwing the duvet and fold it in two once while screaming "got you". Did then grab the duvet, stood up and walked outside with it naked out in the snow in -25c / -13 F, gave the duvet a good shake around and went back to sleep. What I did dream, was that a spider came down from the roof, so I threw the duvet to catch it.

@Bacopa68

2 ай бұрын

You may already know, but every time the Dems or Reppubs have nominated a left handed candidate, a left hander has won. Been true since Reagan in 1980. Reagan, GHW Bush, Bill Clinton, and Obama were all left handed.

I had an uncle who did some pretty impressive stuff in his sleep. Once woke up with all his bedding missing. Found it a couple days later stuffed into the space between the chimney and wall in his closet. Caught him one night with his mattress and all his bedding hanging halfway out the second story window and him working to shove it the rest of the way. His parents had to move him into what was originally the nursery so he'd have to walk past their bed if he tried to leave the house. If he was sleepwalking, Gram would give him some little task ("get my book from the table, please"). Once he'd done that, she'd tell him he could go back to bed now and he'd just go. It was like the task reset his brain and he just thought that was why he'd gotten up in the first place. He finally grew out of it in his teens.

Heck, I'd be considered a witch. I sometimes talk in my sleep and listen to heavy metal music. All the classic symptoms. I'd want the witch test like my ancestor had. Old uncle Tiberius was thrown in a river and did not float. He drowned but at least he wasn't a witch.

Let's see. I'm left-handed, whistle, I have a birthmark, I whistle, liked to watch a few episodes of Charmed, like the villain Jafar, like Scarlet Witch, listen to rock music, jazz, blues, country, etc. I would be considered a witch then.

I talk pretty constantly in my sleep (so I’m told). And if I go to sleep with a high fever, I have gone sleep-walking from time to time. Usually night terrors. Once I barricaded the door with pillows and watched out the windows for snipers. My college roommates used to get quite a kick out of it.

@5:55 "Dexter" and "sinister" come from the Latin words for "right" and "left." The English language betrays the bias.

I am a lefty, and thanks to you, I now know why I got smudges on my left hand during elementary school.

9:08 Gesundheit is literally translated from German as “health”. Wishing a person good health when they sneezed was traditionally believed to forestall the illness that a sneeze often portends.

15:54 might by Ryan George, he's got great comedy!

I am right-handed however, when I write I curl my hand like I'm left-handed. I don't know why it's just always felt natural to me.

0:40 Fun Fact: Witches were not burned, they were hanged, then the bodies were burned so thy couldn't be re-animated by Satan. Dont you remember Sam O Nella's History Misconceptions and our boy Giles Corey? The legend!

For most of the middle ages these women often brewed ale. Beer was done in the late middle ages.

Speaking of the diets of the time you should check out Tasting History

Thought the bless you was because one of the symptoms of the plague was sneezing so people say that as like may God bless you so that you’ll get to heaven or something along that line

12:34 But don't most historians consider the "dark ages" a very misleading term about middle ages Europe? 13:51 Didn't Shadiversity have a video awhile ago explaining how medieval diets were often a lot better than we tend to think?

Please consider reacting to the rules for rulers by CGP Grey if you haven't already. I'm willing to bet you'll have some things to say about that.

this actually gives me faith that humans are getting smarter and not dumber

@Nostripe361

2 ай бұрын

We still do this. It’s just people calling others something like commie for wanting better pay or fair medical prices instead of witch

I'm right handed and I get the pencil smudge

So, this is a little deceptive in that the medieval church actually declared that witches don’t have supernatural powers. The church endorsed witch hunting didn’t start until the Renaissance.

I heard the church did not allow charging interest on loans in those days. So if you weren't christian and did could be called a witch.

@goofygrandlouis6296

2 ай бұрын

Well some women also charge for stuff, but they are called a *itch.

LEFTIES UNITE!! 😁😁😂😂 I'm also a lefty!! Because I was ambidextrous and a teacher was said to say that I had to write either one or the other… so I write with my left hand… but a bunch of things(like playing my guitar) I still play with my right hand(though I can't use a pick)…

Yawning and "god bless you". Exactly. Also, the idea you have to hold your hand in front of your moth when yawning was born from the idea that this would prevent your soul from slipping out. Similar thoughts. Without a soul you are just a perfect host for demons to take you over. Logic, right?

for the lefties (I'm not): studies actually showed that lefties tend to have slighter higher IQ levels on average than their rightie peers. Researchers think that this might likely be due to the fact that they have to be more adaptive in a world not fitting them, leading to more creativity and increased neuroplasticity. Of course science is not completely sure about that, but since I remebered this I thought I might as well tell you. 😉

Not to mention, you could just accuse anyone of witchcraft just because Ron your neighbor didn't pay that churned butter that you made for his toast. "Oh yeah Ron? okay... I'll be right back"

What side of the Salem Witch Trials was your familly on?

@goofygrandlouis6296

2 ай бұрын

The torturers.

I also have ancestry that probably participated in the witch trials. I have ancestors on my fathers side that came over with those who found Plymouth rock.

Which witch? 🤔 😉 Nah, but too true for too many. 😢 Great expo', dude! 👍

What’s a Medival?

As a redhead, I'd have surely been labeled a witch. Particularly as both my parents have dark hair and olive skin.

I was about to say I actually buy into the lefty thing, we should go back to that.

Mr. Terry's ancestors definitely would've killed him

So the curse of Salem is on you Terry. Hmmm. Lol.

seeing this and comparing it to modern-day era.. nothing really changed.. lol

Y,all can say if I am wrong but didnt people have like festivals were they tortured cats and stuff?

The sleeping but being awake and aware sounds like sleep paralysis. The video also missed the ultimate sign of being a witch. Weighing the same as a duck.

Trying to argue with these superstitious people, it is like trying to get the mosquito on your cheek

Hey mister Terry, love the channel. If you had ancestors who were involved in the Salem trials they would have been hanging people. Victims of the trials were only burned at the stake in Europe.

It's almost like people used religion and superstition to get rid of rivals or people they didn't like because faith doesn't need proof therefore charges against that faith didn't need proof either. It' s very convenient.

Bro got them 🍃 💨 eyes

Mr. Terry would be so screwed in the middle ages. Of course my black cat had to walk into my room when he was talking about black cats.😂 It sounds like my grandparents were eating like the middle ages during The Great Depression. My grandpa would rather die than eat another turnip.

Okay everyone wasn’t stupid in medieval ages. They were actually quite smart.

Damn Im a trapmetal artist and a gothic white man I would be crucified back then lol

I got 60% to 90% on this Test . 17:32

TERRY Is a WiTcH He can read!

Sabrina who?

Lefty Gang!

Beware the Terrys

Me, a wiccan:

Witchcam?

What you're talking about is a Waking Dream.

My uncle and my daughter are left-handed. Obviously witches, you yawned obviously a witch. I like cats so I'm a witch. Obviously a woman once a month are definitely witches, I know from experience they can be evil. I can live with that all 😂

don't diss the felines

SUFFER NOT THE WITCH TO LIVE

I was told witch hunting wasn't really a big thing in the Middle Ages. More like 17th century crap.

@Jimmy_The_Kid

13 күн бұрын

In America yeah, 17th century

No one was burned at Salem, you should know that.

@Wellch

3 ай бұрын

They were hung at Salem.

@angelrivera7546

3 ай бұрын

he does take a joke XD

@peter_pansexual6243

3 ай бұрын

@@Wellch And one was crushed

I sleepwalk all the time. And do the weirdest random things apparently. According to my wife anyhow, because I never remember. Once in high school, my room was in the basement. I woke up freezing cold, i had taken my blankets up two flights of stairs, put them in the bathtub, then went back to my room, opened the windows in the middle of February, and went back to sleep. I was so confused when I actually woke up. Didn't at all remember doing that. Lol. Hope everyone is staying safe and taking care Edit: i got an entire carton off double eggs a few months ago. It was rather strange i will admit

Mr.Terry: so yeah guys I have like half these signs I'm a witch! Me: that's cool where's Hogwarts at? Mr. Terry:cats suck Me: wheres that unsubscribe button at?

High school history teacher... Or Witch?!? 😮

🐈‍⬛ 🐈 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

Gonna be honest. I hate the way this video presented things. Like, before you criticize medieval people for their medical practices, consider how willing you'd be to slice up the dead body of someone you knew or test out strange concoctions on other people. Those were necessary steps to learn anything about actual medicine. And that's before considering how much the scientific method goes against normal human cognition, even today when people are taught science.

Leftys unite!

I believe the earth revolves around the sun and the earth is not 10,000 years old. Gettin' burned at the stake for sure 😁

@Merennulli

3 ай бұрын

Yes, but for your bad sense of humor, not because anyone was ever burned at the stake for believing those things.

@hatleyhoward7193

2 ай бұрын

@@MerennulliGiordano Bruno would like a word.

@Merennulli

2 ай бұрын

@@hatleyhoward7193No, he really wouldn't. Read up on his inquisition. He was burned for his religious views, not his scientific views. Like most of the famous "martyrs of science" from that period in Europe, his scientific views weren't against the Church, they were against the scientific consensus. There were plenty of contemporaries who shared the same views publicly and were even published BY the Church even against consensus (which is the whole reason we know what their views were centuries later). But the examples where they were censured invariably involve other offenses, either religious or political. Anger your publisher in any century and they'll stop publishing your works.

@hatleyhoward7193

2 ай бұрын

@@Merennulli Are you serious? The Church was about power and politics and he was burned for his views. Define his beliefs with whatever term you want but in the simplest of terms, burned for believing science”y” things.

@Merennulli

2 ай бұрын

@@hatleyhoward7193 So polytheism is science now? Go do your homework on him before you post again. It's EXTREMELY clear you haven't actually looked up his inquisition.

we know that there are things that we can't quantify, and anyone with sense understands that whatever we think we know right now through science will quite possibly seem absurdly stupid in 1000 years time so lets just entertain the possibility that these things were correct - do we know how and why birth marks form? we know how the skin and pigment mutates but not 'why' it does so, 'an anomaly in genetic coding', ok but what determines genetic coding? 'DNA'... ok so what is DNA? 'dunno'... we know what parts of the brain are active during sleepwalking but we don't know ANYTHING about dreams, I say this as a psychologist who has researched the topic a great deal, we have NO CLUE what dreams are, why we have them or what if anything they mean, therefore you can't rule out the possibility that sleepwalking/talking is some kind of communion with the devil. It's a logical fallacy that more cats = less mice therefore more cats = less plague too - you could make the argument, but it cannot be tested, what's to say the cats wouldn't have just carried the plague and made it worse or actually apocalyptic? I'm not saying any of the above is true or false, all I'm saying is that as absurd as these things seem to us from the span of about 1930-2024, most of the things that we think now would seem just as absurd to any other human civilisation throughout all of human history. Never forget that you're not as smart as you think you might be.

*Yawns aggressively*