Giles Corey was a badass. When they were piling stones on him and asked for a confession, he would only say, “more weight”.

@Knightshospitaller

Жыл бұрын

@****PUTIN' bruh

@TinTin-qg4tz

Жыл бұрын

My man died so his kids could actually own his land since he never gave a confession.

@patrickreilly7658

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah lol did you read the crucible?

@noahpartic7586

Жыл бұрын

I remember that. Brutal yet kickass.

@sharqueesha6957

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickreilly7658 reading it in class rn this video is clutch

Fun fact: Some of the girls ended up getting accused of Witchcraft themselves when they got older.

@Foxik58

Жыл бұрын

Well well well how the turn tabled...

@awagwa

Жыл бұрын

how the turn have tabled

@ebubechiibegbula5968

Жыл бұрын

But what did they expect in a world full of dumb people with zero objectivity.....

@randomrhino7500

Жыл бұрын

@@ebubechiibegbula5968 things didn’t change that much we’re just simply 20% more smarter temperature the 16th century

@pirategamer3243

Жыл бұрын

@@randomrhino7500 15th

When you express your opinions on Twitter:

@user-hd8cf8bu5y

Жыл бұрын

*here the clip you all was born to see:* *kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKyDzqmbYNGZiZs.html

@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356

Жыл бұрын

When you're conservative on Twitter

@noahtylerpritchett2682

Жыл бұрын

True

@mrglasselijahprice4512

Жыл бұрын

@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 Now that's even more worse

@apilolomi4354

Жыл бұрын

​@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 *When you express an opinion contrary to the opinion of most other people in a comment section. Its not just one ideology.

Being accused of being a wizard sounds badass at first

@tomlxyz

Жыл бұрын

You're a wizard, Ronald

@natureman1740

Жыл бұрын

You’re a wizard, Fox

@ShelbyFarrow

Жыл бұрын

I thought the male version of a witch is a warlock?

@JangianTV

Жыл бұрын

Never talking, just keeps walking. Spreading his magic.

@jonnyblade3234

Жыл бұрын

In modern terms/fantasy, yes

I’m reading The Crucible in my English class and it really explains the Salem Witch Trials well. It bewildered me that the characters in the book were actual real people

@anthonydisalvo492

Жыл бұрын

I love the crucible unit!!! It’s a great unit and I’ve had debates later on because most of my junior class was also in English 3.

@wisemankugelmemicus1701

Жыл бұрын

The main problem being the Abigail wasn’t the way she’s portrayed in the book and movie

@Arhturmorgan-eb2hc

Жыл бұрын

I hate that damn unit

@lemmysbassdial9821

Жыл бұрын

Same I just got done with that days ago

@CaptainAnimation777

Жыл бұрын

Yes I’m reading Frankenstein rn but next year I’ll be reading the crucible

You forgot to mention Giles Corey being 80 years old and if he had confessed they would of taken his property from his kids.

@edntz

Жыл бұрын

That was the whole purpose of these witch trials. You see someone with money/land, so you accuse them and get to keep a third or so of their belongings.

Fun Fact: many historians, myself included, familiar with the weather conditions of Salem at the time believe that many of the "manifestions" the afflicted girls experienced to be a result of Ergot poisoning. Ergot is a fungus that grows on grains like rye and wheat. The weather during 1691-1692 was extremely wet and the harvest was put into storage in dark damp conditions as well, prime conditions for the fungus to grow. Symptoms of ergotamine poisoning include hallucinations, fevers, tremors, and even gangrene. When baked, the ergotamine would lose some of its strength, and you would be left with the 17th century equivilent of LSD on blotter paper (ergot is the source of the naturally occuring compound of lsd). Combined with the strict religious society that was Salem village and Salem township, and a misunderstanding of hallucination, the religious authorities of the day took the young girls tales of (likely hallucinations) curses and witchcraft at face value in the beginning then opportunists within the village took advantage of that to attempt to settle grudges and resentments and a chance to "better" themselves socially by siezing the landholdings of the accused.

@thelastvalkyrie1998

Жыл бұрын

I recall reading “The Crucible” my junior year of high school and the stoner of the class mentioned this fact as the we were talking about it in a group. My wonderful (yet a little naïve) English teacher was fascinated by the fact he knew this. Everyone but her knew that he sold marijuana after school but he was too cool to snitch on so the entire class burst out laughing instead

@GredelsRage

Жыл бұрын

@@thelastvalkyrie1998 thats pretty cool! I did a very intensive study on Salem in my first year of grad school for a research project. It was very enlightening.

@mikikiki

Жыл бұрын

Or it was just selfish, lying, horny white girls getting people murdered to steal and save face.

@alexandrebeaudry1038

Жыл бұрын

If true that would make a phenomenon of nature the source of an historic butchery. It's the questionable morality of the judges that still withstand. I'm pretty sure there are still mysteries now that makes us judge people. (So many different mental disorder or the virus in cat that make people like zombie)

@dinahnicest6525

Жыл бұрын

There are many historians who don't buy it. first of all, the weather affected everyone's crops equally. Second, many of these fits were selectively timed on demand in the court room during trials. Third, the hallucinatory type of ergotism occurs only with a deficiency of vitamin A. Their fish, meat and vegetable diet was very rich in vitamin A. And fourth, no one reported any of the other symptoms of ergotism: vomiting, burning, abdominal cramps, great thirst, profound weakness, diarrhea, slow, weak pulse, numbness, tingling, dilated pupils, anuria and even generalized gangrene, especially of the extremities.

Seems like the accusers had more occult like practices than the accused...

@vorynrosethorn903

Жыл бұрын

There is quite a lot of evidence that children will give highly fanciful accounts of things if pressed, there was a spate of it back during the 90's with overly suggestive psychologists so it is pretty well researched.

@babyramses5066

Жыл бұрын

@@vorynrosethorn903 This reminds me of the story of the boy who said he died and went to Heaven, met Jesus, angels, departed loved ones, etc. When he came to in the hospital, his suprised and I assume overjoyed family recounted everything the child claimed to have seen and asked him questions in great detail. Eventually, his account became a wildly popular book in religious circles. It even became a movie. Only when the boy got a bit older did he admit that the pressure of the whole situation led him to make up the story and that he felt that he couldn't stop once it got famous. I don't think we should judge him to harshly though. He was just a kid, who experienced something extremely stressful (almost dying) and may have been inadvertently pressed by keen adults to testify that imagined events did in fact happen.

@playedit0ut290

Жыл бұрын

Those who preach the loudest always have skeletons in their closets.

@krisd5745

Жыл бұрын

@@playedit0ut290 not even in the closet anymore.

@harvscholtens5413

Жыл бұрын

Their Puritans enough said

I had a 11th Great-Grand Aunt that was hanged for Witch Craft during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, her name was Mary Towne and she was hanged on September 22nd, 1692 In Gallows Hill at Salem

@williamarens7073

Жыл бұрын

One of my several times great grandmothers was one of the first few hung in the Salem witch trials, her name was Martha Carrier.

@marvellousachafu7827

Жыл бұрын

So sorry about this 😢

@MATT10653

Жыл бұрын

@Can't fix Stupid yes

@dexxed674

Жыл бұрын

Damn how do you trace your ancestry?

@MATT10653

Жыл бұрын

@@dexxed674 I have an all access ancestry account so that’s how I trace mine

Gotta talk about other witch trials and hysteria's in the early Americas beyond Salem! I live in Southern MD, and in the late 1600s a woman named Moll Dyer was accused of this by settlers. Insane story. She's supposedly the basis for the Blair Witch Project movie.

@czarbuscus1475

Жыл бұрын

Same well I'm going back home to southern MD flying from college

@krisd5745

Жыл бұрын

It's still happening in the medical system. They've changed the diagnosis of "hysteria " but women and men also are still persecuted. Just more "civilised " and through medicine.

@sclark9011

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if it's where we get the saying when the schidt hits the fan...." we are in Dyer Straits" ??

It’s interesting that H.P. Lovecraft’s setting for all things weird “Arkham” Massachusetts was based on Salem.

I remember hearing something about the people from the witch trials may have been hallucinating due to some fungus on the ingredients in the bread they ate. Once the fungus went away, the witch trials slowed way down.

@Trynt33

Жыл бұрын

And the weather conditions talked about at the time would've made it ideal for that kind of fungus to grow too, after the weather improved and the fungus went away all of a sudden things got less crazy around there.

@Franktank111

9 ай бұрын

Yes

Gives a whole new meaning of "suffer not the witch to live"

There was a diary from one of the girls that stated they were having a tea party And When the parents wanted to go home that's when they started throwing a fit

@dinahnicest6525

Жыл бұрын

One of them said they did it "for sport".

“After finding himself accused of being a wizard”, I’m sorry, that got me there.

Please do a video on the battle of Delville wood. As a South African it would be truly amazing to see our troops remembered on this channel. Thanks..

It is surprising despite men being accused of witchcraft, Hollywood loves to portray witches mostly as women

@sproutsisters5398

Жыл бұрын

Men aren't as easy to drown

@vorynrosethorn903

Жыл бұрын

Feminism history's portrayed witch hunts as being intended as patriarchal subjugation rather than mass hysteria (notable they ignored that they tended to break out during periods of breakdown of traditional authority during times of chaos, church belief tended to be that magic wasn't real and that even if someone freely confessed to it that was simply proof that they were mad). Such history's have largely been debunked as relates to the witch hunts but still haven't been widely corrected outside of historical circles on their ideas of gender relations and the norms of people in the past (believe it or not Christians were very socially conservative and didn't tend to approve of cheating or find it morally defensible, likewise women tended to be even more devout than men and as such tended to be fervent supporters of the predominating social order and were defensive and proud of their role in society rather than feeling repressed by not being forced down the coal mines, or at least being the one's given the easier work down the coal mines).

@ramenbomberdeluxe4958

Жыл бұрын

@@vorynrosethorn903 Yeah, women being in support of patriarchal systems so fervently tends to come about from propaganda and brainwashing mate. Why do you think feminism picked up rapid steam over the past few centuries? Because the brainwashing by our awful male ancestors was finally being broken by the women of our world. To this day, the patriarchy has its toxic influence and it’s still a long journey yet, but we’ll get there one day, and when we do, the patriarchy will be dead.

@evarisbeck

4 ай бұрын

i mean the official numbers for the salem witch trial deaths were 14 women and 6 men so there were mostly women. also the first witches accused were three women. still is interesting how hollywood doesn't portray many men as witches even though there was quite a significant amount more male witches than shown by modern day media but for the most part women were accused more.

"More weight" - John the -Baptist- Badass.

"She turned me into a newt" A newt? "I got better"

@anotherplanet5828

Жыл бұрын

What else floats?

0:33 ‘they were prominent throughout Medieval Europe during the 16th and 17th century’, that wasn’t Medieval times mate, that was during the Renaissance, a time of ‘enlightenment’. Medieval Witch Trials were very rare and even the Spanish Inquisition had very strict rules, codes and signs to look out for during investigation of potential Witches, meaning they’d have to be pretty damn sure you were a witch to be accused of such.

@RebelWvlf

Жыл бұрын

Malleus Maleficarum was written in 1486 and it was a staple book for Spanish Inquisition and Catholic church in putting down people accused of witchcraft.

@edwardmaginot

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's a common mistake.

@alicelopes4693

Жыл бұрын

@@RebelWvlf Still not the Middle Ages

@federationprime

Жыл бұрын

Plus, the whole witch hunting thing only really happened in Protestant areas, not Catholic ones.

@edwardmaginot

Жыл бұрын

@@federationprime I wanted to say that but I wasn't sure at all.

I find it funny that as I am researching the Salem witch trails this video get uploaded

@DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague

Жыл бұрын

I think nutty history uploaded one about it too.

@user-hd8cf8bu5y

Жыл бұрын

*here the clip you all was born to see:* *kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKyDzqmbYNGZiZs.html

A solemn reminder that we must be skeptical of baseless claims, and ever vigilant for true justice in the face of false accusations.

@sclark9011

Жыл бұрын

An even more solem reminder why we must shun religion and all it's deluded lies and distorted mind control for total power and monetary gain. * Look at Muslim over reach in Indonesia right now * Christian attrocities * Hindu and * Budhist attrocities * Russian Orthodox attrocities etc. etc.

@SaiyanMonkeyScumAndProud

Жыл бұрын

Not only that. Approach things rationally.

Ah a time when your boss and co workers were actually witches and you acused your way to the top of society before being acused yourself and being burned as a witch ❤️

@jvcardoso1997

Жыл бұрын

everyone knows the only way to find out if someone is a witch: to measure her and a duck's weight

@Justin-pe9cl

Жыл бұрын

Now it’s accusations of racism.

@RustyShackleford776

Жыл бұрын

@@Justin-pe9cl fr

@GredelsRage

Жыл бұрын

@@jvcardoso1997 i thought it was building a bridge out of them. Lol

@kevinaguilar7541

Жыл бұрын

@@Justin-pe9cl hmmm... usually when I see those accusations it's well deserved.

Imagine you dislike your neighbor so much but all you need to say is “ I think she’s a witch”

@krisd5745

Жыл бұрын

I'm living this😅 seriously. Dangerous minds are the problem. They are the spell casters.

@laughingcross7843

Жыл бұрын

@Mr. King of course lmao

@sclark9011

Жыл бұрын

yeah "I want more farmland and another house....my neighbour's a witch"

“Things were so much better back then” Back then:

We just started covering this in class, thank you Simple History. Very cool

We have not progressed from this if we think about it.

My English class just started learning about the Salem witch trials by reading the crucible so great timing!

@KoopalingProductionsStudios

Жыл бұрын

Same here. We just finished the crucible in my ELA 5/6 class.

@sclark9011

Жыл бұрын

Awesome... great curriculum required reading. shame their isn't an islamic version. What are your thoughts on religion now??

I waited very long for this video 🇬🇧

Haha.. I'm in the program. My husband joined it, at least he stood up for his wife.

I live in modern day Salem Village (Danvers, MA) the name was changed to drop associations of the trials as Salem village had most of the events happened there. Salem was centered on the port and it’s merchants and business from it. Salem Village was and still is focused on agriculture. Our town is mostly inland with rolling hills and flat farm lands, but we do have small neighborhood in town that is on the ocean and today connect by road to Salem proper. Salem originally was HUGE , Danvers also was large and broke into other parts of towns which are Peabody and Middleton MA today. Danvers is a large town today and since I’ve been a kid has slowly brought in more people who like the small town feel with the big town offerings. We have homes from the 1600’s and 1700’s that are marked with the year built and owner. You can’t get this level of preservation and rich local history, you did my town proud And the locals are very invested in the town and making sure it’s great for the future. and sadly are beginning to lose its small town feel!

wow! very interesting, love how they get deep into the details of what happened

Something I never understood is if they confess why werent they killed, if they didnt confess they were killed. Like in the movie "The Crucible," Hale begged and pleaded for John Proctor to confess because he knew Proctor was innocent and didn't want an innocent man killed.

@landenfisher585

Жыл бұрын

I can understand their thinking. If you confess, it means you want to part your old ways and return to Puritan beliefs. However if you don't confess, it means you are willingly accepting compact with the devil.

@bikeman1x11

Жыл бұрын

if you confess your sin it was Christian duty to forgive- not confessing means you arent contrite

@dinahnicest6525

Жыл бұрын

If you confessed you lost all your property, and that could be a slower death sentence because confessed witches are the least undesirable employees.

Great content, very interesting. The main reason I subscribed

highly recommend the book/play/movie “the crucible” by Arthur Miller, its very accurate to the real events while also telling the amazing story of the people of victims(and assailants) of Salem

@Autumnlight91

Жыл бұрын

It's not exactly accurate no. It's dramatized of the events

Bro the class im in is doing this subject thanks for the upload.

I have 3 great grandaunt ancestors involved with that. One was hanged September of 1692, the others was pardoned and also have 2 grand grandmothers involved, a 10 year old and her mother. both pardoned by newly elected governor while in prison.

I see you simple history boosting that animation budget.

Simon whistler posted a video yesterday on this thats cool timing

we're actually reading "the crucible" in english class so this is a nice surprise love the video

Good keep up the good work

my school JUST started ''teaching'' this. But good video as always!

@aka99

Жыл бұрын

do tehy teach also a bit about the euopean witch hunts?

Getting canceled is now the equivalent of being accused of witchcraft.

@dovydaslevanavicius9050

Жыл бұрын

history repeats itself

@RebelWvlf

Жыл бұрын

@@dovydaslevanavicius9050 history doesn't repeat, it rhymes. Modern cancel culture is concentrated only on Twitter, while these witch trials were so prevalent you are better off not living among other people.

@ToxicTurquoise454

Жыл бұрын

@@RebelWvlf Conservatives do the most cancelling. They are terrified of anything that isn't in their 2000-year old fairy tale book. Jehovas Witnesses are the worst though (I knew someone who was one and they took away almost everything he loved from him until he finally left)

@Justin-pe9cl

Жыл бұрын

@@RebelWvlf “iT RyEmes” 🤓

@Justin-pe9cl

Жыл бұрын

Accurate.

I just learned this in class last week

Every thumbnail gets even better

When your at the gym but Giles Corey is your spotter

Three Sovreigns for Sarah is a good movie about this case. The late Ann Petry wrote a book many years ago about Tituba.

Why would a witch make a cake that identified herself? That doesn't even make sense lol

Last Podcast on the Left said it best on why the Salem Witch Trials happened "Life was hard and everything sucked"

Thats cool we are learning about this in school

@aka99

Жыл бұрын

do you leanr aslo a bit about the european witch hunts?

I remember reading the Crucible when I was in high school.

"If she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood" "and therefore" "A WITCH!!!!"

Okay, I noticed something very dumb here. They believed the devil needed someone's permission in order to imitate said person's appearance? That makes no sense. Isn't the devil supposed to be the most evil being in existence? Why would he ask for someone's permission/consent for something? People back then had some seriously weird logic. I'm asking this as someone who believes in God BTW.

@rwilson1197

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure but I think it’s because they thought you had to sell your soul to the devil for him to have any power over you and fulfill any deal struck with him and so with your soul he appeared as a ghost of the witch

@OceanAce

Жыл бұрын

The logic likely stems from Job's trial. The devil needed permission from God to rid him of his family and possessions. Then the devil again needed permission to inflict him with a skin disease, one that could not take his life.

@florians9949

Жыл бұрын

Hey, that’s religious logic for you. It is the same person that created the trial of water, in wich the accused was tied up and thrown into a large body of water (a river or a lake). If they sunk and drowned they were exonorated while if they floated it was taken as a sign of witchcraft. Either way, the accused died.

@rwilson1197

Жыл бұрын

@@florians9949 didn’t they try to pull them out if they sunk sometimes?

@andyfriederichsen

Жыл бұрын

@@OceanAce God letting the devil do horrible things because 1600s logic.

Good video

humanity proving intelligence is reaching them but humanity is faster

Lynn Massachusetts gang what’s up 💪🏽

I was just in salem recently.

js saved me from a 45 minute documentary on the salem witch trials 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Thumbnail is looking quality af. 👌

In that point of time, it was all complete insanity!

Dear Simple History if you ever read this, please do a video aboiut the Bamberg, Wurzburg, Fulda and Trier witch trials. Please do a video about Heinrich Kramer and his Malleus Maleficarum. Please do a video about the Walpurgsnight.

We r still facing this in Africa unfortunately

People will do terrible things when they're afraid.

“I told the witch doctor I was in love with you, I told the witch doctor I was in love with you.”

@spiritmoon5998

Жыл бұрын

Ooh ee oo ah ah ting tang wallawalla bing bang

@sclark9011

Жыл бұрын

she made my heart go ....broom brooom broooooom

And in proud tradition, new england is still known for its support of witch hunts to this day.

I remember I didn't know who billy Joel was and everyone reacted like this lol.

Do “The Battle of Alcatraz” sorry for asking but it’s a memorial we must remember those innocent officers

When she reject you so u tell the village chief she's a witch 🤣

I believe Salem Village is now called Danvers. I'm a lifelong resident of Massachusetts but I've only been there once in my life.

Well greatly appreciated fellows!! Congratulations. Old Salem still stands as of today since May 2022 when the final witch was exonerated from the old witchcraft trials of 1692!😁😁😁😁🇺🇸

Was the area on the maps shown, Ipswich. Originally settled by people of Ipswich England. My hometown

Very sad...

My favorite Salem Witch Trial story actually came from Bewitched. Samantha is accused of being a witch, she admits it, and shows them what a real witch can do, showing all the others weren't witches, lol.... That would have been interesting to see in real life. Wonder how the historical record would have described it. 😁

convient timing. I just finished reading the crucible in my english class

Sounds like Massachusetts to take over 300 years to clear someone's name in court given how long it takes them to pave roads.

That's my hometown!!!! Born and raised a witch, metaphorically speaking!!

What happened here was completely unforgivable. I don’t know what caused the mass hysteria to break out to begin with, but it seems to be a common trend throughout history (and not just distant history, many recent incidents have proven this as well) that the ones who point the finger are often guilty of what they’re accusing others of doing. For example: The people screaming the loudest about Global Warming are the biggest contributors to environmental and Carbon pollution. The people who preach about how evil and unethical slavery is are the ones who profit off of it. It’s not unreasonable to wonder that if there was really some form of witchcraft being practiced in Salem at the time, it was being done by the same people who were placing the noose around innocent people’s necks

History is repeating itself

I’m surprised you didn’t talk about Abigail Williams I thought she had A bigger role

We are literally reading the crucible in English class right now

It terrible and scary during the Witch Trial

Literally had to do an essay on this like 10 minutes ago 🤣

Bruh, this video is uploaded and recommended to me the day after I finish watching Motherland: Fort Salem

Literally just talked and read about this in school lol

I was not aware that Switzerland had so many witch trails.

Hysteria at it’s finest.

Back then "I don't like my new neighbor imma say she is a witch"

Imagine 25 innocent woman dead just because the children ate the poisonous plant that can make them hallucinating and go crazy wrongfully accuse someone

I’ve been to Salem. As a lover of the paranormal there’s tons of activity. One place I visited was Gallows hill memorial. While I was there and doing just a little investigating I felt as if I was being strangled or choked almost as if I was being hung. Another site which is now a baseball field I felt the ghostly hands of women gripping on to my shoulders and arms with felt like they were clingy for dear life, as if they could cling and I’d be able to save them. Those tortured souls haunt those hollowed grounds and many (at least that I’ve encountered) aren’t evil. You will feel different leaving there

@MrSamulai

Жыл бұрын

Let me guess: the memorial was on top of a hill and you felt like you were being strangled as soon as you reached it?

@kebab8660

Жыл бұрын

big if true

@boipocket2020

Жыл бұрын

ngl but you described one of the symptoms for anxiety unless that was your intention from the get go

@seanp.6872

Жыл бұрын

@@boipocket2020 I know that’s a symptom of anxiety but no. When I say I felt those emotions I meant it. When I felt like I was being hung I meant as if there was an actual noose around my neck, the air was getting thinner, my mouth was increasingly getting dry and I kept getting colder. I know some people don’t believe but I have pictures and videos to prove I interact with said spirits

@seanp.6872

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSamulai it was at the base of the hill. The feeling didn’t start instantly. It took a few minutes to start.

do something on concord MA

Social media before social media

My maternal grandfather's paternal ancestry had one important member: The first guy to put a bond out for a witch's death.

Fun Fact: According to the channel Ask a Mortician. The site of the Salem Witch Trials is now a parking lot of a Walgreens OOOOooooooooOOOOOOOO

Some random woman : */knows basic Math* People in 17th century : 🌊🌊🌊🔱🔥🔱🔥🔱🔥🔱🔥🔱

Every time I think of Salem, I think of the 1990’s movie hocus pocus

My great great great grandmother was hung at the trials.

Got to visit there on a school trip. We think we found the tree where they were actually hung. Cant confirm it though.

Sistahs, sing!

All the crazy things the devil does and he still asks for consent?? 🤣

there's my town Topsfield