A Brief History of Horror - Witches

[@Angelwitch99]

I love fictional witches of all kinds but my favourite witches are the real ones, my pagan brothers and sisters who know the joy of the old ways and that magick is real and ever present

[@ravennas.2736]

Absolutely agree with you angelbaby99

[@AliciaNyblade]

Blessed be!

[@simplyspeculation8259]

Blessed be to my pagan family. ♥️

[@TessConnellan]

I appreciate this so much

[@slytheringingerwitch]

Witches are not evil. Blessed be sisters and brothers!

[@animeskrillex7537]

Blessed be 💜

[@nadiasilver5762]

well met

[@opalcoastal-ld5kd]

PrettyGingerWitch Blessed Be and Merry Meet 🖤

[@grimm5354]

blessed be !!

[@AliciaNyblade]

Blessed be!

[@Phoenix13Rose]

1. The old testament reads." thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live." When King James rewrote the Bible, he inserted witch because he despised them. 2. Maleficent is not nor has she ever been a witch. She's a dark fairy 3. Wicker man is about an insane human sacrifice cult; not bearing any resemblance to witchcraft or true Druidry 4. I am a practicing Witch and Pagan. I am thankful you did not even mention Gerald Gardner instead inserting a picture of the true architect behind Wicca...Doreen Valiente! I enjoyed your video very much After The Witches and Ever After, I couldn't imagine Anjelica Houston depicting a protagonist. But I loved her as Morticia! I would've liked to see Emma Swan, The Charmed Ones

[@DrinkYourNailPolish]

Have you ever seen mists of avalon? She played Vivien. You might like the book series written by Marino Z. Bradley

[@natashasemrau3670]

Didn't Doreen Virtue turn Christian? The scandal rocked the community and was heard around the world. But her Tarot decks are still being used.

[@mmestari]

@Emily Marie "Wicker man is about an insane human sacrifice cult; not bearing any resemblance to witchcraft or true Druidry" Real druids sacrificed humans and even practiced cannibalism, your "religion" doesn't bear any resemblance to European paganism, wiccans are just larping a religion.

[@nirvanamemoria4536]

Emily marie umm technically maleficent is a witch BC marrywheather referred to her as a wikied witch in the movie

[@skyden24195]

Oh, the fact that the shield generator/Ewok planet of "Endor" is named for some witch history.... ….yeah.... mind blown.

[@amypotts7838]

It’s Glinda not Gelda

[@JewelRiders]

Yes, and fun fact. She's the Witch of the South. But the 1939 film combined the unnamed witch and Glinda to make the one character :)

[@ernestturnage3653]

Hocus Pocus with the Sanderson sisters would be my favorite rendition of the not so terrifying and completely entertaining Witch. Thanks for another fun video.

[@AnimeAngel88]

Witches are women, and men, who learn how to harness our own power and use it properly. Blessed be.

[@dianebrady6784]

Not just ones own personal power but the powers of the universe as well.

[@Angelwitch99]

Blessed be

[@phastinemoon]

Witches are magic doctors, wizards are magic researchers, alchemists are magic chemists, artificers are magic engineers, and sorcerers are magic KZbinrs.

[@KalokerinesDiakopes1]

It's a pity that Charmed wasn't mentioned since it introduced witches as beautiful, modern women who face the challenges of work, love and family along with witchcraft!

[@bjam89]

And where do charmed fit in?

[@dianebrady6784]

Modernism....in the which world.

[@ingriddubbel8468]

Its does Charmed...

[@ColumineMiette]

The Japanese magical girl trope was influenced by witches in pop culture. So I'd say those are my favorites. Though there's a special spot in my heart for Sabrina and Hermione. And Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service.

[@SoundBlackRecordings]

Surprised no AHS: Coven. Also Wizard of Oz wasn't the first color movie.

[@HungryCreatureProductions]

Fascinating video!!! Kiki's Delivery Service is probably my favorite witchy movie!

[@abdulhaque739]

I watched that movie a week ago and it was really good

[@summeroflove394]

I was bawling watching it. It’s so sad.

[@Funfan24]

I found it to be very calming and relaxing.

[@Chrisjavlopez]

What about Charmed & American Horror Story: Coven!? ✨😭🔮🖤 Fantastic video BTW!

[@ravennas.2736]

I would like to have seen a review of both of those series. Charmed started out to be realistic with advice from a practicing witch. It was obvious that some of their early spells were real. Unfortunately it became nothing more than T and A so they lost me. Rose McGowan was the worst. American Horror Story Coven was interesting and disturbing. The portrayal of Marie Laveau was intense, a bit historical, a bit hip hop. She's always been one of my heroes and needs to be shown respect. Maybe there will be another video with more witches.

[@ravennas.2736]

@Sad Trophy Wife it had its moments but a bit overdone.

[@gracereads2917]

Um The Hex Girls anyone? Thorn was an icon for me

[@farah_nm162]

"i'm a hex girl, and i'm gonna put a spell on you!"

[@RetroNekoArt]

i love witches since i was young :) we have a very popular witch here in germany called Bibi Blocksberg. every 90s child in germany grows up on her casset tapes and tv show

[@CreightonChaney-io4xv]

I 🖤 the Witches starring Angelica Huston who later went on to be Morticia.

[@Thatbookishguy69]

Creighton Chaney 1941 same I had a huge crush on Morticia

[@madmike131369]

that reminds me when you mentioned Morticia Grandama Frump from the addams family is a witch as well

[@JewelRiders]

it HORRIFIED me as a child

[@JuanDaMajikOne]

I watched the Netflix series of the chilling new adventures of Sabrina the witch. Which was very good.

[@timothyweiss9340]

Bed knobs and broom sticks....

[@Beccalotte1021]

You missed Lara Parker's character "Angelique Bouchard" from the 1960s cult series Dark Shadows.

[@dominikad.1368]

Santana's Black Magic Woman is a cover tho, it's actually another Fleetwood Mac song

[@DrinkYourNailPolish]

My favorite "witchy" movie is mists of avalon. I collect the book series. I actually used to practice wicca back in college. I'm quite fond of the old pagan wise woman.

[@jenniferhouse1939]

Yess

[@lexfacitregem]

The first colour film (natural colour) is "With our King and Queen Through India", which predates the 'Wizard of Oz' by about 27 years. But 'Wizard' isn't even the first film using the technicolour process. That honour goes to 'Becky Sharp' in 1935. PS: The 'found footage' film was introduced in 1980 with 'Cannibal Holocaust'. Fun fact: That film (in this novel found-footage format) seemed so realistic at that time that the director was charged with multiple counts of murder!

[@josearturogarza5114]

Was Bewitched by Angelique Bouchard on gothic soap opera *Dark Shadows* played by Lara Parker. Then Samantha Stevens and her cousin Serena. And watched cartoon Sabrina the Teen age Witch. Then Stevie Nicks ( The Welsh Witch)

[@jacobmason2986]

"Gilda the good witch of the north" don't you mean glinda??

[@wilhelminameade2795]

The Wizard of Oz, a first and mile stone in Technicolor technology of its time, wasn't actually the first film in color. Two strip Technicolor had been very popular, especially in horror movies, before the Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind. Several full color movies and parts of movies had came out before that year(1939/ annversey milsetone full of classic movies), but were only mildy sucuseessful and didn't define the decade.

[@alexandrablowers6763]

The quote "though shalt not suffer a witch to live" was changed by king James of England because of his immense fear of witches. It originally read "though shalt not suffer a murderer to live" - or so I have read...

[@WitchOfThePage]

I'm so happy you made this! I just finished reading about many of the facts you stated here. I love your videos. Thank you.

[@ronnieluv]

Fascinating video! But you referred to the good witch from The Wizard of Oz as "Gilda". The correct name is Glinda.

[@vpombovp]

My favorite witch is Elphaba from the play Wicked. Thankfully, the film will come out next year with Idena Menzel reprising her Tony Award winning role. Her rendition of the song Defying Gravity would get me ready to face my long commute to work. 🎭

[@rb5078]

No mention of Willow from Buffy???

[@ericsam1761]

you forgot the greatest witch movie ever....Teen Witch

[@christiamark9184]

I used to go around and sing 'top that'.

[@carldavidson2937]

Great compilation of a long history. Very enjoyable to watch.

[@ronn-ammon8975]

Not sure if it was in reaction to having read about the injustices of the witch trials, or if I'd picked up on some of the innate biases, but although I can enjoy a good "evil witch" story, even as a kid, I've always been more predisposed towards tales with positive depictions of witches. Samantha, Sabrina, Wendy, Wanda, Willow, Cassandra, Eastwick, Hermoine, Elvira, W.I.T.C.H. (- am I the only one majorly annoyed that such a great cartoon had an appallingly short run😢, while the annoyingly cutesy W.I.N.K.S. kept popping up forever?🙄). Even though Dark Shadow's Angelique (and shame on you if you don't know who I'm talking about) was generally as a villainess I sometimes found her a sympathetic character (maybe because she was dumped for not being "well-bred" enough to marry into the Collins family?). Aaaanyway; thanx for a great vid, happy solstice, happy Samhain, Happy Hall🎃ween and Blessed Be to the (good) witchy folk.

[@Angelwitch99]

Blessed be

[@lordkelvin666]

To Me, The Warlock (Julian Sands) was awesome. Also, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was great. Dr. Strange, fascinating. The Male Witch (Warlock, Sorcerer, Wizard, Mage, etc) is cool in my opinion. Almost forgot, The Seventh Son.

[@AliciaNyblade]

Great overview! I'd also mention "The Mists of Avalon", both the book and mini-series adaptation. The novel was written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and is a retelling of the Arthurian legends from the perspectives of the women in the tales. Specifically, it casts Morgan Le Fay (or Morgaine, as she's called here) as a priestess of the old religion, those who worship the Mother Goddess on the isle of Avalon. Morgaine is simply fighting to save her native Celtic culture from intolerant Christians and, in childhood, she and her half-brother, Arthur, are very close and love each other well. It's only political turmoil and corruption, with both Morgaine and Arthur being manipulated by others, that creates the later complicated connection and rivalry between them those who are familiar with the Arthurian stories will recognize. It's a great take on the tales, one of my favorites, and I highly recommend it. Blessed be. )O(

[@Angelwitch99]

Blessed be sister

[@godzilla6235]

Lindsay, you did a wonderful job of pulling together all of that history and material. Nice spin on the power of woman. Please keep up the good work.

[@Urspo]

Love these! You make Halloween magical.

[@JewelRiders]

AMEN!

[@millenlaflore]

Thank you Lindsey! For that marvelous introduction.

[@funwithauntsharon2846]

Thank you! You got Charmed!😢

[@autumnhomer9786]

Missed your uploads. Thank you and hope you are well. Xx

[@drewwilliams9332]

Great content to welcome Fall and Halloween. Thanks

[@codeblack9407]

You could of also brought up willow Rosenberg from the tv show Buffy the vampire slayer

[@cinnamonobscura]

OMG I just and stumbled upon this channel! I’m in love with the content!

[@mangot589]

Geez that painting of the poor homeless woman in the little cave really sums it up for the ignorant times, huh?☹️. Very striking.

[@micheledeetlefs6041]

"Suffer not a witch to live," is the King James' 1611 translation. It is not accurate. The Jewish prohibition forbade trafficking in familiar spirits for the purpose of divination.

[@yusuffulat6954]

I love this series already.

[@williamerickson520]

Lindsay: How do you like your witches? Me: Yes. With the possible exception of that last part.

[@mamahunteronthego4284]

I will never forget a creepy lady who came up to me a little after I had my baby during a bit of a struggle and offered to take us out of the country to do God knows what. I mean this lady was random as hell

[@evilprincess3307]

🍁Mama Hunter "my dear you and I have unfinished business.. bring your baby tonight into the woods" 🎃🍁

[@rosea2350]

And now you can add The Love Witch ❤️

[@jonathanshank3169]

Wizard of Oz was not the first ever full feature Hollywood Film in color..

[@josephperez3435]

Some witches worth mentioning, Witchiepoo,the 3 witches from DC comics, Suspiria, Broom Hilda, The Charmed Ones, Witch Hazel from Looney Tunes, Mombi from Return to OZ, Circe and Medea from Greek mythology, Winsome Witch from Hanna Barbera, Evil Lyn and of course Hecate the queen of witches!🎃

[@jennifersusser1612]

I was hoping there was a segment specifically on the Salem witch trials. This is still fantastic.

[@Farrah300]

In 1971, the group, Redbone, recorded and released their single, "Witch Queen Of New Orleans".

[@faizinzainudin8462]

Charmed should be in here.

[@angiekelley9038]

The Wizard of Oz was not the first colored film. That honor go to George Melies' A Voyage to the Moon from 1902.

[@ravennas.2736]

Great video presented with an open minded view of witches. Thanks and I'm going to check out what else you have, especially vampires. 🤘

[@StoryMemories86]

I love your channel! Are you on other social media? I started watching your videos during Halloween while working at the happiest place on earth. I adore your collection of vintage Halloween songs. Then I started listening to your Christmas songs. Then I found your classic media videos including vintage biographies of Hollywood actors and actresses. Then I discovered your other LGBTQ videos, and most recently the pandemic an epidemic documentaries. You have a fantastic knack for research and presentation. Keep up the great work!

[@veronicajones3420]

I loved your video and as a witch myself it was good to see we’re not all evil.

[@brettpugh7898]

Love your video! Any history on vampires?

[@LadyAhro]

Pratchett's witches were the central powerful but very practical witches that influenced me growing up.

[@tickedoffnow]

You did your research :)

[@Farrah300]

The Wicked Witch of The West is deliciously wicked, while not too graphic

[@RedwoodTheElf]

That old testament quote, by the way, is a deliberate mistranslation. The original Was "Thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live" - King James, obsessed with Witches, had the word "Witch" swapped in instead of "Poisoner" in his version of the Bible (Known as the King James Bible) and it carried over to later editions as well. Fun Fact.

[@willgroody5296]

Surprised no mention of Charmed which showed good witches killing demonic beings, or even Chilling adventures of Sabrina which showed that although their powers come from Lucifer and even though she’s his daughter Sabrina question and challenges the most macabre actions and rites even eventually changing her staunch devoted Aunt Zelda into a much more compassionate witch

[@codeblack9407]

You should of mentioned charmed and how it was inspired by the craft movie

[@duetforherbivores]

Love this video but the Wizard of Oz was not the first film shot in color. For example, the adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn was shot in full color and came out a year prior to the Wizard of Oz.

[@zeeschaaf]

I am doing my thesis on witches this is so helpful!

[@schneeqqeule]

It's Glinda. ;)

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

Quinten Tarantino should make a movie where someone goes back in time to stop a witch trial.

[@josearturogarza5114]

Glinda is Witch of the North, does Wicked Witch of the West name Zelena? Or that's name chosen on TV show Once Upon A Time?

[@taylorann9081]

Well, if we're going by the original books as cannon, the only witch that had a name in the books was the witch of the south. Her name was Glinda. Which is confusing because in the movie the witch of the north was Glinda. L. Frank Baum gave names for two of the other witches for a silent film and stage adaptation of his books. Giving the witch of the north the name Locasta and the witch of the west Momba. The witch of the east remains nameless as far as L. Frank Baum is concerned.

[@josearturogarza5114]

@@taylorann9081 Thank you! Very informative!👍

[@JewelRiders]

@@taylorann9081 Momba makes me think of Return to OZ and the screaming heads :(

[@thepresence365]

Cool. I hadn't heard of a couple of the films.

[@1jotun136]

19 were hung, the twentieth was crushed by stones.

[@Moongirl12121]

Aww what about Charmed? I know it isn’t super accurate or anything, but it helped me get interested.

[@anitarichmond8930]

Well done 🎃

[@random_an0n]

BURN EM BURN EM ALL

[@pilgrim1952]

Nice to see you back. Wondered what had happened to you.

[@jturn103]

Interesting to watch. My name is Jace and l am an practicer of the craft. A modern Wiccan... 🌛🌝🌜

[@NotYourMother11]

I know this video is old but just a suggestion: when discussing "slaves" the appropriate nomenclature is enslaved. People were not slaves (a noun), slavery was something that was done to them. Love your vids btw!

[@erinrising2799]

Did you mean Wizard of Oz was the first color movie to portray witches? Cuz it definitely wasn't the first film in color. It came out in 1939, it wasn't even the first color film of it's year

[@Mikayla0610]

Okay interesting video but uh where's Charmed (i mean the good one)? That is legit my favorite show of all time

[@jlovebirch]

Hammer's The Witches (UK title, 1966) is the same move as The Devil's Own (export title).

[@josephperez3435]

I forgot to mention Evilene from The Wiz, Scarlet Witch and Calypso from Marvel Comics, The Witch of Endor, ShadowWeaver, Cassandra Nightingale and Tucker's Witch.🎃

[@benjaminacuna8013]

I liked the OG femme fatale witch Circe and the like from Colchis

[@tabathafeucht3513]

My name is Tabatha and my mom's name is Samantha. My grandma loved Bewitched. I love my name.

[@Farrah300]

Country singer, Bobby Bare actually recorded a song called Marie Leveau.

[@noelrose7419]

Yay! witches are my fav! they have such an interesting cultural impact

[@HansBomers]

Another great video! Thanks. Same comment though as what I said under your Werewolf video. It's a common mistake or you might say a persistent myth, but the witch trials were NOT in the middle ages, but in the Renaissance, the period after the middle ages. The witch trials are associated with the period 1450 to 1750. The witch trials are culturally linked to the reformation (rise of protestantism) and counter-reformation: where Catholicism in a reaction to the reformation, became a much more formalised and 'exclusive' religion, in contrast to the more 'inclusive' umbrella phenomenon it had been before because of it not yet having any major competition from other religions. Under this 'battle' you might say between protestantism and Catholicism, a figurative and literal witch-hunt arose focused on people showing odd behavior and not conforming to religious dogmas. There was also an element of localized bursts of mass hysteria, see the Salem Witch trials in America, but also the witch hunts in for instance Germany and England (see Matthew Hopkins, who ironically fell into his own sword so to speak, in the end).

[@dmnemaine]

May have already been mentioned in the comments, but "The Wizard Of Oz" was nowhere even close to being the first color film. Filmmakers began experimenting with color on film during the silent era. Two-strip technicolor actually precedes the advent of sound films. There were also films made in the newer three-strip technicolor process throughout the 1930s that precede "Oz". "The Adventures Of Robin Hood" with Errol Flynn is an example. Because technicolor was an expensive process, most films during the 1930s and 1940s were made in black and white. As color technology on film began to be less expensive, more and more films were made in color. It wasn't until the mid to late 1960s that movies began to be nearly exclusively in color, with black and white only being used for artistic/aesthetic reasons.

[@queenkarl8716]

Glinda, not Gilda

[@annbellgrau]

What is the song in the background?

[@jasonhelquist7743]

All the above and all the ones you mentioned is how I like my witches I'm at a fact I'm making my own witches in my own retail of The Wizard of Oz don't want to ruin it for you but let's just say you changed your perspective also staying true to the original book

[@Cornus]

My first Witch was Oz but soon after and still scariest is 1981 Clash of the Titans 3 ancient blind Witches. The Eye! Give me the eye!

[@DanaMorelia0]

where is charmed?

[@femke6313]

Charmed... Really... You forgot charmed?! I can't

[@michellebruce5092]

Great history video about Halloween 🎃😀🎃😀

[@lennypearl]

How could you forget to mention Charmed???

[@francistubolino8810]

Great summary

[@RoseThorn1987]

The Wizard of Oz wasn't the first color movie. Not even close.

[@josearturogarza5114]

Now are male witches called witches or warlocks?

[@corvis1981]

we are male witches. warlock means oath breaker. it's bad.

[@josearturogarza5114]

@@corvis1981 Ah! Thank you.

[@corvis1981]

anytime brother.

[@olly2027]

Something that doesn’t involve royals?

[@musicorumformosus4274]

Adore all the great info and genre but its driving me crazy to remember who the backgroumd music is by and the name. Thank you! If anyone knows I truly appreciate it.😎