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[@WadeKing-dm2hw]

It was heartbreaking reading the women in my family trees confessions. They had to be absolutely petrified

[@leannehoskins6087]

My 9 times great grandfather was George Jacobs, he was the oldest to be killed in the witch trials, he was hung! so messed up! and so sad 😢

[@markharvey573]

Hey cousin! I'm descended from him too!

[@leannehoskins6087]

@@markharvey573 cool!where are you located? I live in Lewiston, Idaho.😁

[@skrimpy71]

Just think about the children/young people who did this and knew they were faking or even the adults. Accusing someone that you didn't like or felt wronged you. True psychopaths, causing people to be killed.

[@Awaken12578]

Kids aren’t diagnosed as one until the teen years. Also yes, but the brain isn’t fully developed until the 20s.

[@Awaken12578]

Not saying they should be off the hook because they knew that lying was wrong, but don’t expect them to fully understand the consequences to their actions.

[@enzosucher799]

Clearly you didn't listen, they had no other choice BUT to accuse someone else, it was the only way for them to show they repented and would save their life, it would take all the heat off of them because they're not the ones who committed the crime but the one who fell victim to it. So technically those kids were not at all psychopaths, purposely trying to kill people they didn't like. They would only target social outcasts that everyone already hated so it would be an easy target and they couldn't defend themselves. Blame the government that let that happen. I mean think about it we'd still have these kind of trials today if it weren't for the poor kids, One of them literally accused the Governor's wife and that's the reason this caught so much attention and they stopped all phony trials all of a sudden. So really the kids were just a product of their environment, like most kids.

[@kevin6293]

It’s entirely possible that they truly believed that the people they accused were real witches, which justifies any lies that were told about them. It’s perfectly moral to lie in order to get a witch out of the community. Obviously. They’re a damned witch. A wife of Satan.

[@steevo211]

​@@enzosucher799 Yes. A systematic effort on the part of the Father/Pastor of this vile highrachy to also use his children and have half the town's women imprisoned then killed to force people into submission and conversion, if not.. Oh well, what was yours, is now mine. I would hate to imagine the disgusting sexual abuses that occurred during this time that were obviously hidden and unfortunately to this very day. Christianity One Of The Greatest Evils The World Has Ever Known, Yet Due To The Same Highrachies We Are Forced To Endure Even Now., Such Dangerous Ideology Should Be Illegal. So Sad For Us All.

[@donaldmacfarlane7325]

What intrigued me was that a vestige of the original East of England accent has survived in rural New England in some of the words such as the long vowel and silent 'r' in words like 'hard' and 'part'. At first I thought they were Australian, but I assume it is a survival.

[@martingillette7613]

Nice documentary. I've been researching this for awhile ever since I found out I am a descendent of both Rebecca Nurse and Mary Esty.

[@leannehoskins6087]

My 9 times great grandfather is George Jacobs, now I'm watching everything about the witch trials.

[@martingillette7613]

@@leannehoskins6087 Cool, you can find the actual transcripts from the trials on line.

[@wavelolmu9985]

thank you for this great documentary film!

[@yubba828]

How u got a documentary and don't have captions on and I'm tryna take notes on this ship and the words dissappear after I write 3 words can't wait till I get outta school

[@aik3nn]

Do you have the answers to the notes ? My insta is @aik3nn if you could send them to me

[@ubestproceedwitcaution6812]

cant you pause the vid?

[@cjacja21]

Very interested in this subject, this a great introductory documentary. I want to learn EVERYTHING about the Salem Witch Trials

[@R-Lee-]

Great show but what the hell is on that lady's glasses? That's the biggest mystery of all of this.

[@BrandiOnTheMic]

Right?! Had me mystified the entire time!

[@danpatch4751]

LMAO

[@feefiefofum]

i watched this for a school thing and now it’s saying “why do you think the lady had those glasses on” idk what to do man

[@WhereNerdyisCool]

So glad someone else asked this! I was having some serious ADHD wondering WTF she had on her eyes

[@CountessKitten]

Yessssss

[@bradylang8419]

Those glasses are heavy duty

[@CodingAbroad]

No doubt about it

[@feefiefofum]

me checking the comments hoping to find out why that lady had such big glasses like: 👁👄👁

[@williamj.blazkowicz4719]

This is an excellent documentary that helped me understand the reasons behind this horrible story. Thank you.

[@JanvisHG]

eat your cereal general

[@fightingteamers6074]

William J. Blazkowicz i don’t mind ppl dying I get upset if it’s animals that all but I still mean animals so like :/

[@theunfunniestmanalive9213]

you seem annoying

[@haydenhannah2080]

Anyone else gotta watch this for school 😂😂

[@tragame7725]

Yeah you know the answers 💀

[@haydenhannah2080]

@@tragame7725 shit I wish bro I didn’t even do the assignment

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​@@haydenhannah2080​​​​i think that Abigail and her cousin (the two first kids) where actually sick with something but the rest of the kids and teens just faked the possession/affliction/spasms/problem to get attention or to avoid punishment for misbehavior or to get out of doing chores or schooling.

[@BEIMFS]

Doing it rn lmfao

[@melonheadr9821]

It just shows how much people were controlled by what they got told from lies even earlier in life.People are so stupid.even to this day we believe what we are told because others tell us.When we now were being lied to us.

[@TorrentCompanyBlues]

Mass hysteria is really interesting. It can trick the mind into doing all sorts of weird things and believing other weird things, and it's often a subconscious factor that spreads quickly, which was probably why those Salem girls started acting like that - as seen in many cases, even in the present day.

[@Justanotherandy63]

Add religious zealotry to the mix and fear of being accused and you have the recipe for complete insanity of events.

[@sandrapalmer430]

"Me too"

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​@@Justanotherandy63​​​​i think that Abigail and her cousin (the two first kids) where actually sick with something but the rest of the kids and teens just faked the possession/affliction/spasms/problem to get attention or to avoid punishment for misbehavior or to get out of doing chores or schooling.

[@colinlavery625]

Mass female hysteria. As an ex teacher, I have actually witnessed this spread rapidly through a large group of young girls.

[@s.rose.t]

if you like this sort of thing, i recommend the theatre play 'The Crucible'

[@mrbubetube]

great, just what we need! yet another Salem Witch Trial music video! VERY ENTERTAINING!

[@pamelamelin5306]

The content was spectacular, wish it would be brought up to date. One item of feedback... the sound was terrible!!! I found myself extremely frustrated with the commentators because I could not hear their contributions, I used this doc. for research.

[@ssherrierable]

You could be thankful that someone put this together for us for free but the typical selfish snob you are complains about it. Let’s see you make a better documentary for us.

[@jillburnham617]

My 10th great grandmother was Rebecca Nurse. It seems pretty clear after all the research I have done that this was based in a property dispute, at least in the case of my ancestor. "In the 1680s, members of the extended Towne family sued Captain John Putnam (of the second generation) and sons, after they witnessed the Putnams felling timber on Topsfield land belonging to a Towne family member. Historian Marilynne Roach describes the encounter in Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials. 'The Putnam clan and their workmen faced off rival Topsfield men in distant woodlots, threatening each other with their axes in a decidedly un-Christian manner.' The General Court once again ruled in Topsfield’s favor. After England’s revocation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter in 1684, legal disputes were left in limbo, allowing them to fester. A new charter did not arrive in New England until May of 1692, but the witchcraft hysteria had already been underway for two and a half months by that time. Thus, the number of accused and jailed was escalating, among them, the three living daughters of William and Joanna Towne - Rebecca Nurse, Mary Easty, and Sarah Cloyce - and Topsfield’s Sarah Wildes and Elizabeth How. All were accused of witchcraft by, among others, third generation Putnam family members Thomas Putnam Jr., his wife Ann Putnam, and their daughter, 12-year-old Ann Putnam Jr." salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/border-disputes/. Eventually, Ann "recants" saying the devil made her do it.

[@dennisconrad6124]

Thank You for that. Watching this was very troubling. I guess because even today, I can see how the very same thing could happen. Not involving witchcraft, but along party lines. Which is what drove me to do a search on the Salem Witch hunt in the first place and hence finding this video. Some how, just saying you’re sorry, doesn’t seem like enough. But, if a person had any sense if decency left in them, knowing what you had done would haunt you the rest of your life. Obviously I’m talking about the accusers.

[@IamAlonaLee]

Rye Mold, a staple food, is a psychedelic …

[@acreagefuneral3357]

They would have got me I'm a lone wolf and very quiet

[@flaviomartinez9397]

😆 haHa 😂 my best friend’s mamma is to

[@Booksurfs]

Damn this video looks so much older than 2015. Haha

[@buggub]

I think it’s like 2004 they just reuploaded it here again

[@azelheidrruth1661]

"Typical witch" *takes notes*

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​​​​i think that Abigail and her cousin (the two first kids) where actually sick with something but the rest of the kids and teens just faked the possession/affliction/spasms/problem to get attention or to avoid punishment for misbehavior or to get out of doing chores or schooling.

[@airsoftmostepicgameplaysan8719]

not that ladies glasses cracking me up fr

[@nancyhillard6456]

So tragic 😥

[@nathanwilliams6359]

I love how it said witchcraft was believed to be the cause like they didn’t know what caused the hysteria lol.

[@HeadFunny]

witches are not that scary when you hear what really happened in Salem kzbin.info/www/bejne/bae3nnWVeLp5jK8

[@RissaFirecat]

The hysteria was caused by the little girls. No one else

[@theorca5173]

You get the feeling that putting that passage in the bible about not letting witches live was a mistake? Look at all the trouble it caused.

[@eggszavieyah]

it would be helpful to cite the specific Bible verse ... I don't remember reading that.

[@eggszavieyah]

Okay, the film mentions the Bible verse ... but as it appears it was hardly the main cause for the hysteria, as even back then in Salem, the only exercise people got was JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS.

[@CodingAbroad]

Those glasses though!

[@danielburks]

I am writing a book about this very topic but I am going all the way back to the B.C. years and talking about this will be a 14 page book

[@jesusisking1-v6v]

14 page book ? That is an essay .

[@alexwillis7093]

The 49 dislikes must be witches 😐

[@RissaFirecat]

Grow a pair.

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​​@@RissaFirecat😂😂😂. Grow a 🍐? . Thats cringe. The other person was trying to be funny and you are being cringy and a party pooper.

[@andrewwindsor2287]

Omg the lady at the end explaining the little girls pov of the experience 🤯🤯🤯 makes you think

[@cameliaales67]

mob mentality is crazy

[@HeadFunny]

witches are not that scary when you hear what really happened in Salem kzbin.info/www/bejne/bae3nnWVeLp5jK8

[@niyahdoe3718]

@@HeadFunny I’m gonna watch it now thanks

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​​​@@niyahdoe3718​​​​i think that Abigail and her cousin (the two first kids) where actually sick with something but the rest of the kids and teens just faked the possession/affliction/spasms/problem to get attention or to avoid punishment for misbehavior or to get out of doing chores or schooling❤.

[@Moonewitch]

Heartbreaking. 💔💔💔

[@littlesmith5005]

Yes it is..

[@JohnWest-zq5gs]

They sure weren't god fearing God does not condone murder it's kind of like today in these small towns where everybody knows everybody and they spread rumors lies gossip is all they do

[@doriscarroll4093]

I wonder if all those that were hanged was actually buried in their graves.Or if all those that were hanged is still buried where they were hanged in a pit full of people that were hanged. Someone ought to find that out. Because if they're not buried in their graves,they deserve a proper burial.

[@RissaFirecat]

That they do! I hope that they were buried properly.

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​@@RissaFirecat​​​​i think that Abigail and her cousin (the two first kids) where actually sick with something but the rest of the kids and teens just faked the possession/affliction/spasms/problem to get attention or to avoid punishment for misbehavior or to get out of doing chores or schooling.

[@Terachud]

See must see the future with those glasses.

[@DIAMONDGIRL57]

Homeopathic medicine was considered witchcraft. Sad!!

[@heathergibbs2904]

Ergot from molded rye from wet marshlands. And baked into bread 🥪 to make them mentally ill

[@ta746]

These girl better get an oscar for their acting! Lol

[@heikkijhautanen4576]

Madness!!! :(

[@ericpanissidi6761]

ignorance and fear. but when that happens the accuser blame people they don't like. low down cowardly revenge.

[@seanlav8040]

Came from Europe

[@Patrick19833]

This was the closest to real life Purge.

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​​@@seanlav8040​​​​i think that Abigail and her cousin (the two first kids) where actually sick with something but the rest of the kids and teens just faked the possession/affliction/spasms/problem to get attention or to avoid punishment for misbehavior or to get out of doing chores or schooling

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​​@@Patrick19833​​​​i think that Abigail and her cousin (the two first kids) where actually sick with something but the rest of the kids and teens just faked the possession/affliction/spasms/problem to get attention or to avoid punishment for misbehavior or to get out of doing chores or schooling

[@LifeInPink999]

So young girls, reverend daughters have some strange episodes of hysteria just at the perfect timing to everyone to see. In my opinion those were just stupid little girls who were brainwashed to the next level or were just being kids and playing. Some kids play doctors, princesses etc but what you expect from a kid who is being indoctrinated inside a sect and is forced to hear about the sin, demons and witches? I totally see those playing witches one day, got caught, things escalated quickly and they did what kids normally do (and more under pressure). Blame another. In their mind they have a predeterminate aspect of a "witch" so obviously they give names of the less fortunate ones. But the whole thing was so stupid, lets pretend that we are a brainwashed sect puritans. If I had to give a name of a woman who made a pact with the devil why on earth I will think about some old, poor lady? Shouldn't this person be someone enjoying from the benefits of a pact? Like a suddenly successful once poor and unfortunate person. Just trying to apply logic in a completely illogical situation... Or here another one. Which for me is the winner. Their dad make them do it. A revered successful on a witch hunt, the savior of the village, protector of the puritans and their puritan faith that was slowly being forgotten. Sounds good right? Create some chaos in benefit of the religion and of course his own.

[@jsv438]

This may help clarify some of the real comlpexities of the situation for you.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpO5eGOhp7GYi6s

[@eggszavieyah]

It's too bad... if only we could have you go back in time and live out some time in that situation in Salem, ideally as one of the accused ... then come back to write something for us that makes more sense, with the slightest bit of historical insight, understanding, and maybe even some sensitivity and empathy.

[@SarahWildes-do9qw]

It seems you are applying today's thinking to 1692. Try to place yourself in 1692 applying their beliefs to their situations and their conditions. Remember that witchcraft was very real to them...

[@RissaFirecat]

@@eggszavieyahor, you could go back and document it. Being a woman was not a good gender to be back in Salem.

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​@@RissaFirecat​​​​i think that Abigail and her cousin (the two first kids) where actually sick with something but the rest of the kids and teens just faked the possession/affliction/spasms/problem to get attention or to avoid punishment for misbehavior or to get out of doing chores or schooling.

[@ivxn1341]

Bruh I had to search this video up cuz I fell asleep when my class watched it n now I gotta listen to consuela from family guy talk for 30 min :/ pay attention in class kids 😪

[@grummanovo8034]

I watched this in my social studies class! 😂

[@feefiefofum]

same all i have to question for this so what’s up with her glasses

[@Patrick19833]

It's like accusing and executing people for being Elves, Leprechauns, Vampires, Werewolves, Fairies, Santa Clause, and Jack Frost. Witches are as real as those things

[@jawanauselton9197]

Witches are real but they don't work quite like this

[@Patrick19833]

@@jawanauselton9197 People who claim to be witches are just playing make believe. It's all role playing.

[@RissaFirecat]

@@jawanauselton9197truth!

[@annmariehawkins7635]

This is horrible poor people cause they are different just shows what mass hysteria is

[@zewolfe9696]

Let's start the witch hunt for spiderman and elsa!! Iron and Fire!!!!

[@eriksanchez1678]

Why do both of the historians look like witches tho? Lmao

[@anisaborusiregar3163]

Salem..about witch..is there full movie???? What the title is..i mean ..full movie.

[@aik3nn]

Anyone have the answers ?

[@ssherrierable]

What the hell is up with that ladies glasses?

[@khadijah.510]

Oof so lemme get this right, it’s just ppl tryna stop evil when it comes to the countless defenseless victims but then when it happens to the governors daughter then it’s outta hand and he can veto the accusation yikes. But good documentary tho :)

[@yutasgf.]

where the hell are the subtitles bro smh

[@priscillacook6742]

Very sad and true....

[@DrKrusbar]

no

[@aprilwhitaker9806]

What? You saying?

[@Granola_Girl_Cheer]

lol just think, just imagine this Priest: Are you a witch? Have you made a pact with the devil? Accused Witch: Nah bruh I ain't no witch, I'm your bro Satan. ^^^^ I honestly want to see this happen in like a tv series

[@kevin6293]

What?

[@RissaFirecat]

Lmao! Me too!

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​​@@kevin6293they said they should be a tv series about the salem witch trials, and there is a series inspired by it called Salem.

[@sumanghosh-pb3dw]

4:20 - 1600s here it was 1 who made pact w/devil. (New England historian, authr) 10:06 - afflictd kids said they saw specters of accusd. 19:58 - according 2 what I heard in high school when my class learned about it everyone was executed. But according 2 a documentary if u confessed u were spared. If u didn't u were executd.

[@lindakinsman6215]

Those kids should have been published,. They got away with murder literally

[@tylercook116]

Published or perished. ; D

[@calyyygrazie8]

@@tylercook116 punished

[@CountessKitten]

What is up with the lady commentators eyebrows? She looks strangely like she could be reincarnated from the With Trials themselves

[@kelseynichole4659]

I watched this in reading and English class this week.

[@kelseynichole4659]

Funny because I didn't watch it in Social Studies. This deals more with Social Studies.

[@Kishla-f4o]

In this video I see someone family members or decents

[@kelseynichole4659]

R.I.P

[@LimaVisionMedia]

Bruh wtf is the cinematography

[@kelseynichole4659]

idk

[@aprilwhitaker9806]

Who you,Yubba?

[@brittanylewis2391]

Goddamn i hated this assignment

[@salutationstj3593]

Me rn Also nice pfp o7

[@thehum1000]

The english way is always the best way

[@Askingforafriend77]

being antisocial I would have been accused. they would have thought I was a weirdo. which I guess I kinda am

[@Rdr2igidk]

who liked this

[@kristinahill4369]

I’ve been to Salem many times and no the history,I’m so completely disappointed that Giles Corey wasn’t mentioned with the way that the man died,shame on you so called historians,so much that y’all didn’t mention.

[@Drayafenandez]

Yes they did....

[@RissaFirecat]

Miles Corey was a man of his convictions, being that he never confessed, even to his dying breath.

[@joesmith-m9l]

Old Salem Village. Danvers now.

[@bethelight7113]

I have epilepsy does that make me a 🧙🤣🧙

[@ruthalber4658]

I'm glad it wasn't boring that timeline or any of the other timelines that's a no thank you and is in a little too late no no kids you can't say this is what happened to this person when all the time these kids act music having a condition on Rebecca nurse and you're going to stay because this guy is higher up the double standard

[@3liashorvath]

XD watched this in school

[@beanlover2228]

on god why is this such a long video

[@prithvi2836]

.

[@aurora4407]

So rude. She's just an old woman. What is wrong with u?

[@prithvi2836]

@@aurora4407 I’m doing this for school it ain’t fun

[@prithvi2836]

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[@nataliapanfichi9933]

​@@aurora4407​​​​i think that Abigail and her cousin (the two first kids) where actually sick with something but the rest of the kids and teens just faked the possession/affliction/spasms/problem to get attention or to avoid punishment for misbehavior or to get out of doing chores or schooling.😂 funny right? Priest pointing out random weird lady: is this woman a witch? Little girl who is normally calm , suddenly starts screaming like a hysterical person , crying , throwing herself on the floor in a tantrum be like: " yeah ay, she is a witch and she just cast a spell on me" , see how she hurts me!!!!".😂

[@millieburgess6305]

that so sad cause they got accuse listen to them girls that is so sad why they died

[@WhereNerdyisCool]

Imagine if social media was around back then. All witch talk would be censored! :D

[@dollymendezmendez4073]

I would definetly have been killed at that age I can not help to be strange

[@BethMariex]

Pact with the devil. :) lol. I blame the church. When I was growing up all you heard was the devil this and the devil that, everyone blaming someone else. Needless to say I'm glad I didn't live back then.

[@ArtVandalay-ly2si]

They were just old world Karen's 😂😂😂

[@leslieann-elizabethholmes746]

😤🔥🐾

[@chriscelaya6538]

Katherine Howe is kinda hot!

[@christinetarrant4690]

lol. ya. right.

[@digitallymelon]

OOGUESTEST

[@AkChiVibes]

Almost like mass hysteria.

[@JanvisHG]

eat your cereal

[@ronnicholson153]

Most witches were hanged...not burnt. Get your facts right.

[@HeadFunny]

witches are not that scary when you hear what really happened in Salem kzbin.info/www/bejne/bae3nnWVeLp5jK8

[@celticbabs3105]

2:56 ummmm... that's what they said - did you watch the film? Witches were burned in Europe and the Salem colony decided on hanging instead. Ever hear of fast checking yourself first?

[@Patrick19833]

You obviously did not pay close attention to the video...

[@SarahWildes-do9qw]

Richard Trask was quoting George Jacobs who clearly stated to the magistrates "Well burn me or hang me, I stand in the truth of Christ." Believe me, Richard knows that people convicted of witchcraft were not burned in the colonies.

[@christinetarrant4690]

don't. care

[@kelseynichole4659]

Me. neither.

[@patrickcaley2122]

Don't watch then

[@christinetarrant4690]

lol. zzzz

[@kelseynichole4659]

I think it is kind of boring too. All I like are the animation pieces.