SCENES FROM SALEM: Episode 8 -- Mab in the Dunking Chair

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[@icejwericytop6969]

this is the stuppidest period in our history.

[@mymagicisntgivingup5908]

True Puritans are over religious

[@blackpyxy9583]

Did you forget slavery?

[@hobojoe5697]

In european history*

[@MarcusofMenace]

@@blackpyxy9583 that wasn't stupid, that was just immoral.

[@blackpyxy9583]

Oh well

[@coolbees2596]

It's so sick to think that they actually did this to innocent people

[@Capcoor]

Wyatt-Lily Davenport I'm going to let you in on a little secret. The ducking stool was a no-win situation because if you drowned, you were not a witch and if you survived, you were and you got burned at the stake. "More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason." George Carlin

[@KaylaJohnson1995]

Wyatt-Lily Davenport they did this in Bermuda as well

[@ashleycampbell1053]

Wyatt-Lily Davenport me to

[@RamarRamar-go4mk]

+Kayla Johnson nice video

[@chocotheyellowchocobo723]

Babypinkpinetree they didn't do it to innocent people they did it to witches

[@user-vj4nx4li7z]

So if they aren’t a witch they die.if they ‘are’ they also die. Humans...🤦🏾‍♂️

[@mayab2859]

Apple Don’t blame Christians, christianity is a wonderful religion but at that time they didn’t know the Bible well. The Bible says that you aren’t allowed to kill anyone no matter what. They used god as he was a leader for their wars but god is kind, to everybody no matter what. He loves us all so much.

[@mayab2859]

Apple Because he made humans free... It’s you who chose to do wrong or right

[@mayab2859]

Apple No it’s the human doing.

[@mayab2859]

Apple They can don’t you how we changed nature?

[@mayab2859]

Apple Seriously haven’t you heard of global warming...

[@francescogiovannizollo2989]

Judge: "What makes you think she is a witch?" Villager: "Well, she turned me into a newt!"

[@leifewald5117]

It got better

[@chubbyblackboi]

It did didnt it

[@strang3rth1ngs47]

The fact that this comment was 11 months ago and the rest are like 5 years ago 💀

[@rocker76m88]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂what floats?? Wood, sticks, bread..very small rocks....A Duck!

[@francescogiovannizollo2989]

@@rocker76m88good

[@blackhatboy1548]

she is honorable she kept her sister safe

[@katiebayliss9887]

JackVoodoo there weren't pagan witches, witches, or pagans. They were all puritans and christians.

[@gd-rm5729]

she ended up giving an innocent girl's name

[@spellcheck5393]

@@gd-rm5729 with the level of torture anyone would

[@eadghe]

@@spellcheck5393 Then she is no better than a witch.

[@susu3185]

เป็นเกียรติ

[@litaholic4572]

Dunking Chair certainly was a terrible torture device!

[@jeffreyblau119]

Wow I hate humans more then before

[@Strellok100]

Compared to the other devices, stool and gallows were a blessing

[@stephvandykeozzy]

I’ve heard worse. From what I’ve read, there are far more torture devices they used back in the Middle Ages and the Spanish Inquisition were into it to. Read up on torture methods and devices on Wikipedia. You’ll be surprised.

[@Sam-kr1mu]

Litaholic457 compared to many other torture devices back then drowning would probably be considered one of the most painless punishments there was

[@shuanitasimmons5372]

The Mighty Umbreon right I'll rather take drowning then burning and getting hung

[@whorable]

women: “ i think-“ men: “ SHES A WITCH” edit: this was a joke omg.

[@ichdistanzieremichvomnatio8128]

many men were also accused of witchcraft and killed. in some places even more men than women

[@chickenman5477]

Well your a more than likely a leftist so its about the same damn thing

[@bryanrodriguez9727]

All the accusers were women or girls 6 men and 20 women were killed

[@xpropriation8505]

@@chickenman5477 what an apt name

[@sallymicae2810]

Who else kills women more than women?

[@easybakeovens309]

If she drowns she's innocent, and if she lives she's a witch! This was basically their motto

[@Capcoor]

Yeah. Also, if she lived she got burned at the stake.

[@Kanelix_x]

@@Capcoor No one found guilty of witchcraft in Salem was ever actually burned at the stake. All of them were hung except one man who was crushed to death. The burnings happened in Europe.

[@mnomadvfx]

Yes but if she lives and she has power then they all die which would be entertaining.

[@jessicadias5014]

This was a reflection of the power of the church at the time and also a reason why suicide is considered such a sin in some forms of Christianity. For those of the peasant and working class, the idea was that you worked hard and suffered your entire life and you would be rewarded in Heaven when you died. That's why it was easy to get people to go along with horrendous practices like this because the way of thinking was, "heck, if she dies and she's innocent, she'll just receive her reward in Heaven sooner than the rest of us. Sucks to suck for her loved ones but hey, death happens to all of us at some point."

[@Goobr27]

@@Capcoormost likely*hanged

[@jsb375]

It is so sick to think that they did this to inocent people. They acuse them practicing witchcraft. Most of them are red head woman.

[@Toolness1]

Yeah and they are still doing this kind of shit in parts of the middle east. Stoning women for "adultery" (aka being raped) , or trying to educate themselves in secret.

[@katiebayliss9887]

J S B no

[@marab.6244]

They should not be doing this even if they really were witches. It's their life.

[@apothneisko]

J S B Lunaya C.S. Lewis put it this way, (I am paraphrasing here) while we may find the practice of killing someone who was accused of witchcraft immoral today, if we honestly thought there was someone cursing, harming, and killing people the moral thing would be to get rid of them.

[@gloriaregali9090]

Not only them. Also it was black-haired women with light eyes or dark-haired women with brown/black eyes.

[@laylaeloise4766]

So sad for all the poor women who actually went through this. Even the women who were witches didn’t do anything wrong, they were simply healing their loved ones with herbs :(

[@independentthinker.273]

Basically medicine.

[@Verhen_n]

And those who were drinking human blood? What is your opinion about them?

[@laylaeloise4766]

@@Verhen_n that’s not many of them😭 over 80,000 people were killed for being women, gay or foreign

[@pietervangorp267]

@@laylaeloise4766 they weren't killed for being a woman, or foreign. and it weren't only women. for example, the witch trials in Salem, 200 people were accused. 30 were found guilty and 19 were sentenced to death by hanging. 14 woman and 5 MEN. so it wasn't only women who were accused of being witches. we often think it is only about women when we hear the term witch but it actually refers to both genders. although more women were accused of witchcraft than men. and your number of 80 000 is also wrong. over a period of 300 years from 1450 until 1750 80 000 people were ACCUSED not killed. from those 80 000 accused 35 000 were executed. now these numbers are from Europe not including the united states or other continents. the reason why woman were 78% of accused people during witch trials was because people thought that men and women were equal in the eyes of god but not in the eyes of the devil. it was thought that women were more easily tempted by the devil and were more sinful than men. but being accused doesn't mean death. some women were only temporarily taken over by the devil and once they had repented they then were reintegrated into the community.

[@JaggedMercenary]

This actually never existed, check history books.

[@natacha2418]

So many times we have been told never to forget the holocaust, never to forget the slavery.... Well, add this to that list of horrible events never to be forgotten.

[@Filthy_Larry]

We really need to bring this back actually. This goes for wives who cheat too. We need to burn these people alive.

[@dullypuketon2932]

Who the fuck is forgetting it?

[@shutuphaley8489]

@@dullypuketon2932 I mean, my history teacher refuses to discuss the witch trials because he sees witchcraft and the subjects surrounding it as unimportant/stupid. Maybe not necessarily forgetting it, but it definitely should be discussed more as there are a lot of misconceptions regarding the history of the religion/trials

[@eli-ys9jc]

Thankyou for goodness sake I have been PREACHING This for for so long

[@Filthy_Larry]

@@eli-ys9jc we need to bring these practices back for at least entertainment purposes.

[@kalbeebasaint9330]

All she had to do was name the man questioning her then see how he held up under the water.

[@rachaelnwaoha3543]

It’s one thing to make a torture contraption like that- but to do it publicly and the whole town watching?! Evil people! 🙄🤦🏾‍♀️😡

[@danmakes2497]

I remember reading how religious people "couldn't" be witches because witches "can't recite holy text" so that's one thing, and also they would just say she's lying too.

[@ddthewolf]

I would keep calling out it's a sin to bare false witness against thy neighbor, and if they'd be willing to stand and say they're truly not lying

[@cochin808hawaii3]

The Salem Witch Trials were horrific! They murdered so many innocent life’s! It makes me so mad how ignorant they all are.... 🤬

[@robertromero9488]

You are naive to believe this rubbish. It never happened. No evidence

[@avanii5887]

@@robertromero9488 There is evidence, ever heard about "History"? I know right!!

[@strawberrybee9764]

@@robertromero9488 theres more than enough evidence that this happened, it lasted 400 years! Take your facebook alt right conspiracies somewhere else.

[@misschocoholic2126]

@@robertromero9488 And the earth is flat.

[@sl9wdive]

George Lucas another dumb conspiracy theoriest 🤦‍♂️

[@iwanegerstrom4564]

As a Christian I am ashamed of these acts committed in the name of God. On the positive note I do however enjoy watching Stephen Lang getting some screentime

[@apothneisko]

Iwan Egerström Lunaya C.S. Lewis put it this way, (I am paraphrasing here) while we may find the practice of killing someone who was accused of witchcraft immoral today, if we honestly thought there was someone cursing, harming, and killing people the moral thing would be to get rid of them.

[@brandonbuckley2385]

OptimalOptimus50 They have sought out and murder innocents wiped out religions all because there god is mighty.

[@brandonbuckley2385]

You should feel great about being a Christian

[@favb7931]

Är du svensk?

[@brandonbuckley2385]

Frei Bylander Im a son of Odin

[@butterplayz_yt9606]

Anyone here try to hold there breathe as long as they were underwater?

[@seansswamp]

ButterPlayz_YT I'm trying

[@thomasawylie]

Dony breath

[@doomslayer9704]

Yeah

[@-S_J-]

Yes

[@-S_J-]

Yes

[@dvi6550]

“I miss the old days, I wish we could go back” The old days:

[@heinzgud8464]

Just say the name of the guy accusing you then see what happens

[@spottysneeky8567]

But how would you know who accused you Unless you mean the guy drowning you lol

[@mansamusa8410]

I feel like the key to surviving persecution of being a witch was to accuse the accuser The people's paranoia would have convinced them .

[@daphneem7862]

I know right... Lol

[@jonathonhollis7080]

That reverse UNO card💯

[@thepaleemperor3445]

Isnt religion wonderful?

[@tobiasreaper9701]

The Pale Emperor it really is when practiced properly

[@magicalmusicmanvevo6779]

Go fuck

[@raven2402]

people made this horrible

[@FoxyBoxery]

Actually if you think about it, its the people behind the religion. Religion is just a bunch of books and believes. Words cant do shit

[@tiberiusclaudiusnerogermanicis]

@@gustav2398 if this was from a time when they didn't know what they were doing then what do you say about those that wrote the bible which was over 1600 years prior to this... surely they would know even less of what they were doing........ 🤔

[@naomijohnson2827]

This is basically with a true meaning,back then if they thought you were a witch you would be put in a dunking chair,if they never believed you they would hold you under there for a bit, if you were still alive you were held as a witch and killed,but if you drowned,you would be brought back some way.

[@myown2101]

Or they would just tie hands, attach a person to rope and some weights (stone(s)).

[@sebastianskii7512]

Meanwhile in the middle east it keeps going on, stoning, beheading, lynching. In Africa they tyre necklace each other because of different tribes. Knowledge saved us, hope it does the same with them.

[@laizalott]

It goes on here in the west too, the USA should have a national “it has been thismanydays since our last lynching” as a reminder, since everyone seems to think we’re somehow past that. Some dude beheaded his father last week for the crime of being a federal employee….

[@sandrakellstrom8097]

@@laizalott Lynching? OMG. Why do people insist on living a period they never lived in? EVERY people and EVERY country in the world has done barbaric things. But it seems only the ones who repent are "guilty". Check you humility at the door. ALL people are the same.

[@jeremieyvars3235]

This is actually very accurate. They used to toture people if they were sure that they were culprit. So the toture was to make sure no accomplice was left behind or forgotten.

[@skalaskala2484]

The good old days like my parents always say

[@kjererrt7804]

did they take part in this?

[@skalaskala2484]

@@kjererrt7804 i dont know Maybe Maybe not

[@franko161]

Such an underrated serie ! I loved it !

[@danielirl9252]

This show needs to be added back to main sites like Netflix, Amazon prime etc ( here in the U.K as i miss this show and unfortunately the show got removed before my mum could finish it a couple of year's ago😂)

[@payammanerslife1089]

I felt sad about the past about the History. RIP TO THOSE innocent people who died. May you Rest In Peace Brothers and Sisters.

[@brianam3007]

This show was amazing

[@richards4035]

This was such a good show

[@semthornwood3055]

In a class out teacher was talking about Salem he said they were killing redheaded and green eyed women and look at me a redheaded green eyed women well that was an unpleasent moment.

[@jgulwahab8146]

Hi

[@thecoolestmrprogangster]

I had a stroke reading this

[@makeer7107]

In 2nd grade, we learned about slavery. I’m here African-American, and that got so awkward. I feel your pain

[@Filthy_Larry]

How old are you?

[@desertmoonlee6631]

That’s why gingers with green eyes are rare they killed many of them because they were so backwards 😞 if there is an afterlife i hope they pay for torturing and killing people in the name of god

[@futurecyber01]

I know this is torture but for some reason this seem the only way to refresh yourself in those times

[@eveningwhisper8745]

I'm literate and own a black cat. They would call me a witch back then 😁

[@carlfichtner8148]

In the late sixties ,As a kid I saw this for real at Frontier Western town.. Southern Vermont Family attractions.

[@charly345mstl]

Ancient Roman Empire: We constructed superior water supply system and we can supply fresh water to every single district in our city. Ancient Greece: Probably the earth is one of the solar system and it is revolving around the sun. Middle age Europe: Arrest young woman for nothing and force her to confess that she's witchcraft.

[@avpthegreat]

This isn’t the Middle Ages, the 1600’s was the renaissance period

[@sentotsutardjo4158]

Bruh can't you see their clothes ?

[@sandrakellstrom8097]

BUT the Scots repelled the Roman army. They turned and ran. Also, Africans are still living in grass huts and have no idea what birth control is..apparently. Be careful, you'll be labeled as a "racist" or something. Note: I've seen ancient Celtic jewelry that makes ancient Roman jewelry look like gumball machine design. Stop trying to fit every civilization into the same mold. We all come from great civilizations and we all have to a lot to be proud of. Except the grass huts. Oops, I might be a racist, or something.

[@jerinmartin3005]

There are still people who believe in witchcraft like the ones who argue that Harry Potter books should be banned . They are not ready to accept even a work of fiction

[@adw6894]

Those are the same people who believed that the Earth is flat. lol

[@yutubzalupa]

There are still people who claim everything they don't like false. I used a translator.

[@stavrosgiannaros7041]

Awesome series

[@ArtRoomProductions]

I would of made a fast one and told everyone that the dude talking is a warlock. Make people question him. Divide the people! Lol

[@markaxleumayam5979]

Them: The Catholic Church is the most terrifying institution because of their Inquisition! They tortured many people! Puritans: Hold my torturing schemes!

[@jabc3979]

Yes. Each, who trusts in God, is dangerous...

[@Freespiritedqueen]

@@jabc3979 Dam right.

[@marcustuliuscicero4605]

The Puritans were far worse than the Catholic Church.

[@Toasted_Rugo]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@jabc3979and those who didn't were most likely worse. My evidence: The French Revolution, more people died under the atheist regime of Robespierre than the actual death toll of the Spanish Inquisition. The death toll of the reign of terror: 30,000 within a 5 year span. The death toll of the Inquisition: 5,000 within a 200 year span (the myth that the death toll of the Inquisition was in the hundreds of thousands was made during the implementation of the printing press, and the fact of the spanish Inquisition using torture is also a false. Those who confessed under the Inquisition were put in a cell, for a single day.) The best thing to recognize is that regardless if there's religion in someone or not, the human mind can be brutal. It's not that any man who trusts in God is dangerous, it's that any man in general is dangerous.

[@ignatiaus3819]

Such a good show

[@generalzzodd595]

Dang! The early wet t-shirt contests were brutal.😕😫😦

[@georgewashington6225]

😂

[@charlesvandenburgh7008]

You have a great idea for a reality show.

[@vincatkeller3168]

0:30 John: He’s insane Cotton: On a good day

[@Urmomgae69]

Now I’m really happy that I was born in the 21st century.

[@mrindia1395]

Shame on that era

[@yoyoyeah9083]

Zaheer Shaikh i loved that era

[@thatrevy1656]

Yoyo Yeah go to hell

[@JackthePumpkincat]

Yeah their stupidity went in our blood veins until today..

[@jonathonhollis7080]

We're still in it

[@Itried20takennames]

One possible way to end witch hunts (if you are lucky): accuse the accusers. I haven’t watched this show, but she should have made up a tale about how the righteous, beardy dude was the only name she can give, as the head of their witch coven.

[@tatsumikaede9044]

So after this era. The old man went blind living alone he acquire superhuman sense of hearing

[@David-cg6wl]

This bobing for apples on a whole new level

[@elizabethmayberry3414]

I’m descended from Cotton Mather and at one point I was dating a guy descended from one of the women put to death by his persecution. The night we realized our interesting connection he got a little lick of revenge.

[@mikedavidz6161]

Ohh really ...

[@elizabethmayberry3414]

@@mikedavidz6161 ohhhh... most definitely! It was all in good hard fun though..:)

[@mikedavidz6161]

@@elizabethmayberry3414 whoa !! Amazing !!

[@bondaryura8855]

Какие позы вы использовали?

[@LordofMovies91]

What do you mean by "lick of revenge" and "good hard fun"? 🤔

[@weatherboi]

Looks like fun. Every carnival should have at least one. Maybe at Disneyland.

[@aemiliadelroba4022]

Many of our kind were drowned , hung , burnt , tortured ,,,and yet we are still here ! Man understand nothing .

[@Weebish_Dragon]

Without us, modern medicine wouldn't exist. Even the "father" of modern medicine admitted he learned all he knew about medicine from a coven.

[@Ignisan_66]

The most retarded comment in this comment section.

[@jackholloway1]

​@@Weebish_Dragonchildish fantasy

[@jackholloway1]

Witches aren't real and people with fantasies pretending that they're magic are insulting the people murdered by fantasists

[@davidtuba1559]

The most horrific thing about this period of our history is that this was caused by mass panic and ignorant bigotry. Today with the Corona Virus outbreak, which is but a minor problem in comparison to what humanity has been through in the past, has broken down society completely through mass panic and ignorance. If something worse was to happen to us as a society we would most certainly degenerate into the terrible behavior witnessed at the Salem Trials and other panic induced events.

[@mnomadvfx]

I would almost welcome a return of the plague just to see the anti vaxxers lose their s**t 😂

[@Emily00Strange]

I miss this show. I wish they had at least 5 seasons.

[@petercoderch589]

Feel the Christian love...

[@wesleyfigueira1576]

Amazing série!

[@wuraolaolagunju]

The 1680s aka the Go crazy!! Go stupid!! era

[@johanvanangeren6150]

He seems very dedicated to his work.

[@pikapi7429]

For sure, back then if you held the word of god in your hand you were judge, jury and executioners all at once.

[@dominysynclair]

Very relevant material in the present.

[@dominysynclair]

@Nimbuzz S For everything.

[@dominysynclair]

@Nimbuzz S It's as much of a choice for you as it was for the woman in the chair.

[@dominysynclair]

@Nimbuzz S They're just the tools of the trade.

[@user-ek5uo3lp8u]

That they did this really long ago, thats crazy😮

[@ALegitimateYoutuber]

in a way it actually an excellent way to test for witches. because if they drown they aren't a witch, but if they survive they are a witch.

[@Robynrrrr]

Im not a witch but naturally I have an amazing lung capacity, I can be to 2 to 3 minutes under the water. If I was there at the time, since Im a ginger and really intuitive by nature I will probably be killed by this psychopaths LMAO.

[@MackerelCat]

Witch trials, awful and tragic as they were, paved the way for expert testimony in modern courts. So that’s something at least.

[@tonyg3605]

The Fact that this shit actually happened and they call themselves a godly man um if that’s your type of god I’m good sis

[@BarelyABat]

As someone who practices witchcraft, I hate to think that that would happen to me. They were innocent people practising a harmless thing if they were actually a witch, if they weren’t witches then they were just delusional for thinking that they could do that and kill them.

[@ettaoudianas6748]

Wtf

[@lexusdav]

Witchcraft aint harmless u crazy

[@Maria67922]

@@lexusdav I don't practice witchcraft but at least I know that you certainly got the wrong idea of what witchcraft is. Make some true research.

[@youtubedeletestheoppositio8188]

@@Maria67922 stay in your basement.

[@Kitcat-squish75]

@@youtubedeletestheoppositio8188 you stay in yours weirdo

[@isabelmarie2003]

If you somehow lived, you were a witch and killed. If you you drowned you were innocent. No way out

[@RSTI191]

Never a dull moment with religion. Of any kind.

[@foxsaint1051]

clearly you never been to church...

[@RSTI191]

@@foxsaint1051 The foundation of any assumption is ignorance. Wouldn't you agree? Clearly you are ignorant..

[@esea1280]

really amazing

[@adw6894]

For logic, If these women are really witches. It's the perfect time for her to use her magic and power to escape these tortures then.

[@yutubzalupa]

It doesn't work like this. But how an american guy who believes in same gender "love" can know about real witchcraft? I used a translator.

[@4godand4thegays73]

People in this comment section really think watching three videos of the Salem witch trials makes them an expert. They were ALL executed by hanging, died in their cell, and one being tortured under a pile of rocks.

[@katiebayliss9887]

donttouchmeim steril only one person was pressed to death.

[@pettifoggingpharisee]

People watch a show that is a work of fiction, as a opposed to reading the historical accounts of the Salem trials & events, and suddenly they're Ken Burns.

[@rolling_maryland7319]

And alot of it was about taking the land that most of those people owned. If they plead guilty the town government was able to confiscate the land

[@Jolene8]

Robert Tasker Or they would accuse them, convict them and send them to their deaths anyway, guilty plea or none. What a horrible time period in our history.

[@dianebrady6784]

However dunking chairs were used and you base your premises no one died from them as a result of faulty history lessons.

[@JordyJayHomer]

Seth Gabel was fantastic in Fringe

[@kkk-jp3zx]

കുഞ്ഞിപാപ്പോ... കുഞ്ഞിപാപ്പോ! (ഉടയോൻ climax ഓർമ്മ വന്നു 😢)

[@ellakirby1031]

i love this show so much- it’s amazing .

[@oumi9547]

Girl I would have started listing every name I know

[@taehyungsalienwife-_-4451]

If it was me in that chair I would snitch on every one dude

[@TacShooter]

Barbaric. The chair doesn't give you a chance to see if the witch will float.

[@This_is_my_face]

We need to bring dunking back.

[@Alex_Thegachacreator]

NOT THIS TYPE OF DUNKING!-

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

You know I wonder if the British Red Coats just walked in under the command of major, could they arrest the whole town!?

[@mnomadvfx]

Depends, Britain had its own witch trials, but they were not so bad as this and they stopped much sooner.

[@ikaika.mauricio]

How ironic that they guy acted in “Dont Breathe” and the lady aint doing any of that 🤣

[@mariohw8562]

We slowly going back to this era

[@OrganicDolphin]

Someone actually was commissioned to build that for this specific reason.

[@minormendez9084]

If i was in these TIMES.. ID FIGHT FOR ALL OF THEM.. ID BE THERE GREATEST WARRIOR!! PROTECT THE GODESS.. & MY BROTHERS!!

[@jeffreyblau119]

I love how she moves her head while saying I know of know others. Like she's having a seizure

[@sj5231]

she only moved her head slightly..

[@SamSitar]

she is honest. the executioner is not.

[@Darkstranger9232]

She's also freezing.

[@SunBunz]

“If she weighs the same as a duck….she’s made of wood! And therefore…?”

[@tom5379]

Looks like fun

[@dictatormouse4087]

I'm sorry but I laughed like what kind of messed up person decides "hey whats the best way to torture innocent people accused of witchcraft?" "Let's get this big log right. And at the end let put this chair on it right. And then we put the accused person on it and dunk them in the water.. but get this.. it takes three or four strong men to menuver "

[@ianmclaughlin8987]

This scene makes me angry and want to travel back in time to unleash horrific violence on such a man. It is sickening to know such things happened back then, people do not change and I would gamble that it will occur again at some point.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

It's well known that the towns of salem had bizarre encounters leading up to this. It wasn't because they were unadvanced and couldn't handle products of medicine and healing. My great-great-great-great-great grandfather was one of the counselors in the white trials, and when his own daughter turned out to be a witch, Sarah Perkins, he then found a way to get her out of being hung.

[@severussnape7517]

yep, just look at the insane zealots who turn out to abuse someone who says "there are only two genders" or "men cannot become women". real violence is happening right now to people for an insane ideology.

[@mnomadvfx]

There are senseless murders still happening in the US today - people walking into schools and committing mass murder..... What is that then? Chopped meat?

[@videojuegosfan5266]

En qué plataforma se puede ver esa serie?

[@kelvinhow1965]

Quaritch career as Witch Hunter before he Join RDA Security Ops as Colonel and Head Of Department LOL

[@crystallakeclips2047]

Mob:so what if their a witch? Guy:then they live and we kill them! Mob: and what if she’s not a witch? Guy:then we will give her family a 5 dollar coupon to Costco

[@DarkSplash99]

They should have had a law than anyone that wrongfully accused someone of witchcraft because they died thus proving their innocence should be killed too. I remember thinking that when I saw the Simpson treehouse of horror episode where marge is accused of being a witch and actually is a witch because she survives the cliff fall

[@Toasted_Rugo]

To those who believe that this is what the Salem witch trials were like, you couldn't be further from the truth. 1. All the people who did die in the trials were either hanged, or they dies in their cells. With one single man being crushed to death with stone. With 19 people being executed, and 6 dying in cells most likely from disease, which was the most common cause of death at the time. 2. What many people don't take into account is that there were survivors of the witch trials who survived, simply by confessing to the sin of witchcraft, and by accepting christ as their Lord and saviour (Which many people did at the time when confessing for any sin.) a total of 50 confessed. 3. The reason why the witch trials happened is not because some Puritans wanted to randomly start a witch trials. Rather it was a mix of political division within Salem, corruption by ministers, and the King Williams War that was raging at the time. However the biggest cause was when literal children, one of them being a hooker, decided to accuse one person of witchcraft. When they realised they had the power to convict others of witchcraft, they started going wild with the power they had. Seeing it as revenge for physical punishment, which was the norm at the time. 4. Yes, this method of torture was used at times in other parts of the world in other parts of history, but not during the Salem witch trials. It wasn't even used as a form of torture, it was used as a form of interrogation. All in all, the results of the trials having 19 people executed, 6 people dying in their cells, 50 people confessing. All in a total more than 200 being affected. To put into perspective, the death toll was less than 1/9th of those who were convicted.

[@bplatonova]

I live in Salem MA now... Halloween is a month long

[@jayden8109]

is this a tv show? cause i need to watch it asap

[@FRMOutsideSpace]

Not going to lie, that guy is a great actor

[@pa8840]

they are crazy

[@captaincoyote1792]

Witchduck road, Virginia Bach. I’m a retired federal LEO….early in my career, still learning the ropes. A piece of rural land with the witch’s colonial home intact was acquired by the federal government….it quickly became a place for devil worshipers and wannabe witches to sacrifice animals. Unfortunately, It also became part of my patrol area. I’m not sure I believe in all of it, but I’d much rather deal with drunken drivers, wildlife poachers, etc…than the nutcases I came across at that location. They always made me uneasy! We constantly discovered pentagrams and the remains of butchered dogs, cats, rabbits and chickens, presumably left there by these crazies. Eventually, it caught fire, and the building’s remains razed. Happily, I transferred a few years later, but maybe ten years later, the maintenance staff informed me that nothing ever grew on that spot.

[@BlaketheBlock]

In that situation I would play dead as if I had drowned, then they maybe would take me out of the chair thinking I was dead??? I DONT KNOW

[@CekaDStar]

I know everyone is saying it in the comments but they really did this to innocent women who disagree with men or show an ounce of their own thoughts

[@drewcason2429]

I’m not the only one who held their breath to see if they could make it

[@KamiTenchi]

This reminds me how cruel and wicked humanity was back in the days and yet they're still going at it in this modern day.

[@mnomadvfx]

It never changed - that's just people in hysteria mode. The more rural the area, the less balanced their exposure to life is and the more susceptible to suggestion they can be - especially when they start off with early religious indoctrination. I'm just glad I grew up after regular church attendance was basically history in Britain for most of the Christian population.

[@serenityfox8546]

Makes me sick to think this action happened back then :(

[@piedpiper1893]

The so-called “religion of love”.

[@paytongann2180]

It is.

[@coletanner5193]

"When a woman is innocent of witchcraft, when thrown in water she will sink to the bottom..But if a witch is thrown in water she will float to renounce and refuse her holy baptism. If she floats, it is then she must be tied down to the chair..With the dunking chair a witch if forcibly baptized and will be more prone to divulge the other witches, so down under she must go to help weed out her coven!"..Cole Tanner's Guide to Witch Hunting

[@hyrenapth6443]

Good job from technocracy on purging those dam verbena magicks

[@jeremymoon2]

She looks really good in the series of Salem dunking chair I never seen that machine before and she looks amazing wearing a dress holding her breath underwater awesome camera shots she is such a good female and actress character so cool