A period of internal warfare and a paranoid king paves the way for a vigilante to rise to power. Join Dominique as she examines the life of Matthew Hopkins, a self-proclaimed witch hunter who turned entire villages against those accused of witchcraft, before torturing and killing them for a profit.
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STILLS
Woman Wearing A Derbyshire Brank Or Muzzle In The 17Th Century
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Two examples of Scold’s bridles,probably dating from the 17th century. From The National and Domestic History of England by William Aubrey published London circa 1890…
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Title Page Of Daemonology
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Scold’s Bridle, late 16th century.
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The Hanging Of Four Witches
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Woman Burned At Stake For Witchcraft
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Puritan satire on William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury.
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A Dying Sinner Is Surrounded By His Family And Two Devils Whisper In His Ear
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Woodcut Of A English Witch Hanging
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Witch Hunting
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The Duckingstool by Charles Stanley Reinhart
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Witch Hunting
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Witches Apprehended
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The punishment of immersion
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Tradition in Toulouse: Punishments during Middle Ages.
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Farmers In The Delivery Of Their Taxes To The Landlords
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Matthew Hopkins
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Mother Shipton (1488-c1560) prophesying the death of Cardinal Wolsey.
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Woodcut showing a witch shooting a man in the foot with an enchanted arrow made from a hazel wand
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The Trial of a Witch, 17th century Puritan America. Illustration for the play Giles Corey, Yeoman by Mary E Wilkins (Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman), American novelist and playwright. Wood engraving 1892.
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Drowning as a form of punishment.
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Waterboarding punishment.
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An Arrest for Witchcraft in the Olden Time
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EXTERNAL CREDITS
Dominique Dibbell
WHAT 😳
Funny how the witches just disappeared once he started hitting the accuser in the pocketbook.
He Was Gay!!!
witchcraft was used against my family
We have Christianity to thank for all of this. So sad.
He may not have seen justice when he was alive- I hardly consider dying of tuberculosis just for what he did. But it brings a smile to my face that he is stuck on Earth as a ghost. He deserves to be tortured. And not being able to go to a better afterlife and be stuck on Earth is essentially a form of torture. Doomed to be bound to a piece of land- unable to leave. Unable to do anything fun. He just gets to sit there and think about what he did.
Berwick is pronounced "Berrick" not burr wick
Okay this was surreal. My heart goes out to everyone murdered through the hands of wicked men and women.
Wales, at the time?
You look as a witch.😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
It is almost like it's said from your sound knowledge s that come with the camera or was it binoculars it helps not knowing your family's home while the house was built for burning down and the witch's that now's it's rare to need witch proof cells , it said more cells less hunters
Beware of those who jump to negative conclusions while taking offense. With little to no evidence that their taking offense against someone is justified.
Be careful The host is a witch. Look at her pupils…they are white with tiny black dots.
As a local to Manningtree, they still hold a festival every year dedicated to the victims of Hopkins and I can attest the spookiness of mistley and manningtree
Mysogny had very little to do with these witch hunts
Also, at 2:51– that was actually not a torture device for witches. I just happened to learn this very recently. That head trap was called a scold’s bridle. And it was something that courts could sentence women to wear. You see, in that time, men were able to take their wives to court- like legit take legal action, for “nagging” or scolding a man.
The husband would then walk her down the street while the cage is secured to her head and preventing her from speaking. She’s be chastised publicly.
Anybody else think the presenter looks almost exactly like Mathew McConaughey in a wig?
I wonder why killing a woman that was healing someone was justified 🙁
Pendle witches were hung in my home city 10 minutes walk from my home.
Look into the REAL reason why Hopkins was going about hunting witches. It wasn't for belief in them and wanting to rid them from the country, it wasn't even to aquire the land and properties of those he accused as being witches (although he did free up a lot of lands for people who wanted it this way). Hopkins was looking for something but died before he could find it.
Very interesting
Wow I had no idea that Geillis Duncan (Outlander) was based on a real person!
Are they incels ,why did they hate women 🙄. Why is haunting on Friday 🤔
So what's the difference between this and with what's going on now-a-days with many evil, lying ingrates going around accusing so-called white people of every bad thing under the sun?
You’d think being christians they would deem tourture a sin given jesus was tortured.
Hermosas tomas fotograficas !!
Amen !! El fetichismo , como alienacion burguesa estudiado a perfeccion por el gran Filosofo aleman !! Carlos Marx ; Explica muy claramente el por que existen estos hombres asquerosamente ricos en el Mundo
Emperor bellows? Intriguing
Guy just went around murdering women and got rich for it. Sounds like a serial killers dream!
This story could be told today about left wing fascists.
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I bet he had mamy issues that's why he turned on women
This should be considered as femicide
Host is great! much better than Aria and the other guy tryna be Ryan n Shane x
Anyone who showed any type of resistance you were a traitor and with women confidence and independence you were a witch or a harlot. They're were tame compared to the Spanish inquisition.
When I saw the title I had a feeling I knew who this would be about. If you want an interesting (mostly fictional take) on Matthew Hopkins, the great Vincent Price played him in “Witchfinder General”
Thats so sad, that woman was great at healing the sick , a good deed , and for that gets tortured and executed 🙁
Yeah…Wales was not part of England (I'm Welsh btw)