In this, Episode 500, the boys begin the story of one of the darkest chapters in New England's History. Traveling all the way back to The Salem Witch Trials of 1692, satanic panic sweeps across Massachusetts and the Puritan Church's fear of the Devil paves a path for the hanging of 19 people.
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try lightly. It has begun, no other salem
Trials were by no means the most lethal in modern history. They certainly are the most famous in sixty ninety
to a large swath of massachusetts came to believe that a witch infestation august
by the deadline. We know they believe that had taken hold in their common and again we might not be the most
one night, you know we, America didn't make the most steadily when we didn't kill witches by the hundreds like they did in europe, but we did it with style
absolutely and of course, of the devil's going to go anywhere and we massachusetts
man we gotta go. Don't tell that to the people that own duncan donuts know you going to say that people
would you call yeah? No, no, that is right. Oh yeah, the devil went down to georgia for vacation. He was living in massachusetts and also the tax write off for the film industry, fantastic who, in the results
fear and paranoia one hundred. Seventy two people, seventy be acute,
to being in league with say to cite a sight of that number. Five
I in jail awaiting trial or execution. One would be slowly crushed under rocks for refusing to participate in the proceedings and nineteen would be executed by half.
Yeah man, and it wasn't quick, hang and no we'll get no that later it is a bad. They did not know what they were doing. They do not tested like they didn't england way back when, with jack ketch
on that day, I am and a big melons they us nazi with melons did did the rope. I have awaited blankets and I'm just wondering if it one point
put one rock on the person in their like. If you start now, this is an item it actually written.
This is actually about rather easy. My anxiety, how heavy use your waited blank, it's really heavy, and then I have my dogs, man. You sleep under like seventy five path:
cool, but one of the things that made the salem witch trials somewhat special
with the fact that men and women, rich and poor, devout and disbelieving were all fair game for the hang man's nous. However, that isn't to say that the majority of victims here we're not the usual suspects, which is literally what they called them. Those would be women,
weird off, putting people nobody liked and citizens.
made morally questionable decision for the time period nowadays, you'd see like while you know I got one woman purchase thick, indentured servant and then start
fuck em for legal, well, that ain't right. What no one's correct we they fear was love. Love is correct. Oh it's in the context of times and of course, stuff that we would still consider awful. Now, it's like he once beat handyman to death, so that I could not you want. It may have salute, live up my enemy. Of course you do you kid
When you think that IRAN, I am completely unable to do anything at all, but along with that majority work,
unity, leaders, wealthy men and even one reverent, and they all hung from the bread
eritrean as legend has it,
Her name, what's important to remember about witch hunts during this time period, though, is that it took a lot more than one person pointing in screaming way to get the party started with a hunt or even a single trial, rather which hans and which trials didn't take off and told
majority of the community agreed that witchcraft was a foot
and ass all I saw nipple the rush hour well I'll ring up. I also think this was probably the first time anyone ever wore a boob inspector shirt
ok, the mark of the devil absolutely were in salem, the community at large became convinced, mostly, but not solely due to the riveting performances of six girls, known as the afflicted
Yes, there were like all the girls from euphoria yeah. They do very well- and I don't know who they are, but for a myriad of reasons that each had their own motivation, the afflicted testified that they were almost constantly being attacked by the specters of witches, simply for evil's sake and in the course of those attacks. These girls also claim to have gained secret knowledge of other evil deeds purpose.
by the same them townsfolk. These are gonna cool, chicks. To be honest, they work at hot topic. They know all the nice stuff, don't kiss you, but they won't date. You I feel
like they were more like robot servants within their own home, because they were all children of puritan families that were basically created to be a workforce. While they rebelled with is the first site will
many it's very complicated. It's very common to get into. They were orphans, they were war refugees. They were all fucked up
There are actually for an historian, although factor
all your professional medical advice, as he said that that is your opinion. As a future history. Professor, come to my nine thirty. Eight am class off aka with professor car guy, can't wait for you to freak out of those kids and throw annapolis somebody's head and give my ever been good. Community members were accused of homicide, patterson, infanticide,
inducing suicide and multiple counts of serious assault, all in the service of the devil or for their own selfish, wants and needs
It was just the middleman. Alright he's trying to he'll be out here when it comes down to it. I also find it's really really, apparently very difficult for the devil. To get
Nobody to put anything in writing as a driver eve like he is sort of like a timeshare salesmen, will there's a little bit of trust with the deal
devil. A handshake should do it. No you supposed to kiss his little asshole is that right, that is, that part of the one of them
one of the ceremonies that was more of a european
The thing, though, no I saw some asshole kiss in some of the descriptions, maybe I'm looking for it, but it didn't feel like. I saw a couple because you're supposed to be the better to kiss the rump of the gate array. But to that point henry there were never any sexual acts.
Stations level. Yet in our horny enough and despite the devil, supposed hardiness sex of any kind was never mentioned at any point. During the trials with rare,
very vague exception. Does it for me the kind of points to the fact that they were?
and I'm making it up as they were going because they couldn't even make up horny shit to lie about. They had no point of reference for horny shit because they weren't doing anything.
Well, it says are in. As far as I know I mean I'm certain every once in a while. They got a funny feeling on a horse, horror and then all of a sudden you realize, but the horse also has evolves in the back between his trunk and his front, and I shall use the vaults herewith for my pleasure.
No I'm sure. Sometimes you gotta afford it. Sneaks in you get aroused, I mean, there's a series of different ways. The person can orgasm will just sit like this will just sit like this, because it's the long series ahead of us
just the very beginning, saving them. You're dumber the intro ran up not at all, but lest ye think that's salem was just a bunch of whack.
Irreligious american nuts going off on a tear like they always do or talk about the witch hunt of sixteen. Ninety two was nothing compared to what went on in europe, both before and after the trials in massachusetts, while the twenty five killed in salem marked those which haunts as the deadliest in american history,
two thousand people were executed for witchcraft in cologne, germany half a century before salem. Honestly, I feel bad for the gallows. Can
sean guys, because you know it's great to have so much work, but we know that same time. Where's the you die. It's
austin dinner. Then am I half century before sixteen. Ninety two bingo guard I get high in europe. They were more. They like to burn the witch
so it's more like it's it's the lumber man. Why you're, the one that doesn't get the rest? Why do you think why I'm sitting there actually is
answer, but I dont know the answer: why did they prefer burning to our hang? That is an end.
I do not know, I guess it's just a cultural thing. We will understand.
absolutely need it. I will read into that. Maybe for next week we're gonna have that answer. Yeah, I'd like I'd like that yeah once we start getting to the executions and salem will go through refused which executions in history and see really one of the differences between
the different cultures he got excited going to epcot yeah. It really did believe that they were possessed by the devil. I think burning out. The devil would make more sense than hanging, perhaps more, they double suited it where it's also real cold, lotto, say a lot of which practice and no blood of which accusations and trials can come around wintertime. There. You go alright, but starting twenty years after salem, eight hundred people were executed for witchcraft in hungary,
with a course of four decades that is borne out your long witch hunt cells, warlike, hang green funny, one that is not funny
a lot of you got me you're gonna, say something and then say it's funny afterwards. It's that means that was fond of some of those in hungary were killed by torture. Some were killed by being burnt at the stake and some were drowned during the sink or swim to
if you're familiar with that rebel. Of course, if you drown you're, not a witch, but if you sit wait, if you survive you're a witch and if you drowned you don't so basically you're fucked ne sweden, the mark of satan is upon them. They both hang. What do you guys want drowning
you're or hang drowning drowning. Ironically, absolutely I think I would go with fire because don't you just inhale really fast and then you pass out use
camelot is who do you see a lot of pain? Your your feet are definitely going to be blackened. It's going to be bad, that's going to be bad and everyone's watching, or at least what I'm drowning. It's like, I'm dying by myself, even though people are watching from the surface and in a way aren't you back in mother earth is womb. I just pretend I was that baby from nevermind dig out. I piss hard yeah. You would put to give you a scale of how hard and fast the accusations took hold in salem
there were only one hundred and twenty people accused of witchcraft in england in the fifty odd years before salem and of those only seventeen were executed. By contrast, the salem which trials with surpass both of those numbers and less
a year, which is why he truly is aid and like had he put it. It wasn't out of fashion in europe already technically.
Right, like hungarian burnham take, but it was the last one
Is an english were executed like five years before the sea still got like, but he was still. I do it with you
scratch, but mainly commemorating or you do not like it, but we're in amerika the kind of like got it all.
done in one go. They were like okay, it is our turn we're going to rip this up again. Capitalism is all about bang for your buck yup. Well, it seems like the vast majority do not get
or if they are accused me of which the vast majority aren't killed, it seems like they couldn't get out a jury duty. You have you,
to figure out how to get out of this in a lot of it. Is you better be careful where you go when you are invited to anything and sixty nine, you too, and if you ve done anything that makes anybody upset, because a lot of them were like communist at the top?
dry or fuckin, which now or the problem with
is that yeah? You know if you ve done anything to anybody, you might get accused of being a witch, but this will get into salem. Everybody had done everything to everyone,
So it's not like everyone was pissed off at each other at all time. The witch accusations got tossed around willy nilly, but we'll get to that later us now at the center of pretty much every witch hunt is the idea that Satan is real working, not just in space.
but in the physical realm as well. In short, Satan was an entity is consequential
everyone's daily lives as the weather, in considering how many people died as a result of this belief, they might as well have been right,
but I mean that's how you make something real you just transmuted, it's kind of what the internet has done in it's own subconscious way where it starts things started on the internet and then can pop into real
I might have you are not so loosely. This attack panic its back and stronger than ever it hands. The devil, as he was often referred to, then was an all powerful being who was greatly feared as an enemy of all. That
good. While the devil was not blamed for every bad thing that happened, he could be blamed without question in everything, from a stubborn ox to the death of a child. You believe something
the agents lodging in the sunlight, daddy loads, feel. Oh, we believe some of those fuckin morons
well, they are actually divers. Legit minds will be next word monopoly. The same thing is exactly what users being given human history and cultural things very important. All I wouldn't understand, guides human action, so religions, important d of the old god, they even the old
the nick cutting to the old gnostic idea of god or the original tribes view of god, and the idea that it is a it always kind of had a duality to it and at some point the christians, understood packaging and creating teams, and that that was split at some point where those were the sort of the cruel aspects of
odd, became a character known as the devil. Whatever you want, the serpent, the goat, all that type of shit as a really good way again aunt on the bank, the devil skip the turkmen business were all these years, snoop rise rose sober
the devil is so upset because he can't find shoes because you have to think of a who
and how difficult that wouldn't have shoes yeah. But
if those who wish you of its own. Yet that's like saying
toenail as a shoe? No because when you put it, there's a horseshoe that goes on a who he's gonna fuckin horse, though, is ease the devil, but you can put up which you can put up to now, show what a goat you do they call it a goat. You know, one puts among goats is no reason for it or not, because you write it in some big enough. I would
back to use new stop guts, I alone, but in addition to the devil, being a real presence. Tangible magic was also considered to be real in both black and white forms, black magic or malefico, who is it was known? Who is the province of those who paid allegiance to the devil, the witches of new england and by the way, which is could not do men
on their own. They merely asked the devil to do magic for them, and then the devil would do magic, because mortals were not able to do magic that made mortals too powerful. If you said that mortals could do match build outs also, they are one of their validation points. That's one of these things where they would start to how they get a confession. Out of you, like with a
with the cops to winning rhyme or your friends, get help ya help me out here. You know you come on our side or at lowood. They would use those arguments to say, like you didn't, do this, the devil did this. He just use your tents,
as little gun in your link, and then you have to understand leg and also its. There are the way they viewed at EU there that there really good at just changing wondered ever it is there talking about to make it work for the present circumstance: remuneration on the other side of the magic with everyone else. The people who practiced white magic, also known as folk magic and this one could
someone with common household objects, you can use an egg you could use hotmail was you could use a bible in a key
Melanie used the bible and a key, nay, I mean to fuck all of it.
I want to see as an example, it was dark and you can use it for any reason you could use conjuring to summon lost objects. You can use it to discover suspected marital infidelity moss when it was such a part of their life ready folk magic. We ve talked about this when we die
Mormonism series: it comes up again and again when it was already such a it's weird because it was baked, it was a part of their life,
The idea that there were people that could do things that would have a connection to the earth and then they just decided
when it's a crime when they want it to be yeah cause everyone practice folk magic all throughout the puritan colonies. All of these people practice it to some degree or another, but perhaps the most important function of white magic was battling black magic.
That gives you a sense of how everyday and mundane mundane sort of thing was and how much magic was somewhat tolerated until things got out of
sounds like you. Pokemon was real, because this is not one david all and also you remember these
people, are leading boring, lies of drudgery, so it s a spice everything, but what a pork him on go, get you fucking
home is fun and exciting. All of a like, oh
Where was believe
If someone was using black magic against you, your family or your farm, that magic could be turned back on the witch
burning, boiling or otherwise hurting piece of what had been bewitched like a lock of your sick child care for which is making a child sick. He cut off some hair and you burn it
a little org or if a which is killed, your sow, killed. Your pig in front of us here are not only stand that year over and over and over again at it. That was not my pig, devilish goddamn girlfriend fractals brown fucking dog miles from fuck. You fuck you
a bunch of our samples renews the
And did you actually study? Fractals
would you say the word over and over again, because it's a fun way to save your hide. We all are just frat for my fuckin pig, but things could even get physical in the battle between good and evil. One could confront a suspected which duran
Lee and scratch him to draw a little bit of blood and somehow, if you scratch the suspected, which that would somehow deactivate the magic if you drew blood, though I do want to point out, you said he,
and that was an interesting thing that I learned in the car with you mark, as it was not just women that were which
It was also men. He can learn nets again notion its anybody who got the finger versed, in other words, during this time period
damn near every one during the sixteen hundreds and rural new england, but especially salem, they were kind of which he kind of weird and very
combative is independent, independent in
it allowed them to consume themselves like a snake eating it's own tail, though, as far as why witches gave themselves over to the
devil. It's really, not all that clear which to modern eyes, makes the salem witch trials all the more baffling see. Instead of Faust he and bargains in which people sell their souls for great material wealth or status. The witches of seventeenth century new england supposedly signed temporary contracts with the devil in order to take revenge
over petty grievances like property line disputes or arguments over how many fuckin chickens. You owe me any this assyria staff and well, it's almost like they're making it up because a lot of times of the people that have there has been incidents of real cool
I real dark ceremonies, people working with the devil, but mostly, I think it's about a change in lifestyle, especially back temporary, there's something about you.
Aligning yourself with his other idea, will cover one of em. One of our favour. Ones of a movie is like a lean into the witch thing right now. I think it's really about escape of a deeply massaging of culture, but they also god bad for everybody, but would like it was specially bad for women, but it was bad for everybody. Everybody was caught in this puritan fuckin trap and there's something about like
you kind of let yourself go nuts in a way, you kind of say. Like yeah, I signed the deal with the devil and it was for this freedom. It was like what he did in the which, which I actually got was really on the money with their like drew want to loop, delicious
but wait I allow its more about. Don't you want alike smile yeah, we'll speaking of delicious, did they have clam chow?
yet because in his amazing I had some in san diego during your highness Lee and I've been talking about crime, chowder forbear, I love a clam chatter and I worry about it. I've lamb had it out or a rent a car.
Shouter originate? Do can be that sad, as denies I laid said says it was here as do the hundred hours one clam outer on my fuckin christ, lanyard out the brief history of clam shouter says: nineteen nineteen. Ok, while there is new, that's the first document. What this might have been a half could have invented this empty in such a network and these fuckin emails.
the clam chowder society. I love the people, but either way we can assume they did not. They did not
I an not, but I think you know, using the devil, as awaited
take revenge over petty grievances, or at least accusing people of doing so. I think this is just a way for people to use witchcraft as a way to completely over blow the small, very human disagreement.
That come from living in a society, and this goes double when a society is going through growing pains much like colonial new england was in sixteen. Ninety two growing plants is a really friendly way too
it merely technical, whether a massive downward some by going to get into it, is that it is a mild way of putting it but yeah meet its sought at society going through transition transition is scary, but put simply, this is just another way for the people of new england to turn their own personal anger and frustration into a righteous war between
good and evil, which is what I think really lies at the heart of the salem witch trials.
I am you know, doesn't selling anything. We know now, there's no modern. No
do modern again he's very
There have been many books written on this subject and we have some we ve been reading and trying to get to the bottom of it, and this is gonna, be the last podcast version of what we think is at the centre of the sailor,
trials. What everybody has sought mouse observers, so the bookstore mention like boot,
spectre sure no, no, no that's what we bring to life. That's our that's our spin, but before we get into the why and how? Let's acknowledge our sources for the series. First, we ve got the highly recommended book, a storm of witchcraft by emerson, w baker, which nicely summarizes
the trials themselves and the possible historical causes for the whole kerfuffle. You know I like about this guy to emerson. He's got the name of a guy who lives in like a colonial williamsburg hot on purpose. Yeah. That's what I like. I like a history historian, the sound like a nerd member sin. I don't like the catholic church, but I wouldn't mind if he's deeply catholic yeah there's,
I tried to watch it.
Documentary about the puritans,
all like here's. What they got
cleaning about like
Is he god incorrect and you're like oh and then I look at it was like from a christian like production company, and sometimes those sources are, are, are a little skewed and we've also got the salem witch trials a day by day.
Chronicle of a community under siege by mara,
kay roach this one is for your hard core salem heads out there. This is the boat for the ones who want
every single detail of what went on it is fascinating, but god damn is it dan,
You know what book I was reading that I also really loved that helped me get sort of like a vague understanding, I'm still reading and I'm gonna wear as we go throughout the series. I'm gonna have a pontificate on it. It's called europe's.
Demons the domination of christians and medieval christendom by norman cone, and it's like it's really interesting a kind of sea where all this might have come from. We deftly made an exciting story. With this
It's boring title have ever heard that it's fascinating, fascinating, so without further ado, let's get into the salem witch trials, starting with the question of what may have caused the whole affair. The answer to that question is, of course
A lot of shit. Get your shovel trouble. Just like one could not point to one thing: to explain the satan,
Panic of the eightys and ninetys or the modern, widespread belief of cuban on, say ten government cabal conspiracy. One cannot blame salem on a single cause,
Rather, it was a myriad of causes, a perfect storm, as it were, george gloomy, yeah no worthy and smart walter.
Also, in that movie boat reasons, ranging from some,
is mundane, is bad weather to some of the bloody
and brutal wars ever fought on these lands, but before we get to the real costs,
let's go ahead and dispel one of the most famous and groovy myths of the salem witch trials which, admittedly
We ourselves have been guilty at times of shredding. It's one of those quick facts. Yeah, you could just say real, quick, but super wrong. You know: we've all done the wheat, the wheat, that not real yeah, it's not real man, it might be what it might. There might be tiny bits of it, but your tiny now, despite how awesome the two thousand and fifteen classic the which made it look, delusions and craziness that went down in new england and sixteen ninety two was not a result of ergot poisoning early period
It is now two years not I've been wrong about europe. Organised nash youtube you trade, critically, rumour team diffusion community here hears you mean q, Urim, your dear to gather the person might do seventy six in the post acid age. It was suggested that many of the people and salem, accusing others of witchcraft have been suffering from
convulsive ergotism for it was net or caprice. Dudes conserve convulsive ergotism as a result of eating the ergot fungus that grows on damp cereal grains,
personal. My mother were so professional. Now we're not stupid renown grown, so god man, streamlined salem. That's
rio Grande would have been the communal rye that every one april and while ergo
poison, ingress ambition.
It's hard to hear now it's hard at your beer. Wholly I've decided to three more. I guess we'll all ergot poisoning doesn't,
induce the sorts of trips one might have on acid. The descriptions we have of the afflicted don't include the other symptoms
like neurological damage, gangrene and near constant
vomiting and diarrhea
but it is such a. I love my hallucinogen
unity there. I love my mushroom people of do tat said, but it is a very high.
I d ibm. Maybe roads-
tribune. I thought that was short of drew near you are, we don't know, but it's not. The tsar car additionally had the afflicted been exposed to argue for the entirety of sixteen ninety two. They would have suffered permanent dementia,
to the contrary, most of these girls
live normal lives, free of any kind of mental illness after the trials finally settled down yet actual yale, but you may have happened and they all went well. Cells over grid
moving on moving on the. Furthermore, the entire communal supply of rye would have been infected with ergot, and there are certainly more than a few people in salem who said this shit is
crazy. While it was all going on yeah. There were some, not high people there yeah, but lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the accusations were not just confined to salem village. Oh no, they were not. As I briefly mentioned, the witch hysteria infected multiple towns around massachusetts,
even reached as far as connecticut two hundred and fifty miles away as the crow flies. Ok, you got a wee bit out of control and you can tell how it got out a controlled by how quickly lean all the regional governments try to cover it up: dance
I stayed in so now that we've got the easy answer out of the way. Let's ask the questions everybody wants answered, namely how did this happen?
Why was it allowed to go on for so long because it was fun, got it
ten chin every made it must have been fun for someone at some point will get into that no good. As far as the questions go, I think the answer can be summed up in one sentence that can be applied to almost any witch hunt in history, small or large. In short, life sucks and everything was heart got you, and this was not
even a time period where things were already generally heart roma.
Imagine it actually be unlike hard for incredibly difficult times and, as is in
go bell taken away? The next competes aren't that combating items I mean that's what causes people the riot today. I could barely read yesterday because of my chocolate tears, honest. They do need to go to the doktor, because I dont know why my dears our brown, I insist that I couldn't. I could see the chalk o taco, being very cherish childhood memory to you, oh yeah, my love that shit that's climb up by that literally the horses. We got the mexican food as well as children, because my parents didn't don't like spice at the chocolate dacosta. Then I get rid of it. This luxuriant they want a generous support. Their doing that thing would like mr peanut physique reach.
kill him fuck himself in IRAN that lady peanut. Now, if you show up what we do not have a funeral for you know remember. This was life on the frontier in the early stages of american settlement,
when america, and especially new england, was still a deeply mysterious and lee
elite, dangerous place where life sucked and everything was hard. However, life was made even harder than it had to be by the people who were in charge of massachusetts colony, the ones who had found it in the first
place and were so desperately trying to hold onto their power by the late. Sixteen hundreds, those people where the puritans get your buckles.
like gold mess met me
another bottles. I watch. Would you mind our general I didn't have buckles were over blown, as was the black clothing, but we'll get into it. Black was actually very expensive. Color of clothing to have come back and the sixteen hundred, but can't it's boston.
When I was over born, they are funny guy, clever the puritans action which they called them. Derogatory term call themselves good christians. They also call themselves congregational less. Yes,
the puritans had only landed on plymouth rock about seventy or so years before the salem witch trials, but by then sixteen nineties when
everything went down, things were
not going well for reasons both within and without their control. When it came to things, the puritans could do nothing about. All of this happened during the worst part of our last big bout with climate change. The so called
it'll ice age that lasted from the year fourteen hundred until the year. Eighteen hundred that very little,
unlike the mob babies, if the mob babies costs millions of lives.
Pestilence little age is was specifically salem occurred.
the maunder minimum when every winter was the coldest in history and every summer was dry as a bone. Interesting lee scholars have noted that there was a
the correlation between areas of extreme weather, like the monster minimum during the little ice age and outbreaks of witchcraft in europe, again, life sucks and everything is hard when everything is difficult and societies already pinned against you every once in a while, you fit the pressure bills lilt bill.
one day a powder keg, bob's, absolutely minder minimum. Also a new movies during young reeves re goes to a phase, specifically chinese the phase and only has a little bit of food while he's been thinking about the least. Is it at something
sure is it really is, and he just has a little bit of food. I know yes
what a surprise
Time that everyone was either freezing to death or starving, because there was no rain to grow crops, they were dealing with. Yet
other disastrous frontier war with the indigenous tribes of new england. This caused rapid inflation, which in turn cost a massive depression causing life to suck more.
And making everything even harder and harder and worse than it was the day before could have done without that, but for the puritans. What stung the most was. The fact that all these awful circumstances were not translating,
crease, church membership of anyone. I love that everything stockton life was hard. You want to come here where we tell you to feel guilty about it. Won't. Why would this increase church membership? Why would I want to believe in god right now, he's obviously not thrilled with us killing a bunch of indigenous people because they thought they don't get the message that god is telling us he's mad right now knew I urge you all here trying to suck god
dick can smile at subsequent abusive relationship. To me. It is, in fact the so called city upon a hill that the puritans had envision the thing fuckin reagan's on the eighties yeah yeah that no, that was a puritan yang, bygone city upon a hell. Yes called a dog whistled the angelic doing it for free, but do not want fuck untidy on land that I'm here I missed the old days of the dog whistle. Now it's just a straight after the idea of so called.
the upon a hill of the puritans had invaded
and when they came to america was quickly dissolving. Okay, you're ready guys. Yes, let's get
grade history.
Was on mine with legend of zelda no kidding, it was great, it was. It was rare, but I got it nice cool, yeah. Well, my parents didn't believe in it.
Really not. It was stupid, lad by had composition, books- oh well known, weird,
classy boy. I dont know why the organs to what our spending money on us trapper keep getting hated. It ok, with appearance, had fled england in sixteen twenty because they felt the church of england was being corrupted by outside forces, like the
roman catholic church is just so funny cause, the church of england was made so that Henry the eighth could divorce his wife and then they are all saying it was impure enough, like yeah, so the puritans fled to a place where they could practice pure christianity,
puritanism. Although those Henry said that was not what they called themselves
how the mormons call themselves latter day saints and we call them mormons the puritans called themselves. As I said, congregational ass, I did the tiniest bit of reading because it's very boring about protestant protestantism. Prophetess protestant is
as a private citizen, protist products. It is about its rada since in an amazing, but the idea that they got mad because the catholic church has
hope right in its own. The idea that there is a deficit do that says, he's the liaison between us and
and the more distant. They said that we act
Chile are the ones who have access to god because we believe in it, but the puritans that wasn't even enough for that. They needed to go even what we now call fundamentalism with, which is
and, moreover, stripped down version of when they believe, which is just as they continue to their own little society. Because again, thanks hated seeing of a woman's but outline
Oh, my goodness me like the early mormons puritan, seem to sort of piss off and put out pretty much everyone. They came into contact with, so they founded there equivalent of utah
far away from everyone else in Massachusetts bay, one of the worst places in the
I know people like it.
We would like it was accepted their great value, jaws, beautiful the rest of the fucking pilgrims. They wanted
dominican republic
The island is beautiful, they went to florida. They went to all these. Like nice temperatures, the conquest of fucking england. I can imagine just going to war singly yeah. I totally feel you also dominican republican. Apparently it's a it's a hidden gem and I was with a cab driver once and he said, don't tell anybody the drs the best place
the occasion ass. If he were you doing this, then I don't know it's. The area was an inch
his earlier posts for generation as well as an interesting side. Note most puritans came from east anglia in england, which was the same place where the last great witch trials of england took place in which one hundred people,
murdered, including fifteen in one day, and that was just a few short decades before sailor, and they did it. They looked at it like they were the executives at marvel and they're like we love this. We're going to do a fault.
Spanned at universities and like at ways yet, but when we think of the puritans, while they were indeed the rigid stick up there s
dicks that we imagine them as they were, not quite the plain black clothed funny, daddy's, be imagined
Rather they drank in moderation. I went to their taverns and say they were bright and fancy clothes with fancy lace if they were
which, which many of them were? Okay, they own gaudy furniture. You could find a turkish rug, a brightly covered turkish rug in a puritan household and they even supposedly enjoyed a good joke jab, what kind of joke ad,
What do you call a woman, shorn or need? What do you call it? A dead prostitute that it's not funny. Puritans also believed that prosperity was a sign of faith,
from god, or similar, the mormons as well yeah, so the richard, the man, the more god loved him. This is but one of many many parallels between the puritans
in modern of angelica christian I've seen me on musk with a shirt off. God does not love it man. I, the only thing I can ever say to defend him. Is that he's got a thinkers body
the rest of us who are also built like that man just better be. Oh, you are a very charming rob life el capitan america. That's all I see now because of their belief in the prosperity gospel puritans were
it up mostly of the merchant class and they left england, not because they weren't doing well, but because they wonder to form their own christian theocracy where they were the ones on top
but when it comes to making life much harder than it needs to be, the puritans made it doubly so by choosing calvinism as the backbone of there
yeah. They had at ball. You got the tiger,
all there leave these. Always president ford ford, the one where I got implicit on just the words ex wife
like one worries person on the word, cystic fibrosis site admin arose as I can tell you now that basically calvinism says that, because of the fall of Adam and eve, every person is now
only born as a sinner into a life of total depravity ultimate destination of Heaven or hell is already too
and by god, before their even born, will has nothing they can do in life. Can change gauze decision fantastic
replaying red dead redemption and I'm trying to be good, but I just ran over a random mom cricket horse and now you're like well, you know what fucking really does it. I hate that so much though, because yeah, you know what just I want to remain
people. You're born beautiful, beautiful bill. You born pia, yet you can change your online and I wrong to be born with the ideas that you had a live in sort of a suspense
whether or not you'll find out that a on a celestial how we mandel will arrive with a suitcase
put it up and see
and near your saved shows you, the god, is based and got it book manhattan renewable indeed, and we really all you can hope for- was forgot to show himself to you in some way to let you know that you are one of the ones going to Heaven that meant that every calvinist spent every day wishing and hoping and praying and look
for any sign that they were going to Heaven, because if they didn't see that sign before they died, the devil would see them in.
and I see you in Hell, mr mayor- make it up that if you have to see god just look at something and say that was it move on? Yes, because that's what they do,
I do. I would do I'm going down there.
I see no, your pc that garden over there. That's my pop up until you. My mom got two thumbs in his save this year, yet it. But this was a highly
stressful way to live, especially in a time and place where it was so very easy to die as such, even while more puritans
we're coming from england. Those who already settled were break
off to form new colonies and puritans were banishing even more of their brethren for heresy and differing interpretation of scripture, and because this is so stressful and because they were just
Jeanne people left and right. There was a massive decline in church membership yeah. What's the different interpretation billing wheeled technically
No, it did have sex with his daughter, but they only did anal and you don't seem to recognise that at which has presided you don't regard as best gyre. It could be something smaller the word you know. What does that word mean in the context of
larger christian right. Yeah media really could be that small, because rumour these people were puritan, they are all about the pure word of god.
get a reply. The bibles infallible, never a word and an unlike certain stripes that believe that is to be interpreted red technically. Most christian sex believed that the it is the word of god, but it's also to be interpreted.
well. This is a group that believes that it is literally word for word and so and that, but also because of the nature of the what the way they believe it can only come from the bible. So everything
it was lawyer to all of their main systems were all like. Well, I've got this provision that says I can do this I got and then they chunk out all the poetry and you could make it validate any single thing that the bible is just a list of names. Really is the old testament, but you know, because the bible also has so many contradictions in it. I then that really fucks with interpretation as well, because even if you take the bible as the unvarnished word of god, then you're still going to have to interpret ate some of it because one
thing, one book completely contradicts something in another book like reading the diaries of Andy dick
like I dont like now. I only was different jews. They have fallen
his salary on thursday. Yes, he is the evangelicals, the king, james lens their version, and we love every work day. Lebron man, I do love lebron or, in addition to the schism with in puritanism, a royal decree opened the immigration of massachusetts to all faiths
meaning quakers and baptists and the like we're all starting to feel new england? And when I say all faiths, I mean all christian fainting, yes and there
a little bit, obviously, and I'm real glad. We didn't get too granular on this because it does get pretty sleepy, but there is stuff that is. It is kind of interesting that plays into it the idea that, like basically the massachusetts colony, was also getting like
to rich and powerful on their own separate away from you can keep from
So then they have to figure out a new way to like rip apart. The inner governments of the in these places been like well now, they're they're, basically forming their own country. Fifteen hundred miles,
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elves, everyone hillside, nobody told the puritans, they couldn't be puritans anymore, but it was becoming obvious by the late. Sixteen hundreds that their status as top dog in charge of everything was soon coming to an end and really the
europeans probably would have stayed in power for far longer than they did, if not for the salem, which trials as it is today, with a decline in widespread freak out of a van Jellicoe christians, the tighter the puritans grasped the
after everything slipped through their fingers, almost like minority rule over a group of people that all like believed like they're, like you know, seventy five percent against what you believe but you're in charge, and then we clamped down it's sort of a
ripped society apart. Now could see that in this movie Keanu he just as one not because the chinese it just one million the he eats. Why not getting men? He had won T.
I got your choice interests just more. That's is in his character, fire, nor have we added to it all. You can eat buffeting, just as a little bit tv shows that's about control. Exactly but outside of all
spiritual hand, wringing and environmental factors new in
in the late. Sixteen hundreds was also a horrifically violent place owing to the many
frontier wars waged against the indigenous population. By far the worst of these was king philip's war, which lasted fourteen months from one thousand six hundred and seventy five till one thousand six hundred and seventy six about fifteen years before salem
Rough gap, it was pretty violent, it's like our own version of vietnam knowing in, but it
even more. I was bad because they did it. What did indeed have machine guns which kill you quit? This got did just now rose, envisages hacking and slash and muslims. Yes, oh you just tell someone
was suffering from ptsd from vietnam that they had to gut. You rarely see your war, you get a time machine I'll, show you a fucking war. We've actually covered king philip's war once before some say. That's why? The bridgewater triangle is so haunted because that's where king philip's war took place and this one
was a last ditch effort by the wampum, knowing and narragansett peoples to stop english settlement, specifically, the colonies targeted were founded by puritans.
Who all believe that the natives of new england were heathens in league with saint. I tell the king Phillips war was be bloodiest per capita in united states history.
in terms of just sheer numbers, kill half of the entire indigenous population
new england died from either war disease, starvation and hundreds upon hundreds of
in this diet and there weren't that many to begin with so sets a dark tone. Yeah absolutely also holds the distinction of being perhaps the glorious most nightmarish war ever fought in amerika I mean get a civil war, it was fucking bad. It was horrible right, but king philips war as a fucking whore
movie report, just like I was reading accounts of like young women being like a solemn approval for normal failed. They wore the men with their with their hack souls and then
sis playing with his end trails length of time in first, my first record I was well. I wonder: you'd probably learn a lot about the human body. That way, don't you you do you do. I don't think they were interested, though they want to know what they were interested in psychological warfare yo. They regularly mutilated the bodies of slain soldiers and colonists hanging body parts from tree.
And sticking heads a top poles, in addition to some
I'm wearing the body parts of the men they killed into their next patsy. I got that wonders had go right ahead of that I read about get going toward like woe, dude bunch a leather faces out there. May let me I think, let's just not it's not good awards,
Would they were very much so outnumbered, so they had to do what they had to do to try to figure out what guy
Have we not get uv unrolled here? You gotta go full jeffrey Dahmer in prison. You got a lean in scared, the hell out of people who, in response the puritans came back disproportionately harder. They burned hundreds of old.
both women and children alive by setting the fort where they were hiding on buyer, the narragansett, then too,
nine colonists to a place now called nine men's misery
nine men were tortured, then clubbed to death row has a good. Ladies. Only bar ne nine men's misery asked a bunch of dancers chippendales to cry who, amongst those tortures with something called the guy,
but wherein men were made to run naked through a row of natives while being whipped to tatters, after which flesh would be cut from their legs and buyer would be.
Started into the womb near the end. The english soldiers were cutting the toes and fingers from narragansett breaking their legs and beating the brains out of their skulls, and they did that in response to the further mutilation
of bodies hanging of even more body parts of the english and that at this point the narragansett were hanging severed heads from trees. By hooks like it was a
in wax museum. Honestly point you're like like how do we,
Well, when I read it, we take a dream. You know these. These costs
the trees? These guys, like we take some guts, we wrap it around the tree, perverse evil, I'm just spitting here, not crits, but we may christmas evil for them. They're scared, a christmas army might be the first ornament.
be. Finally, thou o the company had yeah. Finally, though king philips, war,
ended when the leader of the tribes, the titular king, philip, was hung drawn and quartered m beheaded for the next twenty years, phillips had sat on a spike at plymouth colony where it was seen by puritans ever.
the single day. Again it's a dark, fucking place. Philippa, you got any gum, remember real good stuff. He got it on a ah, he got it
then but aspect, so he was like literally a landmark would take a right by king, philip said now. Louse will be on the left, which for them to all know it for they understand, because I was during that was entering the english civil war and that will like adds some what it was more about the narragansett than it was about the puritans it wasn't about. This is what will duty of it, nor I fuck up. This is this is about this is what will do you if you attack us again leave as the fuck alone? Twenty years, though, is just a skull.
and are there still some year on that score, it might be. Naturally, I might get kind of naturally preserved by the atmosphere at that time now cause massachusetts get real humid to let that slide all ride off yet so scarlet, that's cool though kinda yeah, not to the puritans. These bloody, costly and destructive wars were proof,
the christian men in amerika was in spiritual decline or with the bad weather. It all signalled that gods
that was coming home to roost, along with the devil's mischief,
into batman begins salted shorts
through sultan chocolate. So technically by this logic, god only reigns in florida. This because it's just beautiful weather, but I've been there is now it is the opposite of god's country, hurt
Oh, that's, very true, get you no matter where you go gonna, get you
The last straw seemed was the establishment of the dominion of england, which brought new
and back under british rule and threaten the puritan dominance,
in the new world. You're like fuck, you did damage lie fuck it because there are certain make in their own country. I deal with this and I was trying to create or kings. Three gap has a difficult games very complicated with a guide these guys all start or they. You started the plates night and all these guys have the nerve to try to take over their own play.
Now that they are doodle all work, cultivating la field, building on the cities,
dignan road, but that's been my
I said in my room every single war that again who's out their asking for change, because they a pity, as de unlike I played call of duty, hey, I'm not adding that out me about me, I'm not I'm fine, hired, fine dominion
was only the latest in a long string of governmental changes, because, since its founding massachusetts had switched between being an independent and a roll colony several times in just a few decades and each time at flipped, tax laws, property laws and religious laws changed. I e life sucks and everything is hard. Things were in total chaos, as things were unpredictable, but the one law that stay the same throughout no matter if the colony was english or independent was thus if any man or woman be a witch,
these half or consulted with the familiar spinet vague, shall be put to death. That's the only light, as it only constitute the most abstract tsar law. That's ever been written down death, I'm sure there were a couple of others, but that's the stand out. Ok now, it's interesting
This colonial history is that one of the largest groups of accusers in salem, originally either huh,
from maine or had close family who had lived in maine. This was important because in one thousand six hundred and eighty nine about two or three years before salem three years before salem, actually
King philip's war had a bit of a redo color remit, as is it a brick when the war?
He tribe laid waste to most of maine's puritan settlements, capturing or
when three hundred colonists and reducing pretty much every settlement to ash now war. What is it good for its right of economy? Yes, that's right of those who escaped ended up in
ass, a chew, sits with many settling in or round salem seemingly chain.
out of their land, but by what they were told, where millions of the devil, and also very fucking crazy ptsd. On top of that, you got this insane ptsd, seeing people
murdered in all kyle. I am just running the fuck emerged, your home is burnt to the ground, and also the devil is real. The devil is real. Every single spirit is real. Every single place you go into the woods
at night, there's no lights in right here, black of night. Every time you go outside of your house and the winters are horrible. The summers are even worse. Do I there's there's like
yet there is a lot of misery. It sounds like now. The insane trauma of king phillips war was still
very much in living memory, some fifteen years before right and when you combine that, with the current trauma of another frontier war, do you have a lot of people
ptsd, who believed that these wars were happening because god was pissed. They didn't go to church enough to remember the black plague. Would they try to do that too? They said that that's a great idea. It keeps coming up. You want to get everyone together
but in a tight room. It's always remember like yes, it's basically just saying like I know, but I note the ocean has taken Florida back, but you
stay on the patriot stickers coming out
and had formed alliances with the much hated french
france within always needed the english always hated them, which could they had. That was
war. The red men owes isabel warlord, all media meaningless france, one element again, not just right there
the english that right buyer, the trail rise there be chills how many things genetic, because the french still look at mean they just instinctively hate me. I don't know what it is, I think was cause. You were going to a clam phase when you met most of the french people, you knew, but what does that have to
Well, yeah the french don't mind which you would love to sexual for them. You thought that you were too sexual to be an american. The french are all about lou Gehrig they were jealous and then, when I talked to them in Texas accent comes out. It really confuses them and therefore they get angry yeah. Absolutely they got their striped shirts on the fucking bag and I dunno what happens to french culture where we are. I can't wait french breads too good to go additionally, the one
just random, I know like we make. We call french bread goods. We sell difficult fucking
the canadian baking because baking fucking, troll specific cut of bacon premier. It's called it's
it places, but who, additionally, the only remaining minister in maine with unquestioned puritan credentials, was killed in a while.
Now raid signaling more
anything else that the devil was winning the war man just leave.
in brown, just looking to get bikinis, he could have gotten bikinis. Nineteen seventeen hundreds sounds like it was freezing cold, I know or yeah guess it mattered, not because it masks you to get to kennebunkport.
In order that they know that demand made it now. I just know you don't go down that road on go down around
blog eyes. It took five hundred episodes for you guys, finally, do
racist acts and we will not resolve the main, no one on our own now, but that may. But what was the nice when new england that there was a pause ports? Are there
the guy must guide you guess you, Hampshire,
well, not new. All I know is I'm.
constantly replaying John cena's theme song in my head throughout this entire series. What is it da da da know? It was brutal
it's worse, it's Jhansi three, and what does he say? What? What is this catchphrase that you didn't? Do that? I'm not the guy! You can't see me, you can see me. Oh yeah, I guess peek a boo is that it didn't done because peek a boo, everyone's just fucking
pull on their car to oncoming traffic or writing the review. Usually greatest disagree with you. This is the one moment he's heard of the show. Newspapers are dead, good good. You have a god who, perhaps not. Coincidentally, though, the killing
The last puritan minister in maine occurred in january of one thousand six hundred and ninety two, just when the first afflicted and say
began, showing the more intense symptoms of but which meant no. Prior to the witch hysteria, puritan ministers tried strengthening their grip on the colony by enforcing laws against blasphemy.
Sing. Profane swearing, lying unlawful gaming, sabbath, breaking idleness, drunkenness and uncleanliness is kisses and taught you
I was more like flies low, we being raised from there. I could just see my essence disappearing, but no, it's the thought. The best way to do this again is coil. Let's client
down on what I mean you also gotta, remember like with puritans, wasn't necessarily cynical leg, media people
believe that will doubtless rio their ruling phrases stem the tide of the devil, real question? What could they do
You literally just listed what humans do. Yes, what could they do at pray that they could
go to the tavern in and have a beer of ongoing on their caterpillar Jeff like one of them. I was reading this one thing, but yet the commerce yet heavy own good- oh, I can not again did not put the money into it, but the idea was, I was reading of in this history of the christian
being labelled as cannibals and deems that you'd, like of the wood, the first guys, a kind of got got where the guys that, like we
It was a series of guys that were weavers that revolutionized,
ass. It ain't again. We had any time you say the word weavers, I'm fuckin amid relevant Catania, and I don't want to be cool diabetes Leon. No, don't blame settlers economy. That told- and neither will I don't play settlers of getting as you can
yeah the restroom where the puritans were able to enforce these laws. These I mean basically legislating morality because they just overthrown english, governor, sir Edmund andros, who had received the displeasure of the puritans, partly for his failed campaign against the wabanaki and maine. Now after andrus was gone, the crown instituted a sort of middle ground between soul, puritan sovereignty and soul, english rule
gus during Andrews's rain, he had welcomed in quakers. You'd welcome demand. Is she had actually founded the first church of england in Boston, so it's not just appeared
Is any more this guy's a real lip dirt? He was trying to do with the thing which works, which is like: let's bring in a very collaborative people, to help the society a bunch of different people, doing different jobs being different backgrounds. Let's open it up and sent that big of a tent. It's still just white christians.
Guess bigger have then it was yes as non. Basically, you know that the middle ground, between soul, puritan sovereignty in Seoul injures english, which basically this man
the puritans had to live under english law, but they could enforce those laws through puritan rule
just sort of how we have freedom of religion in america, but our judicial and legislative branches are currently govern from either the perspective or the strong influence of the Van Jellicoe
jan, and I certainly hope that everything doesn't fall apart because of it. We have acted people in power, one in wanting to bring theocracy to america, so it happens. It's a constant struggle. Is it not time they say, bring theocracy back to america, because the puritans were very much a theocracy before Andrews brought it
in all this, like it was by law that you had to be a puritan to live in Massachusetts. You had to attend church service, you had to you had to be a puritan, you couldn't vote. If you weren't a puritan, you can own land if you weren't appear
I'm talking federal government
It sounds like, except for one person or very well. Okay put it this way, you could be a quaker in massachusetts, bylaw in sixteen ninety two that was allowed, but your beliefs were not.
Presented in the puritan government, and you may in fact even be despised by that government, even though the puritans in charge were quickly fading,
lay into the minority
I get aroused have used the pig wagging tails and you can see his buddle. You might be a quaker yeah. The puritans love a good job, you're getting jealous of your joke, but concerning the government in Massachusetts, when the witch accusations kicked off, there really wasn't one to speak of outside, of the local municipalities who handled their own problems and enforce their own rules. This was because the government in sixteen ninety two at least early sixty ninety two. It was still
transition to the middle ground charter. In other words, nobody is in charge. People are scared, the devil is real life sucks and everything is hardly keeps building tat. We really does and the fact that there was no charter. There were no, they literally had just gotten rid of all of the lost, so they had a fig
we out. There was some main kind of hang over from the pre
We use administration the people that are running it, but they had yet to win. All of this started happening. They had yet to like start a new constitution for themselves, so they were just fucked
it's like halfway through the movie animal house when their charter is revoked, but they have a great time, but it seems like they have a great day had fun with it. Besides some of the light sexual assault, that's in the film they actually had fun and yes, it sounds like it could have been a great time for music sounds like everything is going
horrible, but the devil is. Why didn't like pick up a violin starts with shredded chunky. Chunky was all
Britain day puritans? Actually they didn't have they had singing at church job with a violent and really come to america until you started having by irish immigrants come over and you tell your money, maybe even over the same time. We know that when you have the banjo sorted come like a banjo was broad and allow by africans and those living in all your while all their vile and in those two things that combined perform country music, o phantasm, I wished kimber.
Country music. I know these. I love that document to permit simpleton bump
basque.
A long leg. Man on that country, music, was the rage gross this great nation about and over the next four hundred
twenty nine hours
It is. A document was sixteen hours that european had burnt and my friend. Yes, you do something.
a little bit cause a tale that it even ages, but the on the other hand, I will say that that document or didn't gonna outlaw country enough not enough details on outlaw country. Cocaine like cocaine, you know, can probably didn't. I can't imagine that he looked relate
tat way linen moral in all areas with a sweet man. Yes, yes. Well. All of this is to say that life for a devout massachusetts puritan in sixteen. Ninety two was a highly anxious existence and salem raw.
Backwater that it was had the reputation of being even more
anxious and even more combative? In the rest of massachusetts, it was a pay
in the ass town, full of pain in the ass people, who all pretty much hated each
sitcom, see the sixteen fifties and sixteen sixties.
And became a town more associated with commerce than farming, which caused a rift between town residents and farmers adjust
He was now get it. Jim resentments grew and the founding family,
he's became alienated from the newcomers. This is just one of the first schisms that will rip salem apart. Excuses was actually really good, but it's a schisms happened a lot during this whole time period.
like everyone's comin up a new shit. You know everyone's trying to figure out what this new era of the world is going to be of this new era of humanity. You know things it's abdominal light minutes. After all, this shit in other region, thomas pain, and I know what the fuck is going on now, better, not make it any foreign debt of an utterly. Now don't want that, after that, the smaller salem settlements formed into their own towns-
using their own taxes and hiring their own ministers, which caused even more disputes that, however, didn't solve anything internally, because disputes in the salem area occurred on even
level as micro as the local meetinghouse see. If you wanted to worship and fellowship
rural colonial massachusetts? You'd go to the meeting house at the centre of each town. This was where villagers received, communion and baptist their children. Ok, puritan stance. They had a much good. There was one of the things that they were belled against was the rigid things and the amount of rituals that the catholic
church that could be mounted into idolatry, like you are not supposed to be taking the eucharist. All the time they felt that it was a thing you did once or twice a year like it was for those that were truly say there were the ones that are really kind of a part of it. They felt that the catholics were far too brazen.
I want anybody to take the eucharist to be catholic though, but they also felt that when you knelt- and you believe, like the idea of like that, they eucharist became the blood and the flesh of grace, which is what the catholics believe that, if you kneel at it, you're worshiping the eucharist, which I also felt was idolatry, and so they kept it. There thing was like
decidedly, it's real tight now, but ritually it's real loose like we just kind of throw it out there
tourism is the most important thing and then go on a supper
You gonna wanna have supper wasted little upper trent, transmutation, transmutation, I believe
its trail money that transit on the indication transubstantiation now airway go. I remember catholic school, the puritans. They were focused on the important shit. The ceding chart.
Yeah, it's never changed in the new england. It hasn't changed ever since there have been good for the fights it must happen at new england weddings and I can already see their great great, great, great, great, great, great, great granddaughters right now, the head of the h away, driving everyone frickin in ST helier. Oh, my
I mean really a lot of the disagreements in salem. It's a two way shit. It's a lot! It's these really petty, small grievances that, if I can add oh you're gonna, want to notice. Your fence is not quite high enough and I can see you changing now. Could my watch it change every day and it should be illegal to watch how slowly
I put on a pair of
seating in the meeting house was not first come first serve but assigned signed and based on social rank. See I'm actually not against this, because I don't like the southwest airlines approach. I don't like to have to fight for my seat, but I also don't like the idea of it being like a hierarchy, but it is
I like a good assigned seat complicated, but that's the thing is that you chose that seat when you bought that airline ticket, they did not choose that for you. These are be. The seating here is
being chosen for you, but still all outside
with a view to invite you would you find out about, like one code ali would show business parties that you find out a lot of times your invited to certain levels nellie could like? Oh, you got that red ban. Great you can come to the smaller are. Unfortunately, if you want to go to that other place, do you need a turk?
it's banned as well, and then you find out like how low you are on the totem pole by where you're allowed to drink one watered down whiskey drink absolutely, which is why you should never go to those things with a wealthy were at the front and everyone else was behind them, and the children, servants and enslaved people were all up in the balconies. The seating custom, however, brought its own problems
in sixteen eighty in andover, where many later witchcraft accusations would occur. Remember it. Member wasn't just salem. A new meeting house was built, which meant a new seating plan
If we do not think about that, Larry Larry didn't think about that issue. Let's say: okay, no seats.
everybody. How do knows
visit neighbor
one in yet. Another friction inducing incident can miss a lot like this tiny. These are the tiny things that lead up to mass execution
it's crazy. How simple it all is. Oh, it's very small. It's very silly and remember this is a community. These communities are at most five hundred people. Salem was about. Five hundred sounds like the all milton from office. Space was like. If I get to be in the continental economic it is
yeah, because it gave me the middle see one more fucking time. These are the last little things that give them any form of status or or who hold in their society, and they are all because again, the crops are
right they are. They are in total, dead, absolute chaos and remember
they are also there importing all of their food. All their foodstuffs are being imported. So you have you have insane inflation depression, their fighting, these frontier wars, the fuckin colonial governess,
print and more and more money off would raise at even worse, like everything is back to this is the
Only thing you got eyes sat in roby, remember. Anyone here is living under a tremendous amount of stress and pressure just to survive everyday life every day as a gift to these people in a dish,
elite and Xanga gift sounds like I'll forget, yeah yeah. That sounds like any day you don't choke on your own fucking flim. That is a good day. Nice yeah. The additionally, these people
we're not living anywhere even close to modern new england, if you've ever been out in those forest or even
we've been through new england at night you can attest that it can be a terrifying place and it said that new england felt haunted
Even before so many colonists and indigenous people died out there. That's why TED Kennedy did what he did. He left that woman to die. He was so scared of the ghost. That was a thing as soon as the girls are sitting there and then like. Oh, I gotta get outta you off and then he could never be president. The us senator for fifty gd, that's all long, and since people were already
living under such a constant state of anxiety. The small frictions that naturally occur between neighbors became highly contentious, spiteful and as serious as life and death. This was all made worse, of course, by the fact
puritans of salem, couldn't hold onto a minister willing to put up with their shit to save their lives because, as I said, many of them, if not most of them, were pains in the ass
Do you remember what it would be like to be a mod in a facebook group in the early two, thousands, many thousands like it's that you're just looking at a bunch of people all ready at at at everybody's throats about the dumbest shit
possible. Everything is falling apart and also further evidence that the minister, indeed, is a human position, and you can see these ministers like y'all fucking nuts
I'm, just going to go, I'm going to take my god and go get go because also it's weird too! Is that because he saw where they were truly, they were anti the idea that they're, the gatekeepers to god. They were very anti that
it's kind of funny how these pastors in their world were still important, even though, like you know, they didn't they weren't the gods x, men like priests were in the catholic church or the meant to be community leaders like these guys are there to soothe tensions. That's what they're supposed to do right, but in salem they were quite the hard cat to tame
in sixteen. Eighty four are no authoritative canada rattle your pharaoh cat identity card, as it was no, why the fuck! I said that, but a pharaoh cat is very difficult to hard horse to make dance absolutely especially wants to dance backwards in sixteen. Eighty four
salem hired a minister named lawson
five, a the village, only
enemies faction formed both in support.
and in the end defiance of reverend lawson, which introduced new too
genes in twenty munifi that already had too many to keep track of do it might do. It did unsavoury, I put in benches and set of individuals
there is a new artists share them.
She's in you not sure where your, but were they
yeah yeah, actually, Mary gave fifty
yeah. I her she's, advised by the way, has used it ray. I guess she's coming
My mary sitting pursuing over married you will you get
you get up and allow samantha.
she's. In my face lawson, he left.
His wife and child died and salem. Something like this
everything's ox our right. He had been the third minister to serve and salem village in sixteen years. This is a time and place a ministers average time of service in a town twenty two years,
through three in sixteen, so they just get all the guys that have reached the end of their career. They didn't get all of the whoever wants the shitty assignment. While it's whoever is kind of new and doesn't really give a shit. You know and that's how they got. Minister number, four
a lantern jawed pain in the ass who fit right in co. Named samuel, paris
his name before this fucking guy. I hate this guy. The worst also he's a failed businessman. My keys are like pastors, like the third thing, he's done in life, okay
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immediately demanding a higher salary than the last guy dared at lawson, so he could quote unquote help the community prosper.
That only makes sense to give more money than about you. You re not a bit
me. We're gonna give you more money to help us. The whole thing is: when you give me money yeah, don't you want to see
his smile. That really helps me get in here and go oh you're, a bunch of bitches and should all be killed by the lord. If there's a big storm, it'll help us outright like we didn't come here and seek shelter and let the preacher keep himself safe
I need you honestly, it's better for me to meet god if we die first and then
help you get all in there. You know awesome, here's all our money, because we don't have a lot to begin with. Will Paris also demanded
free firewood. So he could quote write his sermons at
or are we to deal with your insomnia after eight months of the ghost?
on how many duck its they give him. Our the pounds by this point how many pounds, how much free firework would, how often keys in the village finally agreed on a price samuel paris began preaching in salem and over of sixteen eighty, nine less than three years before the trials that made salem infamous began. Now me.
The samuel parris told his parishioners that he was going to crusade for moral reformation and
we could increase church membership. At the same time, though, paris, a puritan hardliner had refused the only
thing that made increasing puritan membership feasible. That was the half way covenant yet
ok. Well, you that you got a coupon for half off your soul. Ok see because puritans had the well deserved. Reputation is strict reactionaries there. Now
merced quickly declined within a single generation in america. We went through all the reasons why, by one thousand six hundred and sixty to thirty years before salem, the puritans were so desperate to bring back members that they came,
with a highly confusing compromise called the halfway coven. It's called the family plan, yeah. Ok, this is great. This I think said that children of non members could be baptized into the church.
Making their parents, partial members who could participate in every aspect, appeared in warship, accept
partaking in the lord's supper. Oh that's what they called communion
Well, they also didn't it's like they didn't have to come to church all the time. So basically, you kind of get off the hook for some of the more strict
well visions of being a puritan, but you're also allowed to get baptized which allows you to vote awesome and be within the culture. It makes all the sense in the world.
that definitely in all knowing all powerful god would come up with that. We come up with my new specific yours prudence like metal. Now you know it's genuinely from the lord, absolutely not at all a human creation appropriately of the five puritan ministers accused of witchcraft during the salem which trials five ministers. All five had accepted the halfway covenant while Samuel paris, arguably the driving seat,
to a force of the trials. Was a staunch opponent till I get help make it all happened, but then kind of got away without it fucking with him at all reared now by paris's. Second aaron salem he'd only gained seven new member, but am
As you can see, you have a look at the islamic beach wall knows fairly large, so some stand for at least three
for a pound and absolutely this was far less any promises and the prisoner seed started with only showed up to church everyone's
while because nobody really liked samuel pair, he wasn't good at it known as a result: paris dead. What many religious leaders in decline do when you think, then why do you think it at weaving,
going to assume he said you can come in
you can have more interesting, bikini car wash.
In a car wash, it is so funny to me growing up a religious when people go to churches and they scout pastors yeah, oh yeah, do it, but then some pastors, but I just didn't
His delivery was like someone going to stand up and like these no fluffy look at it because again is a especially in the same period as the central figure of your whole life. You go when you're
I, like this guy, see my two times a week. You get to go and listen to him. I mean yeah. It is like I said, like imagine, going to see a stand up. Comic. You don't like for an hour twice a week. It's all being a stand up. Man
well now he did not. Do
many car Y, all he did not say more free wine. He turned up the volume
on the paranoia and fear he gave warlike sermons in which Jesus Christ was not a prince of peace but a champion of conquest and an enemy of evil
also folks, you're gonna want to invest in your tactical back on actual bear. They are, as you can see, my skin is following armor: seven, as it has indeed been samuel paris. As I said, he was not popular and salem,
near the end of sixteen ninety one. Just a few months before the first afflicted appeared quite a few people in salem got tired of salem got shit of about to go through number four in eighteen years, but since
We couldn't fire paris outright, for whatever reason they elected instead to just stop
yet now you'll leave maybe I'll leave and they also cut off all his firewood just before.
new england little ice age winter began my poor risk? What am I supposed to do? I just will our. I hope some of these trees are old. Hopefully maybe I could just push back the seventh. Neither do love they just stop pay.
It'd be like Iliff yeah. We know how to get rid of these pastors, though there were a few people backing samuel parris, mostly
those who are the most devout and hardline sour faced old bitches.
normally, so, instead of soothing tensions, paris double down and only made the divisions
salem worse by demonizing those who would stand against him. Although, like every single time, I used to go like my mom used to sing in the christmas choir and the one time, I would enter a church to support my mother loved to see that he loves your voice. If my mom is beautiful, she runs in the family. I was the brass keys, have a great symbol: she's gotta, be she trained singer. She went to college for music as when she was supposed to do fantastic and she ended up with you. Dip she's thankful
I remember going into the church and it was just like you know again. Obviously this, when we're past being a satanist forever and I'm looking at the dip every single time the priest would just ball everybody out for the only time people come as at christmas, and I was like you fucking moron Joseph
should be crushing it right now there and you should be making a laugh, make an escort, because then you not all you do is bitches out every single time. We come to monitor, I'm not coming back. You know that's a little lesson as well. Speaking of stand up comedy it's for people there, don't crucify them for showing up no real lay the crowd lay on the ground that their apparent raise the stakes even higher in october of sixteen ninety one. Just a few months before the accusations began when the
escape goat appeared in nearby chelmsford, it's probably homes or chelmsford, or something awful claire, fantastic. There
A woman named martha sparks, which is my
female alias by martha spark, smartly and Martha sparks. Do you wear
I d c that picture that we put up for the social sphere,
live seen me as a woman exit exists. Pretty good elements that I would have been, I would have been a pretty girl, may always wasted on being a man on various lindane. We asked you to be a woman a lot you really have now wish my choice. Kip, Martha sparks, was charged with witchcraft.
Sent to prison. Now paris heard of this diabolical infection, just thirty or so miles away. He began to carefully calculate his sermons with the purpose of scaring his opponents into ending their opposition. By saying the devil was coming.
sailor, but never something that was Brian?
Croucher always showed me what is happening here. It is a horrible time to be alive, but interesting, so it wasn't sale. That was the first, which was the first which wasn't as detected in salem and thirty miles out yeah. It really was oh now, if samuel parris was a fear
monger on the pulpit. One can only imagine what kind of anxiety monster he was at combs and one bent the broccoli if the devil correctly wasn't invented. Yet I mean it's all wasn't invented. Broccoli was invented huh, there was
our aid will no longer made came round. Was there and no one was broccoli? Inventing the text is sick century around us.
If we get the six right, though it was not
I england in mid eighteenth century yeah, so it wasn't
it wasn't around the black guess it wasn't. I'm so fuckin sorry, my little act out, but was it she historically perfect? Yet it was introduced to england in the eighteen hundred was introduced. Tigers Amerika was introduced.
The tomato was,
american fruit. Okay, let's just move on to Iraq.
They have also been attic. It's almost certain that samuel paris believed his own bullshit and therefore the paris household was one of stress, stress about paris, a salary stress about their dwindling supply of firewood in the face of winter, and the stress of believing that the patriarch was preparing himself to have a personal battle with the deaf. Oh, my gosh, most likely this was all samuel. Paris talked about a home, so it is certainly not a coincidence that the first to be afflicted by witchcraft and salem, with samuel, paris's, daughter and niece, because one thing will talk about in this society- is that again children especially were to be
and not heard they were a part of the work force. You barely people, your barely people, and so I think that there is a strike. I did start reading another book on the salem which trials and I think was called the witches that kind of talk a little bit about bad, and this idea that you know
it kind of become way for you to say, like hello father, will you please pay attention to me. We,
say, hello to me. Right now start to play into his
and to see them now how you get into his hobby yeah. That's what it is witchcraft, this technically dad's hobby.
Beginning in the fall of sixteen ninety one, the two young girls began subtly twitching almost constantly sure just weren't antics,
I have met soon evolved into the violent jerking, a body parts and equal verbal outbursts. Eventually, they out
ass when one girl woke to find her jawed jotting forward uncontrollably? All while her face contracted in spasms, the children soon began saying that there were being bitten by invisible, spectres in their arms, necks and backs twisted and contorted in ways that were seemingly impossible all well. They convulsed uncontrolled
it's cause he's never seen dancing he's never seen anybody do vigorous things besides with a saif. Well, this is something that Natalie
they taught me on the right back from san diego- is that it's not the contortion ism is impossible. It's just that your brain is telling you don't do that yeah, because you're gonna hurt yourself. So your attitude, the contortion training, is what your basically training you're nervous system to be chill with challenging dauphin. But these girls, you know in the throes of whatever, was happening to them. You were able to bypass that neurological function and they were sometimes unable to talk. Their throats sometimes became choked and they reported that pins were being stuck into their flesh all while spectres only they could see pinch them repeatedly and pinching by the way that could be anything from a little saint. Patrick stay tweak to act
don't touch me,
I remember those many men convinced me. I was supposed to get those it's not when I was a kid. The other, like you, didn't, get pinched in the nipple or anything or year bottom money. I like any. I do get knows it did it would they call arrival nor probable nor pollyanna? Let's go there big ol, voluptuous, teddy's and people can't we could keep your hands off it. Doesnt other little boys say I'm fuckin understand sodomy. It's all right, a passage no upon seeing all this samuel
errors can only come to the conclusion of witchcraft, so he brought a doctor to inspect the girls. A one dagda grid,
He too decided that the girls had come under.
An evil. Had him out. Let's take a look at it. Oh well, you act a little bit too rocky and these days most specialist degrees
girls and many of the afflicted who came after may have been suffering from a condition called conversion disorder, which is it's basically physical.
I fear and anxiety in kind of what we talked about, how like this, the concept of like letting yourself go crazy. Finally,
Here's the thing. I will like that. No, no! It's not about that! You get old, I know, but I'm like, I feel like as the accusations increase. There is something about this idea of like giving yourself into the
EDA marketing lose ready to go. You know, I was alluding and, of course, in the even jellicoe believe there's a lot of absolute free,
now going. Oh, yet we can
This order suggests that a person's anxiety, stress and trauma can be converted into a very real and uncontrollable physical affliction like the ones
Zeb it'd by samuel paris, his daughter and needs, try stress, I stress, I'm sure, convergent disorders while we been discovered or whatever I get a bunch of you must have some, but it is a theory,
It's a protean thing. If you're super stressed out,
just like a lot of things that you and your exhibit rashes and takes it still now now
remain to the salem witch trials. Is the possibility that, in rare cases, conversion disorder can spread to other susceptible people like a virus? It's like a sort of anxiety and as contain
in the next two episode. I plan to go in a little bit more about mass hysteria. How and what its origins are, while, additionally, hyper ventilation caused by fear can produce some of the other effects that were back then scientifically known as by which meant hyper ventilation can produce a cramped throat, suffocation fainting in extreme cases, seizure in our voice class in college. They made us hypervenom.
How to go stupid. I don't know
we get what you mean. I see I-
oh yeah, I'm way open
I just get stuck. I can feel it pushing up against my alright. Well, let's just use our mouth and it seems like that. It's better once the fear that causes these symptoms causes real pain. It confirms the sufferer's original fears which in turn intensifies the pain catching the suffer in an ever quickening vicious cycle from the paris girls. The witchcraft hysteria slowly began to spread on January twelve. Sixteen ninety two, a woman named Alice Parker, was lying in the dirt and snow in salem town, seemingly dead,
good wife, Parker had a history of courting quote fits of unconsciousness some time ago to sleep. Much ghostly data alone would have me: I fell out of a car.
and sometimes I'd go to sleep. No money on me. You gotta take a nap. Sometimes you know what I found was a was fun about these times is that a lot of people could died from falling out of carts. I bet yeah, I think if you fell out of the front and the wheel,
crush you re born or worse its nationalists. You sit in their nasa,
down soon? It has no ramble grab. Something will be
if then emmy. We know this woman was suffering from epilepsy. You know and back then epilepsy was seen as a sign of the devil and the men who were called to help this poor woman were scared to touch her shook as she met. They might get some of the devil.
you're not going to get the devil on Anya. Finally,
the men mustered up enough courage to carry her home and put her in bed, but as they tucked her in she very suddenly sat up
it began laughing uncontrollably at all. It's a debt he's a data yeah. So in the villages they weren't far off from that conclusion, but while this wasn't specifically attached to witchcraft just yet it certainly increased tensions in town. Remember man!
This is still like. We've ever been to the area. It's scariest, though so fucking creepy, and so this type of shit like on some level, it's fight, it's funny to me like imagining Alec, her springing up, but also just the idea of a war.
stiff as a board. You could be dead and then you all like put her in at your old deeply afraid of her, because anything
of the normal? Is the work of the David could be evil tat now by february of sixteen ninety two samuel paris was firmly convinced that his daughter and niece where but which I am firmly
but because god waits for no man samuel and his wife traveled to a neighboring village. One day to attend a religious sermon in another town
twisting shoving yelling cousin gay. Will I get
time to yes, so all of this kidnap and I will be back to keep you keep seasoning until I get back away because I still want to make sure the devils inside of you and your backers. That gives
I think they do fascinating. While they were gone. The two afflicted girls spoke with a neighbor named Mary sibley and Mary sibley told him
that if they really wanted to figure out, if they were being plagued by which they needed to practice a little magic of their own, they needed to bake
which cake. Now they only came witches. What's what we do you love is a witch cake with a loaf of rival.
had mixed with the u region of the afflicted and baked into hot ashes. Yet you gotta gave the girls to piss in the bread yeah or you get him the peasant above
and you poured into the bread they meant. I mean I've seen the documents, but how are you gonna do exotic jake, there's more of more than one way to get the best out of a girl, but it's a gift. It differed, meaning of cake, yeah, guess or the cake was then fed to the family doc. Why?
they only read about, then I don't know what the dog does too then find a wet year. What the dog does, when the dog eats the loaf, it's supposed to hurt the witch because you're being eaten. You know because the which might then reveal itself
cause. It's gonna. It's going to hurt the dog that will basically, if the witch sent evil to torture. These girls, then part of that which would be in the evil that afflicted them, which was inside their bodies, but if you removed a part of their bodies in this case urine, you could bake it into a cake and feed it to the dog to torment the tormentor and thereby identify them. It doesn't have
It makes sense just because it does also didn't really work. It doesn't do anything yeah. Well, it didn't really even work the way it was supposed to in salem, even though it did work. I mean blood would be more of the
The babies definitely get hurt them. If you just pp you're and like multiple times a day,
Everybody must be like fifteen, twenty, nine. Even of course, up to this point, witchcraft was a very abstract thing to these. First, two affected girls, but in the baking of the witch cake, magic became very real and physical ized.
It only made things worse because now now we're all in this game together yeah, we just know for a fact. There were some
shabby boy, went to eat the cake and in their look at him like buddy, you dont want to eat echo. Your role requires
It's actually really nice really good. Take a stretch. Once the parris family dog ate the cake, the two afflicted girls cried
hope that their tormentor was within their own household whoa. According to them, the person behind the torture was one of the two people enslaved by samuel parris forgot, to mention
also a slave own. Oh, we all live right. Imagine that sorely legal! So it's cool! Now, ok, her name was to buy and she had been singled out as the which, mostly
please, because she had been the one to bake the witch cake making her the closest thing to which at hand, even though you asked her to do it yeah, that's ridiculous anna teach hard
what do you do? It obviously is the one and one you'd call of what we said at the very top. The quote unquote usual suspects, because she is the help. She is the person that cut and so immediately they're. The first people suspected of witchcraft,
Right now, while we don't know much about tit to buzz origins, she was most likely born in either the caribbean or florida and was brought to new england by samuel parris from barbados. However, Titova was not of african origin, despite how she's often portrayed in movies and films and stage rather tebow, was in teach yoga teacher.
Did it did it didn't buy yeah, he did you buy, I'm
and now I'm remembering why I'm saying Titova is because that's how me and my buddy wes used to say it in high school, I studied the crucible. Then we would just drive around and scream tit to buy. Each other out to see ought to add a lot of fun with that, because it's funded childish way to have the word tit in there and say: yeah. Guess: that's why it's funny, because it also sounds like a
tuba, oh yeah, seven, I'm following or orange identity that you blow on the crew beside that's what I saw
absolutely there's a whole series of different ways to say it:
Tight Juba will teach you buy was one of the cleanest people of south america.
which were one of the many indigenous tribes who have been enslaved by europeans since one thousand four hundred and ninety two, not just the single fact that the paris family have been the first afflicted with highly embarrassing for the reverend. But did you buzz involvement? As the witch herself was dumb
mortifying for salem, so called spiritual leader
I mean I hope she has her revenge. However, she doesn't, however, neighbor Mary sue
we had given paris a gift in the form of a witch kick now he could be.
the arrival of satan on magic instead of the actions of his daughter,
in need of paris completely blameless in the whole affair with macklin. This was even though the witch cake was baked long after the affliction started. Well, it's fantastic. The way it all worked out for him young what's interesting about the first afflicted, though, is the fact that both parents
His niece and his daughter disappeared from the proceedings fairly early on. They were not the main accusers at all see. Even though samuel parris was unpopular, he still had a few friends, and specifically paris was close with a family called the putnam's. Oh yes, the putnam's had a twelve year old daughter, named Ann Putnam, jr and and became afflicted herself
same day that teach yoga baked the witch cake, alfie and le lit of tram come on. Maybe it's puberty, maybe it's maybe she was twelve yeah. Maybe it'd be a little bit of a weird, alright, very mature, twelve year old, as moon from Putnam Jr, the affliction spread to another girl. Seventeen year old, Elizabeth hubbard hubbard worked as a maid for
tat a great deal. You make sure that MR do level, but doktor greg's, if your
amber geared examined paris, his daughter and niece here
is the one who diagnosed them as living under an evil handled to reawaken dated he. No doctor Griggs perform the surgery ass. He left the little guitar back inside,
and then he sued for malpractice, jobs only was absolutely ridiculous. Around and around from outbreak of the semi hagar of doctors of doktor Griggs brought stories of, but which meant home, which were undoubtedly heard,
his seventy year, only certainly within just carried into practice. What has now got to re? Read the ep rattles europe.
Maybe this is preferable. Tat area pencil that thing in these rural english people, germans haven't arrived in america yet settlers, at least not in any large numbers ix ten year, six hundred and
and when did it come domestic too? I don't know
I always be the one with the principal know that these two new girls and
Putnam Jr and Elizabeth hubbard. They were among six that were the major accusers during the salem witch trials. It's most like six girls doing all of this, while six besides and were between the ages of seventeen and twenty and all, but an were servants
or orphaned. These girls were at the very bottom rung of society amongst the free peoples of new england, and they had difficult highly stressful lives of nothing but work from sun up to sundown. They were beaten, one of em like the guy. They work for calder bitch, which I and some were almost certainly sexually abused. Additionally,
Many were also refugees of the frontier warren maine men showed clear signs of ptsd that could have resulted in the aforementioned conversion
in order, when you combine it with the fear of the devil, everything will go better with every every year, but while some of the afflicted were indeed suffering, others were undoubtedly just making shit up and there was precedence for just such an action. One of the most famous cases of witchcraft fraud was that of an gunter in england who almost certainly had a while
fetish for being stuck with needles in pan disco me, the pillar? Oh, my goodness, goon tour of during her time of accusation, Gunter vomited pins,
expelled them from her nose when she sneezed she's. Sometimes she actually pissed pen
out of here, your rehau pins, it cool man, that's an hour to eat like of the fun like burlesque, I mean yes letterman,
still around. She be like stupid human look. What can do with her? You yeah
it sounds we always feature the yuri. I now itself very painful. It was said: pens came from Gunter every orifice, her mouth her, but her vagina.
Ears? Her nose everywhere
it's a range of an by signs bends been our real elbert fish, but when gunter was finally brought before the king, she admitted brought
I may give a go. She didn't have a bunch of pins coming out of her, but oh well. It turns out that you know the whole thing was kind of a plot inspired or not inspired, but was egged on by her father. Her father had this. He had this rivalry with his other,
Emily because he had killed two members that family care during a football game, yankee guideposts dagger- and you like punched him in the head with the butter. The dagger homework is always been hard with several important support, and I assume you meet football football. The Erika awkward now that
It was well known in the seventeenth century as because it had occurred in sixteen o vai. He knows I mean almost a century before salem, but still you know plays were performed recounting the tale of
an gunter been besser manner when a very great that when they bring her back into phase by about volume
so Lulli her and pin head, would make a lovely couple gap. Pinhead PIN bottom yellow was oh yeah. Oh such
not only likely, but a certainty that the puritans knew about an gunter. Seeing the late seventeenth century new england had the highest litter
cr8 in the world, while all had to know the bible backwards and forwards almost by law. But it was one of us. Would you know the pure word of god and less? You yourself read that your word of god. That is one of the only good things that they did, because all I put in the power back into the the the people and not just having someone like read at you from a mysterious book from in front of you absolutely
Literacy rate in new england then was higher than it is now
tested on well good, but since damn near ever,
down to the servants, knew how to read at least a little bit back. Then the encontrar fraud story would have been known, and that was in addition to the widespread availability of real quote, unquote: real witchcraft cases concerning fraud in the afflicted and salem, though they were certainly people in one thousand six hundred and ninety two who thought the cases were fraudulent from the start. One person said that he heard and a flick,
Earl admit that she did it quote for sport, because we must have some sport very furs. Your ball, oh yeah. This meant that some of the girls accused innocent people of witchcraft just for the kicks and kept doing it. Even after people started dying
and it's with those girls and the flood of accusations to come. That will pick back up for part two of the salem witch trials history. It's amazing how many people have been saved because of basketball. He really is right man when get deeper into the history of the infernal, which I'm very excited about we're, getting into some detail of what makes you which what happens when you are a witch? How do you get in that club
salem get so fucking bad, so fucking fast, that's fast.
me the we're going to get into the
accusations next week will probably getting the trials the week after that, of course, don't courses, executions. You know
it just kind of pepper asking me: isn't it yeah? Those are peppered throughout because hanging in new england in sixteen ninety two was not a fun business.
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