Witch: A Tale of Terror
A women confessed that she was not a witch but was poor and that, even if set free, no one would give her food.
Sir George estimated that 2/3 of the accusations were false and that many of the victims were poor and that the confessions were through torture (1:30)
Woman who forgives her persecutors (1:27) but the prosecutor believes she is still guilty.
Test whether witches float via ordeal. (1:30)
King James exports witchcraft persecution from Scotland (1:31)
Floating Test, Reciting Lord’s Prayer (1:38)
Weigh more than the Bible (1:39)
Man who is paid per witch caught. Threatens not to come (1:40)
People feel no one is safe from his reproach. Mob accuses him of being a witch (1:42)
Educated people stop believing in modern witchcraft ~1650 (1:45)
Not 1/100 witches would be convicted if a normal trial would be given (2:11)
Duke has woman accuse Jesuits of Sorcery (2:35) Frederick S, Schondbrun, Duke of Brunswick (~1650)
- condemned torture, swimming of witches
Man couldn’t account for headache (2:43)
Native Americans think Salem settlers an inferior species because he Great Sprit sent no witches(2:50)