There was only one burning for witchcraft in England. Most were hanged. Elizabeth Clark was 80 at the time of execution and apparently only had one leg. She was also hanged not burned after being accused by a local tailor.
And in fact, I don't believe there are any recorded burnings in this manner, only at the stake.
The most common punishment for witchcraft was hanging, and Mathew Hopkins hanged witches. Burning was primarily a punishment for heresy. yes there were witch burnings, mainly on the continent. Surprisingly, most Inquisitors thought hunting for witches was beneath their dignity-- and in a truly Orwellian twist, one Inquisitor even argued that by their very desecration of the Host, witches affirmed their holiness and were therefore not committing heresy, or "false belief"
Actually they did burn people for heresy, treason, and witchcraft. Some notable people who were burned at the stake are Joan of Arc, William Tyndale, and John Huss.
@redraiderz2014 Don't get me wrong, Luther did break up the catholic church, from its monopoly over Europe, but his people did this sort of thing to women and children too.
Oh, you will have a rude awakening some day. I assume you are not familiar with Sharia Law. Read "Witch Craze", where the worst treatments doled out to women were through Protestant Germany and England. Or does that notion conflict with your bias?
@molarmama5 Read my earlier comments, I know Protestants did the same thing, the reformation just got everything started in the right direction. And for your information, I took Arabic and Middle East culture class for two years, some of my best friends have been Saudis and Iranian. I just don't think they will ever carry out the ideals of a few crazy people...and I really think we've killed more of them than the other way around.
That is a terrible way to die. But for some reason I feel like events like these will reapeat themselves. People will line up outside of stadiums to watch so called demons and witches burn. The way the world is going it won't be long.
Sadly, it's very believable that people would gather round like that. Human beings of every century need a scapegoat, some one to fear and hate. In the 17th it was 'witches.' Nowadays it would be pedophiles.
I find it disgusting that, throughout much of history, Europeans thought that "others", such as tribal peoples, or Asians, or Africans, etc., were barbaric, while at the same time, or in the past, they had performed the most horrific, sadistic, horrendous things to their fellow men, women, and children. Its estimated that several hundred thousand women were tortured and executed during the witch hunts and inquisition; every single one being innocent.
@halecomet99 maybe some did wanted to help but there are other people that are brainedwashed and believe she is witch evil, like if a wind was made i'm sure those men would tell the villigers: see she is a witch she made that wind to try to blow us away there's your proof ( when it was just a normal wind) and if it rained i'm sure they would tell them: see she's using her witch magic to put out the flames like a coward.
Have no idea what's going on here, just guessing this: Elizabeth Clark and that man were in love. The girl in the window was jealous and turned her in, guilty or not. Looks like she's having just a slight bit of remorse about it. Again, just guessing.
Non believers on the other hand would realise that many of those killed were innocent victims who didn't need to change and were merely used as scapegoats because they were alone or elderly or whatever.
You make some fair points but religion also dictates to people how they should lead their lives. Religious people cannot think for themselves but are conscientiously enslaved by their belief in a higher diety and sometimes arrogantly impose their views on others. As for God deciding death is it just that ex dictators can die in luxury clinics in their 80s whilst poverty-stricken children are robbed of their life in floods? If there is a God, it is far from a just one.
I'm not too sure who is more stupid those who call christian cunts or those who honestly think this is primarily what the church did in the 15th and 16th century. Learn history folks. What you are seeing here is "rare" even in the Medieval world which did this about as much as the Catholic Inquistors did. LEARN YOUR FUCKING HISTORY!!!
@DCSk8er529 seriously such crazy and disturbing i would never bring my kids to this stuff, i wouldn't let them watch it, have them have nightmares, be traumatized.
@DCSk8er529 and i do understand why people would believe in these crazy things back then, if someone had a seizure back then they would think you were possessed and i can see they would think that cuz it does make it look like it even though it's not, it's normal but then it wasn't understood
@halecomet99 i'm sure there were a few that wanted to stand up and help, but i'm sure the people that orders this crap would look at them as a traitor.
Abrahamic religions and religious people are the most disgustingly misogynistic, racist, intolerant and hypocritical things that have ever walked this Earth. Be it Islam, Christianity or Judaism, they're all the same. They condone and recommend hurting others for the sake of God.
@katchoo2 yes that's true Matthew Hopkins was a odious fiend, whose method of execution was hanging. The English employed burning as a means of execution, but it was used on 'heretics' and by the 17th and 18th centuries, against women convicted of treason or 'petty treason' (murdering their husband), and 'coining' (counterfeiting money).
THe method show here was used in the Netherlands and Spain. A similar method was also used by some Native Americans. Cruelty knows no civic boundaries.
OK for those who don't know much about this part of history... YES SHE DID LIVE, YES SHE WAS INNOCENTLY BURNED AT THE STAKE... AND YES THE GUY RESTRAINT WAS HER FIANCEE WHO WAS ALSO EXECUTED ABOUT THREE YEARS LATER. R.I.P ELIZABETH!
@SatanRulezGod I hate christians. At least Satanist and wiccans don't go around slandering other people's faith. Or setting them on fire, or torturing them to death. Christians are the true evil of the world
@tweethang1 This was a really long time ago. Modern-day Christians would never even consider doing this to someone. It's against the law AND the Ten Commandments to murder. But I'm just telling you for information's sake; I can't make you not hate someone.
This is what really bad rumors can do to someone. She actually lived, but the real elizabeth was hung instead of burned. The witch trails were something that should never happened all because of one totally false rumor 27 ppl were hung and 1 was crushed to death. God rest her soul whereever her soul might be!
In 1645 England was a Protestant country. Matthew, not Matteo, Hopkins was an appointed witchfinder. The Inquisition did not exist in Protestant England. This is a clip from the 1968 film Witchfinder General, about Hopkins.
LOL - load of Rubbish, Elizabeth Clark was over 80 and had one leg. She confessed after sleep deprivation, her eyes were were not removed and she never burnt at the stake but was hung. Tragedy non the less. What makes this case famous is the fact she was the first person to be executed by the 'witch finder general' . This happened in Essex during the 17th century - quite a few witches got away and can be found in Southend today ! haha
@centralcoastgirl1984 Uhh the catholic church had alot of power in midevil europe and those who opposed the church or those who felt someone was a threat. They burned them alive. DUH!! Do some history reasearch
Please hate Maoism and Stalinism as well, which killed more people than Christianity ever did. Please note as well the myriad world-wide Christian relief organizations that have helped multitudes over the last 50-100 years. Christianity evolved as humans did. It makes no sense to judge the Christians of 300 or more years ago, with their limited views of the world and human nature, by contemporary standards.
No, sweetheart, I don't. Mao and Stalin (remember that I included Stalin) managed to kill many, many more in less than a century than misguided Christians did in many more years. I'm not "desperate" about anything, much less this. I am citing the facts. You need only look them up, sweetie:).
check some facts and do some math. If the Christians tortured anyone historically, it was learned behavior, as Christians suffered considerably more at the hands of Christian-haters throughout history, up to and including today.
@PhilipFairweather. Point well taken. The Sign of the Cross would have freaked out English Puritans but not the Anglicans. In fact, Henry VIII considered his church an "English" Catholic Church rather than a Protestant church when he broke away from Rome in 1532. It wasn't until the 1580's, when Henry's daughter by his second wife Anne Boleyn , Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope that the English Church was considered "Protestant". and thus, "Heretic."BTW,Henry had Anne beheaded!
they were not christians so dont blame us! its clearly against god's will to kill anyone, no mattter what he/she has done. christianity referes to christ-like and since christ never killed anyone, would it be conciderd ''christ-like'' to kill or execute?
u should no that in the medieval bible it refers often that witches should b put to death... so if wat u said is true... then is the bible wrong and fiction?? it is a very difficult and confusing topic!!!!
Who, precisely, are you cursing? Contemporary Christians who don't share the beliefs (who does?) of 300-400 years ago? Those who held such beliefs all those centuries ago? Or whom?
@wigmeistergeneral hey not so fast. The witch trails were a fallacy of justice. Those who participated in these horrific acts were not by any means christain. Though they claim to be most did it out of fear of being called a witch themselves. THE PEOPLE IN THE VID ARE BY NO MEANS CHRISTAIN... BTW Do a little more researech next time.
That is a typical religionist attitude. Trying to gloss over the dark elements of Christianity; the fact of the matter is they were doing it in the name of God. Sure they may not be your ideal Christians and they may not be representative of most Christians even at the time but you can't escape from the fact that they were acting in the name of Christianity. It is like muslims who can't accept that Islamism came out of the Salafist branch of Islam.
@actionstingray He is right all the catholic church is good for is burning and torturing people at least during those times, but if they could they would do it even now. Last i remember Jesus never said burn all heretics, christians bought into the Malius Farcareme i don't thinl it's speled right but it was a book to find signs of witchcraft and how to torture them. It was wrote by a nut job who was going to be banished from the church.
As for the Christianity part, these punishments were not sanction in the New Testament. If it was Old Testament it probably would have been by stoning.
The New Testament emphasised bring people to repentance and God not wishing any to perish. In fact in Acts 19:18-20 people who practised sorcery, confessed their sins and the only things burned were their scrolls.
True Christians would be converting, not killing any so called "witches"
@Frienze7 Well your wrong. Most people in those days said they where true christians. The cry of the bishops where. DESTROY THEM ALL AND THE LORD WILL KNOW HIS OWN! Many women, men, and even children where burned, hung, drowned, tortured to death, or beheaded in the name of god and the prince of peace aka jesus. Thats why I am not a christian
We have no right to judge the past by today's standards. However the executions were done, they were done according to the law at that time, and those executed were considered criminals and were being punished.
The last person to be convicted under witchcraft legislation was during the 1940's and they were a medium who was giving away highly classified war secrets.
People burned at the stake were unshod, so that the feet, one of the most sensitive areas of the body, felt the pain first, increasing the agony of the executed.
Actually, if you want to get pedantic about it, the vast majority of all those burned were actually first strangled by the ececutioner, who put a rope through the stake and quickly strangled the victim as the flames took hold. Or the family put extra brushwood down so that the fire burned quickly. What you talk about was rare and often only through accident (eg Joan of Arc - the flames took hold before she could be strangled and the pyre was too high).
However they were executed, i find this video (despite its obvious out-of-date screen play) very disturbing and makes me think just how simple and narrow minded people were in those days.
and cue the classic cut away scene so that we can burn the stuffed look alike. The screaming does make it more realistic though the first time I watched this I was stunned.
As usual, Hollywood gets it wrong.This is1645 in England-at the time of the English Civil War between King Charle's I Cavalier's(Protestant moderates-Anglican/Episcopalian) and Cromwell'sParlimentarian Roundheads ---(Puritan fanatics). This was not a Catholic Inquisition.Puritans were more gung-ho about witches-thety usually hung them.The woman in the clip making the Sign of the Cross-BS-it was a"Papist" -Catholic gesture which would have got her in trouble.Protestants went after "witches"also.
I was replying to Vastedda99 comment on how Hollywood gtting it wrong, plus when did I say hat this was ahollyood film? Looks like you are a pathetic little boy haha!
Haha goodness your the type of people that take such films as the Divinci Code literally! People like you really have to start realising that these film are made for entertainment purposes! haha I will not continue this conversation as it is clear you have anger issues, insulting strangers haha!
if you rely on books to teach you your history, it is you who has a flawed knowledge of history-books will always be biased to the point the author wants to make
Making the sign of the cross would have been totally normal behaviour for an Anglican in the 1640s...the Puritans would have raised some eyebrows though...The Anglican Church retained much Catholic ritual and still does to this day...When Henry VIII broke from Rome, it had more to do with his argument with the Pope than any desire to change the Church radically...
As a result, it's always been a matter of debate whether the Anglican Church should be seen as a Catholic Breakaway Church or a totally reformed Protestant one...At this point in history, Charles I was of a much more Catholic persuasion, whilst many in the Parliamentary camp were Puritans...Just one of the many things that brought about the terrible strife that was the English Civil War...I've never seen this film and the burning itself is obviously more for dramatic effect than historical accur
This form is actually the most mercifull form. She was burned all at once instead of slowly like one would if tied to a pole. I've also see another form where there was a ladder for them to stand on with a bar going across attached to post. Their hands were tied to that pole. The ladder would slowly burn away first and then they would slowly be fed into the fire as the rest of the structure gave away.
From the dark ages on was a time of fear and superstition as well as greed and power. Durning the dark ages there were plagues and death. More then likely the witch trials in england happened the same way they did in new salem. a strange phnomenon that wasn't natural occured or someone spread a rumor out of spite and the whole thing got out of control.
In England, women accused of witchcraft were usually hanged, not burned. Execution by burning was reserved primarily for women guilty of treason or heresy. Mary I, or "Bloody Mary" as she became known burned about 300 protestants at the stake because they did not acknowledge the Roman Catholic Church (England had broken away from Rome under Henry VIII). Just a little FYI ;)
The way the fire is burning you'd have thought the executioners would have been burned.
charlamain2209 5 days ago
There was only one burning for witchcraft in England. Most were hanged. Elizabeth Clark was 80 at the time of execution and apparently only had one leg. She was also hanged not burned after being accused by a local tailor.
And in fact, I don't believe there are any recorded burnings in this manner, only at the stake.
paddy689909 4 weeks ago
Hard to watch. I can't imagine what kind of pain that must be!
johnburtonbalnis 1 month ago
The most common punishment for witchcraft was hanging, and Mathew Hopkins hanged witches. Burning was primarily a punishment for heresy. yes there were witch burnings, mainly on the continent. Surprisingly, most Inquisitors thought hunting for witches was beneath their dignity-- and in a truly Orwellian twist, one Inquisitor even argued that by their very desecration of the Host, witches affirmed their holiness and were therefore not committing heresy, or "false belief"
footbxr74 1 month ago
@Kendylsmyd
Actually they did burn people for heresy, treason, and witchcraft. Some notable people who were burned at the stake are Joan of Arc, William Tyndale, and John Huss.
666rulerofclones 1 month ago
ok someone needs to get their facts strait,,,,,,they never burned anyone thts a lie......they hung them >.>
Kendylsmyd 1 month ago
For a hot time.... call Elizabeth.....
JaleelJohanson62 3 months ago
this is how it ends for ye.....
03Blackbeard 4 months ago
Bring forth FireWhisp.
03Blackbeard 4 months ago
look stop insulting christians and catholics jeez it happened more than 300 years ago its over okay? jesus
METALLICARULES11 4 months ago
this is the reason so many people hate catholics im a christian but seriously
METALLICARULES11 4 months ago
how can u torture a human ? how heartless u gotta be?
julie101rox 5 months ago
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"Religion is the root of all evil"
summer999ppp 6 months ago
Oh my God...
Mrhappyteddybear 7 months ago
How the Catholic Church is a bigger terror organization than any Islam extremist group. Thank God for Luther and the reformation.
redraiderz2014 8 months ago
@redraiderz2014 Don't get me wrong, Luther did break up the catholic church, from its monopoly over Europe, but his people did this sort of thing to women and children too.
Boudiga 8 months ago
@Boudiga Yes, but it got Christianity headed in the right direction, where it wasn't basically the sole voice over the government.
redraiderz2014 8 months ago
@redraiderz2014 True. Religion needs to stay out of our laws.
Boudiga 8 months ago
@Boudiga i agree this is the reason so many people hate christians
METALLICARULES11 4 months ago
@redraiderz2014
Oh, you will have a rude awakening some day. I assume you are not familiar with Sharia Law. Read "Witch Craze", where the worst treatments doled out to women were through Protestant Germany and England. Or does that notion conflict with your bias?
molarmama5 8 months ago
@molarmama5 Read my earlier comments, I know Protestants did the same thing, the reformation just got everything started in the right direction. And for your information, I took Arabic and Middle East culture class for two years, some of my best friends have been Saudis and Iranian. I just don't think they will ever carry out the ideals of a few crazy people...and I really think we've killed more of them than the other way around.
redraiderz2014 8 months ago
It amazes me how the 'audience' of this barbaric act stays completely calm during this woman's horrible death.
If I had to watch something like this in real life I would faint or puke my guts out.
Floberovpapagaj 8 months ago
@Floberovpapagaj I know, right. This dramatization was down right tame compared to how people must have reacted when they witnessed that.
I don't care if I WOULD HAVE believed they were a witch- I couldn't do that to somebody I who never intentionally hurt someone else.
Excessivecontrast 7 months ago
@TheGoddessofmusic007 there's this church that's not far from my house and on it's board it says: Believe in Jesus not a religion.
VanilleFF 9 months ago
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@hayleysuperstar Witches were heretics.
kjmylly 10 months ago
@hayleysuperstar Witches were heretics.
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SuperJoseph1961 11 months ago
That is a terrible way to die. But for some reason I feel like events like these will reapeat themselves. People will line up outside of stadiums to watch so called demons and witches burn. The way the world is going it won't be long.
cocomcloven96 1 year ago
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cocomcloven96 1 year ago
Hey, wait a minute, Elizabeth Clarke was hanged...
RugtimXII 1 year ago
@RugtimXII
and use people as an example.
DofS1 1 year ago
well no TV you have to give the public some entertainment
dave2806 1 year ago
Is it true that Matthew Hopkins died in a house fire?
Myles0Harcourt 1 year ago
@Myles0Harcourt if he did, it was fitting.
Notawesomeatall7 1 year ago
@Notawesomeatall7
I hope he was caught on a staircase that slowly subsided into the flames.
Myles0Harcourt 1 year ago
Chuck Norris would have walked out of that fire.
rustydog0329 1 year ago
The real Elizabeth Clark was 80, had just one leg and was hanged.
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there are no such thing as witches
Shakib09 1 year ago
@TheGothgirl98 Most of the people killed during the inquisition where innocent
tweethang1 1 year ago
Sadly, it's very believable that people would gather round like that. Human beings of every century need a scapegoat, some one to fear and hate. In the 17th it was 'witches.' Nowadays it would be pedophiles.
jegspillerpiano 1 year ago
I find it disgusting that, throughout much of history, Europeans thought that "others", such as tribal peoples, or Asians, or Africans, etc., were barbaric, while at the same time, or in the past, they had performed the most horrific, sadistic, horrendous things to their fellow men, women, and children. Its estimated that several hundred thousand women were tortured and executed during the witch hunts and inquisition; every single one being innocent.
pkart7 1 year ago
@halecomet99 maybe some did wanted to help but there are other people that are brainedwashed and believe she is witch evil, like if a wind was made i'm sure those men would tell the villigers: see she is a witch she made that wind to try to blow us away there's your proof ( when it was just a normal wind) and if it rained i'm sure they would tell them: see she's using her witch magic to put out the flames like a coward.
AnimeLuver70 1 year ago
Don't think THAT didn't hurt!
hotrodheart9 1 year ago
Have no idea what's going on here, just guessing this: Elizabeth Clark and that man were in love. The girl in the window was jealous and turned her in, guilty or not. Looks like she's having just a slight bit of remorse about it. Again, just guessing.
annabelle2ful 1 year ago
@TheGothgirl98
'REAL Christians would just pray that she change'
Change?
Non believers on the other hand would realise that many of those killed were innocent victims who didn't need to change and were merely used as scapegoats because they were alone or elderly or whatever.
WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 1 year ago
@TheGoddessofmusic007
You make some fair points but religion also dictates to people how they should lead their lives. Religious people cannot think for themselves but are conscientiously enslaved by their belief in a higher diety and sometimes arrogantly impose their views on others. As for God deciding death is it just that ex dictators can die in luxury clinics in their 80s whilst poverty-stricken children are robbed of their life in floods? If there is a God, it is far from a just one.
WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 1 year ago
scream
wifiman1 1 year ago
I'm not too sure who is more stupid those who call christian cunts or those who honestly think this is primarily what the church did in the 15th and 16th century. Learn history folks. What you are seeing here is "rare" even in the Medieval world which did this about as much as the Catholic Inquistors did. LEARN YOUR FUCKING HISTORY!!!
chrisklecker 1 year ago
@chrisklecker Not that rare in my country they executed
over 300 people between 1668-1676 until a doctor named
Urban Hiärne managed to stop the madness.
svartekaptenen 1 year ago
i dont get how people find this so exciting, just to hear someone scream, i find it disturbing.
VanilleFF 1 year ago
@VanilleFF i agree. back then u would get executed just for disagreeing with a religin. people were idiots back then,
DCSk8er529 1 year ago
@DCSk8er529 seriously such crazy and disturbing i would never bring my kids to this stuff, i wouldn't let them watch it, have them have nightmares, be traumatized.
AnimeLuver70 1 year ago
@AnimeLuver70 i feel so bad for that man who watched his fieoncee burn to her death... the most disturbing thing to ever watch.
DCSk8er529 1 year ago
@DCSk8er529 heck yeah, imagine a family watching their child in this situation
AnimeLuver70 1 year ago
@AnimeLuver70 o god thats worse than seeing ur fieoncee burn to death.
DCSk8er529 1 year ago
@AnimeLuver70 HEY YOU!!
tweethang1 1 year ago
@DCSk8er529 and i do understand why people would believe in these crazy things back then, if someone had a seizure back then they would think you were possessed and i can see they would think that cuz it does make it look like it even though it's not, it's normal but then it wasn't understood
VanilleFF 9 months ago
@halecomet99 i'm sure there were a few that wanted to stand up and help, but i'm sure the people that orders this crap would look at them as a traitor.
VanilleFF 1 year ago
Painful way to go don't you think?
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FUCK YOU CHRISTIANS!!!
tweethang1 1 year ago
@TheGothgirl98 Good for you.
alrune8 1 year ago
@TheGothgirl98 You know, you shouldn't leave your safe little bubble too much sweetheart.
alrune8 1 year ago
@TheGothgirl98 Alright so we can make fun of anyone but not Jews... Why is that? Why are you supposed to get special treatment?
alrune8 1 year ago
@TheGothgirl98 Are you being serious or are you trolling?
alrune8 1 year ago
@SatanRulezGod OH SO TRUE!
alrune8 1 year ago
@TheGothgirl98 Why shouldn't we make fun of Jews, just like we make fun of Christians and Muslims?
alrune8 1 year ago
Abrahamic religions and religious people are the most disgustingly misogynistic, racist, intolerant and hypocritical things that have ever walked this Earth. Be it Islam, Christianity or Judaism, they're all the same. They condone and recommend hurting others for the sake of God.
alrune8 1 year ago
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Thank God I am not a christian.
travelingbard119 1 year ago
they should go to their room for that and get grounded for 2 weeks :)
TheJuicyfruitx 1 year ago
anyone who tried to help her would have been burned too. the church would even burn little girls as young as 10 for "sexual activity with the devil"
blubabylon 1 year ago
Um... according to the actual evidence, Elizabeth Clarke was a one legged eighty year old woman, who was hanged.
Not a voluptuous, two legged beauty who was burned.
katchoo2 1 year ago 2
@katchoo2 yes that's true Matthew Hopkins was a odious fiend, whose method of execution was hanging. The English employed burning as a means of execution, but it was used on 'heretics' and by the 17th and 18th centuries, against women convicted of treason or 'petty treason' (murdering their husband), and 'coining' (counterfeiting money).
THe method show here was used in the Netherlands and Spain. A similar method was also used by some Native Americans. Cruelty knows no civic boundaries.
monteverdi1567 1 year ago
evan today the catholic criminals kill people by burning on the stake in Africa,the Orthodox Church was peacefull
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NDandColtsMan 1 year ago
this videos rong she was hung to death not burned she was also 80 yrs old
emoJames7214 1 year ago
OK for those who don't know much about this part of history... YES SHE DID LIVE, YES SHE WAS INNOCENTLY BURNED AT THE STAKE... AND YES THE GUY RESTRAINT WAS HER FIANCEE WHO WAS ALSO EXECUTED ABOUT THREE YEARS LATER. R.I.P ELIZABETH!
countrywillneverdie 1 year ago
If she was a witch don't you think her magic would have helped her escape?
freakylocz14 1 year ago
@freakylocz14 Good point.
davidhilton 1 year ago
people enjoyed this save her
foreveryouforeverme 1 year ago
ah, the good old days when Catholics were in power.
TravisTravels 1 year ago
@SatanRulezGod I hate christians. At least Satanist and wiccans don't go around slandering other people's faith. Or setting them on fire, or torturing them to death. Christians are the true evil of the world
tweethang1 1 year ago
@tweethang1 This was a really long time ago. Modern-day Christians would never even consider doing this to someone. It's against the law AND the Ten Commandments to murder. But I'm just telling you for information's sake; I can't make you not hate someone.
MissDelphilia 1 year ago
This was a classic Vincent Price movie. Was also pretty true to how Hopkins did business. Kind of like a Tea Party get together wasn't it.
dannyv2468va2 1 year ago
Jesus loves you...with a burning passion.
dopaminevitae 1 year ago 14
This is what really bad rumors can do to someone. She actually lived, but the real elizabeth was hung instead of burned. The witch trails were something that should never happened all because of one totally false rumor 27 ppl were hung and 1 was crushed to death. God rest her soul whereever her soul might be!
countrywillneverdie 1 year ago
those were extremists. just saying....haha sorry but the acting in this just a little funny too
fieldhockeyhog 1 year ago
@fieldhockeyhog actually at that time they were very main stream
TBAL285 1 year ago
In 1645 England was a Protestant country. Matthew, not Matteo, Hopkins was an appointed witchfinder. The Inquisition did not exist in Protestant England. This is a clip from the 1968 film Witchfinder General, about Hopkins.
polemeros 1 year ago
Wow, talk about the single most painful way to die!!!
Deader87 1 year ago
poor people getting killed because they are witches??
ahlexisdeocareza 1 year ago
quit blaming religion itself... its the fault of the village people
jesusmobile2 1 year ago
@jesusmobile2 it's the fault of religion. period.
alrune8 1 year ago
from what movie is it?
morganbrianipswitch 1 year ago
Those two guys holding the poor guy at 0:57... I would spit them in their ugly faces! Christian retards...
VampireZombieX 1 year ago
A) Like someone said she was in her 80s and confessed
B) The lady looking out the window looks too modern
C) The man being helf back looks to modern and clean to have put up a fight
D) She was hanged not burnt at the stake.
Get you facts straight please
JemimakittenCat 1 year ago
ELIZABETH !!!!!1111
metalmess 1 year ago
LOL - load of Rubbish, Elizabeth Clark was over 80 and had one leg. She confessed after sleep deprivation, her eyes were were not removed and she never burnt at the stake but was hung. Tragedy non the less. What makes this case famous is the fact she was the first person to be executed by the 'witch finder general' . This happened in Essex during the 17th century - quite a few witches got away and can be found in Southend today ! haha
dgkinger 1 year ago
I'm a catholic & I swear I had no idea. What does being a catholic have 2 do with it anyway?
centralcoastgirl1984 1 year ago
@centralcoastgirl1984 Uhh the catholic church had alot of power in midevil europe and those who opposed the church or those who felt someone was a threat. They burned them alive. DUH!! Do some history reasearch
tweethang1 1 year ago
poor women killed by stupid fuckin'bastard!
morganbrianipswitch 2 years ago 15
That wasn't very nice.
Poking her, binding her, burning her
Fucking inhuman
chocolatefountain95 2 years ago
they should go to their room for that and they should be grounded for at least a week
thevideogamerzz 1 year ago
christian bastards
wigmeistergeneral 2 years ago
Elizabeth clark was 82 shes sure looks good for her age lol. XOXOOXOXO
Darklordsslave 2 years ago
, i would have told that asshole, if he killed heror any more, he would be the next to die,
risktaker125 2 years ago
some jews should have been burnt too ..for poisoning wells and usury !!
napajedlacek 2 years ago
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Gay mothafuckin sub-human jewish retards.
bastard organ stealing jews,liars cheats barbarians
TheTomgonzalez 2 years ago
I agree, Torturing anyone was wrong no matter what
micayla4 2 years ago 2
Torturing anybody is wrong, regardless of religion, or lack thereof
Caleigho 2 years ago 3
yes, it is a great idea to take your little kid to a public execution! 1:13
gotnukes70 2 years ago 3
Hate Christianity...
venenum147 2 years ago
Please hate Maoism and Stalinism as well, which killed more people than Christianity ever did. Please note as well the myriad world-wide Christian relief organizations that have helped multitudes over the last 50-100 years. Christianity evolved as humans did. It makes no sense to judge the Christians of 300 or more years ago, with their limited views of the world and human nature, by contemporary standards.
stevevandien 2 years ago
Are you sure, my dear?
venenum147 2 years ago
Quite, darling:) --
stevevandien 2 years ago
OMG, you are desperate. Your Christians killed more people than Mao Zedong. Don't you believe that, honey?
venenum147 2 years ago
No, sweetheart, I don't. Mao and Stalin (remember that I included Stalin) managed to kill many, many more in less than a century than misguided Christians did in many more years. I'm not "desperate" about anything, much less this. I am citing the facts. You need only look them up, sweetie:).
stevevandien 2 years ago 3
check some facts and do some math. If the Christians tortured anyone historically, it was learned behavior, as Christians suffered considerably more at the hands of Christian-haters throughout history, up to and including today.
13nyarlathotep 2 years ago
@PhilipFairweather. Point well taken. The Sign of the Cross would have freaked out English Puritans but not the Anglicans. In fact, Henry VIII considered his church an "English" Catholic Church rather than a Protestant church when he broke away from Rome in 1532. It wasn't until the 1580's, when Henry's daughter by his second wife Anne Boleyn , Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope that the English Church was considered "Protestant". and thus, "Heretic."BTW,Henry had Anne beheaded!
vastedda99 2 years ago
This was a messed up time in history. If someone just simple accused you. It would be very possible to be burned at the stake for being a witch.
BitterBarbara 2 years ago
you fucking christian cunts
wigmeistergeneral 2 years ago 6
they were not christians so dont blame us! its clearly against god's will to kill anyone, no mattter what he/she has done. christianity referes to christ-like and since christ never killed anyone, would it be conciderd ''christ-like'' to kill or execute?
Allblack25 2 years ago 2
u should no that in the medieval bible it refers often that witches should b put to death... so if wat u said is true... then is the bible wrong and fiction?? it is a very difficult and confusing topic!!!!
mmorr4 2 years ago
People printed the bible differently to suit their own means and it still happens today.
MissKit 2 years ago
it's what you do, not what you say, that defines you.
icefox1983 2 years ago
Who, precisely, are you cursing? Contemporary Christians who don't share the beliefs (who does?) of 300-400 years ago? Those who held such beliefs all those centuries ago? Or whom?
stevevandien 2 years ago
@wigmeistergeneral like you know anything
goldchamp71 1 year ago
@wigmeistergeneral hey not so fast. The witch trails were a fallacy of justice. Those who participated in these horrific acts were not by any means christain. Though they claim to be most did it out of fear of being called a witch themselves. THE PEOPLE IN THE VID ARE BY NO MEANS CHRISTAIN... BTW Do a little more researech next time.
countrywillneverdie 1 year ago
@countrywillneverdie
That is a typical religionist attitude. Trying to gloss over the dark elements of Christianity; the fact of the matter is they were doing it in the name of God. Sure they may not be your ideal Christians and they may not be representative of most Christians even at the time but you can't escape from the fact that they were acting in the name of Christianity. It is like muslims who can't accept that Islamism came out of the Salafist branch of Islam.
WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 1 year ago
@wigmeistergeneral you fucking ateist cunts, mi fuking jewish cut, everyting fuck.
darjavauch1 1 year ago
@wigmeistergeneral Racist bastard
actionstingray 1 year ago
@actionstingray He is right all the catholic church is good for is burning and torturing people at least during those times, but if they could they would do it even now. Last i remember Jesus never said burn all heretics, christians bought into the Malius Farcareme i don't thinl it's speled right but it was a book to find signs of witchcraft and how to torture them. It was wrote by a nut job who was going to be banished from the church.
Chevymonster203 1 year ago
Religion will be destroyed by light!
heartless33 2 years ago
Man, that scene was so scary. Is this from a movie?
ByakuganTaiChi 2 years ago
Yes. If you'd read the rest of the comments, you would have seen that it's from "Witchfinder General", AKA "The Conqueror Worm" (USA title).
lurkerrekrul 2 years ago
I see. Thank you.
ByakuganTaiChi 2 years ago
As for the Christianity part, these punishments were not sanction in the New Testament. If it was Old Testament it probably would have been by stoning.
The New Testament emphasised bring people to repentance and God not wishing any to perish. In fact in Acts 19:18-20 people who practised sorcery, confessed their sins and the only things burned were their scrolls.
True Christians would be converting, not killing any so called "witches"
Stickings90 2 years ago 2
I disagree. I think true Christians should be accepting, not intent on converting.
Frienze7 2 years ago 3
@Frienze7 Well your wrong. Most people in those days said they where true christians. The cry of the bishops where. DESTROY THEM ALL AND THE LORD WILL KNOW HIS OWN! Many women, men, and even children where burned, hung, drowned, tortured to death, or beheaded in the name of god and the prince of peace aka jesus. Thats why I am not a christian
tweethang1 1 year ago
We have no right to judge the past by today's standards. However the executions were done, they were done according to the law at that time, and those executed were considered criminals and were being punished.
The last person to be convicted under witchcraft legislation was during the 1940's and they were a medium who was giving away highly classified war secrets.
Stickings90 2 years ago
She wasn't even burned properly.
People burned at the stake were unshod, so that the feet, one of the most sensitive areas of the body, felt the pain first, increasing the agony of the executed.
SickBritKid 2 years ago
"burned properly"
Actually, if you want to get pedantic about it, the vast majority of all those burned were actually first strangled by the ececutioner, who put a rope through the stake and quickly strangled the victim as the flames took hold. Or the family put extra brushwood down so that the fire burned quickly. What you talk about was rare and often only through accident (eg Joan of Arc - the flames took hold before she could be strangled and the pyre was too high).
219970 2 years ago
sick
singersdestiny101 2 years ago
However they were executed, i find this video (despite its obvious out-of-date screen play) very disturbing and makes me think just how simple and narrow minded people were in those days.
Ally856 2 years ago
*sigh* I hate this.... it was so wrong..... it IS so wrong..... I would've been hung back then for sure.
Xarina37 2 years ago
sick
bbykin 2 years ago
hahaha "Com'on ya little bitch"
ultimate0death 3 years ago
and cue the classic cut away scene so that we can burn the stuffed look alike. The screaming does make it more realistic though the first time I watched this I was stunned.
actheaterstudent 3 years ago
As usual, Hollywood gets it wrong.This is1645 in England-at the time of the English Civil War between King Charle's I Cavalier's(Protestant moderates-Anglican/Episcopalian) and Cromwell'sParlimentarian Roundheads ---(Puritan fanatics). This was not a Catholic Inquisition.Puritans were more gung-ho about witches-thety usually hung them.The woman in the clip making the Sign of the Cross-BS-it was a"Papist" -Catholic gesture which would have got her in trouble.Protestants went after "witches"also.
vastedda99 3 years ago
Plus Elizabeth Clarke was an 80 year old woman with one leg and was hung not burnt.
laurenlfc48 2 years ago
The truth is more important than the facts, and this is not a Hollywood film, silly child.
VariedInterest 2 years ago
I was replying to Vastedda99 comment on how Hollywood gtting it wrong, plus when did I say hat this was ahollyood film? Looks like you are a pathetic little boy haha!
laurenlfc48 2 years ago
Think this was a Hammer House of Horrors..Witch finder general .British 1960ish .with vincent price.
urenco1 2 years ago
Haha plus the truth is the facts haha! Go pick up a book.
laurenlfc48 2 years ago
Ironic council for you to offer me.
VariedInterest 2 years ago
Haha she was not burnt she was hung!!
Haha goodness your the type of people that take such films as the Divinci Code literally! People like you really have to start realising that these film are made for entertainment purposes! haha I will not continue this conversation as it is clear you have anger issues, insulting strangers haha!
laurenlfc48 2 years ago
`go pick up a book`
if you rely on books to teach you your history, it is you who has a flawed knowledge of history-books will always be biased to the point the author wants to make
bulked 2 years ago
If you read the discussion you will see that he told me to go pic up a book first so i replyed by saying "you need to go pick up a book"
So therefore it is very flawed that you argument isthat I rely on books when I do not. haha!
laurenlfc48 2 years ago
laurenlfc48 - what'd you mean by haha often. are you laughing or something or is that you're enjoying the discussion. you often use haha
rangy8888 2 years ago
No it's just so people now that i'm not taking this to seriously.
laurenlfc48 2 years ago
you intend to put as
"No it's just to show people know now that i'm not taking this too seriously"
is that what you mean?
rangy8888 2 years ago
No I meant No it's just so people now that i'm not taking this too seriously.
:S
?
laurenlfc48 2 years ago
Making the sign of the cross would have been totally normal behaviour for an Anglican in the 1640s...the Puritans would have raised some eyebrows though...The Anglican Church retained much Catholic ritual and still does to this day...When Henry VIII broke from Rome, it had more to do with his argument with the Pope than any desire to change the Church radically...
PhilipFairweather 2 years ago
As a result, it's always been a matter of debate whether the Anglican Church should be seen as a Catholic Breakaway Church or a totally reformed Protestant one...At this point in history, Charles I was of a much more Catholic persuasion, whilst many in the Parliamentary camp were Puritans...Just one of the many things that brought about the terrible strife that was the English Civil War...I've never seen this film and the burning itself is obviously more for dramatic effect than historical accur
PhilipFairweather 2 years ago
This form is actually the most mercifull form. She was burned all at once instead of slowly like one would if tied to a pole. I've also see another form where there was a ladder for them to stand on with a bar going across attached to post. Their hands were tied to that pole. The ladder would slowly burn away first and then they would slowly be fed into the fire as the rest of the structure gave away.
actheaterstudent 3 years ago
From the dark ages on was a time of fear and superstition as well as greed and power. Durning the dark ages there were plagues and death. More then likely the witch trials in england happened the same way they did in new salem. a strange phnomenon that wasn't natural occured or someone spread a rumor out of spite and the whole thing got out of control.
actheaterstudent 3 years ago
Who's the hot piece of ass in the window?
PHANTOMZ0NE 3 years ago
what film is this from? i have never seen it.
Shannonwriter 3 years ago
that is true. most people accused were hanged not burned.
i'd rather be hanged than burned. I would like 2 say that
i hope all of the souls rest in peace. did u know that most
people died of the somk instead of the flames.
CathedralGuitar 3 years ago
In England, women accused of witchcraft were usually hanged, not burned. Execution by burning was reserved primarily for women guilty of treason or heresy. Mary I, or "Bloody Mary" as she became known burned about 300 protestants at the stake because they did not acknowledge the Roman Catholic Church (England had broken away from Rome under Henry VIII). Just a little FYI ;)
Chrisrex83 3 years ago