Witches, Witchburning and Torture in the 16th and 17 th century in Europe

[CommanderFlores]

this is a sadness for my people

[hextai111]

Those Catholics just following Jesus Order , it was written

Exodus 22:18 " Do not allow a sorceress to live "

[stephanieisme01]

I hope the men pigs who tortured and burned people suffer in HELL FIRE for eternity. the catholic church can burn in their HELL. I hate all religions, they are not of any God. The Goddess will revenge them.

[RichyBMelodies]

This is the elevator music as you descend into hell.

[SavageSS2010]

Ummm,, The Inquisition caused an unparalelled catastrophy???? HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH Ummm,, hate to pop THAT bubble but millions more people have died due to SECULAR reasons than RELIGIOUS. Even if you multiplied the Inquisition, the Crusades, Holy Wars, Ireland, etc,, by 100,, you STILL would not have near the atrocities committed by,, say,, the Bolshiveks ,, or look up Pol Pot in Cambodia. OOOH!!! Dont forget HITLER . So get your facts straight before posting such crap..

[Toermalijntje]

The probable number of people executed during the Burning Times was between 200,000 and 500,000. Roman catholic churge is the only criminal that has never been to trail.

Some numbers of the unknown: 17,000+ killed in Scotland from 1563 to 1603

70,000 killed in England after 1573 40,000 executed between 1600-1680 in Great Britain 22,000 executed in Germany 1610-1840 30,000 burned by the Inquisition 300+ killed in South Africa between 1986 and 1996 100+ killed in Indonesia, 1998

[mytummyrumble]

God bless em..

[Guernsey2010]

Don’t blame the song if the singer can’t hold a tune. The hierarchy of Church ceased to worship God and worshiped the things of this world power, money, etc. To paraphrase Jesus “there are those who call on my name who I don’t know” i.e. if you are doing evil in God’s name it still counts as evil.

[brdaws]

This religion is the most cruel one ever, all the blood they shade for their fukin ideals and all the people that had to suffer because of it!!! Be ashamed if ure christians and u folow the church, because the killer more innocent people than fuckin adolf!!! Why did they kill all of this witches? Because of u stupid sheeps!!!

[islandmango75]

Man Made Terror ....Not God made....

[102163srj]

This is an interesting myth propagated by Protestants desiring to defame the Church from which they were in rebellion. New scholarship has proven the Inquisition was more humane and just than a majority of the secular royal Protestant courts of the same era. In psychology this is known as projection - deflecting upon an innocent institution the sins of the guilty institution. Further secular scholarship will continue to exonerate the Catholic Church of the so-called Black Legend.

[racheladams456]

Question: Did it ever cross the Puritans minds, that if witches were real, and they possessed these alleged "powers", that they would use them to escape their brutal excecutions?! I know if I were a witch, I would most definately use my powers to fly somewhere safe. Why on earth would a "witch" use magic to hurt people, but not use magic to save themselves?

[TheGesimodo]

Don't forget this is a time before reason that we have today, it is before science, people are constantly at the edge of famine and starvation. Paranoia sets in and a scapegoat is found - the witch. It is far too harsh to judge people on today's standards, we live in a fruitful world with the aid of science, we can never understand what it is like to live in such a time.

[kbdkbd99]

Regarding 15th and 16th century witch-burning - the author writes "a human catastrophe, which is unparalleled in the history of mankind". This is hardly accurate.

Let us not forget the holocaust where 6 million people died.

Neither should we forget the Hindu holocause where an estimated 80-million people died between 1000CE and 1500CE, at the hands of muslim invaders in India.

[456Banjobecky]

one of the worst deaths i can imagen is someone killing someone and them going to prison tied to the rotting dead body that the person killed and while that dead body is rotting it kills the healty person through its diseases and rotting flesh thats a slow death of a healthy person rotting to death may sound gross but its true

[wolfmother8719]

you know there are witch hunts still going on all over the world but i stead of the catholics doing the killing, it's the born again assholes going on strong in africa

[davidhaythornthwaite]

i dont beleave in witches, they are todays doctors, thats all

[gahctep]

From the torture and murder of innocents back then

to the sexual molestation of innocent children today

what a lovely institution the Catholic church is

How people continue to believe in their bullshit

is beyond me.

[Kelly14UK]

I was boiling a pot tonight and the heat got scary at points, so I had to pull my head back. The heat was nothing compared to what these people went thru. What would Jesus make of this? People did this in his name? WTF? Not to mention it went on in Poland right up to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution?

[DarkmanFlow]

Dieses Video hat mir die Tränen in die Augen getrieben... Ich interessiere mich unheimlich für europäische Mittelalterliche Geschichte und ich beschäftige mich oft mit Themen, wie der Inquisition, doch es erschreckt mich immer wieder, wie real und grausam das Ganze war... Über den Mönchsgesang hörte ich die Schreie der Gefolterten in meinem Kopf... Einfach nur traurig.

[heliosjewel]

How can people blame Jesus or God for this. These heads of the church were just using religion as an excuse to keep people under control. It's power and money that are the problem. Religion is like nylon, man made.

[druidsfoot]

@heliosjewel Thats been the founding reason behind the Christian religion from the onset.

To control and dominate.

Monotheism in general and Christianity in specific are the worst catastrophes to ever befall mankind.

Christianity singlehandedly destroyed the sum on human knowledge and threw us into a dark ages from which we are still struggling to extricate ourselves.

Yet even today, people still follow that silly myth, to the death.

Fuck Yahweh, Fuck Jesus.. let them die.

[asenboi]

@druidsfoot You're a witch!! You must be burned!!

[Severe777]

@heliosjewel Because that was the whole reason for the Inquisition. To remove people from Paganism and turn them to Jesus and the beliefs of the Catholic Church. Real spiritual knowledge has been destroyed and stolen from us, people well knew back in that time "the jesus crap" was a scam. And they paid for it, in blood.

[MrJohndl]

Irrational beliefs, fear, ignorance and automatic obedience to authority figures. This is what you get. If the boss says you can and must do it, well its all good. The responsibility is then not ours. And if the boss is the creator of the universe....

[vagoz1976]

watching all this brutality i am getting one conclusion. God for sure does not exist. we were always alone...

[jmsa007]

so that is why Jesus came to earth. Good job Jesus!

[jmsa007]

I dunno what is worse. The atrocities that were committed then or the fact that some people have not evolved now.

[gmaureen]

@jmsa007 As was pointed out yesterday in the news. A woman in Iran will be stoned to death very soon...within days. According to the report, her crime is not substantiated. However, according to the law, judges can go with their "feelings" regarding her guilt. She will be buried, up to her neck, and stones of the correct size (not so large as to eliminate her suffering) will be thrown until she is dead. I don't think the world has changed a lot.

[VanilleFF]

@gmaureen that's sad, horrible, i agree the world hasn't changed much, maybe a small small bits, but not as much as we hope, there's still violence, hate, fighting it's getting old now, getting tiring. i wish we could just love the world without this hatred crap, etc

[Nangelfans]

600!Jahre Sadismus morden unschuldige Menschen!

Das ist perverser Fanatismus!

Ekel!

[BaltoMovie]

Christians let god be your guide for blood

[Nangelfans]

Alles grausame Sadisten!!!

[makkertje]

Those poor women .... burned by cruel inhumans...

[MsStormcrow]

may the burning times NEVER happen again!

It still baffles me how such hatred can fester in the hearts of humans, and the terrible things that have been done in the name of god!

this has nothing to do with god, and everything to do with mankinds fear and weakness. may the souls of all those who suffered persecution at the hands of the inquisitors find peace on the other side. blessed be )O(

[mariemary]

This is so horrible! I can't believe some people find it very amusing to see others being tortured or even have such brutal ideas as a way of tortured :( . . . May God blessed the poor innocent souls~

[crimsondragoneye2109]

All this just to try and favor God, how disgusting. May those corrupted bastards rot in hell stained with the innocents' blood

[KOLOCAL]

isnt religion fun!

[zeelove8]

monstrous,,, im a catholic school girl from back when the nun will slap ur face for whispering on the lunch line,, our principal was far more creeper then any horror movie, an they lead us to believe as lil children that wed surly burn in hell for not attending church, well there is no wonder why my religion today is no religion, i believe in love an judge no one, i feel so sorry for all lost in this hypocrisy this sadistic-evil, its all so so soooooo very sad, may the creator bless them*

[InstrumentofGod360]

Does not God avenge us from such evil wicked sorcerers, What happened to "Donot be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good"? Is it not the Lord Jesus teaching to love thy enemy?

[ptm5150]

Gods grace abounds!

[danmanjones]

they will pay

[CreamOfShitz]

silent hill(homecomming)

[martonezo10]

in all those years over 50,000 women and men died from this nonsense

[fsjfred]

fucken white people for ya

[Weston1968]

It fucking amazes me that these Evil People thought this is what God wanted. The Catholic Church!

[mikebe41]

Thou shall not kill..surely weny up in smoke here

[Marmalade000000]

I'm shocked that such atrocities went on for more than 600 years!!!!

[starbabe58]

very sad stuff

[dsmfishgal]

Sad stuff.