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Five Facts Concerning Witchcraft

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This video is about five different facts regarding witchcraft, including Salem's witch trials, all the a through south African police units that specialize in hunting down witches in the modern day. According to the UN, upwards of a million people die each year due to mere accusations of witch craft in places such as South Africa.

The video is 5:47 long:



I would appreciate it if you would please watch the video before making any comments and please keep the comments about the video.
 
I am the direct descendant of some six or seven of those accused as witches during the Salem witch trials, one of which was executed. And also one of the trial jurors who later recanted. The video is misleading in that it states that there were "lots of witch hunts both before and after Salem," and this is true, but they did not occur in the American colonies. There were isolated incidents in the American colonies; I've studied them all, but none that resulted in execution. The bible used at the time was, for the most part, the Geneva bible, but women were not weighed as a measure of witchiness.

I was also at one point living in a place called Hexenbruch, named for the last witch executed in Germany in 1769. Between the years 1628 and 1631 Wurzburg, Germany, was said to have executed some 900 witches to include judges, burgermeisters, educators, and even clergy. Bamburg also hosted its own witch trials during this same time period.

I would add, and this is particularly true of the Salem witch trials, that these events were largely the result of a pagan legacy carried over from former Druid days; their "superstition" follows rather particular measurable form. This was not then the result of any effort by the church to punish either witches or heretics as may have occurred in Europe (Even in Europe the church itself was more focused on heretics than witchcraft.) It is further complicated by local politics, internal strife that spanned decades, and feeling amongst Europeans, influenced by Roman Catholicism, that those who denied the existence of witches were witches themselves.

It's a curious matter because even the concept of wisemen who sit in judgment, to adjudicate village disputes, is a descendant of Druidism. And it was alive an well in MA Bay as evidenced by the recorded use of talismans, and the court testimony itself. In fact, it is with us to this day.
 
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okay, I'll admit to some ignorance, but i am very curious.

how can you be a descendant of six of them, especially since they were on both sides of the issue/
 
Well if we arrange a family tree in pyramidal form, placing ourselves at the top... it's easy to envision the number of recent ancestors. Of the last fourteen or fifteen generations in my family tree, some 90% arrived in MA Bay 1635 or earlier. So I had a lot of maternal ancestors here. And they were involved in virtually everything, every major event. Which makes the study of colonial history and genealogy interesting.

But I'd also add that I'm a major euromutt, probably amongst the most ethnically diversified in America. Because America has long been a melting pot.
 
I apologize if asking that was out of line, and thank you for answering.
 
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