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persecuted welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten infamous real-life witch
hunts
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
counting only trials for actual witches
so political witch hunts like the
McCarthy trials of the 1950s are for
another day everyone no sense of decency
sir as long last number 10 the
Northampton shear witch trials in 1612 5
executions were conducted in Northampton
England after several women and men were
accused and convicted of witchcraft
while the main accounts of the trials
differ the witch trials of Northampton
cheer are significant for two reasons
first it was an unusual case in that
more than one person was accused at a
time let us throw open the floor to a
wild accusation in fact six people were
charged with the witching Elizabeth
Belcher and her brother William Avery
second it was the first recorded case
where dunking was used as evidence of
witchcraft if the accused floated they’d
sworn off their baptism and were
obviously witches if they sank they were
innocent but that usually meant they
drowned number nine the kallmes furred
witches in the late 16th century in
Calvert England a woman named Elizabeth
Francis confessed to witchcraft when
confronted she admitted to using her cat
named Satan by the way for all sorts of
terrible deeds often at the cat’s
suggestion apparently he helped
Elizabeth and murder taught her how to
self-abort a fetus and cripples her
husband Elizabeth then came out and
accused Agnes Waterford to whom she had
given the cat while Agnes swore she had
never murdered a neighbour girl said her
cat had turned into a dog with horns and
tormented her Agnes was sound guilty and
became the first woman in England
executed for witchcraft
outrageous as they were the details of
the Calvert witches trial are said to
have shaped modern witch lore number
eight the great Scottish witch hunt
lasting from March to October 15 97 the
second of the five great Scottish witch
hunt saw about four hundred people
accused and roughly half of them are
thought to have been executed
unfortunately it’s unclear what prompted
the 1597 hunt those that occurred at
later dates like the hunts of 1649 and
1661 maintained better records however
it was most likely a combination of
conflict between King James the sixth of
Scotland who was obsessed with killing
witches and was convinced that certain
witches were out to get him
and various opposing forces in 1597 he
announced the hunt and coincidentally
also published his book on which
detection and hunting demonology number
seven the Paisley witches also known as
the bar Guerin witches after accusing
one of her family servants of stealing
some milk
Christian Shaw began having fit she said
she was being tormented by witches and
accused 35 people including the servant
in what was the last mass execution of
witches in Western Europe seven people
were convicted six were executed and one
committed suicide before he could be
hanged and burned two of those executed
were brothers aged 11 and 14 this would
be just another sad story if it weren’t
for one of the accused
Agnes Naismith before death she cursed
the town should her graves be disturbed
in 1960 that very thing happened number
6 the Papen himer family the Pepin
hammers were a poor vagrant family from
Bavaria in the middle of the night the
entire family was pulled from their beds
and arrested after a thief claimed
they’d helped him murder pregnant women
under torture they confessed to
basically every murder and unsolved
crime on the books saying they used
supernatural means and were charged with
witchcraft
the family was then publicly tortured
and humiliated in truly horrific ways
before finally being burned at the stake
as this went on the sheriff forced the
ten-year-old
whole Papen himer to watch so he could
gauge his reaction
the boy was burned at the stake later
that year number 5 the affair of the
poison this is a somewhat convoluted
tale of how poison and paranoia led to a
high-profile witch hunt after a French
aristocrat was accused of trying to
poison her father and brothers in order
to gain possession of their estate
paranoia began to surge through the
French Court two years later another
woman was arrested
however she claimed that she had
information about other murderers more
finger-pointing ensued with several
nobles and prominent figures becoming
mixed up in the affair eventually
sentenced expelled from the country or
burned at the stake at the behest of the
chambre Alden or burning court number
for the pendel witches here’s one of the
most famous witch trials in England as
mentioned earlier James the sixth of
Scotland by 1612 James the first of
England was big on witch hunting and the
pendel trial exemplified his insatiable
desire to eradicate witches set off by a
series of accusations from the members
of two rival families each vying for
dominance as local healers they were
arrested by the local magistrate and
brought to Lancaster Castle the most
dramatic and devastating blow in the
trials came when 10 year-old genic
device accused her whole family and all
were put to death we know so much about
this trial because it was well recorded
by Thomas pot in the wonderful discovery
of witches in the county Lancaster
number three the tree or witch trial the
witch trials of trier germany are
considered some of if not the largest
witch trials in European history no one
was spared from accusation a third of
those executed were nobles and others
were respected members of the community
one of the accused
d-trix laws was the university rector
and chief judge of the Electoral Court
he opposed the trial saying that torture
was ineffective I can cope with torture
don’t believe me as a result he was
arrested tortured and burned after him
there was no vocal opposition left to
separate villages were completely
cleaned out save for one lone survivor
each the total death toll is listed at
368 but some historians put that number
as high as 1000 number two the basque
witch trial this was an attempt by the
Spanish Inquisition to stop out all
witchcraft and if you know your history
you know those guys were not messing
around amongst our weaponry ah such
elements as BS are coming again the
Hunts began in logroño in northern
Spain in January of 1609
by the end over 7,000 people had been
examined the proceedings were put on
hold after the first year so that the
inquisitors to gather more evidence
strangely no one knows quite what
prompted the basque witch hunts and even
the inquisitors at the time felt
skeptical and didn’t believe there to be
evidence of which is in the area now
every solstice people gather in a cave
in Sugata mordy to honor the witches who
were burned near their number one the
salem witch trial the name salem is now
synonymous with witches and in north
america the Salem witch trials were
certainly the most famous of them all
the tragedy of Salem occurred when mass
hysteria met for crowd control after a
group of girls began having violent fits
and hallucinations the town’s folk
immediately cried witches and the trials
began let’s come to our senses everyone
this witch hunt is turning into a circus
shake away
unlike some witch hunt the accused and
the accusers in Salem were all
previously friends and neighbors when
all was said and done over 150 people
were accused 19 people were hanged as
witches
one man was crushed to death and two
dogs were shot
the town owns that history now but at
the time after the meaning of past the
town was horrified by their own acts do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from watch mojo and
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persecuted welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten infamous real-life witch
hunts
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
counting only trials for actual witches
so political witch hunts like the
McCarthy trials of the 1950s are for
another day everyone no sense of decency
sir as long last number 10 the
Northampton shear witch trials in 1612 5
executions were conducted in Northampton
England after several women and men were
accused and convicted of witchcraft
while the main accounts of the trials
differ the witch trials of Northampton
cheer are significant for two reasons
first it was an unusual case in that
more than one person was accused at a
time let us throw open the floor to a
wild accusation in fact six people were
charged with the witching Elizabeth
Belcher and her brother William Avery
second it was the first recorded case
where dunking was used as evidence of
witchcraft if the accused floated they’d
sworn off their baptism and were
obviously witches if they sank they were
innocent but that usually meant they
drowned number nine the kallmes furred
witches in the late 16th century in
Calvert England a woman named Elizabeth
Francis confessed to witchcraft when
confronted she admitted to using her cat
named Satan by the way for all sorts of
terrible deeds often at the cat’s
suggestion apparently he helped
Elizabeth and murder taught her how to
self-abort a fetus and cripples her
husband Elizabeth then came out and
accused Agnes Waterford to whom she had
given the cat while Agnes swore she had
never murdered a neighbour girl said her
cat had turned into a dog with horns and
tormented her Agnes was sound guilty and
became the first woman in England
executed for witchcraft
outrageous as they were the details of
the Calvert witches trial are said to
have shaped modern witch lore number
eight the great Scottish witch hunt
lasting from March to October 15 97 the
second of the five great Scottish witch
hunt saw about four hundred people
accused and roughly half of them are
thought to have been executed
unfortunately it’s unclear what prompted
the 1597 hunt those that occurred at
later dates like the hunts of 1649 and
1661 maintained better records however
it was most likely a combination of
conflict between King James the sixth of
Scotland who was obsessed with killing
witches and was convinced that certain
witches were out to get him
and various opposing forces in 1597 he
announced the hunt and coincidentally
also published his book on which
detection and hunting demonology number
seven the Paisley witches also known as
the bar Guerin witches after accusing
one of her family servants of stealing
some milk
Christian Shaw began having fit she said
she was being tormented by witches and
accused 35 people including the servant
in what was the last mass execution of
witches in Western Europe seven people
were convicted six were executed and one
committed suicide before he could be
hanged and burned two of those executed
were brothers aged 11 and 14 this would
be just another sad story if it weren’t
for one of the accused
Agnes Naismith before death she cursed
the town should her graves be disturbed
in 1960 that very thing happened number
6 the Papen himer family the Pepin
hammers were a poor vagrant family from
Bavaria in the middle of the night the
entire family was pulled from their beds
and arrested after a thief claimed
they’d helped him murder pregnant women
under torture they confessed to
basically every murder and unsolved
crime on the books saying they used
supernatural means and were charged with
witchcraft
the family was then publicly tortured
and humiliated in truly horrific ways
before finally being burned at the stake
as this went on the sheriff forced the
ten-year-old
whole Papen himer to watch so he could
gauge his reaction
the boy was burned at the stake later
that year number 5 the affair of the
poison this is a somewhat convoluted
tale of how poison and paranoia led to a
high-profile witch hunt after a French
aristocrat was accused of trying to
poison her father and brothers in order
to gain possession of their estate
paranoia began to surge through the
French Court two years later another
woman was arrested
however she claimed that she had
information about other murderers more
finger-pointing ensued with several
nobles and prominent figures becoming
mixed up in the affair eventually
sentenced expelled from the country or
burned at the stake at the behest of the
chambre Alden or burning court number
for the pendel witches here’s one of the
most famous witch trials in England as
mentioned earlier James the sixth of
Scotland by 1612 James the first of
England was big on witch hunting and the
pendel trial exemplified his insatiable
desire to eradicate witches set off by a
series of accusations from the members
of two rival families each vying for
dominance as local healers they were
arrested by the local magistrate and
brought to Lancaster Castle the most
dramatic and devastating blow in the
trials came when 10 year-old genic
device accused her whole family and all
were put to death we know so much about
this trial because it was well recorded
by Thomas pot in the wonderful discovery
of witches in the county Lancaster
number three the tree or witch trial the
witch trials of trier germany are
considered some of if not the largest
witch trials in European history no one
was spared from accusation a third of
those executed were nobles and others
were respected members of the community
one of the accused
d-trix laws was the university rector
and chief judge of the Electoral Court
he opposed the trial saying that torture
was ineffective I can cope with torture
don’t believe me as a result he was
arrested tortured and burned after him
there was no vocal opposition left to
separate villages were completely
cleaned out save for one lone survivor
each the total death toll is listed at
368 but some historians put that number
as high as 1000 number two the basque
witch trial this was an attempt by the
Spanish Inquisition to stop out all
witchcraft and if you know your history
you know those guys were not messing
around amongst our weaponry ah such
elements as BS are coming again the
Hunts began in logroño in northern
Spain in January of 1609
by the end over 7,000 people had been
examined the proceedings were put on
hold after the first year so that the
inquisitors to gather more evidence
strangely no one knows quite what
prompted the basque witch hunts and even
the inquisitors at the time felt
skeptical and didn’t believe there to be
evidence of which is in the area now
every solstice people gather in a cave
in Sugata mordy to honor the witches who
were burned near their number one the
salem witch trial the name salem is now
synonymous with witches and in north
america the Salem witch trials were
certainly the most famous of them all
the tragedy of Salem occurred when mass
hysteria met for crowd control after a
group of girls began having violent fits
and hallucinations the town’s folk
immediately cried witches and the trials
began let’s come to our senses everyone
this witch hunt is turning into a circus
shake away
unlike some witch hunt the accused and
the accusers in Salem were all
previously friends and neighbors when
all was said and done over 150 people
were accused 19 people were hanged as
witches
one man was crushed to death and two
dogs were shot
the town owns that history now but at
the time after the meaning of past the
town was horrified by their own acts do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from watch mojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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