Chronicles of Persecution: King James I's Dark Mission

Chronicles of Persecution: King James I's Dark Mission | Parable

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3 жыл бұрын

In the late 16th century, Europe was in the grip of a brutal witch hunt fever. Thousands were tortured and burnt at the stake. Up to 40,000 people may have been killed in France and Germany alone. England and Scotland were almost untouched by witch persecutions until King James decided to launch his own personal war on witchcraft. This war on witches likely fuelled the Salem witch trails in America a hundred years later.
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@sitizenkanemusic 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine being a brilliant alchemist/pharmacist, healing everyone and spreading life and joy at a time so dark... only to be arrested, tortured for weeks, and burned alive. I'm glad I'm not living in those times.

@Rivenburg-xd5yf 3 жыл бұрын

"No good deed goes unpunished".

@TheCissero 3 жыл бұрын

seems like some superstitions hurt animals. So there were and are good healers. But, there are dark arts hurting innocent defenseless. But, misogynistic malignant narcissists scapegoating innocent girls and women who were beautiful. Just because they adored loved nature animals using plant medicine. I hate sadists who torture subjugate the innocent weaker defenseless

@1922Skidoo 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Brilliant thinkers are always a threat 😳so of course they must be a witch..

@abdelkadertahar2608 Жыл бұрын

I m not brilliant pharmacist but I had fear when I read your comment.

@anarchorepublican5954 Жыл бұрын

..rather imagine being "brilliant Alchemist": playing with pins and wax figure effigies; filling sacrificial fetish holes with swan skins, fertilized eggs, and Goat heads?...nothing Satanic there...nope... rather why the very "dawn of Science" itself...interrupted by nothing but Churchy superstitions?. ..

@stephaniesilvia9977 3 жыл бұрын

“Wise folk” were the original nurses and midwives

@1922Skidoo 2 жыл бұрын

Poor Agnes 😢

@anarchorepublican5954 Жыл бұрын

44:33/45:06..🕳⤹🐐 ...just a batch of healthy "Goat's Head Soup" Eh?... please explain the healing properties of ...playing with pins and wax figure effigies; filling sacrificial fetish holes with swan skins, fertilized eggs, and Goat heads?...nothing Satanic there...nope... rather why the very "dawn of medical Science" itself...interrupted by nothing but Churchy superstitions?. ..

@NannupTiger 3 жыл бұрын

I cannot get enough of this subject, although it is so terribly tragic... these men were true sadists, to, especially women 😟

@susanmercurio1060 3 жыл бұрын

Just plain old misogyny

@rebeccafoster8765 3 жыл бұрын

👏 I am right here with you. The flat out ignorance is as real today as it was during 1600

@Rivenburg-xd5yf 3 жыл бұрын

it had a political angle: the non Christian cultures allowed women to own property and fill leadership positions. Romans, due to inheritance of culture from their pagan days, did NOT allow either. A charge of witchcraft could disable a female politician in an adsorbed culture, taking out 50% of Romes "enemies"without firing an arrow.

@jacksmith6559 3 жыл бұрын

Look into The Witch Finder General what a sicko

@thelightwithin7437 3 жыл бұрын

BDMS men still dominate this using women who have past trauma to easily convince them into submission and selflessness all to please HIM doms are rarely women and many dominatrix are Trans pretend to be women in this community of sex magik work; thats what it is weather they believe it or not it's ritual

@Idolhands7007 3 жыл бұрын

These are the things I think of when I hear people say that they want more religion in government.

@Idolhands7007 3 жыл бұрын

@scottbaino actually, they injected god into schools in the 50s. Actually school as we know it didn’t exist until the 20s-30s. The problem is that we’re actually having debates over wether or not to teach children knowledge from a book of fairy tales and not from the last 400 years of collective knowledge. But seriously, in what ways has this country declined since the 60s? And how is that directly related to a lack of Christianity being taught as fact? And which sect of the cult should we use? Protestant? Babtist? Catholic? Jehovas witness? Jewish? Methodist? Calvinist?... there are over a thousand different versions of “god”. Which one do you think we should use? Or should we not use any of them and use our ducking brains to figure stuff out? Just like the largely enlightened and atheist founding fathers made abundantly clear?

@bibiayube677 3 жыл бұрын

There is no telling what religious people would do when they have power

@subliteral 3 жыл бұрын

@scottbaino It seems rash to compare religious instruction in schools , or the lack of it , with the bizarre paranoia of witch hunts. History has shown , however , the types of repression that happen when religion combines with the power of the state & applies doctrine as law over the populace. The founders of America , for instance, recognized that the two must remain separate for freedom to exist , while they themselves had varying degrees & types of religious viewpoints. If we consider them to have been so wise , should we not consider following their example?

@ehhhhhe 3 жыл бұрын

I would have been killed if I lived back then for sure. Rest in peace to all the victims of the witch trials. ❤

@StRaphael-we9qn Жыл бұрын

SORRY, witches 🧙‍♀️ don't RIP.

@sambarrett871 3 жыл бұрын

She turned me into a newt!

@MrsRemyLebeau 3 жыл бұрын

I got better!

@harridottie 3 жыл бұрын

I got better.

@heikkijhautanen4576 3 жыл бұрын

Madness and genocide :(

@jamieyoho2310 3 жыл бұрын

This is awesome. Thanks!

@bibiayube677 3 жыл бұрын

A good person would do good a bad person would do evil things but for a good person to do evil it takes religion

@danielpalma1426 3 жыл бұрын

Thank God Matthew and Diana didn't time travel back to the 1600s London!!!!

@barryjive1104 3 жыл бұрын

Actually, I hated season 2 and wouldn't have minded one bit had this been the alternate ending. That was some eye rolling-ly bad writing.

@m.h.a.2404 3 жыл бұрын

Is he the james who authorized the king james version of the bible?

@KatieB33 3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@m.h.a.2404 3 жыл бұрын

@@KatieB33 how can someone like him authorized a bible version?

@teabearchurchill5600 3 жыл бұрын

@@m.h.a.2404 Its good to be the King.

@KatieB33 3 жыл бұрын

@@m.h.a.2404 he’s the king 👑 he can do whatever he likes. Constantine took reincarnation out of the bible when he converted to Christianity because he thought the poor people wouldn’t work hard enough.

@eamonnmurphy5385 3 жыл бұрын

@@KatieB33 If you can point out the primary source ancient writings for Constantine meddling with the Bible, I will follow up your claim. Otherwise, this looks like one of the many unsubstantiated myths about him.

@harrietharlow9929 2 жыл бұрын

I often wonder if I had an ancestor who was killed during this time. I know I would have been one of those killed during the Burning Times. I am strange in many people's eyes and I love the Lord and Lady. May we never see a repeat of this dark period in history.

@barneyrubble4827 Жыл бұрын

we already are in case you havnt noticed

@Unkn0wn1133 3 жыл бұрын

Humm. I once found the body of a baby goat with no head in the woods. The head had been cut off. I always wondered if it was part of someones sacrifice or ritual of some kind. Very disturbing at the time either way.

@benlund5162 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoy the Parable series of videos. But they're so saturated with ads that it's impossible to fall asleep to any. Unfortunate.

@brianrodney712 Жыл бұрын

There can be few people in history whose mother and son were beheaded as were those of this king.

@Fionan95 2 жыл бұрын

And the persecution of women continues right up to this day

@LeonNikkidude 2 жыл бұрын

Never again shall people be charged with this kind of craziness 🚨

@barneyrubble4827 Жыл бұрын

this is still quite possible. just disobey govt orders or associate with demonized people's has not changed thru history. examine Canada & Australia last 2 yrs

@curtisstewart9426 3 жыл бұрын

King James was also considered bisexual. James was a Protestant, so I don't think the Protestants in England, went as far as the Catholic Church did in condemning people they thought were witches. Protestants also sentenced to death, those they thought were witches. Many were false accusations.

@gsalien2292 3 жыл бұрын

No such thing as a witch, so they were all false accusations

@curtisstewart9426 3 жыл бұрын

@@gsalien2292 Only if you don't believe in Witchcraft. I personally don't believe in it. Witchcraft is known to exist today in some Caribbean countries, and parts of Brazil.

@tridentyyz1031 3 жыл бұрын

The "witches" were mostly what would have been considered midwives in current times.

@lifesprodject5265 3 жыл бұрын

@@gsalien2292 wow have you been living under a rock??

@nomdeguerre7265 3 жыл бұрын

@@gsalien2292 The ‘scientists’ & ‘experts’ with overwhelming consensus believed in witchcraft. It was the agreed ‘science’. Even Roger Bacon believed it, as he was convinced by the overwhelming agreement of the ‘authorities’ of the time.

@amberhillman8877 3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't like that remarked said about the journalists.

@jamesmiller4184 Жыл бұрын

Ye GUD olden dais!

@frankmc5021 2 жыл бұрын

They dressed me up like this!

@KevinBrady-fy3cx 11 ай бұрын

Life is so difficult and full of pain and suffering for so many people (often rooted in poverty) making a pact with the devil would make perfect sense. After all God serves only the rich and powerful. There's obviously no devil, because the poor remain poor and the offer of a soul for prosperity is just not and never has been abailable.

@kensmith8152 3 жыл бұрын

Well some people were trying to blow him up

@Hilts931 3 жыл бұрын

Only as a response to his behaviour

@nirvaansinghtheartist 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many witches watched this

@user-su8qw9dw6d Ай бұрын

I wonder how king henry viii would of handled this probably not very well

@matthewwaldman1524 3 жыл бұрын

I bet he got at least a handful.

@Josh729J Жыл бұрын

All you have to do is research "kedlinburg witch trials"" well thats difficult considering it doesnt exist on the internet anywhere apparently

@rayarena879 2 жыл бұрын

What happened to all of these women was very sad and cruel, but I, nevertheless, find King James so interesting and colorful with his obsession with witches.

@legopalpatine4472 3 жыл бұрын

Humans were so brutal in the past, and Still are luckily we don't believe in stuff Like this anymore. We should be happy to live in such a "peaceful" time. Still alot of shit happens in certain countries like China, North Korea etc.

@ELDIABLO-jl1xw 3 жыл бұрын

The tremendous sins of religious institutions belies its claim to the divine.

@betenoireindustries 3 жыл бұрын

the museum of witchcraft is amazing, fyi.

@evelyneweissenborn8231 Жыл бұрын

The one in Cornwall? I would love to visit it some day.

@LotusStitchandSketch 2 жыл бұрын

Magic in and of itself DOES exist but is itself a neutral force. Magic is never fully good or evil because without the intentions of the user it just exists as a form of energy. It is the intentions of the one using that force that determines if it's good or evil. Magic is no different than a computer, by itself that computer simply exists. when used by a person it can be used to do a lot of things that could be either good or bad but by itself that computer is nothing more than a tool. Magic can be compared to a gun or a knife, used PROPERLY a knife or gun can feed a family or protect one from harm. Used wrong they kill innocent people BUT no matter what the intent is for them a person is always required for them to actually DO anything. Magic is the same way and requires a person as a conduit for the energy to actually work, so the question should be is magic itself good or evil but rather is the person using it good or evil

@joshuariston2924 3 жыл бұрын

Magic while sounding like fantasy does literally exist. Pretending like it doesn't is stupid.

@hm1734 3 жыл бұрын

@UNABOMBER MANIFESTO shh...no one is supposed to know about that!!

@OllamhDrab 3 жыл бұрын

Just cause magic exists doesn't mean your paranoia and craziness is true.

@joshuariston2924 3 жыл бұрын

@@OllamhDrab Well my paranoia or craziness it's true. Specifically here I'm talking about the Bible, Christianity and the Gospel. But could you please clarify what exactly is my Paranoia and craziness? From a Biblical perspective (even back to the Law of Moses, from which Human rights are derived), God spoke against it there. Thus, magic ain't nothing to play with. You're toying with things you don't understand, and will destroy you. Thus, a hard stance against magic, is wise....and is not as unreasonable or paranoid as you wish to make it sound.

@OllamhDrab 3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuariston2924 Actually, in America we hold human rights to be self-evident ab initio, regardless of what what monotheists may think or see fit to withhold or presume to portion out. But I was really addessing the self-styled Unabomber comment. Interesting it's *me* you chose to dispute, not him, though.

@OllamhDrab 3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuariston2924 Oh, and as for what magic is, it's always you Abrahamic monotheists demonizing and fearmongering and projecting about it. Your fear and hatred are about some sense of *control,* not what makes a living world alive. You just try to put your book between people and that, then say it's evil not to, but you're the ones always doing the evil and claiming you got an excuse from yer Bible. I say no thanks. Also, yes, magic is also much to do with 'F around and find out.' I do not suggest approaching it from Christian points of view and fears and devil characters. The reality is simpler, mostly less 'metal' and... well, I'm basically saying you're better off ignoring the religion you're pushing if you want to find out about it.

@MatthewEcclesiastes 3 жыл бұрын

Matthew 5:44 King James Version 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you

@msatxgault560 3 жыл бұрын

How ironic

@MatthewEcclesiastes 3 жыл бұрын

@@msatxgault560 Indeed.

@patrickfitzgerald3055 2 жыл бұрын

@@MatthewEcclesiastes Stop acting like a black person.

@Susieq26754 3 жыл бұрын

This is why we must keep seperation of church and state. Theocracies only produce paranoia and murder. God sent his Son to save sinners, not condemn them. How did King James miss the whole Gospel message in the Bible? Also God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power of love and a SOUND MIND.

@joselperez449 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU WELL SAID SAME THING I WAS THINKING...

@Rivenburg-xd5yf 3 жыл бұрын

WTF did a medieval illiterate unwashed smelly "king" think HE had the inside track to modify 1200 year old documents HE COULDNT EVEN READ? I know, i know, 100,000,000 Americans base the safety of their soul on THAT version. Sorry, (NOT sorry) Im failing to see the moral high ground of "King" james or ANY reason to read his FARTHER obfuscation of history or take it seriously in any way, beyond the fact that so many do.

@peasantsrevolt4780 3 жыл бұрын

The more devot a person is the crazier they get. Try science, the only thing that happens is your IQ goes up.

@satadruray9787 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely correct

@peasantsrevolt4780 3 жыл бұрын

@@satadruray9787 Cheers my friend.

@p34rl20 3 жыл бұрын

Not really. People have been tortured in the name of science as well. Fanaticism in any of its forms is bad.

@peasantsrevolt4780 3 жыл бұрын

@@p34rl20 Surely you can't compare the atrocities committed in the name of religion to the ones committed to those in the Scientific community?

@p34rl20 3 жыл бұрын

@@peasantsrevolt4780 well... you can decide that for yourself. I'm not here to convince you about anything 🤷🏽‍♀️

@cannibalcupcake333 Жыл бұрын

Witchfinder is just another name for a serial killer (imo).

@arrbaah 2 жыл бұрын

how did king james encourage witch hunts

@Cat-Oracle 3 жыл бұрын

Deux vault

@ExxylcrothEagle 3 жыл бұрын

I think there are major issues with Druidic threads and Talmudic. Proxy wars and misdirections. Alliances and deep animosities.

@twirajuda 3 жыл бұрын

The King is either delusional, schizophrenic or he actually has the sixth sense

@juliie007 3 жыл бұрын

Historians have stated that king James possibly suffered from undiagnosed Porphyria but less severe compared to George III. He had an unpredictable temperament one moment he would imbue the pragmatic kingly persona the next time he’s a complete buffoon. In time, his erratic behavior coupled with other political issues made James immensely disliked by his new English subjects, laying down the embers of the English civil war.

@TheCissero 3 жыл бұрын

He is a toxic mysogynist psychopath with paranoia projection scapegoating

@cdfdesantis699 Жыл бұрын

I suppose, according to the perceptions of the time, that I, myself, could be accused of being a witch. A poor, old widow with absolutely no family, except my cadre of 6 cats, 3 of whom are black. Though not a member of the medical profession, I've often undertaken caring for sick & injured people & animals, but always with a physician's advice & instruction. And on occasion, I've been known to talk to myself, as solitary people do, which could be construed as muttering spells. I'm also a devoted Christian. So yes, King James would have thought me a witch. Fortunately, I cannot see, even with 2nd sight, a gallows or pyre in my future. Now, let me mount my broom for my evening buzz of my town. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! - the old hag cackled.

@fdoy Жыл бұрын

Sadly any disabled child was considered a witch and so was their mothers and killed. Talk about twisted minds.

@lingoistj1956 2 жыл бұрын

“Thought crime”

@amberhillman8877 3 жыл бұрын

Tiny are the Jackson

@kallejahrollins4668 3 жыл бұрын

I like shit like this

@raelenebarney7040 3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t King James have his version of a Bible written? Hmmmm... a paranoid psycho??

@beckygriggs7827 Жыл бұрын

The wrath of god, not a witches spell, too many innocent people died for all the wrong reasons

@bullterror5 Жыл бұрын

And what was King James himself doing?

@bullterror5 Жыл бұрын

Denmark!

@bullterror5 Жыл бұрын

Cornwell! Wail oh you ships of Tarshish!

@bullterror5 Жыл бұрын

"What firm did Satan's Imps take?" - They were ALLLLLL PURPLE!

@bullterror5 Жыл бұрын

You will always be Purple King James "West" Packer - you're an absolute Tyrant!

@bullterror5 Жыл бұрын

Happy with yourselves now Lisa Purple Hazlewood, Purple Packer and Purple Gordon Ramsay?! Cant wait to see your CREATIVE Effigies being pranced around on Bon Fire Night for the next 500 years.... You never know, all the Countries you've tried to overthrow might all adopt a Bon Fire Night in solidarity....

@amberhillman8877 3 жыл бұрын

Yelp, even trump, say about his journalists.

@TattooSwag22 3 жыл бұрын

LMAFO Thats the real reason why James started the trials? ahahahahahahhahahahahahahah!, this is paranoia at its finest...

@jesusexposed1848 2 жыл бұрын

I will never be a CHRISTIAN in life

@jenipugh8811 Жыл бұрын

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@mahalaleelyahawadah658 2 жыл бұрын

That is not King James!!!!

@patrickfitzgerald3055 2 жыл бұрын

King James wasn't black ya crazy Afro-Yank.

@sirgalahad1376 3 жыл бұрын

Way to go King James! Someone has to stand up to those ever plotting witches!

@joselperez449 3 жыл бұрын

They were not witches in his mind he thought they were he was just sick in the head those we're normal woman...

@capricemusicchurch2025 2 жыл бұрын

He was black

@patrickfitzgerald3055 2 жыл бұрын

No he wasn't you liar he was of Norman,Breton,Gaelic and Anglo-Saxon ancestry.

@rayflo2592 2 жыл бұрын

King James was legit, and did what was right... 💯

@jamescarter2314 2 жыл бұрын

What always amazes me is how all of these historians all repeat the same assumption that all of those accused of witchcraft were not practicing black magic, but it was all "mass hysteria." They say there is no proof of real witchcraft? Please tell me what would classify as proof, in a time with no video cameras, ect...? Many wrote of witchcraft as a real thing, and yet we throw out those writings as false interpretations, when meanwhile they are the only possibly form of proof of real witchcraft available. The point is not that they were all real witches, but that we cannot assume they were not. What starts to become frustrating is when people who call themselves Christians or Catholics are still those who don't believe in witchcraft.