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@13jessiejames3 жыл бұрын
I am already supporting you on Patreon. Thank you for your work!
@funningames22432 жыл бұрын
I know I've suggested this before in the comments on your channel, but in case you missed it, there is a "charming" documentary titled: "Signs, Cures and Witchery" here on KZfaq produced by The Heritage Foundation of Davis and Elkins College of West Virginia which I can't resist watching now and again. Run time: ~58 minutes.
@glennisholcomb592 Жыл бұрын
@@13jessiejames I also remember another dynamic, that kind of played into this, and that is the wants and need for resources in the local community. For example, how the asset forfeiture played into the papacy’s which walls remember the mechanism first the neighbor accuses, another neighbor of witchcraft and the witch ball comes and said person accused. His property is parlay between the Catholic Church and the government. Therefore, there is financial incentive for ordinary citizens to find witchcraft to begin with, and then report it to the church that is an important thing that must be observed whenever you’re analyzing the witch trials
@shellsnott2 жыл бұрын
I live in South Africa. Whilst listening to the section where you describe the types of people (mainly post menopausal and sometimes mentally ill women) as well as where you described the punishment just beforehand, I couldn't help but draw the chilling parallels to current ongoing mob murders due to people being accused of being witches in South Africa, and through other countries in Africa - also live burnings being a main tool. It completely blows my mind that it is still a practice and much more common than one would expect.
@TheEsotericaChannel2 жыл бұрын
This is a super important point - thanks for sharing!
@shellsnott2 жыл бұрын
@@TheEsotericaChannel I see I was rather hasty with my comment as you did mention it briefly later on. Thanks for your graciousness. :). I will take the opportunity though to tell you that you have a huge admirer of your channel - love your work, your explanations, thoroughness and humour. Very much appreciated.
@AccidentalNinja Жыл бұрын
I heard something about some of those hunts in which the men said the "witch" made their penises disappear. When it was pointed out that their penises were, in fact, still there, they apparently responded by saying they were getting smaller. I think Esoterica mentioned somewhere that this was an old fear of what a witch could do. What this seems to me is that they're killing women over feeling insecure about the size of their penises, & I can't understand how someone could possibly think that their own insecurity is worth more than someone's life.
@paigemprice8 ай бұрын
I am a witch, terrifying. 😮
@treypeters10875 ай бұрын
@@paigemprice no ur not you just a big girl that wants to fit ib
@prognosis87683 жыл бұрын
When I read the Malleus Maleficarum I was surprised to see that the definition of a witch in that book wasn't so much about the use of magic, but more specifically the selling of curses. I was even more surprised to find a chapter in that book about "witch archers" and the fact that it included a story about a witch archer and that that story was pretty much the same story as that of William Tell, (having to shoot an apple off his son's head).
@mikeflannery7219 Жыл бұрын
Thanks! I truly appreciate such interesting, high quality, extensively researched material presented for free on YT. And your quirky dry humor and presentation makes it that much more appealing. Great job!
@mielimedina31463 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your work and knowledge, not only imparting us with excellent historical context, but also your respect and grace covering this topic. It’s important to learn about the attitudes of the past in order to understand why we still deal with many of the same problems they dealt with in the medieval times (I often reflect on how in many ways, it still seems like we are in the last throes of the dark ages) and I feel many of us are starving to have serious and respectful academic insight into these topics, because vestiges of them remain today. And your sweet respect to modern day folks who identify as witches really made my night! The more I learn about the witch’s societal impact, the more proud I am to reclaim the word and the role.
@paigemprice8 ай бұрын
Merry meet
@glennisholcomb592 Жыл бұрын
I think another lesson that can be extracted from this is that throughout history is popular for the powers that be, especially when they are losing their relevance, find it popular to attack women in order to maintain their
@oldmanofthemountains33883 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I really enjoyed the more relaxed atmosphere of this lecture
@marykayryan78912 жыл бұрын
You may know Biddy Early (1798-1874), a very famous Irish healer (aka witch) who had a bottle that she used to glean her information and how to heal people. She used it to know about people before they arrived at her door and afterwards to find out what they needed (although she often knew that before they arrived). People came all the way from England to see her. But here's the thing. Everybody has always acted like the bottle was a weird magical object. But here you are saying it was actually a known thing among European witches. So helpful to know about this. She took no money for her cures and died in abject poverty. Some say she threw the bottle into a lake just before she died.
@ryanw36582 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this type of stuff accessible by a pleb like myself. You were the first place I was exposed to the esoteric and I’m not sure how I would have been able to get to the point I’m at now without you as a resource.
@anniesossa Жыл бұрын
I have sm respect for ur open minded approach & interest in spirituality. As someone who’s had confusing spiritual experiences with no one to turn to its these types videos n creators that have been helping me & im sure many others
@nocantry Жыл бұрын
That pfp goes crazy lol
@13jessiejames3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a great in depth look at the witch hunts! I will share this with my wife. She considers herself a witch. You were very respectful in the way you presented the subject!
@TheEsotericaChannel3 жыл бұрын
Glad you thought so - its a difficult subject and I hope I handled well.
@SpiralBreeze3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for giving Wiccans the shout out last night doc! It was a wonderful lecture.
@TawsifEC3 жыл бұрын
Great talk. Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain. 🎃
@paulshaddix52903 жыл бұрын
Prof...thank you for your excellent contribution of knowledge in subjects that would normally have people burnt to a steak or tarred and feather.....no body ever survived being dipped in tar....thank you again
@PapaYo4XXX3 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation! Thank you for always sharing Brother!
@jasmyneemmerick3 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the historical discussion as well as the tie in to modern times.
@dreamway911 ай бұрын
Once again I go in with some fear for the length of the video, only to have an hour pass like minutes. Thank you for this!
@MaryAnnNytowl2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! I'm really enjoying this playlist - thanks for making & sharing it with us!
@SirCoughsalot3 жыл бұрын
Very thorough, coherent, and I appreciate you dispelling some common myths. This is a subject that a lot of people are interested in, but unfortunately most discussions of it seem marred by popular legend and ideas from books or films, not so much historical fact. I've subscribed.
@SirCoughsalot3 жыл бұрын
I also really appreciate your dry sense of humor.
@paigemprice8 ай бұрын
Modern-day witches prefer "magick" over "magic". To differentiate between magicians and practicing witches. Just putting that out there! Blessed be!
@TheEsotericaChannel8 ай бұрын
That's an emic use of the language and this is an academic channel.
@paigemprice8 ай бұрын
@@TheEsotericaChannel Thats fair
@jeffaltier55823 жыл бұрын
Really terrific lecture. Thanks so much for what you do.
@sjaok2 жыл бұрын
Excelent up until the very end. The conflation of Wicca (a manufactured twentieth century religion) with historical practices of witchcraft spoilt it a little. Maybe including a critique of Wiccan epistemological claims would have helped; eg the flawed conclusions of Margaret Murray, Robert Graves, the unsubstantiated claims of Leland's Aradia, the heavy reliance of Wiccan ritual structure on Crowley's ideas, Valiente's invention of the Wiccan Rede, etc.
@LuxPerp3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for another wonderful, if somewhat depressing, talk. Was the Q&A good? Perhaps you could make it available at some point? Thanks also for the linkage to the satanic panic and Q-anon phenomena. This is some kind of recurring contagion of the psyche that people should study and develop strategies to identify and perhaps "inoculate" communities against.
@sarahjavorsky15898 ай бұрын
Thank-you for making this education content
@robertbradley83093 жыл бұрын
Great video!! I hope the witch continues to triumph!!
@elem3ntkid3 жыл бұрын
Hello Dr. Just noticed you are giving this talk through Flint Institute of Arts, looked you up and it says you're working in Michigan, even lecturing at WSU.. I am attending WSU for my masters program in Social Work, specifically for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, but I have always been interested in Occultism and Religion. I have studied lots of books from Jung, Joseph Campbell, and some other books on alchemy, psychology, and witchcraft. I was wondering if you have any opinions on Jung's analytical psychology, any specific texts you would recommend reading to understand Astrology, or if they are even connected in a meaningful way at all. Thanks for the content, loving ESOTERICA! Maybe hope to catch a real life lecture some day.
@yochanan7703 жыл бұрын
I would most assuredly drive up to WSU to see a talk from Dr Sledge
@kimlogansilhouettes3 жыл бұрын
Cosmos and Psyche is just this!!
@ewadsworth3 жыл бұрын
Hellenistic Astrology is what you're looking for. Valens among others. modern writer Chris Brennan's book 'Hellenistic Astrology, the study of fate and fortune' is a great place to get your footing. The first part of the book covering the history will give you overview and resources for source texts, (also it is a book for the practicing of hellenistic astrological techniques). Trusted widely. You can also glean from some of the translations or lectures of Robert Schmidt. But Brennan is gonna give you a compilation of where to start with the source texts. From there you will be lead into the Persians, for OG material. Good luck!!
@elem3ntkid3 жыл бұрын
@@ewadsworth read it already! Worked out perfectly for what I needed. (This comment is several months old)
@ewadsworth3 жыл бұрын
@@elem3ntkid awesome! 👍🏼👍🏼
@timetogoahead30292 жыл бұрын
Brilliant as always 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@eudaimoniapodcast83093 жыл бұрын
Astral/astrological medieval magus summoning a demon or a daemon? ;) This is fascinating! I didn't know that medieval priests were often involved in necromancy!!!
@vegastrina2 жыл бұрын
Ok...so, I stopped at 16:00 to write this note before continuing. Unless, the writing accompanying the picture is authored by the actual person performing the ritual and that person specifically states that he is summoning a demon...that is ..not.. what is happening. I'm not saying it can't happen, but that is not how I would interpret the image. If someone else wrote what was happening, this other person could very well be misinterpreting the image or adding his/her biased opinion. Based on the image, because I am not fluent in the accompanying language, the person is working to dispel a negative energy/entity. The sword is used to cut negative holds..this tool also has other purposes, the circle is for protection of the person within and needs to be opened and closed properly, the treasures inside the circle are the person's tools that he'll be using and must be placed inside the working space prior to opening the circle. He will call his higher power to help him do his work. The circle can only be closed after the work is complete. It is ill-advised to step out of the circle at any time..even if a doorway is created..best to make sure you have everything before beginning. Clergy labeled as necromancers make sense. Why? Even in today's society it is well accepted that an appointed Catholic priest can do exorcisms. An exorcism requires the priest to call upon his higher power to help remove a negative energy/entity. This is usually done when a particular negative energy/entity is too powerful to be removed without advanced knowledge. I would like to mention that I enjoy this channel, and other similar channels, that cover these, and similar topics, from a scholarly perspective. I feel a scholarly perspective provides much needed unbiased information to move thought forward and helps a great deal in open-minded thinking. Thank you for your work. .......... I decided to add an addendum to my previous statement, at 45:06 I paused the video again to comment on women trying to make a pact with the devil after hearing about such things and then claiming that they have failed. These women admitted to trying and failing and were tried and prosecuted anyway. They were punished by death and, in a roundabout way, were relieved of their impoverished situation. They did not remove themselves from poverty the way they wanted, but they were removed from poverty nonetheless. .......... I did not know modern witch hunting still existed in the United States (or at least in the 1980s). I guess that makes sense in some more closed-minded areas, but the hunting could have been anywhere. Even though the witch has triumphed, and lives on, in some parts of the world, I'm sure they are sadly suffering, or inhibited in others, just like so many other belief systems.
@kellysmith58732 жыл бұрын
I actually have a question. As we are all familiar with Judaism and Christianity's views of witchcraft, I am wondering what Islam's view is, regarding witchcraft. Is it the same as Christianity and Judaism? I remember reading in one of my books about the witch hunts, that witchcraft carries the death penalty in Saudia Arabia. That's why I'm asking.
@andythedishwasher11173 жыл бұрын
I've heard that the tradition of conical hats for magical practitioners has at least some of its origin in classical depictions of Zoroaster, but I don't currently have a good source for that. I'll see if I can dig something up.
@YuriAbietti3 жыл бұрын
From 10' to 15' approximately, the page of the "black magic book" shown actually depicts four sigils to summon archangels (respectively, from top to bottom, Michael, Gabriel, Samael and Raphael). They are drawn in a very peculiar and complex way and they are different from the form they will take on later grimoires, like Peter of Abano's Heptameron, but they are clearly recognizable. It's not wrong to say that the operation is meant to call upon "planetary spirits", because those archangels are the "rulers" of (respectively) the Sun/Sunday, the Moon/Monday, Mars/Tuesday and Mercury/Wednesday, but they are also the rulers of the days of the week. I bet in the next pages we would see the Sigils of Sachiel, Anael and Cassiel (for Jupiter/Thursday, Venus/Friday and Saturn/Saturday).
@chrisrauber66022 жыл бұрын
Maybe we interprete some stuff as "black" or evil" which wasnt intended as such I sometimes makes jokes on "satanist youngsters" as I ask them if the love St.Petrus that much they have to wear his sign? Interverted Pentagram the same: became "satanic" by the works of Eliphas Levi in the 19.th century.....
@YuriAbietti2 жыл бұрын
@@chrisrauber6602 I agree. If we accept the "modern" interpretation of the Pentagram (with the five Elements, Spirit on top and counterclockwise Air, Earth, Fire and Water) the "normal" Pentagram is a symbol of the Spirit ruling the Matter/Material world, while the inverted Pentagram means that the material world is dominating the Spirit. It's much more linked to alchemical and psychological workings than any form of "satanism", I guess.
@chrisrauber66022 жыл бұрын
@@YuriAbietti Dont ask how people react if they view an inverted cross, a pentagram or just a harmless "gargoyle" inside or near a church.....
@vegastrina2 жыл бұрын
@@chrisrauber6602 There are plenty of ancient buildings that have gargoyles for protection, including cathedrals of old, are you specifically mentioning the smaller modern churches that may not have gargoyles?
@chrisrauber66022 жыл бұрын
@@vegastrina I have to mention I live in Austria and gargoyles are not common here. I assume it is a "french fashion"...?
@benjones1452 Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@arty_p76363 жыл бұрын
Dear Dr. Sledge, I am very much interested in the practical application of magic. Dr. John Dee was very much interested in this application when exploring the new world, such as metallurgy, to acquire materials such as tin and copper through steam pumps and engines. But this endeavor failed. None the less I'm very interested in what an alchemist would consider magic in regards to physics and mechanics
@SKP-op4vd3 жыл бұрын
Could you please do an episode on the esoteric dimensions of the 'affair of the poisons' that took place during the reign of Louis XIV?
@TheEsotericaChannel3 жыл бұрын
Interesting - I'll have to look into that!
@joshuasheets9236Ай бұрын
The Witch is a great movie! Robert Eggers is a fantastic director and it was also Anya Taylor Joys first movie! You should definitely watch the other movie they’re both involved in, The Northman, if you haven’t already.
@rvt_h3d2 жыл бұрын
I'd be interested in learning more about pre christian paganism and how it relates to new age wiccans/pagans as opposed to the so called "witches" of the middle ages conjured up by the church.
@M-CH_3 жыл бұрын
The question isn't whether there were witches, the question is whether there were weather witches and which of the witches they were.
@TheEsotericaChannel3 жыл бұрын
We could have used some weather witches last summer with all those fires, etc.!
@nascenticity Жыл бұрын
i’d like to congratulate witches for winning the war on witchcraft
@user-fl7by8in5o3 жыл бұрын
👍 good video
@danielmeredith4222 Жыл бұрын
This is so uplifting and educational. I feel somewhat enraged about the history of our dear sisters and brothers that were killed in such a way and amount to a realisation. Even Jesus's suffered the fate as a witch how odd that old knowledge can only protect us from ourselves. Maybe Christians are Satanists and witches and wizards are saints.
@sabrinakrisb46723 жыл бұрын
Really want to listen to this one but not entirely sure if I can handle it, as much as I want to. I feel like its going to be filled with going over the horror of historical misogyny.
@TheEsotericaChannel3 жыл бұрын
I try to be honest and sensitive about the topic as much as I can. If you do give it a listen I would love to hear your thoughts.
@leroyjones61703 жыл бұрын
Amazing good sir.!!!
@glennisholcomb592 Жыл бұрын
However, you can also say there are many things wrapped up in it. I remember in my previous comment I was saying about the magical had given to women around that time for lotta reasons I mean they’re not giving accidentally I mean, there are certain observations, but however, again, these people feel like their power regret, and and that they decided they wanted to attack the thing if that was in most direct conflict with that
@allpau6199 Жыл бұрын
Justin Sledge is the best!
@Duchess_Van_Hoof2 жыл бұрын
Could you compile a list of recommended readings?
@richardlevy14596 ай бұрын
@esoterica Have you done a video on the witches of ashkelon?
@jamesblobb71153 жыл бұрын
Lmao, imagine that conversation between Dee and his wife >Dee: Honey, I have to sleep with my buddy's wife, and he's gotta sleep with you >Wife: ok, but why? >Dee: The arch angel Gabriel revealed this to me and Kelly durring an Enochian invokation
@ewadsworth3 жыл бұрын
😅
@glennisholcomb592 Жыл бұрын
I would also consider the book done by sir Fraser believes of the golden bow, throughout that book it talks about how society even before Christianity branches this magical property woman to women in a negative way in one sense you could think of the magical properties that were granted to a wife, or a young girl, in the same way as the Greeks thought of their God as their statues in their temples More often than not when you had good fortune happened to you. It is because of the good actions of the wife, according to Sir Fraser, and if you feel something like a hut or something like that, because your wife was either promiscuous, or had committed some taboo, which, in most cases lead to negative consequences on the women so I say it around like 14 1480 or 15 so this is pre-romanization but it also see appears that it is a it is a kind of misogyny, but it came from a lack of understanding of the material world as a pertains to women, and it was not only extend it to them and extend it to everything that we gave magical property to
@user-fl7by8in5o3 жыл бұрын
no victories in this war only innocent people suffer
@helenbostock2350 Жыл бұрын
Hi amazing history
@RoeJogan3 жыл бұрын
Flying witches comes from flying high on (fly agaric or fly amanita) mushrooms
@chuckhainsworth48013 жыл бұрын
I would point out that your "women and non-male people" point is invalid. I am male and Wiccan. Now I grant you that there are not many male witches, but we do exist. I am also boringly monogamous. Goddess, what a waste. My astral temple is populated by versions of my wife as Goddess.
@rvt_h3d2 жыл бұрын
People love to really drive home that feminist angle to pander to a leftist audience. No mention of wicca being developed by Gerald Gardner.
@florian85992 жыл бұрын
I'm kinda sad that Friedrich Spee's "Cautio Criminalis" is missing.
@TheEsotericaChannel2 жыл бұрын
The things we find missing in others' content is an opportunity to make our own.
@VOCATUS1233 жыл бұрын
I like your newer format better, where we see you in the full right half of the screen, it's a lot easier to see your facial expressions when you throw out those one liners and have the pregnant pause after. Not that you're pregnant. What I mean is...anyway, excellent video.
@misternobody47862 жыл бұрын
Fever dreams of sick and greedy men
@delariscouch215 Жыл бұрын
The Chinese mummy had the witch hat to. I saw it on national geographic.
@medleychildress4512 жыл бұрын
what do you think about the order of the nine angles
@paigemprice8 ай бұрын
Folk magick seems like it would be Ancestral magick, passed down through generations.
@An_Eclectic_MindАй бұрын
❤😊❤
@samuelshepard3 жыл бұрын
I'm only 2:53 in and all I have to say so far is... You're welcome
@LadyCoyKoi3 жыл бұрын
Didn't medieval times technically ended in 1450s... since that was when the renaissance started? Therefore, Malleus Maleficarum, published in 1480s, came out during the Renaissance, not Medieval times, thus the witch hunts wasn't a fully medieval thing. 🤔I'm just basing my questions on timelines here. Late 1400s and into 1500s would be consider early Tudor and Renaissance eras, not medieval. I just get cringed when people smack historical timelines into the same, saying everything before 1700s was all medieval, when they aren't. That is like messing up Baroque with Rococo... they have their differences. 😂
@TheEsotericaChannel3 жыл бұрын
Depends on the discipline and where you are talking about
@UFEDUC32 жыл бұрын
Ae you from M.I. my brother?
@TheEsotericaChannel2 жыл бұрын
Love in mi from ms
@isacvlad Жыл бұрын
🙏
@mintoo2cool Жыл бұрын
it's such a shame that women have had it so rough for so long ... if anyone truly deserves reparations... they are certainly on top of my list ...
@helenbostock2350 Жыл бұрын
Oh christain at the same time
@helenbostock2350 Жыл бұрын
I think man at this time in history men where jealous of women that have land and where healer. At the time the church held more land for the king. Medical officers were man.
@paigemprice8 ай бұрын
Please, priests still turn water into wine and Jesus also did some pretty magickal things 😂
@user-ll2iq7nn7y2 жыл бұрын
Европа
@AccidentalNinja Жыл бұрын
Divinely-mandated wife-swapping?
@nanananatalied Жыл бұрын
Did anyone sell a kidney and want to share the...'s?
@kumarrajan87772 жыл бұрын
Why they stopped hunding witch's TODAY WORLD HAS BEEN MUCH BETTER PLEASE ...