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Historian Fact Checks Witchcraft Slop
AI slop is littering your feed and spreading misinformation, so WIRED’s here to set the record straight. Join Professor & Historian of Witchcraft & Demonology Mikki Brock as we fact check the internet, Witchcraft edition. WIRED recommends: #Witchcraft #Witch #Halloween Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Download the WIRED app: Listen to the…
@tuxedonoir7970
October 23, 2026 at 5:22 pm
This is what you want to do with actual history? Waste it on garbage? Why don’t you add a “Which quirky Greek god are you” quiz on the end?
@Unknowntyper
October 23, 2026 at 5:46 pm
Being religious / spiritual opens you up to stupid.
@Unknowntyper
October 23, 2026 at 5:47 pm
The fear was rooted in superstition
@Nojustno592
October 23, 2026 at 6:00 pm
Anyone else just naturally expected her to say professor of witchcraft & wizardry? Like I was thrown when she didn’t 🤣
@watchwithauntykitty
October 23, 2026 at 6:05 pm
I have a question for any booze historians out there. I know that women often brewed beer, but was it really as profitable for cottage brewsters back then as the whole ‘witches were alewives who were persecuted for being girlbosses!’ myth makes it out to be? Ale was ubiquitous, so I can’t see people being able to charge the medieval equivalent of modern craft beer prices for it unless they were producing absolutely amazing stuff, and the limits of working in a (quite literal) cottage industry meant they couldn’t produce massive supplies. I just can’t see a woman being outrageously financially independent in the medieval era by brewing small batches of ale mostly for her household and selling off any excess to her neighbours.
@georgedorn_fnord
October 23, 2026 at 6:29 pm
Ick, AI video. So gross.
@mirthenary
October 23, 2026 at 6:37 pm
I was turned into a newt!
@kitkat1380
October 23, 2026 at 6:46 pm
….. I got better
@federatas84
October 23, 2026 at 6:43 pm
14:07 Aaaand, I hate it.
@MrGksarathy
October 23, 2026 at 6:43 pm
Pretty sure medieval people had access to clean water.
@anthonypc-248
October 23, 2026 at 6:45 pm
11:11 No one accused or punished for witchcraft was a real witch.
Magic is fictional.
This is why superstitious thinking is inherently risky. Even when a particular belief could seem benign in a certain context, if it’s actually untrue it can mislead our judgments and actions in unexpected ways, or when spread to other gullible people.
We can’t control for that when we are genuinely convinced it’s as true as anything else we take for granted.
Also, just enabling a superstitious epistemology — a flawed way of forming beliefs — will lead to other, more problematic conclusions next.
@mirthenary
October 23, 2026 at 6:46 pm
I’m not a witch, they dressed me like this! ….And this is not my nose, it’s a false one!
@crazyquilt
October 23, 2026 at 6:47 pm
2:39 I was lifted by the devil’s wind itself last night after a particularly delicious bowl of beans
@dasstigma
October 23, 2026 at 6:54 pm
“I don’t know what this is. It must be magic.”
– Smartest Species on the Planet
@mikeblair2594
October 23, 2026 at 7:08 pm
So at 8:20 your talking about the ice raids currently killing people all over the US. Right?
@mikeblair2594
October 23, 2026 at 7:13 pm
Yeah, the puritans would have strung the catholic as a witch in a heartbeat. I’d like to say that it’s just because us colonials were rather provincial hicks, but it happened all over Europe in some of the most cosmopolitan cities in the western world.
@ComplicatedSandwich
October 23, 2026 at 7:19 pm
Need you to do another AMA!
@darrellray8763
October 23, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Don’t forget that in many/most areas of Europe the people or organizations that “convicted” a witch got the property of the witch.
@mikeblair2594
October 23, 2026 at 7:31 pm
Pressure? You mean torture, right? Say like it is.
@AeonWaves
October 23, 2026 at 7:51 pm
Meanwhile, multiple Muslim-majority countries still have laws prohibiting “sorcery” in 2026, and in many of them, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Afghanistan, those laws are actually enforced on a regular basis. The West has its own modern metaphorical witch hunts (e.g. the War on Drugs), but the case of “sorcery” in the Islamic world is on another level of absurdity.
@AnnaBanana-t2s
October 23, 2026 at 8:40 pm
They aren’t wrong. People often invent perverse-inverse ideas, in the shadows of such strict religions. I wouldn’t be surprised, at all, if Mormons or Amish had some secretive, “Satanic” sects. Transgression of taboos becomes a religious practice, itself. I would suggest some books, but…you’re going to need some lectures on world religions, before you really understand what I mean.
@JamesBlow-q5v
October 23, 2026 at 7:54 pm
QUEEN ISABELLA 👸 BELL 🔔 SAMUEL MASS CHRISTOPHER CHRIST MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅 BIRTH OF A NEW NATION SANTA MARIA SANTA CLAUSE SATAN’S CLAWS HO HO HO
@Dersabom
October 23, 2026 at 7:57 pm
Would have prefered this to not focus on AI content, though I did like it
@Rezail_Uhhh
October 23, 2026 at 8:35 pm
Wait a minute!!!!! look at her ear rings!!!!!! She is trying to divert our attention with this video. WITCHES GOLD!!!! ITS THE DEVIL MARK. Get the flamer brother!! The heavy flamer!!
@AnnaBanana-t2s
October 23, 2026 at 8:36 pm
I love her fashion. Under-stated office-goth. Very cute.
@lifeunfiltered4822
October 23, 2026 at 8:45 pm
Why are you hust reviewing stupid obviously false AI videos? Very disappointing.
Abd I was expecting to hear about real witchcraft practices, not witch trials and false witches.
Make another one, a morevreal video.
@rimaco196
October 23, 2026 at 9:08 pm
11:19 Five minutes earlier they weren’t stupid. Now, even white magic is bad magic. So, healing the blind, curing leprosy they’d have burned Jesus? Of course they would, religion… You missed people were stupid, because they’re stupid now.
@Muahehe_10
October 23, 2026 at 9:20 pm
Idea for you: Fertilizer Specialist
@eveningreader4077
October 24, 2026 at 6:47 am
These videos are great quality for 1692…
@Cuckoorex
October 24, 2026 at 7:15 am
The Disney Witch Cackle when the green mist spreads did me in! Side observation: The AI characters are almost all devoid of emotion… they’re almost robotic in their delivery. The woman sitting in her prison cell delivers her lines in a monotone with not even a look of fear or desperation, she looks like someone in a waiting room for a routine physical or something. AI has gotten better with faking emotion lately, so I wonder how old those clips are.
@the_CineCita
October 24, 2026 at 7:32 am
@05:38 also? who “huggles” in a market?
@MrKirby365
October 24, 2026 at 7:34 am
Most most most, all of them aren’t witches 😅
@acat7798
October 24, 2026 at 7:37 am
The part about ale being drunken instead of water because it was cleaner is not true. It’s a common myth.
@h24827
October 24, 2026 at 7:53 am
I love videos like this
@nicovandermerwe2747
October 24, 2026 at 8:51 am
Salem: ***Sees woman breathing***
WIIIIIITCHHHHH
@agustinbarquero8898
October 24, 2026 at 9:50 am
Or man 🙂 man could be witch too
@spornge
October 24, 2026 at 9:24 am
I love how the first one takes modern ideas introduced largely by marketing then associates them with historical reference and makes up an entire narrative 😛
@GlassDeviant
October 24, 2026 at 9:53 am
Middle aged 40s and 50s? In 16th century America, or Europe? Some historian.
@JustASillyReally
October 24, 2026 at 10:24 am
That is called middle aged yes
@slikskils
October 24, 2026 at 9:54 am
im sure she has many, many job offers
@jakoblarok
October 24, 2026 at 9:58 am
i’m suddenly stuck on the AI’s inability to pronounce the oldest technique in the anthropology of human business
@jakoblarok
October 24, 2026 at 10:17 am
21:06 – apparently, in 1224, brooms just grew right out of witch’s wrists.
@jakoblarok
October 24, 2026 at 10:20 am
21:38 – why do witches suddenly just get saddled with more and more crows? Were “childless crow ladies” the big concern of conservatives back in that era?
@jakoblarok
October 24, 2026 at 10:23 am
and in 1918 they have three arms! Why didn’t THAT make the HIStory books, eh?
@Vampiricbeauty
October 24, 2026 at 10:24 am
12:47 I disagree with this one, wasn’t it only during the Victorian era when that dialect had formed?
@maItre_gonzo
October 24, 2026 at 10:26 am
Pretty sure she herself is a witch !
@Cytoplasma175
October 24, 2026 at 10:30 am
I think she is a witch. She is covering up after the witches because AI is on their trails.
@dazie1025
October 24, 2026 at 10:39 am
How come you hardly hear about the witch trials in Connecticut?
@katelinrogers
October 24, 2026 at 12:13 pm
“She’s been abandoned by everyone she knows. For a cow.”
PLEASE I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING 😂😭
@MaraW1832
October 24, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Small nitpick: people didn’t drink mostly ale because water wasn’t safe (we’ve known how to boil and strain water since prehistory), but because water was cheap and nutritionally inefficient. A modern analog would be tap water vs bottled beverages. No one above a certain economic threshold today would be caught dead drinking tap water whether it was safe or not.
If you could afford a meal in a mug, that’s what you’d do. Plain water was penance or poverty.
@gordonwalker6458
October 24, 2026 at 1:15 pm
The reason everyone focuses on Salem is because they built a huge tourist trap around it.
@Vladddeee
October 24, 2026 at 3:52 pm
Makes me wish witches were real just so they would stick it to the witch hunters 😂
@CHalliwellw
October 24, 2026 at 4:38 pm
I’ve Been waiting for the queen to come back ❤
@BookishDark
October 24, 2026 at 5:07 pm
Ironically I have a book about witchcraft and demonology printed in the 1950’s and just read in there that someone was accused after she was observed petting a cat on a windowsill just before an accident occurred.
@mmcmullen8543
October 24, 2026 at 5:11 pm
Tina fey has many talents
@nbarnes6225
October 24, 2026 at 6:28 pm
I love how judgmental people are of the people who were alive at this time. “They were so superstitious and backwards.” Uhhh… you know what the Satanic Panic was, right, and how many people were accused or sentenced to death for “Satanic” crimes? We literally just had a failed state execution of someone who was absolutely excessively sentenced to death because of the fear of Satanism.
And you know what the _current_ Trans Panic is, right? The “evil” group might change, but the panic and hysteria is always there. Mob mentality is legal social insanity.
@Cabochon1360
October 24, 2026 at 11:45 pm
I was never a particularly good Catholic (before losing any religious beliefs I ever had), but the depiction of a Puritan crossing himself made me laugh.
@Alaen-o4k1t
October 24, 2026 at 11:46 pm
Would have been better if she did this with a broom and witches hat.
@blendermuffin
October 25, 2026 at 12:26 am
off topic but shes gorgeous 😅
@seantlewis376
October 25, 2026 at 12:53 am
I know people who self-identify as witches. That is, their religious practice is Wicca. Some of them claim magick as their thing. I don’t think it is much different than thinking that The Power of God is my thing. It is not necessarily evil. It is their religion. They don’t wear pointed hats or striped socks, at least not in public. For them, “looking like a traditional witch” is a joke.
@ChillOutWoman
October 25, 2026 at 2:13 am
Another one of these channels that shows nothing but transgenders 😂
@JoannaTerpstra-e8w
October 25, 2026 at 2:22 am
Every society needs its scape goats.
@rosemadder5547
October 25, 2026 at 2:50 am
Bavarian farmers and mountaineers, etc, wore pointy hats. And New England was saturated in Germans and Bavarians. So the idea that NO New Englanders were wearing pointy hats seems a little off to me. Especially when you consider the pagan history of Germans and that being possibly linked as well. Not everyone in the New World was a Christian, either, so her insisting that there were zero women practicing other folk traditions is also off. It’s not misogyny to say some people were practicing non Christian religions. She seems like… Offended for women kind to the point that she’s making huge blanket statements.
@blissfulloops_1
October 25, 2026 at 5:13 am
We are seeing how fear is used as a weapon and how dangerous it is. One example: Alligator Alcatraz, immigrants, Abdul El-Sayed (these are the modern witches)
@MrGadfly772
October 25, 2026 at 8:42 am
These AI driven fictions like to play on vague notions and play to people’s needs to find connections. Also, I can’t help but decry the phrase “People huggling over carrots” it is a sure sign of an amateurish video when the presenter doesn’t know how to pronounce the most basic of words.
@baronwarborn9107
October 25, 2026 at 8:54 am
Accused Witches being middle aged was the result of widows or unmarried being destitute possibly developing mental illness and a burden to society. There were many in those periods
@phphoto6901
October 25, 2026 at 9:01 am
I’m SO GLAD we’ve learned our lesson and are so much more level-headed as a society now…
@briejantz1605
October 25, 2026 at 9:39 am
Oh my god did you make enough with all the ads? Unwatchable. This was one of my favorites too. Bummer.
@Mhebsandstuff0
October 25, 2026 at 10:25 am
oh btw ppl are going to KILL balck cats on halloween!! :(((
@ll7868
October 25, 2026 at 1:22 pm
Should have Mikki react to Agatha All Along.
@MichaelWolf940
October 25, 2026 at 3:00 pm
I will never support feminism, it’s too white and solely based on white women’s complaints. Just be grateful you’re not a woman of color. The witch burning trials in Salem, Massachusetts started with a Native American woman, not a white woman. White women have hijacked this story and painted themselves as the only victims.
@minnesota_loon
October 25, 2026 at 3:40 pm
I would love to hear your analysis of AHS: Coven
@meowwsferatu
October 25, 2026 at 3:41 pm
IM SO HAPPY THIS DIVA IS BACK!
@minnesota_loon
October 25, 2026 at 3:41 pm
This sounds like it was a great way to get rid of someone.
@neffjancab
October 25, 2026 at 3:55 pm
Interesting ❤️
@AdryanSytuation
October 25, 2026 at 5:12 pm
Lifted by the devil’s wind 👺💨 😂
@k-isfor-kristina
October 25, 2026 at 5:51 pm
2:35 is that a kangaroo? Riding a kangaroo while playing violin? I need this masterpiece as wall art
@Speed-Daemon-123
October 25, 2026 at 6:51 pm
So, according to AI, jewelry was witchcraft, but a strange creature with six fingers and the ability to walk through solid objects and carrying a selfie stick with a ‘magic mirror’ at the end was totally normal.
@ThriftVideographer
October 25, 2026 at 7:48 pm
Mikki is just fantastic 😄 I wish more teachers were like this!
@LoveableKitty-g4y
October 25, 2026 at 8:31 pm
I don’t drink myself and don’t plan to, I didn’t know that women were allowed to brew bear at that time. I find that cool.
@marcc.6378
October 25, 2026 at 8:53 pm
I knew it. Cats are demons. I knew it.
@DerekLippold
October 26, 2026 at 4:31 pm
Mine sure is 💯 😂
@dawn-d7b
October 26, 2026 at 12:13 am
Algorithm Cleanse..🤔 I like that!
@jessehinman8340
October 26, 2026 at 12:56 am
They need her reacting to Haxen if she hasn’t yet
@CyrilleParis
October 26, 2026 at 12:58 am
You switch “witch” with “migrant” and there you are : the irrational panic of today.
@elrebriand2137
October 26, 2026 at 3:30 am
We are as susceptible to fear and mass panic as we’ve ever been. Homophobia, racism, anti-vaxxers. It’s all the same.
@SavvaMaster-p8c9m
October 26, 2026 at 3:57 am
Those AI videos literally just make “facts” up out of thin air
@seirdo8285
October 26, 2026 at 7:05 am
One of the most famous witches of all had one of the most complicated relationships with a six-fingered demon prince, ever in all the realms. Their love was so unimaginably passionate, even when the distrust between them had finally surfaced, their passion always remained, and once, a beautiful grand city castle — the one that was their perfect nest — had been entirely destroyed by their fighting with unfathomably powerful magics and strength.
To Iggwilv and Graz’zt!! 🥂
@happymcgoo
October 26, 2026 at 7:50 am
“These people weren’t real witches” – no one is a real witch lol
@happymcgoo
October 26, 2026 at 7:59 am
“Witchcraft as something that you opt into” – what exactly does one opt into? Pretending to have magical powers?
@michieldrost951
October 26, 2026 at 8:14 am
@WIRED Please keep making these expert breakdown videos. In a world full of misinformation, and AI making the creation and spreading much easier, we need this type of content. Bring in a real expert and break down what’s real and what’s not.
@ExistentialWolf-d1w
October 26, 2026 at 9:40 am
The style of the hat comes with electrification i.e. the 1960’s. The stove hat was before that. However, the real “stove” hat was what we call painters or train engineer hats. They were for _feeling_ low over heads, not for style.
@guodzillakaiju5683
October 26, 2026 at 10:55 am
7:25 Not all were hanged, and not all were women. Giles Corey (1611-1692) was slowly crushed to death by piled stones (“pressed”) for not pronouncing himself guilty of witchcraft.
@guodzillakaiju5683
October 26, 2026 at 11:20 am
“She turned me into a newt!!”
…
…
…
“I got better.”
@ImtokyotheDog
October 26, 2026 at 11:49 am
crazy to think not a single witch was killed
@traciepruitt1702
October 26, 2026 at 4:01 pm
We have recent examples during covid of what people will do to others due to fear.
@stilelits
October 26, 2026 at 4:01 pm
5:35 “huggling”???
@ItsKilty
October 26, 2026 at 4:07 pm
@7:36-8:30 this part makes me amazed and sad at the same time because even though much has changed, we can still be controlled by our fears to this day. and, with AI and misinformation circulating nowadays, her statement couldn’t be more true.
@grimscriven
October 26, 2026 at 4:10 pm
Yay, she’s back!
@LookingGlassAlice8
October 26, 2026 at 6:55 pm
YAY Professor Brock is back!!! I really love her videos. She is so informative and I love how passionate she is about her subjects.
@tanyat9560
October 26, 2026 at 7:36 pm
🧡🖤
@ReggieO
October 26, 2026 at 7:45 pm
Am I supposed to pretend I didn’t hear the word “huggling” 5:37 here?
@allengonzalez176
October 26, 2026 at 8:39 pm
Smart & hot! Beautiful eyes, cute dimples, love the lipstick, blouse, and nail polish!
@JelloThePitbull_Alex265
October 26, 2026 at 10:19 pm
8:16 “First they came for the Communists,
And I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Socialists,
And I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
And I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
And I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.”
@slytheringingerwitch
October 27, 2026 at 4:23 am
To be fair, TV and film have been using artistic license for years and viewers believe it as fact. Its good to dissect and talk about what is true and what isn’t.
@ColinSnooks-mr6ep
October 27, 2026 at 6:11 am
11:12 to 13:46 video by Witch taker genarl
@Jillillis
October 27, 2026 at 7:46 am
Giving examples of Salem in pop culture, and not mention Hocus Pocus? 😭😭
@Darth-Willow
October 27, 2026 at 9:18 am
I really never understood Salem as a witchcraft Mecca, no one in Salem during the witch trials were ever witches and wouldn’t be until hundreds of years after. Folk superstitions have been mistaken for witchcraft ever since Church authorities needed to find witches to justify the conservative religious witch panics of their time. Clearly Salem was an entirely Christian phenomenon.
@purrsuasively
October 27, 2026 at 9:43 am
23:39 the way the witch is vanessa hudgens
@caulder2046
October 27, 2026 at 11:07 am
Unsubscribing and commenting so Wired knows it’s because of this AI series
@adelem1955
October 27, 2026 at 11:17 am
Thank you, thank you! I live in Salem, and I am a tour guide here. I do talk about exactly how they hung the accused, and it doesn’t look like horse thieves in a Western. A lot of people still think that people were burned, too.
@nyxshadowhawk
October 27, 2026 at 12:33 pm
Thanks so much for this! I feel like I’m constantly shooting down witchcraft misconceptions.
@jtl6254-p6w
October 27, 2026 at 2:06 pm
Thank you so much for your objectivity, and not infusing a bunch of modern ideology in this video! I would absolutely love to see you do a review of the movie “The VVitch” by the way!
@NotFiveFrogsInATrenchCoat
October 27, 2026 at 2:10 pm
HOW DO I GET THIS WOMANS JOB I DIDNT KNOW THAT WAS AN OPTION
@runegardenandparks
October 27, 2026 at 2:14 pm
All of her comments about AI are annoying.
@MoonCatVibes
October 27, 2026 at 5:05 pm
More with Mikki Brock and more on Witchcraft…please!
@ancientneophyte8322
October 27, 2026 at 5:07 pm
Voted the day early voting opened.
@ancientneophyte8322
October 27, 2026 at 5:11 pm
Would much rather have an alewife than a fishwife
@natashafoster9969
October 27, 2026 at 7:20 pm
Does this professor have an online course? Cuz I’d love to take it! lol
@ilanao5824
October 27, 2026 at 7:25 pm
i wanna take her class
@DerrillGuilbert
October 27, 2026 at 7:31 pm
Uh, water was not often contaminated. It’s kind of wild to me that any flavor of historian isn’t deeply aware of this.
@devleigh
October 27, 2026 at 11:15 pm
Scapegoating is a truly scary social phenomenon
@rhondahuggins9542
October 27, 2026 at 11:25 pm
“…And how do we know she’s a witch?”…….”She turned me into a Newt!” If a witch is just being over 50 with cats and sick of being around everybody…then go get the ladder…cause I am as buoyant as cork in the water👙🕶🎃
@devleigh
October 27, 2026 at 11:29 pm
20:47 In some villages a single woman survived the witch craze in Europe. Truly a ruling class campaign of terror against peasant healers.
@ML-nr3eu
October 28, 2026 at 12:01 am
Older women were also more likely to stand trial for witchcraft because 1) their husbands wanted rid of them and made the accusations 2) the women in question were widows and other people wanted to to take control their houses/land/livestock, etc. Indeed, this is the reason people are still accused of witchcraft to this very day in parts of asia and africa
@messiaspereira6232
October 28, 2026 at 12:04 am
AI is scary but the fact that belief in demons and witchcraft is still engrained in many societies and people are still killed in many parts of the world because of it ,it’s even scarier
@Coffee_is_ready
October 28, 2026 at 12:16 am
People believe that immigrants eat their pets. Or whatever other stupid things. So, who are we to point fingers. People are gullible like they have always been. Oh, and like in the past, today it is FEAR or generating fear as well.
@KumikoSkaterMom
October 28, 2026 at 12:31 am
1. The misogyny makes me feel furious
2. She’s right, we can’t let our guard down, thinking that these horrible things happened because the people were ignorant. Fear and scapegoating are real threats all the time. It’s like we never learned anything.
@boredmillionaire9914
October 28, 2026 at 6:21 am
This lady kind of reminds me of Cristen Conger.
@AthenaBethBlack
October 28, 2026 at 8:04 am
I LOVE these videos and am absolutely fascinated by the topic of witchcraft in history. If only I’d realized that being an expert in this topic could be a career choice- DANG! What a missed opportunity.
@nordikvolkan
October 28, 2026 at 2:47 pm
Happy Halloween 👻👻👻👻👻
@cynthiavice8310
October 28, 2026 at 3:37 pm
This was sooo interesting. As a practitioner and amateur historian, love it.❤❤❤
@imonti77
October 28, 2026 at 5:15 pm
Here for Mary Bradbury aged 77 who escaped Salem as her 10th granddaughter!
@anotherpointlessusername
October 28, 2026 at 7:20 pm
omg witches never existed they were made up by the church to demonize women who didn’t bend the knee.
I am sure which is worse: people who confuse folklore for history OR people who still believe in supernatural powers in 2026.
@TheeGargantua23
October 29, 2026 at 2:05 am
Folklore and history are intrinsically intertwined. Folklore is simply oral tradition that was used to document events or map places before things were written down, i.e Indigenous Australians would tell stories that marked routes to different places whereas some lore is just a case of actual events/people misremembered or mostly forgotten. Today I found out that Robin Hood was actually a historical figure who lived in Yorkshire UK but he wasn’t a nobleman as portrayed in stories and films, how cool is that?
The notion of witches as a patriarchal scapegoat is a very modern assumption. In most of Europe it was men who were considered witches particularly around the easternmost areas. Icelandic witches too were men.
There were people known as cunning folk, they knew techniques and natural remedies for healing wounds and sickness, would help to find lost items and in some cases acted as a kind of local midwife.
Witchcraft and magick is very real and it works however, rather than being a supernatural thing it is psychological hacking which is why a lot of ceremonial magickians go mad.
@FriedaFuzzypaws-f3h
October 28, 2026 at 7:26 pm
She’s baaaaaaaack!!!
@eisforenkai
October 28, 2026 at 7:57 pm
20:13 YES YES YES. I’ve gone special interest Puritan New England obsessed lately (although more interested in the first half of the 17th century…I need Antinomian Controversy portrayals), and Ameri-centrism being at core of the association of witch hunts with the Puritans is one of my big soapboxes. They were NOT unique when it came to witch hunts. The whole thing gets in the way of critiquing the harmful legacy of the Puritans in general.
@jule4772
October 28, 2026 at 8:29 pm
love that there was made such a strong focus on people who accused people of witchcraft and how they too were just ordinary people who simply (even if wrongly) were deeply afraid and tried to make sense of their lot.
@desertdweller12
October 28, 2026 at 9:48 pm
These AI videos are nauseating.
@DreaminLive19
October 29, 2026 at 1:05 am
0:47 Kinda a lil myth here water was more commonly drank 😅
@hacked-account-by-ex
October 29, 2026 at 2:52 am
Omg them bringing this women back was the best thing they could have done 😊❤
@kananshusband9680
October 29, 2026 at 8:44 am
God i hate ai
@dunnejos8423
October 29, 2026 at 9:32 am
Note on the part with the Colonists having an English dialect… Yes and no. The non-rhotic version of English practiced in the bulk of England today is actually newer, I think 1800s.
English as it was during the time of the American Colonies actually sounded much more similar to American English. With rotic R’s and sharper vowel sounds.
@MonkeyFarmFrankenstein
October 29, 2026 at 9:40 am
I worked as a tour guide at a craft brewery, and the manager had recetly added the alewives-as-witches thing into the history section of the tour libretto. Having read Ronald Hutton’s book, The Witch, I was skeptical about this inclusion. But even after I shared Dr. Christina Wade’s well-cited post debunking the myth in her “Braciatrix” blog, the other guides and managers were still really resistant to retracting that section.
@karinampadron3014
October 29, 2026 at 10:10 am
I love her. Bring her back more often!
@maxluvsgeese
October 29, 2026 at 11:37 am
ty for mentioning wise and cunning women – SO often in relation to the witch trials i read “they burned/hanged women, not witches” but it was both! mostly not witches or witchy folk but some also believed one witch could convert another person (not unlike the theory of siring in vampirism), so even someone who was not seen as untrustworthy or demonic could get swept up in the trials if they were closely linked to an accused witch in some way
@stephenvignovich8654
October 29, 2026 at 11:38 am
fear explains the current status of society
@im4smoore
October 29, 2026 at 3:39 pm
I loved her in the first video and I loved her in this one! Please keep bringing her back!!
@GearyZr
October 29, 2026 at 4:12 pm
During times of bad climate, fault finding runs rampant
@lepydoptera
October 29, 2026 at 6:51 pm
i would love to see Dr Brock analyze the movie The VVitch, if she hasn’t already
@GrekeFenris
October 29, 2026 at 7:26 pm
It’s nice to see an expert debunk some of the b.s. out there surrounding witches and the witch trials, but as a male witch I’m disheartened that no mention was made of the men who were accused and executed.
@philh8496
October 29, 2026 at 8:39 pm
The only thing worth watching about 17th century American ‘witches’ is The VVitch