Was a mysterious fungus the spark behind the Salem Witch Trials? Dive into the eerie history, dark grains, and theories that fueled one of history’s most infamous cases of hysteria.
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Mary Perkins Bradbury, she was condemned but manged to escape, I think her 11 children helped.
If you think ergot made a bunch of christians act like this than you don't know a thing about the intolerance of religion or the shallow depth of peoples egos.
The notion that psychosis cause a witch scare is a fiction aimed at protecting the reputation of the magistrate that made it up in order take legal possession of the land owned by the families of the executed.
Hello Simon: This was really interesting. For severe migraine headaches I used to take a prescription drug called "Cafergot". The two active ingredients are caffeine and ergotamine. Have a lovely day.
Simon Whistler. Drug warrior. Interpol lacky.
Ill have two witches toasts please
Its just LSD. Whats all the fuss about? But they obviously didn't take it. Their "visions" or whatever are not LSD trips or anything like them.
No…Caitlyn Dougherty from Ask a Mortician looked into a report that came out regarding how that year the weather was too cold to produce ergot…
I feel like I'm going crazy, feels like it's just repeating the same stories over and over
7:37 STOP 👏 SAYING 👏 THEORY 👏 WHEN 👏 YOU 👏 MEAN 👏 HYPOTHESIS 👏
I'm with Dr Mikki (Michelle) Brock PhD on this, I believe it's a confluence of events, based in politics & the puritan beliefs of the time. I wrote an essay on this for my finals 20+ years ago. I still hold to the same ideas today, as much as I believe in historical witchcraft, it just wasn't there in Salem. For me it was young girls caught being young girls, possibly attention seeking, it getting out of hand, then the 'hysteria' was really that of political posturing between the staunch purtians, and the progressives, stirred by the rallying of the Minister Samuel P. It's just a cauldron of badness that broke the town. The Crucible is still an amazing play & 10 / 10 recommend for the nuances it has around the story of what happened.
One of my ancestors denounced his grandson-in-law. The grandson-in-law was hung. I’ve read the trial transcript. If I understood the 17th century English correctly, the accused was physically abusing his wife, the granddaughter. He may also have been a habitual drunkard. Contemporary mores, based on a literal interpretation of the New Testament’s condemnation and prohibition of divorce, meant divorce wasn’t an option for escaping an unhappy or abusive marriage unless one of the parties was a convicted adulterer. My personal conclusion is my ancestor used the trials as a means to rid his granddaughter of an abusive husband.
I lived in Salem village. It’s called Danvers now. Also located there was one of the worst mental hospitals in the country that people say was haunted until torn down years ago. There’s now a drug detox and some other medical buildings on site that people still report activity.
"Mould"
frigging brits 😂
Bread in most of the world now-&-days tastes like s**t
What the hell are you talking about. The reason is insane european christians and their religion
Never let a good crisis go to waste, antique style.
Mould ≠ Mold
No. The witch hunts were widespread in Europe, not localized just in Salem. Christians tortured and m-d 14 MILLION mostly women in one of their convenient satanic panic episodes. Sort of like now in 2024.
first impression @0:01min… DUDE! …horizontal black and white stripes? ..might as well try to listen on a crystal radio.
Ergot has a silent "t". Pronounced, Err – go.
So being a vegetarian isn't that great afterall.