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Why Was King James I Obsessed With Witch Trials? The Trials Of The Pendle Witches Timeline

Why Was King James I Obsessed With Witch Trials? The Trials Of The Pendle Witches Timeline

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This is an extraordinary story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine-year-old girl. Jennet Device, a beggar-girl from Pendle in Lancashire, was the star witness in 1612 in the trial of her own mother, her brother, her sister and many of her neighbours; thanks to her chilling testimony, they were all hanged. Although the events in this film may date back four hundred years, its issues resonate today as much as ever when to believe our children, and how, in times of crisis, fear of evil can easily lead us to behave in ways which may corrode the very values that we most wish to protect. Presented by Simon Armitage - poet, playwright and novelist - this film is peppered with his revealing insights into the characters emotional turmoil and cutting-edge use of animation, bringing this courtroom drama to life. Four hundred years on, the trials issues resonate as much as ever when should we believe our children, and just how powerful can the fear of evil be?
Date: 2022-07-19

Comments and reviews: 20


She said what she said because she was lied to you as a child and the child believed it and thought that she had to thus using children in court is bad you know how you know this because what she did at the very first time she did it wasn't talk softly and calm and cool and collected and didn't get up on a table but death there and cried profusely why because she knew somehow the even though they had her doing this that it was wrong but that's why her mother had to leave for her to be able to do so I've been a child in that same situation and I did exact same thing cried and cried and half of what I said they couldn't understand because I was crying too much because they wanted me to say things that wasn't true about my mother it's the people that are liars and they'll do anything that makes them hold a stature in society or any means that they might obtain to gain money and power they don't care how they do it or who they hurt because they're not doing it for any real justification just for them to gain in wealth and political statue and they don't care who they're hurting even to this day when it comes to having to go to court and represent have somebody represent you against the best attorney in your town or state that's the state attorney the odds are stacked against you to begin with and you get some appointed lawyer that gets paid no matter whether they lose their win yeah that's why so many people lose not only that but they've changed laws and put rhetoric in there that well under a certain amount of seriousness you can't ask for a jury trial and get one because it's not worth it to the courts to have you be able to do what's possible to prove your innocence this is also happened to me that's how I know people are evil still do this day it's being lies about people just to hurt them not even to gain any power political agenda or some stature in society just literally because they do so cuz it gives them some sense of pleasure we are legion and we are many
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It appears that the 9 year old child named Janet, was very angry with her mother. Her mother should not have yelled and screamed at Janet when Janet entered the court room. Janet did not have a shy bone in her body. After having read and watched this exact same story and the historical account of these witch trials many times over the years, I get the gut feeling that Janet rehearsed this performance and was coached into learning her lines. Someone told her exactly what to say and what to do. She was probably even coached to jump up on the court room table and recite something that she had been taught and had rehearsed until she knew this whole act that she performed by heart.
I suspect her mother was told what Janet was about to do in the court room. If people saw Janet being taught this, then they would have witnessed what she was going to do and say in court when it came time to performing this act that she was evidently taught. I do not believe a child would do this whole performance on their own, on a whim, in a court room, after experiencing a lot of trauma. I believe the child Janet was coerced into accusing her mother of witchcraft because she was probably beaten and told she would be subject to torture, ridicule and starvation if she did not learn the act that she was taught to perform in court. Janet caught on, she understood what happened when she did not do as she was told. Janet learned what she was told to learn and she did what she had to do in order to save her own life. The prosecution used little Janet like a puppet. That's the secret of these monkey trials, they forced children to lie by performing what they were told to perform. These were sham trials in a kangaroo court. SHAME ON THEM!

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Witches? Probably wasnt witches, just different people. Society can be brainwashing to many, you had famine, sickness, and small sized battles going on then, fighting over land, food and water. We actually brainwash ourselves without even noticing, its through the way we talk to each other and the message we convey to each other. I also believe, that once affected the bloodline can also become corrupted. Emotions run deep, it can be hand down from generation to generation, but you see the same pattern today, wars, arguing, sickness, famine, and we have more to deal with now, and thats bigger guns too, were starting the B. S. parade all over again.
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Guys like this documenterian are the lowest of the low. instead of promoting the incredible history of the English people and the British empire the spend their time going through it's history always trying to paint it in a bad light.
The fact that the witch trials had a %75 acquittal rate AND the fact that the kept meticulous records is a testament to a people truly trying to do the right thing as they knew it. AND why do we all pretend that some women arent attracted to witchcraft? I personally know three witches today in modern times. wicca anyone?

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Who is the man on your Timeline opening screen? King James was mixed, dark with close cropped hair, like African American grade hair. There are descriptions of him by his peers if you care to read them. You can't get away with the white washing of royals of color anymore. If I could post a true life picture of King James, I would. We know the old hokie-doke of showing all Europeans of importance as white. For those of us who have researched and studied history those old tricks don't work anymore.
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The me 2 movement is the mimlinias new witch hunt. Its FINALLY been challenged due to abuse and lies if amber. A women could make any ridiculius statement, make herself the face advocate and the man was is ruined. As an actual survivor I foynd fault right away with this platform when Farrow abused it with her already debunked abuse claims. It never helped women like me only those seeking revenge, $$, fame PERIOD. The meb accused might as well have been publicly murdered.
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Compared to Scotland and the rest of Europe, England was very lenient with witches and it was the arrival James VI/I from Scotland with his countries obsession with the black arts that a number of witches were executed. Prior to this time very few people were even charged with being witches in England unlike the 100s in Scotland and the 100, 000s in mainline Europe. Hence this old chestnut 'Pendle Witch Trials' there isn't any other examples worth a documentary.
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The dark ages lasted a bit longer on the British isles. The reason for the pan European witchtrials was profound. Female infanticide and murder. They killed 30-40% of the population. I compiled the main mort reports from 600CE to 1600CE. Today we carry 100000 babies and toddlers to an early grave in the US every year. Murdered by their witch mothers. Decapitating the witch movement made the Renaissance and Modernity possible.
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King James I of England but had been King James DO of Scotland from virtually his birth. He was son to Mary Queen of Scots
He then became James I of England when he inherited the English throne from Elizabeth I.
So while our current monarch is known as Queen Elizabeth II
In actual fact that only applies to England and Wales as far as Scotland is concerned she is actually Queen Elizabeth I.

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This is so disturbing. Like the Salem witch trials, the hysteria was created to enrich someone. Horrible! It is unimaginable that anyone who would consider KILLING someone in order to gain money/status/advancement. I work with a few people that I don't really like, but I would never even try to get them fired, never mind KILLED!
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This is splitface British woman, shes a crow with nothing left inside for St Michael to harvest, and standing talking to her you sense the witchcraft, the shift of the dark side of the Force. Its why King James would chase them, and later king Henry left them hiding up a chimney
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the united states of america has the largest gathering of witchcraft forces on the earth. all forms of government, the bankers, doctors, lawyers and cops use witchcraft to codify and protect them of their theft of federal dollars through unwarranted investigations.
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So a 9 year old girl who has barely reached the age of the use of reason- that is to say has a grasp of what is right and wrong. So her garbled up testimony is used to convict the enemies of the king. Sounds mysteriously Putin like.
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Bruce Peek

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Prayers probably sound like a witchcraft when the mind of audience is already set to accused the 10 to be witches. Janet sounds like a witch herself. Would like to know wot happen to Janet after the execusion of her family. Its important to analyse.
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Timeline cannot be believed today is the same English literature or book's of learning but History May say we don't change it we believe time changes people to a greater knowledge of events in English class of student's writer's or professor in college
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Juxtapose this approach with that of Charles II: granting an automatic right of appeal for mercy to the Crown in person, who then found the accused a herbalist, of unsound mind or a simpleton and sent them home with a purse of money.
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Cheek witches are good too. I am a witch & object to being called evil. I never curse or hex anyone. We live by our own laws what you put out into the universe you get back three times as much.
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FYI we get the term hangers on, from the loved ones or those paid to hasten the end of a badly hung person, adding their weight to hasten the end. Hence the phrase hangers on lol.
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I am so tired of so many men telling women's intimate stories. It's 30 min in before we even hear a woman's voice. Why are we still putting up with this in the 21st century?
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excellent. i watch Simon Armitage's Gawain on repeat, and i am thrilled to see this presentation as well. and then Prof. R. Hutton shows up as an absolute bonus. thank you!
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