The Witch Hunts That Turned Christian Europe Into a Continent of Fear

Описание: The Witch Hunts That Turned Christian Europe Into a Continent of Fear
They called it justice
. They called it protecting Christian society.
But what Europe did to tens of thousands between 1560 and 1660 was something far worse than punishment.
In 1628, a nine-year-old boy stood in a Würzburg courtroom. Within three days, he had named fourteen adults. Within a week, he was dead. His execution was recorded, filed, and then the process simply continued.
What followed wasn't chaos. It was a machine—systematic, procedural, and self-sustaining. Accusation without proof. Isolation from family. Public examinations. Sleep deprivation until hallucinations began. Confessions extracted through exhaustion. And the final question that fed the system: "Who else was there?"
The Malleus Maleficarum gave them the manual. The Drudenhaus gave them the infrastructure. And fear gave them total control. From the execution lists of Würzburg (900 dead in five years) to the torture chambers of Bamberg, from the letter of Mayor Johannes Junius ("It is all falsehood and invention") to the children's accusations in Sweden and Salem, this was a continent-wide system that killed 40,000-60,000 people—and controlled millions more.
Historians call it mass hysteria. The documents call it something else: administration, revenue generation, and the perfect template for making accusation more dangerous than guilt

0:00 – Hook
1:30 – The World That Was Falling Apart
6:00 – The Book That Taught People How to Kill
10:00 – How One Name Became a Thousand
14:30 – When Even Children Were Not Safe
18:30 – The Silence That Took Over Everything.
22:30 – How the Machine Never Stopped
26:30 – Closing / Reflection

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Keywords:
witch hunts, European witch trials, Malleus Maleficarum, Würzburg witch trials, Bamberg trials, Salem witch trials, medieval torture, Inquisition, Renaissance Europe, religious persecution, historical documentary, dark history, witch persecution, 1600s Europe, Johannes Junius
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