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- 0:00Speaker 1: This came up during my mass illusion research for manufacturing
- 0:03Speaker 1: delusion play in the early sixteen hundreds, Germany, in particular,
- 0:08Speaker 1: happened in France, it happened in Sweden some other places,
- 0:10Speaker 1: but that was a little bit of a Germany burned
- 0:13Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of women at the stake, thousands and
- 0:17Speaker 1: thousands of women at the steak for being witches. And
- 0:21Speaker 1: they were women overwhelmingly. There were some men who were
- 0:25Speaker 1: a part of this, but they were women who were
- 0:27Speaker 1: known to the community, often women who worked as nursemaids,
- 0:32Speaker 1: wet nurses, midwives, a lot of midwives burned at the steak.
- 0:37Speaker 1: And society, these little societies would have these little sort
- 0:40Speaker 1: of baroque Germanic duchies, if you will, would have these
- 0:45Speaker 1: moments of a mass hysteria, and it would usually be
- 0:49Speaker 1: involving a child dying of a disease or you know,
- 0:55Speaker 1: suddenly a child dies, and if it happens a few times.
- 0:57Speaker 1: They didn't know about germ theory, so they learned to
- 1:00Speaker 1: blame someone. It was a scapegoating thing, and so they said, oh, well,
- 1:03Speaker 1: the old woman, We're going to burn her at the stake.
- 1:05Speaker 1: And this sort of thing happened, but women turned on
- 1:09Speaker 1: women that had helped them raise their own children and
- 1:11Speaker 1: watch them get burned at the stake, which is among
- 1:12Speaker 1: the worst things that could possibly happen to a human being.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Thousands and thousands of times over in Germany in the
- 1:17Speaker 1: sixteen hundreds, and I see the same sort of crazy
- 1:22Speaker 1: in the eyes of some of these women who are
- 1:23Speaker 1: supporting this clancy woman.