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🗓️ 15 May 2023
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0:00.0 | Jane loved crisps! She ate them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. |
0:05.5 | Even at Fancy Pants restaurants, years went by, but then crisps stopped doing it for her. |
0:12.8 | They got her thrown out of cinemas, and were forever in the bedsheets. |
0:19.6 | crisps! They're kind of like your current account, just because they were good ones doesn't mean you have to stick with them forever. |
0:26.4 | Maybe it's time to switch with the current account switch service. |
0:43.0 | Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, there were a few things that were more feared than witches. |
0:49.2 | Although we know today that a great many people were accused of being witches for some pretty sketchy reasons, |
0:55.4 | for the average European the fear of witches lurking in the shadows was something that was very, very real. |
1:02.4 | In 1486, German demon hunters Heinrich Kremmer, and Jacob Springer, |
1:07.6 | wrote the Malius Malfacarum, or the Hammer of Witches. |
1:12.7 | A how-to guide about the ways people could identify and stamp out witches. |
1:19.2 | It estimated that throughout the late Middle Ages as many as 200,000 to half a million |
1:23.6 | men, women, and children were executed for witchcraft. |
1:27.9 | That's not even including the countless others who were locked away in prison for allegedly |
1:32.3 | consorting with the devil. In 1566, about 30 boys and girls at a Catholic orphanage school in |
1:38.9 | Amsterdam, Holland, began exhibiting strange fits and convulsions. |
1:44.9 | Some of the children began to experience violent spasms of their arms and legs. |
1:49.2 | Sometimes these fits would last for as long as an hour or more, then, just as suddenly as one of |
1:55.9 | these fits came on, it would abruptly end, and the child would begin acting normally again as if |
2:02.0 | nothing had happened. Then some of the children began to exhibit some other even stranger behavior. |
2:07.7 | A few would suddenly fall into a trance-like state, while still others would begin behaving |
2:14.1 | like cats. They would growl and hiss and sometimes even crawl around on all fours. |
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