Part 2 of 2 - The Witch of Auldearn : Isobel Gowdie

Mysterious Circumstances

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True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The witchcraft confessions given by Isobel Gowdie (in Auldearn, Scotland in 1662) are widely celebrated as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power has attracted considerable interest on both academic and personal levels. Isobel Gowdie, the renowned “Queen of Scottish Witches”, was a young Scottish housewife who was tried for witchcraft in 1662. Her detailed confessions, apparently achieved without the use of torture, relates her fifteen years of involvement with the Devil, and offers one of the most detailed looks at European witchcraft folklore at the end of the era of the Scottish Witch-Hunts. The most interesting part is that her testimony and fate are highly debated, still to this day. So, let's find out what she had to say that still has scholars scratching their heads.
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1:38.2	have some information on on some traditional witchcraft stuff and we're I'm going to read it to you and we're going to kind of compare it to what Isabel was saying with with her stuff, you know, before we start getting into the facts and like the theories
1:56.6	that are all going to kind of be rolled up into one because there are there are a
2:00.5	few theories that that do hold some ground but the first off is going to be
2:06.4	the witch's rights of renunciation now what this is meant to do is this is meant to
2:12.0	sever your religious ties of your own personal past.
2:15.0	Now this is done for two reasons. One is to shed the preconceptions forced by
2:21.9	organized religion including both the doctrines and the antithetic
2:27.4	notion of hierarchical power of regards to Enlightenment and as a symbol of rebirth basically pretty much like a baptism but as as opposed to this the quote-unquote
2:40.1	Sin that you're washing away is the sin of your previous religious
2:45.5	indoctrination and all that hypocrisy all the human realities that accompany the
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