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⛓️ The methods used against accused witches were so extreme that even the inquisitors — the men conducting the persecutions — sometimes refused to continue. Their own records reveal a horror that history has tried to forget.

When the hunters become disturbed by their own hunt, something has gone terribly wrong. This documentary uncovers the original trial records, personal letters, and church documents that reveal what really happened in those interrogation chambers — and why even some inquisitors tried to stop it.

📌 WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER:
✅ Torture methods that made inquisitors request transfers
✅ Original documents showing internal Church objections
✅ Why some judges refused to continue proceedings
✅ The psychological destruction that preceded physical torture
✅ What the sanitized history books deliberately removed

⚖️ WHEN THE HUNTERS HAD DOUBTS:

History remembers the witch trials as religious hysteria. But buried in the archives are letters from inquisitors themselves expressing horror:

Requests for reassignment from witch trial duties
Complaints that confessions were meaningless under torture
Bishops questioning the validity of the entire process
Judges who refused to sign death warrants
Priests who gave last rites while weeping

These weren't reformers — they were believers in witchcraft who still couldn't stomach what they witnessed.

🔥 WHAT THE RECORDS ACTUALLY DESCRIBE:

The original trial documents reveal procedures designed to break the human spirit completely:

💀 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION:

Before any physical torture began:

Complete isolation for weeks or months
Sleep deprivation until hallucinations began
Starvation to weaken resistance
Constant interrogation in shifts
Forced to stand or sit in painful positions for days
Told their family had abandoned them
Shown instruments and told what was coming

Many confessed before torture even began — exactly as intended.

⛓️ THE PHYSICAL METHODS:

When psychological methods failed, the escalation began:

Strappado: Suspension by arms tied behind the back
The rack: Systematic joint dislocation
Water torture: Forced ingestion until near drowning
Sleep deprivation devices: Prevented any rest
Thumb screws and leg crushers
Burning with heated implements
Methods too extreme to describe in detail

📜 "Moderate torture" was officially limited to one hour.
The records show sessions lasting days, with "breaks" between official sessions.

🩸 THE SEARCH FOR "DEVIL'S MARKS":

The most invasive violation:

Complete bodily examination
Shaving of all body hair
Systematic pricking with needles
Any birthmark, scar, or blemish declared "proof"
Conducted by appointed "witch prickers" — some later exposed as frauds

💧 THE WATER TEST:

"Swimming" the accused:

Bound and thrown into water
If they floated: guilty (rejected by baptismal water)
If they sank: innocent (but often drowned)
Survival meant execution
Death meant vindication — too late

📖 INQUISITORS WHO OBJECTED:

Not all hunters were enthusiastic. The archives preserve their dissent:

🖊️ ALONSO DE SALAZAR FRÍAS (Spain, 1611):
After investigating 1,800 accused witches, he concluded:
"I have not found a single proof... of a real act of witchcraft."
He helped end the major witch trials in Spain.

🖊️ FRIEDRICH SPEE (Germany, 1631):
Jesuit priest who heard confessions of the condemned. Wrote anonymously:
"Torture fills our Germany with witches... the innocent confess whatever the torturers want."
His hair turned white from what he witnessed.

🖊️ CORNELIUS LOOS (1592):
Wrote that witch trials were based on "lies, fraud, and torture."
Forced to recant on his knees. Later vindicated.

🖊️ REGINALD SCOT (England, 1584):
"These poor souls confess impossibilities... which they never did, nor lay in the power of man to do."

📚 This documentary draws from original trial records, Inquisition archives, contemporary accounts, Friedrich Spee's writings, and modern historical scholarship.

⚠️ CONTENT NOTE: This video discusses historical torture and execution in an educational context. Some descriptions may be disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.

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