The Witchfinder General vs. The Mainstream Media

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  • Опубліковано 20 лис 2020
  • A Video in Two Parts: In the First, the Witchfinder General of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay preacheth against those Printers of Gazettes who doth bear False Witness, and publish blasphemous notions about Witchcraft and the Power of the Devil; In the Second, an examination of Donald Trump, the Royal Governor of these Colonies - is he a Champion of the True Christian Religion?
    "What's up with the weird accent?" It's a rendition of Original Early Modern English Pronunciation, commonly abbreviated as OP, an accent reconstructed by a linguist and Shakespeare scholar that's our best guess as to what people in southern England sounded like in the 17th century.
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  • @vladimir8891
    @vladimir8891 3 роки тому +1355

    Breaking news: fox news literally not religious enough for local witchfinder.

    • @ImpudentInfidel
      @ImpudentInfidel 3 роки тому +96

      @jeremy Lyons "Crude and slapstick evangelist vagaries" is the whole of religion for a big chunk of their base. Dominionists, Prosperity Gospel, "nondemoninational" mega-churches, that kind of thing.

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy 3 роки тому +4

      @K Or even Newsmaxx.

    • @uppishcub1617
      @uppishcub1617 3 роки тому +4

      @@MrGksarathy no, He's definitely an infowars viewer

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy 3 роки тому +16

      @@uppishcub1617 Maybe, though I think even he'd struggle to follow some of Alex Jones' logic.

    • @uppishcub1617
      @uppishcub1617 3 роки тому +5

      @@MrGksarathy yeah, but he'd agree with the general ideas Alex put forth

  • @DavidJamesHenry
    @DavidJamesHenry 3 роки тому +2506

    As soon as he started talking about who would replace Trump I remembered Biden was a Catholic and said, "Oh no," out loud

    • @emmaivanova3965
      @emmaivanova3965 3 роки тому +80

      Same.

    • @eldorados_lost_searcher
      @eldorados_lost_searcher 3 роки тому +234

      It were as inevitable as being brought before the magistrates of the local shire.

    • @jamesparkinson7328
      @jamesparkinson7328 3 роки тому +132

      HEATHEN POPERY

    • @MrARCN7
      @MrARCN7 3 роки тому +99

      @@eldorados_lost_searcher PAPISTS! D:

    • @a-sheepof-christ9027
      @a-sheepof-christ9027 3 роки тому +9

      Same. I do study the bible and believe in the LORD and Saviour of Isaiah 9:6 and 43:11 which explicitly frames Christ the Son as being not coequal but the same as the Father: ONE - which does not describe unison of two seperate Persons but rather actual "sameness" if you take the word for its Hebrew and Greek direct and even implicit meaning. So I can somewhat feel the aversion of the Witchhunter General against both Witches and roman catholics as I myself am also strongly opposed to many modern views christianity and most societies hold. Biden at the end was Gold.

  • @johanps4893
    @johanps4893 3 роки тому +360

    Republicans: Fox News
    Democrats: Faux News
    Me, an intellectual: Mr. Murdoch's Printing Shoppe

  • @PURPLECATDUDE7734
    @PURPLECATDUDE7734 3 роки тому +2180

    This character is almost uncomfortably real, like I feel as if he could genuinely convince me that witches existed and that any persons suspected of being so should be taken forthwith to magistrate in the shire in which they dwell.

    • @t.rellis834
      @t.rellis834 3 роки тому +81

      They do, and they should be.

    • @cobalt-6D
      @cobalt-6D 3 роки тому +66

      As I read this, I gradually shifted into the accent

    • @machinist7230
      @machinist7230 3 роки тому +21

      They do exist, and more often theyre fat teenage girls with purple hair, who change their name to something ridiculous.

    • @sambishop9856
      @sambishop9856 3 роки тому +20

      @@machinist7230 I can't tell if you're just being a sexist prick, but a transphobic one too lol

    • @jamieobree1181
      @jamieobree1181 3 роки тому +18

      @@sambishop9856 Witches are women, look up the definition for confirmation if needed, so I'm not sure where the sexism claim comes from. And he made no mention to any kind of sex change or gender identity matters, so I'm not sure where the transphobic accusation comes from either. If you just wanted to call him a prick there's some material to work with via his fat shaming and insulting other people's life choices, but what exactly makes him sexist or transphobic?

  • @thetiffinbssociety
    @thetiffinbssociety 3 роки тому +2095

    I will never tire of hearing this accent.

  • @audaxhistoricus7467
    @audaxhistoricus7467 3 роки тому +724

    When they said Joe Biden was a catholic and he screamed, I felt that on a level of history not commonly felt by the average historian.

    • @noecarrier5035
      @noecarrier5035 3 роки тому +85

      Papist dogs! Papist dogs abroad on the land!

    • @hippyjoe
      @hippyjoe 2 роки тому +25

      No Popist Plots in Plymouth!

    • @dclark142002
      @dclark142002 Рік тому +8

      Indeed. Let us not forget that the Papists of the 17th and 16th Century we're quite different than Catholics today...

    • @AjarTadpole7202
      @AjarTadpole7202 Рік тому +7

      How does he do this stuff with a syraight face?! I can't stop laughing at this and yet it's so informative!

    • @ignaciorequena9182
      @ignaciorequena9182 Рік тому

      I adress thee, Joe Biden. Thou art a vvretched sinner, utterly unvvorthy of God's love. A fountain of pollution is deep vvithin thy nature, and thou livest as a vvinter tree; unprofitable, fit only to be hevvn dovvn and burnt. Steep thy life in prayer and hope that God sees fit to shovv mercy on thy corrupted soul.

  • @Nikolapoleon
    @Nikolapoleon 3 роки тому +291

    In my mind, the Atun-Shei's Witchfinder General is a man who has lived so austerely that he has the health sufficient to survive for 400 years.
    I imagine him steadily working away as Witchfinder all that time, never noticing as the world changed around him. Eventually Atun-Shei discovered him, and has entertained us by exposing him to the modern world.

  • @Apollomasque
    @Apollomasque 3 роки тому +784

    Witchfinder General of Massachusetts Bay, exorcising Nazis back to 1945 and denouncing Trump as a false Christian.
    The champion we need in these trying times.

    • @toddhughes2859
      @toddhughes2859 3 роки тому +41

      Amen, fellow wretched sinner! :D

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 3 роки тому +16

      Alfo denounfing the damned papifts!

  • @PURPLECATDUDE7734
    @PURPLECATDUDE7734 3 роки тому +838

    The genius of the Witchfinder General is that he is neither ignorant nor superstitious. He like most learned men of his generation legitimately believed witchcraft to be a real and present danger to his community and moved accordingly.
    What do we believe now that will be seen as horrifying and backwards by the coming generations? This character is not a joke, he is a warning

    • @leomarsala5905
      @leomarsala5905 2 роки тому +28

      fuck thats right

    • @Tarnatos14
      @Tarnatos14 2 роки тому +18

      Ofc you have make a little adjustment because our methods to reason what we belive are, at least mostly in science, are better than in these times back. But your true, exspecialy if it about morals future times will find our standars horrobile, as even today some people just not in our part of the world find them horrible. Its not that they are horrobile, but for al belives there always people in times which find them so.

    • @ELVIS1975T
      @ELVIS1975T 2 роки тому

      Salem trials were backwards according to their own time, too. Even some of the people who convicted the victims, later apologized for their baseless procedures

    • @aldojackson3242
      @aldojackson3242 2 роки тому +3

      We should indeed carefully examine our moral and social judgments, with the same diligence as we apply to analyse questions of science. We do well to use as few axioms as possible, sticking with uncontroversial axioms (like the survival drive, and the existence of objective/independent reality elements), and making sure to prove the rest.

    • @robertnett9793
      @robertnett9793 2 роки тому +2

      @@aldojackson3242 As few axioms as possible is a good call, when it comes to morality. As any general statement about morality above those absolute basics are either subjective, false or need a terrible lot of qualifiers - thus making them a non-general statement.
      Philosophers struggle to find some objective morlity since generations and I feel free to say, that we likely won't find them.

  • @mccabber24
    @mccabber24 3 роки тому +1400

    Atun-Shei, a channel which is the very definition of Quality over Quantity. And we love him for it

    • @dragondrew2000
      @dragondrew2000 3 роки тому +8

      He sits right with Lemmino.

    • @mmjahink
      @mmjahink 3 роки тому +6

      I mean, CGP Grey has a pretty damn good batting average too you know

    • @brunopavlovic9794
      @brunopavlovic9794 3 роки тому

      That's where you are wrong
      CHECKMATE LINCOLNITES!!!!!!!!!

    • @cristiansolano9491
      @cristiansolano9491 2 роки тому

      A quality rarely found in most UA-cam channels today.

    • @hlibushok
      @hlibushok Рік тому

      To be fair, the quantity is also pretty solid for such a quality.

  • @kenrudd6362
    @kenrudd6362 3 роки тому +266

    I lost it when they said biden was catholic
    I knew where who's was going

  • @cozycherry1790
    @cozycherry1790 3 роки тому +956

    I'm sorry...
    I see The Witchfinder General of the Coloney of Massachusetts Bay, I hit the like button.

    • @otisboy6714
      @otisboy6714 3 роки тому +8

      I’m a simple man

    • @lavaknight3682
      @lavaknight3682 3 роки тому +14

      Infernal finner! The only “like”, my heart trembles at saying it, should be to our Lord and Savior, Jesu Christ!

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz 3 роки тому +3

      Oh, I did too!!!

    • @VayaKahvi
      @VayaKahvi 3 роки тому +2

      No reason to be sorry

    • @Gstrangeman96
      @Gstrangeman96 3 роки тому +1

      I see the vvitchfinder general of the colony of massachusetts bay, I deliver myself onto the court for the shire in which I dwell, to be put to instant death.

  • @atm1947
    @atm1947 3 роки тому +292

    The fact that all the biblical references in this are 100% accurate and totally fit just goes to show how well done the writing for this is

  • @Mankorra_Gomorrah
    @Mankorra_Gomorrah 3 роки тому +274

    I imagine that if Atun-Shei suddenly found himself in the Plymouth colony he’d do a convincing enough job at claiming to be the witch hunter general that they’d have to sit there for a second and think “wait....what?”

    • @JonathanLundkvist
      @JonathanLundkvist 3 роки тому +51

      If that ever happened, I am fairly certain he would know better than to even speak of Witches :D

    • @ronjayrose9706
      @ronjayrose9706 3 роки тому +32

      Who knows he might even take over the settlement

    • @willwin4744
      @willwin4744 3 роки тому +14

      They would definitely believe he was one and probably also be terrified of him

    • @harveybaker7381
      @harveybaker7381 3 роки тому +25

      Most modern Americans, having time traveled back to those days, would stand out quite noticeably. If not for being too fat then certainly having too many teeth.

    • @katipunanball4799
      @katipunanball4799 2 роки тому +8

      @@harveybaker7381 or living to be too old for the average settler

  • @ECNRTube
    @ECNRTube 3 роки тому +382

    Cromwell shouting from the heavens: "IS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TO HAVE A SEAT IN THE SENATE!?"

    • @napalmblaziken
      @napalmblaziken 3 роки тому +11

      Cromwell was a dirty sinner who is burning in Hell!

    • @davidwright7193
      @davidwright7193 3 роки тому +43

      “I would rather Mohamedism was practiced among us than that the freedom of any man to practice his religion be infringed” Oliver Cromwell. Unlike the vvichfinder Cromwell actually believed in freedom of religion. Under his rule a synagogue was established in London for the first time since the 13th Century.

    • @joshcain1032
      @joshcain1032 3 роки тому +23

      ​@@davidwright7193 Cromwell was tolerant for his time, but he still persecuted Catholics and the more radical Protestant sects like the Levellers.

    • @joellaz9836
      @joellaz9836 3 роки тому +13

      @@davidwright7193
      Oliver Cromwell did believe in religious toleration and was often quite saddened by religious intolerance of the English parliament. When parliament put a Quaker (James Nayler) on trial for blasphemy and sentenced him to be put in the pillory and on there to have a red hot iron bored through his tongue, Cromwell strongly protested against the harsh sentence by parliament. On his death bed, Oliver Cromwell still remembered to send a man to check up on James Nayler’s health, who was still in prison suffering from having red hot iron bored through his tongue, and to see if was in need of anything to make him feel better. He could be a quite caring and compassionate man. One contemporary who knew him personally said he had the sweet compassion of a women. He was also known to be extremely kind to English Catholics he knew.

    • @davidwright7193
      @davidwright7193 3 роки тому +7

      @@joshcain1032 Cromwell was religiously tolerant, he wasn’t very tolerant of mutineers or rebels.

  • @martindorn3983
    @martindorn3983 3 роки тому +680

    I work retail and am constantly being sneered and shouted at for enforcing my stores mask policy. Every time that happens i play a little Witchfinder monologue in my head and it gives me strength.

    • @alex_roivas333
      @alex_roivas333 3 роки тому +83

      good work, you have truly earned some time spent in silent contemplation of the suffering of our lord

    • @martindorn3983
      @martindorn3983 3 роки тому +71

      @@alex_roivas333 ye invoite devalray into thine home as shorely as ye invoite covid into thine lungs

    • @MisoElEven
      @MisoElEven 3 роки тому +13

      Its a privately owned business, you can refuse service for any reason.

    • @martindorn3983
      @martindorn3983 3 роки тому +14

      @@MisoElEven we do, but its a very rural area. For every hick that crosses a line and gets kicked out there are 10 who dont go far enough to do anything other than upset the vibe.

    • @MisoElEven
      @MisoElEven 3 роки тому +1

      @@martindorn3983 Thats nice and I support you..but the government shouldnt make such mandates in my opinion. Though these idiots see conspiracies in everything I guess so a little bit of throwing out fun is on spot.

  • @jacobprice2579
    @jacobprice2579 3 роки тому +124

    “A fat Scotch man named Don-eld Trump” 😂😂😂

  • @skykid
    @skykid 3 роки тому +159

    The other day I saw a bumper sticker that said STAND FOR THE FLAG KNEEL FOR THE CROSS and at first I thought of them as ultra nationalistic but then my inner Witchfinder General came out and thought "what an Idolator"

    • @ELVIS1975T
      @ELVIS1975T 2 роки тому +12

      I wonder if the General'd pronounce it as "K-neel"

    • @thoroughlyunoriginalname
      @thoroughlyunoriginalname Рік тому +2

      Saying 'respect the symbol for our country and the religion our country is built on' comes off as bare minimal nationalism

    • @BradanKlauer-xh3hm
      @BradanKlauer-xh3hm 9 місяців тому +1

      Bro can’t even distinguish between patriotism and nationalism, lmao!
      P.s., yes, I am aware I have a Bonnie Blue Flag as my profile picture! I am not a neo-Confederate by any means, I just like the design.

    • @pivomanslovensko
      @pivomanslovensko 7 місяців тому +4

      ​@@BradanKlauer-xh3hmThere isn't enough meaningful difference between patriotism and nationalism to have to distinguish them. Both are stupid, harmful and foolish at best.

    • @nealfirstofhisname
      @nealfirstofhisname 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@pivomanslovensko A patriot supports his country, and a nationalist supports his people.
      So, a Kurdish person in Turkey might be a nationalist (supporting the Kurds), but not be a patriot (supporting Turkey).

  • @vaughanb1963
    @vaughanb1963 3 роки тому +827

    "I've been in many transgender situations"
    Genuinely, what does that even mean

  • @bakunicorn
    @bakunicorn 2 роки тому +67

    a friend of mine showed me a card trick once. of course i lost no time in delivering him to the magistrates assembled in the court of the shire in which I dwell.

  • @grungekid6913
    @grungekid6913 3 роки тому +402

    This is the greatest media commentary I’ve seen, while simultaneously being the weirdest. I never thought in my whole life that I’d see a puritan talk about the flaws with our media.

    • @DimitriEyonovich
      @DimitriEyonovich 3 роки тому +51

      Ohohoh. Don't call him a Quaker again, or else you must report to the magistrate in the shire in which you dwell for your divinely delivered punishment!

    • @marsmaniac1
      @marsmaniac1 3 роки тому +28

      A QUAKER?

    • @TheCamoruneGaming
      @TheCamoruneGaming 3 роки тому +31

      You've made a grave mistake calling a Puritan a Quaker...

    • @grungekid6913
      @grungekid6913 3 роки тому +25

      Mom help I’m scared

    • @californiaball2599
      @californiaball2599 3 роки тому +6

      Can someone tell me what a Quaker is?

  • @statosphereonline2008
    @statosphereonline2008 3 роки тому +456

    Accent is immpeccable. I live in Dorset in England and there are many people in rural areas who still have a similar accent. 10./10

    • @willbxtn
      @willbxtn 3 роки тому +18

      It goes a touch West Indies at time, but I guess the two accents are related.

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 3 роки тому +2

      I lived in dorset for seven years...
      The accent is way different.

    • @statosphereonline2008
      @statosphereonline2008 3 роки тому +39

      @@11Survivor it isn't identical but I have lived here for 14 years and there is definately a similar intonation on words, an arrrr sound to words used here by the VVitchfinder General that is near identical to rural Westcountry.

    • @abubnis4206
      @abubnis4206 3 роки тому +4

      Can confirm

    • @rast29
      @rast29 3 роки тому +21

      it's called original pronunciation, it's a constructed dialect attempting to approximate the sort of early modern English used by Shakespeare and King James. Atun-Shei is doing a whole movie in it from the prespective of a witchfinder.

  • @soulman4292
    @soulman4292 3 роки тому +737

    This character is quite literally a strike of genius.
    Perfect for many situations to juxtapose our Puritan past, with the wholly disinhibited present.
    Love it dude,
    When I get some extra cash, I’m gonna help you finance your movie.

    • @Migl0
      @Migl0 3 роки тому +5

      Grade A. It was what my 2020 needed

    • @williamarnold9744
      @williamarnold9744 3 роки тому +5

      Or, as Paula White would say, strike and strike and strike and strike and strike and strike...

    • @nucleargandhi2709
      @nucleargandhi2709 3 роки тому +45

      Character? The goode Witchfinder General of Massachusetts Bay is no deceiver, no player of roles for base entertainment. Do thee never again speak against the Godly actions o' yer neighbor, but only t' expose t' the magistrate of the shire in which ye dwell a most foul corruption in those very men who pretend themselves Godly.

    • @soulman4292
      @soulman4292 3 роки тому +10

      @@nucleargandhi2709 😂😂 I was showing my coworkers this video, and checked my comment only to find this absolutely hilarious comment below. You deserve more likes than I.

    • @tristanband4003
      @tristanband4003 2 роки тому +1

      Disinhibited? I fear still too many inhibitions and hang-ups plague the world.

  • @patrickgillespie4414
    @patrickgillespie4414 3 роки тому +45

    "That is NOT in the boible >:( " is going to be a favorite for a while

  • @MC-pt8kv
    @MC-pt8kv 3 роки тому +73

    I probably misunderstood like a third of what the general said but when I heard, "but who shall succeed him?" I started laughing immediately. That was so good.

  • @MrAwsomenoob
    @MrAwsomenoob 3 роки тому +35

    A adultering sinner, or a papist heathen. Truly a rock and a hard place

  • @IronPiedmont
    @IronPiedmont 3 роки тому +242

    I take it Trump wasn't the kind of Orange Man the Witchfinder was looking for. Now who is he going to celebrate the 12th of July with?

    • @AtunSheiFilms
      @AtunSheiFilms  3 роки тому +77

      Hahaha!

    • @im_not_political2026
      @im_not_political2026 3 роки тому +14

      That was pretty clever, not gonna lie.

    • @Reprodestruxion
      @Reprodestruxion 3 роки тому +2

      @@AtunSheiFilms I mean he kind of agrees with a son of Ulster

    • @v.k.rt.m.6030
      @v.k.rt.m.6030 Рік тому +1

      @@AtunSheiFilms whatever ye do, do not ſhow ye VVitchfinder General the Harry Potter series. Becauſe of the contents it contains would be but VVoe and Deſolation! 'Tis Queer!

    • @AjarTadpole7202
      @AjarTadpole7202 Рік тому +1

      I dont get it

  • @RevSinkiller
    @RevSinkiller 3 роки тому +323

    "He is a liar, lustful, prideful imp, a false Christian." - Witchfinder General
    I couldn't have said it better myself.

    • @jaketrombley8262
      @jaketrombley8262 3 роки тому +3

      To be fair there everyone that’s not a Puritan was false Christian. (Not defending him)

    • @brandonk.4864
      @brandonk.4864 3 роки тому +10

      @@jaketrombley8262 it’s a joke bro

    • @RevSinkiller
      @RevSinkiller 3 роки тому +13

      @@jaketrombley8262 why do you think he hollered like a banshee when he heard of a "Catholic" taking office.

    • @johanrunfeldt7174
      @johanrunfeldt7174 3 роки тому +8

      I find the Witchfinder General to be a false Christian. The reason for this is, Christianity was founded on the revlutionary idea that you should forgive rather than punish and avenge peoples' transgressions. Anyone ever heard WFG talk about forgiveness? Didn't think so.

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 3 роки тому

      @@johanrunfeldt7174 You're forgiven after you're punished for your transgressions.

  • @christophercolasurdo919
    @christophercolasurdo919 3 роки тому +577

    Me: “Oh no.... is the Witchfinder General about to join MAGA???”
    WFG: “Thou art a wretched sinner, utterly unworthy of god's love, a fountain of pollution is deep within thy nature, and thou livest as a winter tree, unprofitable, fit only to be hewn down and burned. Steep thy life in prayer, and hope that god sees fit to show mercy on thy corrupted soul.”
    Me: “There we go.....”

    • @JonathanLundkvist
      @JonathanLundkvist 3 роки тому +76

      It is very satisfying. Then you remember he means you too.

    • @25malum
      @25malum 3 роки тому +22

      @@spiffygonzales5899 ye judje thy neighbor as sinfull? ye must think yer self eqwal to the ahlmghty. brigeth this spiffy gonzales before the caurt that he too might be ajudjed!

    • @utzius8003
      @utzius8003 3 роки тому +7

      @@JonathanLundkvist Nah, he is specifically talking to Trump, he even said so.

    • @Bzuhl
      @Bzuhl 3 роки тому +5

      Autogenerated subtitles went for "a fountain of Pelosi" and I was Ok with that.

    • @vincentmalasawmkimajongte7489
      @vincentmalasawmkimajongte7489 3 роки тому +3

      You do realise that he's a centrist right?

  • @adamestes5227
    @adamestes5227 3 роки тому +130

    Praise be! For the VVitchfinder General is a Godly man, exposing the wickedness of the printers and the governors, with their foul words that manipulate and distort the truth of Our Lord, Jesuo Christ! Should we continue to hear the words of VVitchfinder General of the Colony of Mafsachufetts Bay Colony, and steer our lives in prayer, then perhaps God may see it fit to have mercy upon our corrupted souls.

  • @slugnoid
    @slugnoid 3 роки тому +28

    "Thou liveth as a winter tree.. unprofitable. Fit only to be hewn and burned" is my new favorite burn

  • @TheThormick
    @TheThormick 3 роки тому +112

    Epic Rap Battles of History I Want To See: The Witchfinder General Vs. The Seawitchfinder Admiral

    • @TheLostArchangel666
      @TheLostArchangel666 3 роки тому +19

      Oh gods can you imagine the Witchfinder General starring in Epic Rap Battles though? I seriously want to see that.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 3 роки тому +63

    The witchfinder general I have to wonder what kind of relationship did he have with his mother.

    • @jesseberg3271
      @jesseberg3271 3 роки тому +43

      I presume he delivered her forthwith to the magistrates assembled in the shire in which they dwelt.

  • @Significantpower
    @Significantpower 3 роки тому +51

    I got a Tinder ad for this video...
    What fine will the Magistrates levy onto UA-cam for this offense?

  • @colonnellomccandless4229
    @colonnellomccandless4229 3 роки тому +38

    Witchfinder General: *cries in pain
    Me: *actually dies for too much laughter

  • @richardpowell4281
    @richardpowell4281 3 роки тому +77

    The accent is FANTASTIC, I love it.

    • @dragonmaster613
      @dragonmaster613 3 роки тому +7

      He researched it as accurate as possible for the location/era depicted.

    • @samuelmelcher333
      @samuelmelcher333 3 роки тому +4

      @@dragonmaster613 That’s interesting. It reminds me a lot of the “Original Pronunciation” accent that has been reconstructed for Shakespeare’s London circa. 1600 (look up Ben Crystal). If this is meant to imitate Massachusetts Bay in the late 1600s, it’d make sense there would be similarities

    • @eldorados_lost_searcher
      @eldorados_lost_searcher 3 роки тому +3

      @@samuelmelcher333
      If I had to guess, he used OP as a jumping off point for it.

  • @unknownhandyman6821
    @unknownhandyman6821 3 роки тому +42

    The moment he shouts because Joe's Catholic background made me laugh out loud 😂
    So good!

  • @benjamins.10
    @benjamins.10 3 роки тому +147

    Oh, quality content, thy name is Andy.

    • @iepictic5489
      @iepictic5489 3 роки тому +3

      “18 hours ago” good job youtube

    • @benjamins.10
      @benjamins.10 3 роки тому +12

      @@iepictic5489 it was 18 hours ago. Patreon member with early access here

    • @iepictic5489
      @iepictic5489 3 роки тому +4

      @@benjamins.10 Ah thanks for the clarification

    • @benjamins.10
      @benjamins.10 3 роки тому +3

      @@iepictic5489 Anytime 🙂

  • @HVolnWhatnow
    @HVolnWhatnow 3 роки тому +18

    That entire slow zoom after “I address thee die-REKT-leh...” I felt like I was being yelled at and deserved it.

  • @joeevans5770
    @joeevans5770 3 роки тому +231

    Witchfinder General 2024: Make America Puritan again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @catominor7306
      @catominor7306 3 роки тому +8

      Joe Evans his campaign slogan is a bit long though

    • @demomandemopan370
      @demomandemopan370 3 роки тому

      000⁰0ⁿ
      oops

    • @Matt_The_Hugenot
      @Matt_The_Hugenot 3 роки тому +1

      Best comment so far.

    • @italia689
      @italia689 3 роки тому +10

      It already kind of is going in that direction, with left-right ideologies being so rigid that any "blasphemers" like a lone Republican for paid family leave or a Democrat who is against abortion is almost burned at the stake. We need a third party.

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 3 роки тому +5

      @jeremy Lyons I mean "we're not extremists" is something a lot of people would welcome nowadays.

  • @jarl_winter
    @jarl_winter 3 роки тому +82

    How do ye just continuously make gold? Are ye an alchemist? Have ye made a pact with the devil?

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 3 роки тому +12

      He makes his money in a Godly way by preaching to the good people

  • @iammaxhailme
    @iammaxhailme 3 роки тому +37

    pretty sure the witchfinder general makes more sense than tucker carlson

  • @LadyTylerBioRodriguez
    @LadyTylerBioRodriguez 3 роки тому +175

    I guess its time to reveal... I'M A PAPIST!!! Now who is unworthy of gods love Witchfinder! We own this colony!

    • @gluesniffingdude
      @gluesniffingdude 3 роки тому +27

      Thou who walk in sin, nay, who art in the service of Satan himself, shall be put to immediate death.

    • @JonathanLundkvist
      @JonathanLundkvist 3 роки тому +18

      THY ARE A WRETCHED SINNER!

    • @liamboote225
      @liamboote225 3 роки тому +14

      The Bishop of Rome is Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church.

    • @HighAdmiral
      @HighAdmiral 3 роки тому +14

      ​@@gluesniffingdude INSTANT death. Get it right. Thou livest as a winter tree, unprofitable...

    • @alexhousakos
      @alexhousakos 3 роки тому +2

      THOU ARE A WRETCHED SINNER

  • @TheRex290
    @TheRex290 3 роки тому +49

    The Joe Biden bit made me lose it at the end. Great as always Witchfinder General

  • @warlordofbritannia
    @warlordofbritannia 3 роки тому +31

    So many Bridget Bishops, yet so few magistrates in the shire in which they dwell...

  • @lukesimecek9172
    @lukesimecek9172 3 роки тому +29

    Not the hero we need, but the one we deserve.

  • @ketsuekikumori9145
    @ketsuekikumori9145 2 роки тому +7

    "He shall not be laughing when imps with names no mortal can invent."
    I feel like the names were invented by mortals.
    *Intense knocking at the door*

  • @bonniea8189
    @bonniea8189 3 роки тому +63

    WFG: "... names that no mortal can invict ..."
    Also WFG: _proceeds to name imps_
    Me: Is WFG the devil?

    • @autobotstarscream765
      @autobotstarscream765 3 роки тому +19

      I thought he said "invent", as in "it's so crazy, it must be true, nobody could think of this to compose it as fiction!"

  • @537monster
    @537monster 3 роки тому +150

    I love the lore that super religious types created behind demons.
    I mean, demons have different species, different goals, spells, and all kinds of shit.
    Honestly, I’d love to see a fantasy movie or TV show that is set in medieval times, in a world where Catholic cosmology and spiritualism is basically real. So you’d see archangels battling demons all the time, while people pray to saints, and the wrath of God occasionally comes down to burn cities. Shit like that would be awesome to see in like an Amazon series or something.

    • @CommieApe
      @CommieApe 3 роки тому +11

      Check out the Netlfix Castlevania series.

    • @catominor7306
      @catominor7306 3 роки тому +14

      Classical Christian cosmology is super interesting and I would love to see something based on it

    • @connannbarbarin3033
      @connannbarbarin3033 3 роки тому +4

      if you watch anime try Maria the Virgin Witch. It is just what you are looking for.

    • @Darkxanderpresents
      @Darkxanderpresents 3 роки тому +18

      You could do that just by showing the spiritual side of the people who lived in Early Modern/Late Medieval times. Most people in Europe would have treated archangels, demons, witches and the like not as some supernatural secret world but as a simple fact of daily life, although many would have been ignorant to the specifics. Queen Elizabeth's spymaster, John Dee, beiieved he could communicate with angels and demons in the Enochian tongue, which was essentially a conlang his con man friend made up. James I wrote about demons as if they were just another topic of discussion like tobacco, sports, and politics. A lot of shows portray medieval people as being essentially atheist, which wasn't the case at all.
      Imagine having a show set in the reformation, where a character is interested not only in the politics of the era but also the fate of their soul.

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer 3 роки тому +2

      That sounds like a good video game.

  • @christophercotton7149
    @christophercotton7149 3 роки тому +15

    "Diabolical malefacters" - my expression for the weekend 👍

  • @VayaKahvi
    @VayaKahvi 3 роки тому +17

    What happens when a theater nerd with a history degree makes a youtube channel, pure gold.

  • @patria3023
    @patria3023 Рік тому +5

    “Joe Biden will become the second Catholic” *screams of horror * very Richard Pavlik Core of you

  • @Dr__Money
    @Dr__Money 3 роки тому +37

    Bless thee moft noble VVitchfinder

  • @quique7764
    @quique7764 3 роки тому +23

    I get a lil too excited when I see a new Atun-Shei video. I think a need to scourge myself.

  • @nicholaswolf2756
    @nicholaswolf2756 3 роки тому +71

    When’s another episode of
    “Checkmate Lincolnintes”?

  • @loganwyatt7678
    @loganwyatt7678 3 роки тому +18

    Ye be doing the lord's work in earnest. Exposing the wretched sinners of these false gazette and printshops has done me heart well. Praise the Lord, sir.

  • @comettamer
    @comettamer 3 роки тому +26

    Absolutely love this guy. His characters are excellently acted and the history he spins is rich, and well researched.

  • @ig-8887
    @ig-8887 3 роки тому +13

    I kinda feel bad for the witchfinder general, think about how hard it is to be that mad at everything on a daily basis.

  • @erikjonsson9930
    @erikjonsson9930 3 роки тому +10

    As a Swedish man, this is my go-to news outlet to find out what happens in America. While that's not necessarily true this is great content as always! Quality that is extremely rare and very appreciated.
    Cheers!

    • @MattieK09
      @MattieK09 3 роки тому +3

      I’ve noticed that about Europeans in general they need their news in the form of entertainment

  • @stream2watch
    @stream2watch 3 роки тому +16

    Hitting like before I see the video. That is how confident I am.

  • @marklarmcfizzlestaff
    @marklarmcfizzlestaff 3 роки тому +12

    Thank you. Never hesitate to crack out the Witchfinder General. Ever.

  • @jasonboomgarden4480
    @jasonboomgarden4480 3 роки тому +15

    Witchfinder general aesthetic is the new cottagecore

  • @sidarthurgortimer355
    @sidarthurgortimer355 3 роки тому +17

    The auto-generated captions are great. Bible becomes "boy ball".

  • @Master_Blackthorne
    @Master_Blackthorne Рік тому +5

    "Oracle of Los Angeles?" I've never heard of her.
    Making your "living" by witchcraft? Magic is for needed change, not profit.

  • @sleepytabby9113
    @sleepytabby9113 3 роки тому +7

    This was one of the best Witchfinder General videos. I discussed it with my cats and they both agreed. Thank you and best wishes from a left handed, mole sporting, red headed, Papist from Lancashire. Sleep tight xxx 🤣

    • @bonniea8189
      @bonniea8189 3 роки тому +2

      🤣 Your cats have great taste, in humans and in UA-camrs. From a left-handed, mole sporting, red headed atheist (former witch) from California

    • @WWFanatic0
      @WWFanatic0 Рік тому +1

      You have conversations with your cats and understand the sounds which come from them? Sounds like we need to call the Witchfinder General immediately.

  • @SidBlackheart
    @SidBlackheart 3 роки тому +3

    Every time I have to read something in Early Modern English, I read it in this voice, I can't help myself.

  • @isaiahkerstetter3142
    @isaiahkerstetter3142 3 роки тому +18

    All I want for Christmas is to see TWFG sucked onto the 3rd century to the council of Nicaea, mistaken for Arius despite his best protest (I suppose he'd need the gift of tongues to speak Greek), be ecstatic over meeting St. Nicholas and promptly shamed by being slapped by a man he looks up to for his own 'eresy.

    • @chazpruchnicki9316
      @chazpruchnicki9316 3 роки тому +3

      I suspect TWFG would find the Christian faith as practiced at time of Nicea utterly unrecognizable and incompatible with the true puritan faith, corrupted as the early church was by papist heresies. No doubt he would deem the entire lot of bishops, Nicholas of Myra included, as wretched sinners, utterly unworthy of God's love (and so on and so on).

    • @isaiahkerstetter3142
      @isaiahkerstetter3142 3 роки тому

      @@chazpruchnicki9316 More smacks for TWFG.

  • @alexward1319
    @alexward1319 3 роки тому +3

    yo that harpsichord is fukken fire

  • @joshuadunford3171
    @joshuadunford3171 3 роки тому +6

    “Biden will be the second Catholic to be president of our nation” “AAAHHhH” Love it!

  • @mr.victorwicked8534
    @mr.victorwicked8534 3 роки тому +8

    I found your channel through your Ravenous review (a film we both adore) and just keep being thoroughly entertained, informed and made curious.
    You continue to refine the characters you craft and giving them more nuanced life.
    Much like ERB of History, you take a important element of learning and enhance it for those who might not look that way, recreationally...and for those of us who enjoy U.S. history, your channel is a real treat.

  • @peytongonavy
    @peytongonavy 3 роки тому +2

    Me father always was scolded "Stay away from them Catholics, you listenin'?"
    But me mother was bold and he did as was told, and out I came, warm and glistenin'

  • @pablononescobar
    @pablononescobar 3 роки тому +16

    The Witchfinder can't seem to find anyone he truly likes, must be a lonely man

    • @dutchpangermanist5673
      @dutchpangermanist5673 3 роки тому +13

      I assume he gets along with the magistrate in the shire in which he dwells.

    • @Ocker3
      @Ocker3 3 роки тому +1

      That is kind of half the point of such characters

  • @dustind4694
    @dustind4694 3 роки тому +7

    It *is* weirdly comforting to see how far we've come, even if we have so much further yet to go.

  • @gooseneck5433
    @gooseneck5433 3 роки тому +2

    Please never stop doing what you’re doing. All your videos are gold.

  • @AnarchicEowyn
    @AnarchicEowyn 3 роки тому +1

    That was the best of this series! Thank you mate!

  • @DiamondKingStudios
    @DiamondKingStudios 2 роки тому +7

    One of the most memorable conflicts on this channel:
    The Witchfinder General versus the First Amendment (specifically: freedom of religion and the press)

  • @Xxxbluebirdxxx
    @Xxxbluebirdxxx 3 роки тому +4

    I need to learn this accent because it is so melodic and I need it in my life. if I learn how to speak like this I will never stop speaking like it.

  • @cshaslag
    @cshaslag 3 роки тому +2

    This is my favorite Witchfinder General video to date. They just keep getting better.

  • @vereinigtekonigreicheoster35
    @vereinigtekonigreicheoster35 3 роки тому +30

    Hwat is thine opinion on the way that the colonies have dealt with most recent plague?

    • @onegirlarmy4401
      @onegirlarmy4401 3 роки тому +9

      Clearly we need to get rid of the witches and the plague will be lifted?
      (sarcasm)

  • @Onio_
    @Onio_ 3 роки тому +4

    His performance gets better each episode. Brilliant.

  • @ForgottenHonor0
    @ForgottenHonor0 3 роки тому +6

    Dude, I love how much passion you put in all of your videos! Still think your Dracula video is the best you've done, yet.

  • @mattfrederick5129
    @mattfrederick5129 3 роки тому

    Top notch. Loved the personal message. Great work!!! Keep 'em coming!

  • @SecretTapeworm
    @SecretTapeworm 3 роки тому +1

    Love the red source inserts, so much material to excitedly read! Thanks!

  • @snappy452
    @snappy452 3 роки тому +7

    Am I the only one that wants a Witchfinder General reality show?

  • @skynyrdjesus
    @skynyrdjesus 3 роки тому +6

    I don't think anything has ever made me more proud of my country than seeing an accurate portrayal of how much a puritan would hate it, and I accept how spiteful that makes me.

  • @geminidechant5005
    @geminidechant5005 3 роки тому

    Please don't stop making these, they are so good!

  • @ImpishlyDevious
    @ImpishlyDevious 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing as always! Thanks!

  • @ryantilbe8171
    @ryantilbe8171 3 роки тому +3

    moving to Maine in a couple weeks everyone better talk like this

  • @finndonnelly9062
    @finndonnelly9062 3 роки тому +87

    this accent's like a mix of scottish, Irish and a hint of jamaican. not unpleasant though

    • @dragonmaster613
      @dragonmaster613 3 роки тому +48

      He did a video explaining that he researched it as an accurate depiction of the accent of the colony at the time.

    • @baronofbahlingen9662
      @baronofbahlingen9662 3 роки тому +16

      Because they all evolved from this accent in different directions and with different influences

    • @finndonnelly9062
      @finndonnelly9062 3 роки тому +7

      @@dragonmaster613 oh ok thats cool, I gues im justed used to americans butchering Irish/scottish accents

    • @kmaher1424
      @kmaher1424 3 роки тому +8

      @@dragonmaster613 Watching previous Atun Shei videos adds depth to appreciating new ones.
      Do your research! Have fun...

    • @mikeoxsmal8022
      @mikeoxsmal8022 3 роки тому

      @@baronofbahlingen9662 that's Not true . Most people in Ireland didn't speak Irish till the late 18th mid 19th century

  • @SGWeber
    @SGWeber 3 роки тому +2

    Were God so willing, I might give to thee a second raised thumb of approval in recompense for thy excellent work, Witchfinder-General. Blessings be upon thee in thy quest to bring this coloney back unto God's flock

  • @tonyblitz1
    @tonyblitz1 9 місяців тому +2

    Community guidelines prevent me from saying what I would do for the opportunity to see you play a zealot at a DnD table

  • @joshmarshall7610
    @joshmarshall7610 3 роки тому +4

    Am I the only one that would love to see a spin-off series of the Whitchfinder General doing commentary on modern news and goings on in our modern heathen age?

  • @jaketrombley8262
    @jaketrombley8262 3 роки тому +14

    Honestly if you did a monthly recap of the nevvs it would make the vvorld much bearable.

  • @studmuffinthuglife
    @studmuffinthuglife 3 роки тому +1

    Spectacular job once again! Thank you!

  • @guypierson5754
    @guypierson5754 3 роки тому

    Never know what you'll get when you see an Atun Shei upload. But it's always worth the watch.

  • @sinistertwister686
    @sinistertwister686 3 роки тому +3

    I almost feel bad for Witchfinder General in the end

  • @simplyethan
    @simplyethan 3 роки тому +3

    This was even better than I expected, and I expected righteous greatness.

  • @Evzone1821
    @Evzone1821 3 роки тому +1

    You’re wonderful, Atun-Shei!

  • @joshkorte9020
    @joshkorte9020 3 роки тому

    One of your best videos yet

  • @Darksummerswind
    @Darksummerswind 3 роки тому +4

    I will never tire of seeing this character