The Bible gives the line "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live". Hexenhammer gave an extensive list of crimes and tests that defined an accusation of witchcraft. Effectively, as soon as you were accused, getting out alive was a tall order
This is awesome that you guys found (or were suggested to listen to) Burning Witches. It's an All Female band from Switzerland. They have 4 albums out now. Most recent was released last year. Hexenhammer was the title track on their 2nd album. And was also the first song that I found of them on UA-cam 2 years ago. And was instantly hooked. Most of their music has a Judas Priest "Painkiller-era" sound. Kinda you typical 80s/90s traditional power metal sound. They have had two vocalists already, with the original one singing on this album. But the new singer is somewhat similar but can also do a growl/scream vocal as well. Kinda cool too. They've also had a couple guitarist changes as well, but each change has only made the band better. I think the 3rd album is slightly better than the 4th, but that's only because I haven't listen to the 4th but just once. That said, yeah, Sori is right. These gals know how to write good lyrics and play well. All of their songs are heavily story driven and usually about the Occult and European history.
I saw Burning Withches play last night. I can't understand people not liking the new singer. I kinda prefer Laura over Serina. She has more power and can do more. They sure write great music. Show was great!
You two are some of the coolest UA-camrs I am glad to see two Christian's listening to metal plus I love Burning Witches band and my wife is a witch and needs salvation! Much love from Missouri and God Bless You two!
Hi Sori & Vin! I'm glad you reacted to this song. I'm a Christian, a metal fan and a particular fan of the Burning Witches band. Just to cover the basics, they're from Switzerland and all five band members are women. On to the song: the official music video (at ua-cam.com/video/1OCmwMFKDlE/v-deo.html ) shows a medieval representative of the Church preparing a document authorizing persecution/apprehension of the witches in question. From what I understand, the term "Hexenhammer" can have several meanings. One was just as you indicated, Sori, about the treaty. It also had a colloquial meaning as to the written document itself (the instruction manual, if you will), delineating the types of witches and the various avenues of prosecuting them. That's what the monk (or whatever you'd call him) is writing as seen in the video. I think many women ended up being accused because they happened to be eccentric, had controversial opinions, or were merely selling medicinal herbs to other villagers. Probably something they said was misconstrued as being "occult" in nature and an accusation followed. As you rightly said Sori, poor women had to do what they had to do to get by. If that included selling herbs and "potions," sex work or whatever, it's always the poor who get it in the neck first. Perhaps some were actually practicing what they themselves would describe as witchcraft. I urge you guys (and all viewers of this reaction) to watch the OMV. In addition to the storyline, you'll get to see the five very talented ladies that make up Burning Witches. Vin & Sori, if you want to see something more recent from this band, I STRONGLY recommend two songs from their most recent CD. They are "Witch of the North" and "Flight of the Valkyries." Both are excellent, with interesting lyrics and imaginative music videos. Thanks for shining a light on this extremely talented band! Be well and God Bless.
Well since this has a lot to do with the witch craze, which I've looked into a bit, I figured I would offer some of my input. 10:56 - So here we see the suggestion that monetary status had a lot to do with whether or not one was accused of being a witch, and even sex work is implied for many of these sorts of individuals accused to be witches. What evidence do we have on this topic? Who were these folks that were accused of witchcraft? Well, it's complicated, accused witches didn't belong to a single social group and according to Ronald Hutton in his book "The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present" about 1/3 of these accusations were motivated by personal or economic motivations (e.g. there was something to be gained by accusing this person of being a witch). Richard Kieckhefer in his book "European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500" says much the same. So, some were probably poor, some were what we'd call middle class, others were wealthy and it doesn't seem your class necessarily protected you from these accusations. In Sweden the witch trials between 1668-1676 were so scandalous, so blatantly corrupt, abuses of power that the government had ordered all witch trials come to an end. And while most of the victims of the witch craze were women (I believe in most cases women exceeded 75% of victims), in some geographic locations the victims of the witch craze skewed heavily towards men (this was the case in Normandy, most of Scandinavia, Finland, and Russia). So, why this happened is hard to say, it wasn't for one particular reason and coincided major social and political events of the day, such as the Protestant Reformation and European wars of religion, famine, economic disruption, local politics etc. And the majority of the victims were located in German speaking regions. Certainly the case of Russia is for completely reasons than in Western and Central Europe. Then it is suggested that many of these accused witches may have just been selling herbs, that they were folk healers being targeted. This is a common belief, but there's little evidence for this. This idea comes from revisionist feminist scholars, such as Barbara Ehrenreich and Deride English, but has not stood up to scrutiny. What Ehrenreich and English did is they examined a small number of cases that involved folk healers and midwives and extrapolated from that an elaborate story of women being persecuted by men, specifically physicians, to take the medical profession away from them. In "Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-Witch" (Social History of Medicine 3 (1990), pp. 1-26.)" David Harley examines this and demonstrated that women were actually less likely to be charged with witchcraft were they midwives or folk healers and these women were more likely to aid witch hunters. In fact, feminist historian Diane Purkiss says much the same in "The Witch in History: Early Modern and Late Twentieth Century Representations" and writes that "midwives were more likely to be found helping witch-hunters". Many of these cases revolved around still-births and infant deaths being blamed on malicious magic, so who better to ask than a midwife or healer who attended the birth and cared for the sick baby? Surely such an expert would be able to tell us of anything unnatural occurring! Also we should stop and ask, *what the heck is a witch anyway*? Where does this come from? Is it even really relevant to the bible? What did the Church think about witches prior to the witch craze? Well, we should probably define what people in the medieval to early modern period believed witches to be. I would say belief in witches isn't actually that relevant to the bible. Yes, sure, as Vin points out that in some translations such as in the KJV it says "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" but it's also important to keep in mind *King James was obsessed with witches* and the KJV translates multiple different words from the Latin Vulgate as "witch". So this will depend on the time and place, in the context of the early Middle Ages the idea of witches is heavily influenced by pre-Christian folklore, particularly in Germanic speaking lands, wherein some people believed there were classes of women which practice malicious magic. Examples of this would be the Gothic conception of the Haliurunnae, a group of women which the Gothic people had sent away in exile for their practice of bad magic prior to their migration to the Roman Empire. Scandinavians also had traditions of a vǫlva, seiðkona, or spákona. These words are more or less interchangeable and refer to again, classes of women, seeresses, who were capable of casting malicious spells if crossed. So that's more or less what people in the early Middle Ages would have thought regarding witches. I should also comment that magic in and of itself was not thought of as bad in medieval Europe, most people believed in "natural magic", everyone practiced magic to an extent, including priests as things such as invocation of saints or prayers was considered "good magic". "Bad magic" though is the real issue here, that is what could possibly get you into trouble, although prior to the witch craze such prosecutions were rare, especially throughout most of the Middle Ages. To circle this back to witches and also on what the position of the Church was, the official position of the medieval Catholic Church was this idea that there groups of women that practiced maleficent magic was just pagan superstition, that stuff clearly isn't real and Christians shouldn't believe it. An example of this is the Council of Paderborn in 785 which denied the existence of witches, and furthermore no one could accuse someone of being a witch and any would-be witch-hunters would receive the death penalty. Eventually however, this decision was reversed, the Catholic Church gave into to popular notions of witches and acknowledged they existed in the 13th century. However, despite this, prosecution of witches still wasn't that common and many in the Church, including inquisitors, were skeptical of accusations of witchcraft (this actually continued into the height of the witch craze as well, the southern inquisitions in Spain, Portugal, and Rome didn't bother much with accusations of witchcraft). Things really get crazy in the 16th and and 17th centuries, where the witch craze began. The idea of witches sort of becomes this pre-modern conspiracy theory of these cabals of witches that have made pacts with the devil and hate any and everything Christian, people who were constantly practicing malicious magic, consorting with demons, speaking to the dead, etc. So then, I think, this further complicates things and raises more questions, as even when the existence of witches was acknowledged by the Catholic Church it didn't result in much. I'm certainly no expert on this, but I would say that in Western and Central Europe it had a lot to do with some of the factors I've already mentioned, the Protestant Reformation, the European wars of religion, economic disruptions, local politics etc etc. And of course mentioning the Protestant Reformation, protestants of course played just as great a role in the witch craze, be they Calvinist, Lutheran, or whatever. It wasn't just ecclesiastical authorities involved either and perhaps more often, it would be local secular institutions. I don't think I have much more to say, just wanted to offer more information about the witch craze from what I have researched and offer more context as I think it is an interesting subject.
The whole song is about the Maleus Maleficarum. This has been called the most evil book in history. The "Written on these pages" part refer to this book. The Author hated woman and wanted to have all woman killed. So if a woman dealt in medicine or any like that, they were seen as witches, and therefore killed. The book has been banned by the Catholic Church for the insane tested and punishments the book recommended. Here is a great video about this ua-cam.com/video/482OyLgTRMQ/v-deo.html
I'm currently in a Christian homeless shelter, and while it doesn't come up often, I can almost taste the vitriol against sorcery, backed by the Scripture that God is displeased with witchcraft & sorcery....
Why did the lyrics on this video show Alea Wyss played the solo in this song? She only played on the first album, Hexenhammer is their 2nd album where they had Sonia who played this solo.
thank God modern historians say the burning times killed less people than originally thought went from 300,000 to closer to 25,000 but still its a sad and disturbing chapter in christian history and most were hung not burned lol as if that in any way excuses the evil,still great band and sonia is now shredding it up in Crypta
The Ruins of Beverast made an epic piece of art on the writer of the Hexenhammer. The Album "Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer" should be brought to your attention.
speaking of great metal about christian genocide i hope one day you react to Paradox any song off heresy 1 and 2 its about the cathar crusade , and yes i am a christian and im not a person who says all crimes were comitted by christians
The Bible gives the line "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live". Hexenhammer gave an extensive list of crimes and tests that defined an accusation of witchcraft. Effectively, as soon as you were accused, getting out alive was a tall order
This is awesome that you guys found (or were suggested to listen to) Burning Witches. It's an All Female band from Switzerland. They have 4 albums out now. Most recent was released last year. Hexenhammer was the title track on their 2nd album. And was also the first song that I found of them on UA-cam 2 years ago. And was instantly hooked. Most of their music has a Judas Priest "Painkiller-era" sound. Kinda you typical 80s/90s traditional power metal sound. They have had two vocalists already, with the original one singing on this album. But the new singer is somewhat similar but can also do a growl/scream vocal as well. Kinda cool too. They've also had a couple guitarist changes as well, but each change has only made the band better. I think the 3rd album is slightly better than the 4th, but that's only because I haven't listen to the 4th but just once.
That said, yeah, Sori is right. These gals know how to write good lyrics and play well. All of their songs are heavily story driven and usually about the Occult and European history.
I saw Burning Withches play last night. I can't understand people not liking the new singer. I kinda prefer Laura over Serina. She has more power and can do more. They sure write great music. Show was great!
You two are some of the coolest UA-camrs I am glad to see two Christian's listening to metal plus I love Burning Witches band and my wife is a witch and needs salvation! Much love from Missouri and God Bless You two!
Your wife needs to leave you if you think she needs salvation.
@@Syklonus I thought about it twice she doesn't do anything to hurt me
Hi Sori & Vin! I'm glad you reacted to this song. I'm a Christian, a metal fan and a particular fan of the Burning Witches band. Just to cover the basics, they're from Switzerland and all five band members are women. On to the song: the official music video (at ua-cam.com/video/1OCmwMFKDlE/v-deo.html ) shows a medieval representative of the Church preparing a document authorizing persecution/apprehension of the witches in question. From what I understand, the term "Hexenhammer" can have several meanings. One was just as you indicated, Sori, about the treaty. It also had a colloquial meaning as to the written document itself (the instruction manual, if you will), delineating the types of witches and the various avenues of prosecuting them. That's what the monk (or whatever you'd call him) is writing as seen in the video. I think many women ended up being accused because they happened to be eccentric, had controversial opinions, or were merely selling medicinal herbs to other villagers. Probably something they said was misconstrued as being "occult" in nature and an accusation followed. As you rightly said Sori, poor women had to do what they had to do to get by. If that included selling herbs and "potions," sex work or whatever, it's always the poor who get it in the neck first. Perhaps some were actually practicing what they themselves would describe as witchcraft. I urge you guys (and all viewers of this reaction) to watch the OMV. In addition to the storyline, you'll get to see the five very talented ladies that make up Burning Witches. Vin & Sori, if you want to see something more recent from this band, I STRONGLY recommend two songs from their most recent CD. They are "Witch of the North" and "Flight of the Valkyries." Both are excellent, with interesting lyrics and imaginative music videos. Thanks for shining a light on this extremely talented band! Be well and God Bless.
You were considered a witch for such reasons as having a birth mark. Yes, poor and women were mostly targeted.
Great song and great new band
"New"? jajajajaja they have 4 albums recorded! New for You...!!
Well since this has a lot to do with the witch craze, which I've looked into a bit, I figured I would offer some of my input.
10:56 - So here we see the suggestion that monetary status had a lot to do with whether or not one was accused of being a witch, and even sex work is implied for many of these sorts of individuals accused to be witches. What evidence do we have on this topic? Who were these folks that were accused of witchcraft? Well, it's complicated, accused witches didn't belong to a single social group and according to Ronald Hutton in his book "The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present" about 1/3 of these accusations were motivated by personal or economic motivations (e.g. there was something to be gained by accusing this person of being a witch). Richard Kieckhefer in his book "European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500" says much the same. So, some were probably poor, some were what we'd call middle class, others were wealthy and it doesn't seem your class necessarily protected you from these accusations. In Sweden the witch trials between 1668-1676 were so scandalous, so blatantly corrupt, abuses of power that the government had ordered all witch trials come to an end. And while most of the victims of the witch craze were women (I believe in most cases women exceeded 75% of victims), in some geographic locations the victims of the witch craze skewed heavily towards men (this was the case in Normandy, most of Scandinavia, Finland, and Russia). So, why this happened is hard to say, it wasn't for one particular reason and coincided major social and political events of the day, such as the Protestant Reformation and European wars of religion, famine, economic disruption, local politics etc. And the majority of the victims were located in German speaking regions. Certainly the case of Russia is for completely reasons than in Western and Central Europe.
Then it is suggested that many of these accused witches may have just been selling herbs, that they were folk healers being targeted. This is a common belief, but there's little evidence for this. This idea comes from revisionist feminist scholars, such as Barbara Ehrenreich and Deride English, but has not stood up to scrutiny. What Ehrenreich and English did is they examined a small number of cases that involved folk healers and midwives and extrapolated from that an elaborate story of women being persecuted by men, specifically physicians, to take the medical profession away from them. In "Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-Witch" (Social History of Medicine 3 (1990), pp. 1-26.)" David Harley examines this and demonstrated that women were actually less likely to be charged with witchcraft were they midwives or folk healers and these women were more likely to aid witch hunters.
In fact, feminist historian Diane Purkiss says much the same in "The Witch in History: Early Modern and Late Twentieth Century Representations" and writes that "midwives were more likely to be found helping witch-hunters". Many of these cases revolved around still-births and infant deaths being blamed on malicious magic, so who better to ask than a midwife or healer who attended the birth and cared for the sick baby? Surely such an expert would be able to tell us of anything unnatural occurring!
Also we should stop and ask, *what the heck is a witch anyway*? Where does this come from? Is it even really relevant to the bible? What did the Church think about witches prior to the witch craze?
Well, we should probably define what people in the medieval to early modern period believed witches to be. I would say belief in witches isn't actually that relevant to the bible. Yes, sure, as Vin points out that in some translations such as in the KJV it says "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" but it's also important to keep in mind *King James was obsessed with witches* and the KJV translates multiple different words from the Latin Vulgate as "witch".
So this will depend on the time and place, in the context of the early Middle Ages the idea of witches is heavily influenced by pre-Christian folklore, particularly in Germanic speaking lands, wherein some people believed there were classes of women which practice malicious magic. Examples of this would be the Gothic conception of the Haliurunnae, a group of women which the Gothic people had sent away in exile for their practice of bad magic prior to their migration to the Roman Empire. Scandinavians also had traditions of a vǫlva, seiðkona, or spákona. These words are more or less interchangeable and refer to again, classes of women, seeresses, who were capable of casting malicious spells if crossed. So that's more or less what people in the early Middle Ages would have thought regarding witches. I should also comment that magic in and of itself was not thought of as bad in medieval Europe, most people believed in "natural magic", everyone practiced magic to an extent, including priests as things such as invocation of saints or prayers was considered "good magic". "Bad magic" though is the real issue here, that is what could possibly get you into trouble, although prior to the witch craze such prosecutions were rare, especially throughout most of the Middle Ages.
To circle this back to witches and also on what the position of the Church was, the official position of the medieval Catholic Church was this idea that there groups of women that practiced maleficent magic was just pagan superstition, that stuff clearly isn't real and Christians shouldn't believe it. An example of this is the Council of Paderborn in 785 which denied the existence of witches, and furthermore no one could accuse someone of being a witch and any would-be witch-hunters would receive the death penalty.
Eventually however, this decision was reversed, the Catholic Church gave into to popular notions of witches and acknowledged they existed in the 13th century. However, despite this, prosecution of witches still wasn't that common and many in the Church, including inquisitors, were skeptical of accusations of witchcraft (this actually continued into the height of the witch craze as well, the southern inquisitions in Spain, Portugal, and Rome didn't bother much with accusations of witchcraft). Things really get crazy in the 16th and and 17th centuries, where the witch craze began. The idea of witches sort of becomes this pre-modern conspiracy theory of these cabals of witches that have made pacts with the devil and hate any and everything Christian, people who were constantly practicing malicious magic, consorting with demons, speaking to the dead, etc. So then, I think, this further complicates things and raises more questions, as even when the existence of witches was acknowledged by the Catholic Church it didn't result in much. I'm certainly no expert on this, but I would say that in Western and Central Europe it had a lot to do with some of the factors I've already mentioned, the Protestant Reformation, the European wars of religion, economic disruptions, local politics etc etc.
And of course mentioning the Protestant Reformation, protestants of course played just as great a role in the witch craze, be they Calvinist, Lutheran, or whatever. It wasn't just ecclesiastical authorities involved either and perhaps more often, it would be local secular institutions.
I don't think I have much more to say, just wanted to offer more information about the witch craze from what I have researched and offer more context as I think it is an interesting subject.
thanks for some of that and glad you pointed out some of it
This band was awesome Seraina and Sonia Anubis
Was is the key word.
The whole song is about the Maleus Maleficarum. This has been called the most evil book in history. The "Written on these pages" part refer to this book. The Author hated woman and wanted to have all woman killed. So if a woman dealt in medicine or any like that, they were seen as witches, and therefore killed. The book has been banned by the Catholic Church for the insane tested and punishments the book recommended. Here is a great video about this ua-cam.com/video/482OyLgTRMQ/v-deo.html
this is a very good song
cradle of filth also did an album on the Malleus Maleficarum(hammer of the witches)
I'm currently in a Christian homeless shelter, and while it doesn't come up often, I can almost taste the vitriol against sorcery, backed by the Scripture that God is displeased with witchcraft & sorcery....
Witchcraft and sorcery are fictional. Much like God.
Why did the lyrics on this video show Alea Wyss played the solo in this song? She only played on the first album, Hexenhammer is their 2nd album where they had Sonia who played this solo.
thank God modern historians say the burning times killed less people than originally thought went from 300,000 to closer to 25,000 but still its a sad and disturbing chapter in christian history and most were hung not burned lol as if that in any way excuses the evil,still great band and sonia is now shredding it up in Crypta
Hexenhammer is the hammer of the witch!
The Ruins of Beverast made an epic piece of art on the writer of the Hexenhammer. The Album "Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer" should be brought to your attention.
OR, if they refused to give up their body to another man that wanted her.
speaking of great metal about christian genocide i hope one day you react to Paradox any song off heresy 1 and 2 its about the cathar crusade , and yes i am a christian and im not a person who says all crimes were comitted by christians
What does the Bible say about Laura Guldemond being a dude?
Too bad the original singer left the band. The new singer is not even close to as good and imo the quality has significantly decreased.
Yes. Seraina Telli, the singer of this song, sounds more professional.
@@dioknight Exactly!
That's just like, your opinion, man.
@@Lord_Heron Obviously?
@@TheDretch A quote from a film.