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  • @Daracdor
    @Daracdor Місяць тому +54

    In my village way back in the 60`s were 2 witches/old healing ladies .
    Folk used to drop off grown produce to their doors .
    I had bad colic when I was 8 , was off school 10 weeks
    could not keep anything down , not even milk it came back up
    in a solid lump. I lost lots of weight .
    My Pa went to call on Isoline , she came and put a gathering of plants on my pillow
    and made me drink a honey type drink .. which I kept down .
    I was back in school the following week .

  • @ColinPurves
    @ColinPurves Місяць тому +45

    What a treasure the BBC is. Thank you for posting another fascinating and insightful video.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Місяць тому +2

      It’s not real!

    • @jimferry6539
      @jimferry6539 Місяць тому +3

      Except it’s not on the bbc is it. It’s on UA-cam. They make us pay for this content and then we end up watching in on third party streaming platforms, like the way all the best bbc natural history shows in are Netflix etc

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Місяць тому

      @@jimferry6539 I refuse to pay for Netflix or Amazon prime, If it isn't free I don't watch it.

    • @CharleyFry
      @CharleyFry Місяць тому

      The government's propaganda machine you have to pay for.

    • @loxism72
      @loxism72 Місяць тому +2

      If you like this might watch Jimmy Saville, the BBC legend.

  • @jimthompson939
    @jimthompson939 Місяць тому +25

    I didn't believe in witches until i saw Angela Lansbury fly. She was also not Welsh.

  • @paulgibbons2320
    @paulgibbons2320 Місяць тому +17

    Darker than you would think.

    • @patriciahayes2664
      @patriciahayes2664 Місяць тому

      At times, yes.

    • @paulgibbons2320
      @paulgibbons2320 Місяць тому

      @@patriciahayes2664 that is nothing to celebrate.
      Should you gain the whole world and lose your own soul.
      Pitiful are thee.

    • @paulgibbons2320
      @paulgibbons2320 Місяць тому

      @@patriciahayes2664 an so the censors curb what is said.

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller Місяць тому

      i live near a large military base in the western U.S. now.
      remember that congresswoman who was shot in the head? school mate of mine. issued my emergency passport for unsolicited optic implantation. GATE kids together.
      now. in mexico there are a number of cartels.

    • @comanchedase
      @comanchedase Місяць тому

      Not for now?
      ​@@patriciahayes2664

  • @ljw5768
    @ljw5768 Місяць тому +10

    Typical Friday night in Upper Cwmtwrch.

  • @derekstynes9631
    @derekstynes9631 Місяць тому +3

    Well done I knew I was paying my TV license for more than Strictly !

  • @sarahperks8226
    @sarahperks8226 Місяць тому +20

    That vicar knows a bit too much bet he's dancing round a fire later 😐

  • @curiousuranus810
    @curiousuranus810 Місяць тому +14

    They turned me into a newt!
    I got better.

  • @darrenpearce6617
    @darrenpearce6617 Місяць тому +5

    Sounds like Oliver Postgate narrating a banned episode of Ivor the Engine.

    • @delbhoye
      @delbhoye 22 дні тому +1

      Dai Station rips Mr Dinwiddy's heart out and summons Baphomet.

  • @pupskin123
    @pupskin123 Місяць тому +7

    Lovely gem xx Of course it's Pembrokeshire, my home county 😂😅😂....

  • @BeesWaxMinder
    @BeesWaxMinder Місяць тому +7

    Daft of the BBC not to Clean-Up the audio before posting🙄

    • @I_goch
      @I_goch Місяць тому +2

      The audio is literally bewitched give them a break?

    • @BeesWaxMinder
      @BeesWaxMinder Місяць тому +1

      @ 🤭
      true👍
      Please forgive me Auntie Beeb

  • @bugandbay
    @bugandbay Місяць тому +18

    In March 1964 the film Witchcraft was released in UK cinemas (its on YT).
    The Welsh went easy on witches during the Middle Ages only hanging 5 in total, England hung about 500 & in Scotland it was over 3000. 🤣

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Місяць тому +5

      Which is utterly shameful considering there is no such thing.

    • @tonicastel2390
      @tonicastel2390 Місяць тому +2

      Clearly a lot of people believe otherwise. If people state they are witches, it’s patronizing to insist it is not because we don’t define witchcraft that way nowadays.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Місяць тому

      @@tonicastel2390 These days it’s just another religion, Murdering harmless people because of Christian fanaticism is shameful,
      And obviously magic isn’t real.

    • @jonathanlandau-litewski7405
      @jonathanlandau-litewski7405 Місяць тому +9

      The Scottish Goverment finally apologised and posthumously pardoned those poor woman. There is a plaque at the spot where they were murdered.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Місяць тому +1

      @@jonathanlandau-litewski7405 That is nice to know.

  • @englishdogs
    @englishdogs Місяць тому +5

    It's impossible to go to Wales without bumping into a witch.

  • @Tim.Weaver
    @Tim.Weaver Місяць тому +2

    9:40 This lady's voice reminds me of Lynda Snell...

  • @garynottingham6995
    @garynottingham6995 11 днів тому

    Eleanor Bone... I see. However this documentary seems to have been the source of an article in the Telegraph a few years ago.

  • @fpvangel4495
    @fpvangel4495 22 дні тому +1

    My decodings should help.

  • @kellyhawkes3191
    @kellyhawkes3191 Місяць тому +3

    Well, there wasn't much else to do. 🤷

  • @richardsmith4992
    @richardsmith4992 Місяць тому +13

    Wales before free prescriptions....they're all feeling much better now.

  • @f.dmcintyre4666
    @f.dmcintyre4666 29 днів тому

    I enjoyed this.........Thanks..........

  • @danielhabiger7512
    @danielhabiger7512 Місяць тому +3

    Witches in Suit and Tie, brilliant...❤

  • @rhiannonl4733
    @rhiannonl4733 Місяць тому

    What a blast from the past

  • @matthewlovelock6928
    @matthewlovelock6928 Місяць тому

    Hawarden had a witches coven in the 1960s. A censer and candles and red robe were stolen from the church and the burned candle stubs brought back.

  • @Buff_Cupcake
    @Buff_Cupcake Місяць тому +2

    Hope they checked the eyebrows on the guy at 0:30 for signs of witchcraft.

  • @DixieDaydreamer
    @DixieDaydreamer 4 дні тому

    As we patted ourselves on the back, prided ourselves with our so rational and logical ways, we started to mock and then actually harm these guardians of ancient knowledge. I'm no hippy, I'm an IT professional by trade and logical by nature, but we were so terrified these people would destroy the new logic and rationality that we destroyed old ways and knowledge instead of embracing it. Witches couldn't caste spells, no one's that naive, but they had thousands of years of tried and tested natural knowledge that we're only starting to rediscover in the 21st Century. So many died for the fallacy that everything new must be the perfect way forward, naive and silly children we are in the grand scheme, we should have shown more respect to the old ways.

  • @atomictraveller
    @atomictraveller Місяць тому +2

    well, i'm from wales, but i live real close to mexico now.
    be humble.

    • @amarshmuseconcepta6197
      @amarshmuseconcepta6197 28 днів тому

      ☑️...and 🙏 without ceasing
      our humanity depends on it!
      -
      🤨 There's far to many demons in
      a powerful lockstep against
      🙏 *us* 🙏

  • @RolandoRatas
    @RolandoRatas Місяць тому +5

    I think that a witch cult / witchcraft movie set in remote rural Wales would be great, anyone know of any movies like that ? either more modern setting (e.g. The Wickerman) or older times (The Witch (2015)) ??

    • @mumfnah
      @mumfnah Місяць тому +5

      I've not actually seen it myself, but on my watchlist still is Gwledd [ or The Feast].
      Might be one for you to watch

    • @PlagueCabaret
      @PlagueCabaret Місяць тому +6

      I have too many suggestions, but I highly recommend Lord of Misrule, The Blood On Satan's Claw, Robin Redbreast, The Ritual, Apostle and Kill List.

    • @RolandoRatas
      @RolandoRatas Місяць тому +4

      @@mumfnah I was looking at The Feast, it got a very average Imdb score but you never know it may have 'something'.

    • @RolandoRatas
      @RolandoRatas Місяць тому +4

      @@PlagueCabaret Thanks, the only one on that list I've seen (and liked) was 'Kill List' - it's not a Welsh witch movie but the ending was great although predictable when the scene started.

    • @JohnSmith-oe4ci
      @JohnSmith-oe4ci Місяць тому +1

      Yes Darklands (1997) was literally that (but its not terribly good !)

  • @emmanuelwolf6568
    @emmanuelwolf6568 Місяць тому +6

    Give me a truthful witch compared to a lying Christian any day.

  • @andrewfriman9443
    @andrewfriman9443 Місяць тому +3

    How pompous and affected she sounds, just another ego construct trying to find a meaning in our fleeting existence. Did like the earthy essence of the group rituals though.

  • @sleepyheadsleeps
    @sleepyheadsleeps Місяць тому +6

    Spooky !

  • @aaroncarson1770
    @aaroncarson1770 Місяць тому +5

    I hope it is. Wales, or Cymru, is the pagan Holy Land in my book.

  • @AkPK369
    @AkPK369 Місяць тому +1

    What is wales rife

    • @ThufirHarrison
      @ThufirHarrison Місяць тому +1

      Its saying the area of Britain called Wales is rife or has many witches.

    • @AkPK369
      @AkPK369 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@ThufirHarrison 👍

  • @lukemccrohon5152
    @lukemccrohon5152 Місяць тому +1

    Trick or treat muddy funksters

  • @iseegoodandbad6758
    @iseegoodandbad6758 Місяць тому +2

    Wales was poor but its people were so pretty looking and soft spoken!!! Maybe poverty and beauty go hand in hand 🤔 ?

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 5 днів тому

      I think that certainly isn't true

  • @brizzyoz2462
    @brizzyoz2462 Місяць тому +3

    Not all witches are Welsh but all Welsh are witches 😅

  • @heathcliff8624
    @heathcliff8624 Місяць тому +13

    Bible thumpers being women haters.

  • @waithereivegonetogethelp3240
    @waithereivegonetogethelp3240 29 днів тому +2

    What a bunch of loons! 😅

  • @clyde9803
    @clyde9803 Місяць тому +8

    These are the people who burned a policeman alive as a human sacrifice

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Місяць тому +15

      That was Scotland and a film,

    • @clyde9803
      @clyde9803 Місяць тому +1

      @@dogwalker666 based on a true story

    • @helenadams-honeycutt3496
      @helenadams-honeycutt3496 Місяць тому

      Please cite the original report​@@clyde9803

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Місяць тому +2

      @@clyde9803 possibly, But still the wrong country

    • @bid84
      @bid84 Місяць тому +6

      You can get money for melted copper

  • @davidspears1452
    @davidspears1452 Місяць тому +17

    Jeeez what a bunch of looneys 🤪🤣

    • @TheClanDad
      @TheClanDad Місяць тому +17

      Yep. It’s how Christian’s appear to this atheist 😂

    • @greenman6141
      @greenman6141 Місяць тому +9

      @@TheClanDad EXACTLY!
      Well, almost.
      All those "Christians" in US mega churches...so much more tacky.

    • @TheClanDad
      @TheClanDad Місяць тому +12

      @@greenman6141 👌🏻
      I mean at least this branch of looniness has a sort of earthy charm, I guess.
      …with just a dash of spicy “swingers party” vibe 😂

    • @ericablair4425
      @ericablair4425 Місяць тому +6

      At least they accept life force !

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Місяць тому +1

      1964: Is WALES rife with WITCHCRAFT? | Witch! | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive 1013am 29.10.24 i summon the power of chris lee to get some decent films produced by the sedate hammer horror studios... and, obviously, to dispel mine enemies to the threshold of ennui and sloth and misery....

  • @Powerneck
    @Powerneck 29 днів тому +3

    Rife with Africans now 😂