American Reacts to The Pendle Witch Child - The Disturbing Witch Trial That Shook Britain
👉 Show your support: https://ko-fi.com/reactingtomyroots In this video I react to the Pendle Witch child and the Pendle Witch trial. Jennet Device was a poor beggar girl in Lancashire, England in 1612 and only 9 years old at the time. She testified against her entire family, including her own mother and others, that they were all Witches. This ultimately led to the deaths of what are now known as the Pendle Hill Witches. Her testimony caused an entire change in the way the law worked. Young children would from then on be able to be used as a credible witness in court cases. This ended up affecting her 22 years later as a 10 year old boy would go on to claim she was a witch. She ended up on trial just like her mother, which she testified against 22 years earlier. This was a very disturbing story. I still don't understand why Jennet testified against her own mother. Maybe her mother hurt her or perhaps she was coached into what to say. I wonder as she got older did she ever feel guilty for being the main reason her entire family were executed. Those are questions for each of our imaginations I suppose. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this reaction please give this video a thumbs up, share your thoughts in the comments and click the subscribe button to follow my journey to learn about my British and Irish ancestry. 👉 Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQrva6RAkak 👉 Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsAw0Jpfp2hTj9Wgfl4ihDw
👉 Show your support: https://ko-fi.com/reactingtomyroots In this video I react to the Pendle Witch child and the Pendle Witch trial. Jennet Device was a poor beggar girl in Lancashire, England in 1612 and only 9 years old at the time. She testified against her entire family, including her own mother and others, that they were all Witches. This ultimately led to the deaths of what are now known as the Pendle Hill Witches. Her testimony caused an entire change in the way the law worked. Young children would from then on be able to be used as a credible witness in court cases. This ended up affecting her 22 years later as a 10 year old boy would go on to claim she was a witch. She ended up on trial just like her mother, which she testified against 22 years earlier. This was a very disturbing story. I still don't understand why Jennet testified against her own mother. Maybe her mother hurt her or perhaps she was coached into what to say. I wonder as she got older did she ever feel guilty for being the main reason her entire family were executed. Those are questions for each of our imaginations I suppose. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this reaction please give this video a thumbs up, share your thoughts in the comments and click the subscribe button to follow my journey to learn about my British and Irish ancestry. 👉 Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQrva6RAkak 👉 Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsAw0Jpfp2hTj9Wgfl4ihDw