All language subtitles for Mythical.Beasts.2018.S01E08.720p.WEB.H264-JFF_track3_[eng]

Narrator: DEMONS --
EVIL SPIRITS STRAIGHT FROM HELL.

DEMONS WANTED TO FIND A WAY
TO ENTER YOUR BODY.

Narrator: THEIR MISSION --

TO POSSESS YOU
AND DAMN YOU FOR ALL TIME.

THE MOST DANGEROUS MONSTER IS
THE MONSTER THAT YOU DON'T SEE.

Narrator:
THEY CAN TAKE ANY FORM...

THEY CAN BE MADE OF AIR,
BE INHALED, PICKED UP ON FOOD.

Narrator:
...AND ATTACK AT ANY MOMENT.

PEOPLE NEED TO FIND A WAY
OF PROTECTING THEMSELVES.

Narrator: NOW EXPERTS IN SCIENCE
AND ARCHAEOLOGY INVESTIGATE

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE TERRIFYING
TALES OF DEMONIC BEINGS...

Dr. Reidenberg: HOW DESPERATE

DO YOU THINK SOMEBODY
REALLY WOULD BE

TO OPEN UP THEIR BRAIN TO THIS?

Narrator: ...AND THE WITCHES AND
FAIRIES IN LEAGUE WITH THEM.

THEIR MISSION TO REVEAL
WHY OUR ANCESTORS

WERE SO CONVINCED
THESE EVIL SPIRITS EXISTED.

THIS WASN'T SOME
SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF.

DEMONS WERE VERY, VERY REAL.

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♪♪

Narrator:
IN 16th CENTURY EUROPE,

DEMONS WERE THOUGHT
TO BE EVERYWHERE.

THESE EVIL SPIRITS
WERE SENT BY THE DEVIL.

THEIR GOAL --
TO POSSESS YOUR BODY

AND DAMN YOUR SOUL TO HELL.

IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD, THERE
WASN'T THAT GREAT A DISTANCE

BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL WORLD
AND THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.

EVIL SPIRITS COULD INHABIT
THE HUMAN BODY.

IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND
HOW PEOPLE FELT ABOUT DEMONS

A LONG TIME AGO,

ONE OF THE BEST
MODERN DEPICTIONS

IS FROM THE "ALIENS" FILMS,

WHERE A CREATURE CAN LAY
AN EGG INSIDE YOU

THAT EVENTUALLY GROWS
AND BURSTS OUT.

♪♪

Narrator: SO WHAT DID
OUR ANCESTORS THINK

THESE DEMONIC CREATURES
ACTUALLY WERE?

ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE,

THEIR STORY BEGINS
WITH THE ANGEL LUCIFER

WHO IS BOTH BEAUTIFUL
AND REBELLIOUS.

HE GATHERS AN ARMY OF ANGELS

AND STARTS A WAR WITH GOD.

[ INDISTINCT YELLING ]

BUT LUCIFER'S LEGIONS
ARE DEFEATED

AND BANISHED
TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL.

LUCIFER BECOMES THE DEVIL,

AND HIS ARMY OF FALLEN ANGELS
TURN INTO DEMONS.

DAMNED FOR ALL ETERNITY,

THEIR SOLE OBJECTIVE IS
TO CORRUPT GOD'S BELOVED HUMANS

AND MAKE THEM JOIN THEIR RANKS.

IN ENGLAND, PROFESSOR
MARION GIBSON INVESTIGATES

WHAT FORM THESE EVIL SPIRITS
WERE BELIEVED TO TAKE

WHEN THEY ROSE FROM HELL
AND CAME TO EARTH.

Gibson:
PEOPLE OFTEN THINK OF DEMONS

AS A KIND OF LITTLE GOBLIN,

BUT REALLY,
THEY ARE MORE SCARY THAN THAT.

Narrator: TO GET INSIDE YOU,
DEMONS TRANSFORMED THEMSELVES

FROM A SPIRIT INTO THE
MOST UNLIKELY EVERYDAY OBJECTS.

SO A DEMON COULD BE SOMETHING
LIKE THIS, AN APPLE,

SO YOU COULD EAT THE APPLE,
AND YOU WOULD BE EATING A DEMON,

OR YOU COULD EAT THE APPLE,
AND THERE WILL BE A DEMON ON IT,

AND IT COULD GO INTO YOU.

Narrator: NOT ONLY COULD
A DEMON BE ANYTHING,

IT COULD ALSO BE ANYWHERE.

Gibson: THEY CAN BE INHALED.

THEY ARE THINGS THAT CAN BE
MADE OF AIR.

THAT MIST YOU'RE WALKING
THROUGH, THAT COULD BE A DEMON!

Narrator: AN INCIDENT 500 YEARS
AGO REVEALS HOW PEOPLE

THOUGHT DEMONS COULD
POSSESS YOUR BODY AND SOUL.

A YOUNG GIRL CALLED ANNE MILLNER
FROM CHESTER

WAS WALKING THROUGH THE MEADOWS
NEAR HER HOME,

PERHAPS ON A MISTY MORNING
JUST LIKE THIS ONE.

Narrator:
ON THE 18th OF OCTOBER, 1563,

ANNE MILLNER WAS TENDING
TO THE FAMILY COWS

AS A DEMON LURKED IN THE FIELD.

UNAWARE OF THE EVIL PRESENCE,
ANNE BREATHED IN THE DEMON.

BACK HOME, SHE FELT THE DARKNESS
TAKING HOLD OF HER

AND FELL INTO A DEEP TRANCE.

SHE STARTED HAVING
VIOLENT CONVULSIONS

AND THREW GROWN MEN
ACROSS THE ROOM.

AAH!

ANNE MILLNER WAS NOW
A WOMAN POSSESSED.

Nubia: IN AN AGE
WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING

OF SCIENCE OR THE HUMAN BODY,

SYMPTOMS SUCH AS FITS
OR CONVULSIONS

WOULD'VE BEEN TERRIFYING,

LIKE WATCHING "THE EXORCIST"
OR THE "POLTERGEIST."

PEOPLE WOULD'VE BELIEVED
THAT THEY WERE POSSESSED

AND HEADING
FOR ETERNAL DAMNATION.

Narrator: IN THE 16th CENTURY,

ANGELS AND DEMONS
WERE CONSIDERED VERY REAL,

AND HELL WAS A LITERAL PLACE
TO BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS,

SO IF AN EVIL SPIRIT
TOOK HOLD OF SOMEONE,

THEY NEEDED TO DRIVE
IT OUT PHYSICALLY.

AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
IN ENGLAND,

BONE EXPERT DR. TRISH BIERS
HAS UNCOVERED EVIDENCE

OF THE EXTREME
MEASURES PEOPLE TOOK TO RID

THEIR BODIES
OF THESE DEMONIC BEINGS.

TREPHINATION IS ACTUALLY
THE DELIBERATE PROCESS

OF CUTTING A HOLE
INTO THE CRANIAL CAVITY,

EXPOSING THE BRAIN.

THERE IS DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE
THAT TREPHINATION

WAS ACTUALLY USED
TO RELEASE DEMONS.

THIS WAS QUITE COMMON
IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD,

ESPECIALLY IN BRITAIN.

Narrator: TRISH IS USING
A HIGH-POWERED MICROSCOPE

TO EXAMINE A 2,000-YEAR-OLD
SKULL OF SOMEONE

WHO UNDERWENT THIS GRUESOME
PROCEDURE IN THE BRONZE AGE.

Dr. Biers: WHAT WE CAN SEE
IS A SERIES OF CUT MARKS.

IT LOOKS LIKE THEY WERE PROBABLY
HOLDING THE PERSON'S HEAD

BUT REALLY WORKING THE BONE
WITH MULTIPLE TYPES OF TOOLS.

Narrator: IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE
THAT ANYONE COULD SURVIVE

SUCH AN INVASIVE PROCESS
HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO,

BUT REMARKABLY, TRISH HAS
EVIDENCE OF ONE PERSON WHO DID.

THIS INDIVIDUAL
PROBABLY SURVIVED

THE TREPHINATION PROCESS

BECAUSE WE CAN ACTUALLY SEE
HEALING AROUND THE HOLE.

THE BONE REGENERATES,

AND IT LOOKS LIKE
IT'S ACTUALLY GROWING,

SO THIS PERSON PROBABLY LIVED
FOR SEVERAL YEARS

AFTER THE TREPHINATION
OCCURRED.

Narrator: RELEASING DEMONS BY
DRILLING THROUGH A SKULL

WAS NO EASY TASK.

IN THE DAYS BEFORE POWER TOOLS,
WHAT DID THIS PROCESS INVOLVE?

COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST
DR. JOY REIDENBERG INVESTIGATES.

WE'RE GOING TO EXPLORE WHAT IT'S
LIKE TO HAVE TREPANNING DONE,

SO WE HAVE A PIG SKULL HERE,

AND WE'RE GOING TO USE
THIS TOOL, WHICH IS A TREPAN,

AND WE'RE GOING TO PUT THIS
IN HERE

AND DRILL IN TO MAKE THAT HOLE,
BUT REMEMBER, AT THIS POINT,

IF THIS WERE A HUMAN,
THEY WOULD'VE HAD THE SKIN

REMOVED OUT OF THE WAY,
THE FAT, THE MUSCLE.

ANYTHING THAT WAS IN THE WAY

WOULD'VE BEEN FLAPPED
OVER TO THE SIDE,

SO THIS IS A VERY
INVASIVE PROCEDURE

TO GET DOWN
TO WHERE THE BRAIN IS.

Narrator: JOY WORKS
WITH A T-SHAPED TREPAN,

A TOOL SIMILAR TO THOSE USED
IN THE 17th CENTURY.

YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT THAT WOULD
BE LIKE IF YOU WERE THE PATIENT

HAVING THIS DONE RIGHT IN
THE MIDDLE OF YOUR FOREHEAD

OR THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD.

THIS GRINDING INTO THE BONE,

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY
HARD TO DO.

I'M REALLY PUSHING DOWN
WITH ALL OF MY WEIGHT ON THIS

TO TRY AND CUT OPEN THIS BONE.

THIS IS GOING TO BE
INCREDIBLY PAINFUL.

I HEARD A CRACK.
WAIT.

THAT'S IT.
THAT CRACK WAS IT.

LOOK.
THERE'S THE PIECE OF BONE.

THIS IS SUCH AN INVASIVE
AND TERRIBLE PROCEDURE.

HOW DESPERATE DO YOU THINK
SOMEBODY REALLY WOULD BE

TO HAVE THIS DONE TO THEM,
TO OPEN UP THEIR BRAIN TO THIS?

WOW.

Narrator: BUT FOR THOSE

WHO DIDN'T WANT TO OPEN UP
THEIR SKULL,

HOW ELSE COULD YOU
LET AN EVIL SPIRIT OUT?

YOU WOULD MAKE THE BODY
AN UNCOMFORTABLE HOME

FOR THE DEMON.

Narrator: AND WHAT WAS THE LINK
BETWEEN DEMONS

AND THE MOST FEARED DISEASE
OF ALL TIME?

YOU CAN BE WALKING
IN THE STREET ONE DAY

AND 24 HOURS LATER BE DEAD.

♪♪

Narrator: DEMONS --
IN THE 16th CENTURY,

ENGLISH WAS BESIEGED
BY A FEAR OF EVIL SPIRITS.

THEY WERE THOUGHT TO BE ABLE
TO POSSESS YOUR BODY

AND DAMN YOUR SOUL TO HELL.

NOBODY FELT SAFE.

WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND DEMONS
WITHIN THE CONTEXT

OF WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE TIME.

YOU HAVE CIVIL WARS,

BATTLES BETWEEN PURITANS
AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

YOU HAVE THE SPREAD OF DISEASE.

HYSTERIA STARTS TO GROW.

Narrator: IN THE EVER-GROWING
WAR ON DEMONS,

THE CHURCH
WAS ON THE FRONT LINE.

ARCHAEOLOGIST MATT CHAMPION
HUNTS FOR HIDDEN CLUES

IN NORFOLK, ENGLAND.

THEY CAN REVEAL HOW DANGEROUS
THE CHRISTIAN AUTHORITIES

BELIEVED
THESE EVIL SPIRITS TO BE.

Champion:
THIS PLACE IS ABSOLUTELY

PACKED FULL OF EVIDENCE

ABOUT JUST HOW SERIOUSLY PEOPLE
CONSIDERED THE THREAT OF DEMONS.

Narrator:
HIGH IN THE CHURCH RAFTERS

IS A SERIES OF WOOD CARVINGS

THAT HAVE ONLY JUST BEEN
REDISCOVERED AFTER 500 YEARS.

WELL, WHAT WE GOT UP HERE IS
A CARVING OF THE APOSTLE JOHN,

AND JUST ABOVE HIM IS THIS
AMAZING CARVING OF A DEMON,

AND THE DEMON SITS BEHIND HIM
WITH HIS CLAWS GRABBING HIM,

HOLDING HIM TIGHTLY
INTO THE ROOF STRUCTURE.

Narrator:
THESE CARVINGS WERE A WARNING

TO THE PARISHIONERS BELOW

THAT NOT EVEN THE SAINTS
WERE SAFE FROM DEMON ATTACK.

ONCE POSSESSED BY A DEMON,
YOU WERE NO LONGER YOURSELF.

YOU MIGHT SPEAK
IN STRANGE TONGUES,

SHOW SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH
OR FALL INTO VIOLENT RAGES.

HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN SOMEONE
ACTING STRANGELY

OR DOING STRANGE THINGS,
ATTACKING A NEIGHBOR,

SUDDENLY KILLING
THEIR OWN FAMILY?

THERE MUST BE THESE KIND OF
CREATURES,

WHICH CAN GET INTO YOU AND
MAKE YOU DO THE WORST THINGS.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO THE CHURCH,

THERE WAS ONLY ONE SURE WAY

TO GET AN EVIL SPIRIT OUT --
EXORCISM.

EXORCISM IS ALL ABOUT A BATTLE
BETWEEN GOD AND THE DEVIL.

Li: IT'S ACTUALLY
A QUITE GRUELING

AND DELIBERATE PROCEDURE

TO DRIVE A DEMON OUT OF YOU.

Narrator: PROFESSOR
MARION GIBSON INVESTIGATES

HOW AN EXORCISM
ACTUALLY WORKED.

♪♪

AAH! AAH!

AN EXORCISM WAS UNDERTAKEN
BY A RELIGIOUS PERSON,

BUT IT WOULD ALSO HAVE INCLUDED
THE WIDER COMMUNITY,

SO A ROOM WOULD'VE BEEN
ABSOLUTELY FULL OF TOWNSPEOPLE

WHO WERE KEEN TO SEE
THE DEMON EXPELLED.

AN INITIAL APPROACH MIGHT BE
TO TRY TO FORCE THE DEMON OUT,

MAKE THE BODY AN UNCOMFORTABLE
HOME FOR THE DEMON.

YOU MIGHT FORCE
THE POSSESSED PERSON

TO DRINK A MIXTURE
OF RUE OIL AND VINEGAR.

Narrator: ANOTHER WAY
TO EXPEL THE DEMON

WAS TO CREATE HORRIBLE ODORS

THAT IT WOULDN'T
BE ABLE TO STAND.

Gibson: FEATHERS CREATE A REALLY
UNPLEASANT SMELL

WHEN THEY'RE SET FIRE TO.

ANYTHING TO CREATE STRESS,

ANYTHING TO DRIVE
THE DEMON AWAY.

♪♪

Narrator:
A REPORT FROM THE 16th CENTURY

DESCRIBES THE EXORCISM
OF ANNE MILLNER,

A YOUNG ENGLISH DAIRYMAID
POSSESSED BY A DEMON.

THE DEMON TORMENTED ANNE
FOR 17 WEEKS

BEFORE AN EXORCIST
WAS CALLED IN.

HE PINNED DOWN ANNE'S
THRASHING BODY...

[ PRAYING IN LATIN ]

...AND RECITED HOLY VERSES
OVER AND OVER.

BUT THE DEMON WAS TOO STRONG.

[ PRAYING IN LATIN ]

THE EXORCIST THEN CALLED
FOR VINEGAR

AND BLEW IT INTO ANNE'S NOSE.

THIS NOXIOUS FLUID FINALLY
DROVE THE DEMON

OUT OF THE GIRL'S BODY.

[ PRAYING IN LATIN ]

ANNE MILLNER WAS CURED.

IT'S POSSIBLE THE EXORCISM
HAD KIND OF A PLACEBO EFFECT

THAT SOMEBODY WHO
GENUINELY BELIEVED BEFORE

THAT THEY WERE POSSESSED
BY A DEMON AFTER THE EXORCISM

FELT THAT THEY WERE FREE,
AND THEY WERE THEMSELVES AGAIN.

Narrator: IN AN AGE BEFORE
MEDICAL SCIENCE,

MALICIOUS DEMONS FILLED IN
THE GAPS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING.

HISTORIAN LARA THORPE BELIEVES
A DREADED DISEASE

MAY HAVE ALSO PLAYED A PART

IN FUELING THE HYSTERIA
AROUND DEMONS.

THE PLAGUE WAS ONE OF THE WIDELY
FEARED DISEASES

IN THE 16th
AND 17th CENTURIES.

IT WOULD COME ON YOU
QUITE SUDDENLY.

YOU MIGHT START VOMITING.

YOU WOULD GET A FEVER.

YOU HAVE ACCOUNTS OF PEOPLE
SCREAMING WITH THE PAIN,

AND IT'S A GRUESOME
AND HORRIFIC DEATH.

Narrator:
BY THE TURN OF THE 17th CENTURY,

DOCTORS HAD COME UP
WITH A THEORY

ABOUT HOW THIS
DREADED DISEASE WAS SPREAD.

Thorpe: THE MOST COMMON
EXPLANATION FOR PLAGUE

WAS THAT IT WAS CAUSED
BY BAD AIR SORT OF SEEPING

IN THROUGH
THE PORES OF YOUR SKIN.

IT WAS VERY SIMILAR WITH HOW
PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT DEMONS

COULD ATTACK
AND ENTER THEIR BODIES.

RELIGION AND SCIENCE WEREN'T
TWO SEPARATE THINGS.

THEY WERE INSEPARABLE.

THEY WERE COMPLETELY INTERTWINED
IN THE EARLY MODERN MENTALITY.

WHAT YOU SAW AND SMELL
AND TASTED COULD AFFECT

YOUR SPIRITUAL HEALTH
THROUGH A DEMONIC POSSESSION,

BUT IT COULD ALSO AFFECT
YOUR PHYSICAL HEALTH

THROUGH THE CONTRACTING
OF A DISEASE LIKE PLAGUE.

Narrator: THESE EARLY NOTIONS
ABOUT INFECTIONS

REINFORCE THE IDEA OF
CONTAMINATION BY EVIL SPIRITS.

TO DEFEND THEMSELVES
FROM PLAGUE,

PEOPLE TRIED TO COUNTERACT
THE BAD SMELLS

THEY THOUGHT CAUSED THE DISEASE.

YOU HAD THIS MASK,
AND YOU STUFFED THE BEAK

FULL OF SWEET-SMELLING HERBS,
THINGS LIKE DRIED FLOWER PETALS

AND NICE-SMELLING HERBS
LIKE MINT.

AND ONCE YOU'D STUFFED THE BEAK,

YOU WOULD LIFT THE BEAK
OVER YOUR HEAD LIKE THIS,

AND THEN YOU'D BE PROTECTED.

Narrator:
BUT IF GOOD SMELLS COULD
PROTECT YOU FROM THE PLAGUE,

WHAT DID PEOPLE THINK COULD
KEEP THEM SAFE FROM DEMONS?

DEMONS, IF THEY SAW A LINE,
ONCE THEY STARTED TO FOLLOW IT,

THEY CAN BE TRAPPED
IN THAT SYMBOL FOREVER.

Narrator:
AND HOW COULD A DEMON

SEDUCE A PERSON
INTO BECOMING A WITCH?

THE DEMON KISSED HER, AND THEN
HE CAME INTO HER BEDROOM.

[ OWL HOOTING ]

Narrator: DEMONS --

THE MOST FEARED
MYTHICAL BEASTS OF ALL.

THESE EVIL SPIRITS HAVE
THE POWER TO CLAIM YOUR SOUL

AND SEND YOU TO HELL.

WHAT DID PEOPLE THINK
THEY COULD DO

TO DEFEND THEMSELVES
AGAINST DEMON ATTACK?

ARCHAEOLOGIST MATT CHAMPION
SEARCHES FOR EVIDENCE

HIDDEN INSIDE A PARISH CHURCH.

TODAY, WE'RE USED TO CHURCHES
BEING QUITE PLAIN,

QUITE LIME-WASHED,
BUT IN THE MIDDLE AGES,

THESE PLACES WERE ABSOLUTELY
COVERED IN EARLY GRAFFITI.

Narrator: MATT USES SPECIAL
LIGHTS THAT HIT THE STONE

AT A PRECISE ANGLE
TO FIND WHAT HE'S LOOKING FOR.

Champion:
IF I MOVE THE LIGHT AROUND HERE,

YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE GRAFFITI
ALL OVER THE SURFACES.

WE'VE GOT MEDIEVAL TEXT,
BUT PERHAPS THE MOST SPECTACULAR

IS JUST UP HERE WHERE WE HAVE
THIS RATHER WONDERFUL PENTANGLE.

Narrator: THE PENTANGLE --

TODAY,
IT'S THE SIGN OF THE OCCULT.

WHAT'S IT DOING IN
A CHRISTIAN CHURCH?

THE ANSWER IS ETCHED
INTO THE STONE

IN THESE BARELY VISIBLE LINES.

SO IF WE USE THIS,
FIRST OF ALL,

YOU'VE GOT OUR BIG BULBOUS EYE
OVER THE TOP,

OR THIS NOSE AROUND THERE,
A BIG GAPING, OPEN MOUTH,

TEETH COMING IN HERE

AND THEN A BIG LOLLING TONGUE.

AND THEN AROUND HERE,
WE HAVE AN EAR,

ANOTHER EAR OUT THERE, THERE,

AND THEN YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL
MEDIEVAL DEMON,

AND THEN OVER THE TOP OF THE
WHOLE THING IS A BIG PENTANGLE

LITERALLY PINNING
THE DEMON TO THE WALL.

Narrator: THIS SYMBOL DEFENDED
THE MEDIEVAL CHURCHGOERS

AGAINST EVIL DEMONS.

ITS POWER LAY IN THE FACT

THAT IT CAN BE DRAWN
IN ONE CONTINUOUS MOVEMENT.

Champion:
DEMONS, IF THEY SAW A LINE,

THEY HAD TO FOLLOW IT.

IN THE CASE OF AN ENDLESS LINE,
SUCH AS THIS PENTANGLE,

ONCE THEY STARTED TO FOLLOW IT,
THEY'D CONTINUE

AND BE TRAPPED
IN THAT SYMBOL FOREVER.

Narrator: BUT HOW DID THE
PENTANGLE OR THE PENTAGRAM

BECOME A CHARM
OF PROTECTION AGAINST DEMONS?

LEGEND HAS IT THAT WHEN
KING SOLOMON BUILDS HIS TEMPLE,

A DEMON TERRORIZES
HIS FAVORITE WORKER.

SOLOMON PRAYS FOR HELP,

AND THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL
COMES TO THE RESCUE.

HE GIVES THE KING A MAGICAL RING
ENGRAVED WITH A PENTAGRAM.

IT GIVES SOLOMON THE POWER
TO SUBDUE THE DEMON

BY BRANDING IT WITH THE SYMBOL.

THE KING THEN COMMANDS THE FIEND

TO CONJURE UP
A WHOLE ARMY OF DEMONS,

SO THEY CAN FINISH
HIS TEMPLE FOR HIM.

FOR CENTURIES AFTERWARDS,

THE PENTAGRAM WAS A TRADITIONAL
CHRISTIAN SYMBOL OF PROTECTION.

BUT IN THE 16th CENTURY,
PEOPLE WERE SO SCARED OF DEMONS,

THEY WANTED SAFEGUARDS
AT HOME AS WELL.

IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND,
ARCHAEOLOGIST NATHALIE COHEN

INVESTIGATES A RECENT DISCOVERY

MADE DURING THE RESTORATION
OF KNOLE HOUSE.

IT REVEALS JUST HOW ELABORATE
DEMON DEFENSE SYSTEMS BECAME.

WE'RE LOOKING HERE AT A SERIES
OF WHAT ARE CALLED

WITCH MARKS OR DEMON TRAPS.

THEY REPRESENT A FORM OF RITUAL
PROTECTION IN THIS SPACE,

DESIGNED TO PROTECT
THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM,

IN PARTICULAR,
WHEN THEY WERE IN BED,

WHICH WOULD'VE BEEN
BEHIND ME, HERE.

Narrator: THIS IS NOT THE ONLY
PLACE IN THE ROOM

WHERE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST DEMONS

HAVE BEEN UNCOVERED.

Cohen: AROUND THE FIREPLACE,

WE ALSO HAVE RITUAL
PROTECTION MARKS,

BUT THESE ARE IN THE FORM OF
WHAT ARE CALLED VV MARKS OR M's,

SO THEY'RE INVOKING THE
PROTECTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY.

SO THE IDEA BEHIND THE RITUAL
PROTECTION MARKS

AROUND THE FIREPLACE

IS THAT YOU'RE ESSENTIALLY
CREATING A KIND OF VIRTUAL BOX

BEYOND WHICH
IF ANYTHING BAD COMES DOWN,

IT CAN'T GO PAST
WHERE THE MARKS ARE.

Narrator: SO WHY DID PEOPLE SEEK
TO PROTECT THE FIREPLACE

AND HEARTH IN PARTICULAR?

IN THE 16th CENTURY,
PEOPLE FEARED THAT DEMONS

WOULD TRY TO INVADE THEIR HOMES.

CLOSED WINDOWS AND DOORS
COULDN'T HOLD THEM BACK

AS THEY CAN SIMPLY
ENTER THROUGH THE CHIMNEY.

ONCE IN THE BEDROOM,
THE DEMON WOULD ATTACK.

IT WOULD SIT ON THE VICTIM'S
CHEST AND BRUTALLY ASSAULT THEM.

EVEN IF THE SLEEPER WOKE UP,
THEY'D REMAIN PARALYZED,

UNABLE TO FEND OFF
THE CHOKING CLAWS OF THE DEMON.

WE MIGHT NOW EXPLAIN SOME
OF THESE DEMON ATTACKS

AS A KIND OF SLEEP PARALYSIS

WHEN WE ARE BETWEEN
BEING AWAKE AND BEING ASLEEP.

5% OF THE POPULATION,
THEY WILL SUFFER IT REGULARLY.

THE PERSON OFTEN FEELS
THAT THEY ARE PHYSICALLY PINNED

TO THE BED,
AND THEY CANNOT MOVE.

Narrator: BUT DEMONS DIDN'T JUST
DAMN YOUR SOUL.

THEY ALSO SEDUCED PEOPLE
INTO BECOMING WITCHES

IN EXCHANGE
FOR SUPERNATURAL POWERS.

WHAT PRICE WOULD THEY PAY
FOR THIS DEMONIC BARGAIN?

Narrator: EXPERTS INVESTIGATE
WHY OUR ANCESTORS THOUGHT DEMONS

WERE THE MOST TERRIFYING
MYTHICAL BEASTS OF ALL.

THESE EVIL SPIRITS WOULD DO
ANYTHING TO STEAL YOUR SOUL.

DEMONS COULD CORRUPT YOU
IN DEVIOUS AND UNEXPECTED WAYS.

IN 17th-CENTURY EUROPE,

PEOPLE BECAME
INCREASINGLY CONCERNED

ABOUT ANOTHER
TERRIFYING PROBLEM -- WITCHES.

WITCHES WERE THOUGHT
TO BE PEOPLE

WHO HAD MADE AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE
WITH THE DEVIL

AND HIS HELLISH SERVANTS,

BUT HOW DID DEMONS
MAKE SOMEONE A WITCH?

IT WAS THOUGHT THAT THE DEVIL
AND HIS DEMONS HUNTED AT NIGHT,

LOOKING FOR VICTIMS TO LURE
INTO THEIR EVIL CIRCLE.

THEY MAINLY PREYED
ON SINGLE WOMEN,

SEDUCING THEM INTO
A DEMONIC BARGAIN.

IN EXCHANGE FOR SEX,

THEY TURNED THEM INTO WITCHES
WITH SUPERNATURAL POWERS,

BUT IN RETURN,
THE DEMON TOOK THEIR SOUL,

AND THEY HAD TO JOIN
SATAN'S ARMY FOR ETERNITY.

IN THE 1600s,

THIS WAS WHERE SOME SUSPECTED
WITCHES WERE IMPRISONED,

AT COLCHESTER CASTLE
IN SOUTHEAST ENGLAND.

HERE, PROFESSOR MARION GIBSON
UNCOVERS REAL-LIFE ACCOUNTS

OF HOW DEMONS SUPPOSEDLY SEDUCED
WOMEN INTO SELLING THEIR SOULS.

DISGUISED AS AN ORDINARY PERSON,

THE DEMON WOULD REEL
HIS VICTIM IN

BY OFFERING TO HELP
WITH THEIR GRIEVANCES.

Gibson: THE DEMON WOULD APPROACH
HER AND PERHAPS SAY,

"I HEAR YOU'VE BEEN HAVING
TROUBLE WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS.

I KNOW THAT FARMER
SO-AND-SO HAS BEEN MEAN TO YOU.

WOULD YOU LIKE SOME HELP
WITH YOUR LIFE?"

A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS HERE,
THIS IS REBECCA WEST,

PROBABLY 17 OR 18 YEARS OF AGE.

THE DEMON KISSED HER,

AND HE SAID
THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO MARRY HER,

AND THEN HE CAME
INTO HER BEDROOM,

AND SO REBECCA BECAME A WITCH.

Narrator: WHAT SUPERNATURAL
POWERS DID THOSE

IN LEAGUE WITH DEMONS OBTAIN?

PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT WITCHES
COULD CAST EVIL SPELLS

ON THOSE THEY DISLIKED.

CURSES COULD START SMALL,

LIKE SPOILING
A NEIGHBOR'S BUTTER,

BUT WITCHES WERE ALSO BLAMED
FOR DESTROYING WHOLE CROPS,

KILLING HERDS
OF PRECIOUS FARM ANIMALS,

CAUSING SICKNESS AND DEATH

AND EVEN SUMMONING DEADLY STORMS

THAT COULD LAY WASTE
TO AN ENTIRE CITY.

♪♪

FEAR OF WITCHES
WITH DEMONIC POWERS

WAS NOT JUST THE PRESERVE
OF THE UNEDUCATED.

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,

HISTORIAN DR. NICK BARRATT
HAS UNCOVERED EVIDENCE

THAT THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY
IN THE LAND

CONSIDERED THEM TO BE A REAL
AND PRESENT DANGER.

Barratt: THIS BOOK IS CALLED
"DAEMONOLOGIE,"

AND IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1597
BY KING JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND

BEFORE HE BECAME
KING JAMES I OF ENGLAND.

THE KING FIRMLY BELIEVED
THAT WITCHES AND DEMONS EXISTED.

HE ALSO BELIEVED
THEY SHOULD BE DESTROYED,

SWEPT FROM THE FACE
OF THE EARTH,

AND THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT
THAT HE COMMUNICATED

THAT MESSAGE
TO THE WIDER POPULATION.

Narrator:
KING JAMES PERSONALLY BELIEVED

WITCHES WERE OUT TO GET HIM.

IN 1590, THE KING'S NEW WIFE,
ANNE OF DENMARK,

WAS SAILING TO SCOTLAND.

A TERRIBLE STORM HIT HER SHIP,

FORCING THE CREW
TO ABANDON THE VOYAGE.

THE DANISH ADMIRAL BLAMED
THE STORM ON WITCHCRAFT

AND DEMONS CLIMBING UP
THE KEEL OF THE SHIP.

WHEN THE QUEEN FINALLY
REACHED SCOTLAND,

RUMORS OF WITCHCRAFT
GRIPPED THE COUNTRY.

UNDER TORTURE, ONE WOMAN
CONFESSED TO RAISING STORMS

AND TRYING TO KILL THE KING.

FROM THEN ON, KING JAMES
PERSECUTED WITCHES IN SCOTLAND

WITH EXTREME BRUTALITY.

Barratt: THIS WASN'T SOME
PEASANT SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF.

THIS WAS PERSONAL.

HE HAD THE EVIDENCE,
AND THIS WAS HIS RESPONSE,

"DAEMONOLOGIE," SETTING OUT
ALL OF THE FEARS THAT HE HAD,

SO OTHERS COULD TAKE
THE NECESSARY STEPS

TO ERADICATE WITCHES.

Narrator: WITCH-HUNTERS AROSE

TO PURGE THE LAND
OF THESE EVIL CREATURES

IN LEAGUE WITH DEMONS,

BUT HOW COULD
THEY BE IDENTIFIED?

THE WITCH-HUNTER WAS LOOKING
FOR A MARK OF THE DEVIL.

Narrator: AND WHY WERE FAIRIES
ONCE THOUGHT TO BE

THE MOST TERRIBLE DEMONS
OF THEM ALL?

I'M HERE TO INVESTIGATE
A MURDER.

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Narrator: IN ENGLAND
IN THE 16th AND 17th CENTURIES,

FEAR OF DEMONS

AND THE WITCHES IN LEAGUE
WITH THEM REACHED FEVER PITCH.

EVEN KING JAMES I FEARED
FOR HIS LIFE

AND ORDERED THEM
TO BE REMOVED FROM THE LAND.

PEOPLE WERE SO AFRAID OF WITCHES
THAT COMMONLY,

THEY MIGHT EVEN DENOUNCE
THEIR OWN FAMILY MEMBERS

AND ACCUSE THEIR OWN SISTERS
OR DAUGHTERS

OR EVEN THEIR OWN MOTHERS.

Narrator:
IN ORDER TO ERADICATE THEM,

WITCHES HAD TO BE IDENTIFIED.

THE AUTHORITIES BELIEVED
THERE WERE PHYSICAL SIGNS

THAT MARKED THEM OUT.

IF A WOMAN MADE A PACT
WITH A DEMON,

SHE GREW A LARGE WART ON
HER BODY CALLED A WITCH'S TEAT.

THE WITCH USED HER TEAT
TO SUCKLE DEMONS

IN THE FORM OF ANIMALS,

ALLOWING THEM
TO DRINK HER BLOOD.

KNOWN AS FAMILIARS, THEY WERE
SMART BUT EVIL SPIRITS

THAT PROTECTED THE WITCH
AND CARRIED OUT MAGICAL TASKS.

PEOPLE BELIEVED THESE DEMONS
COULD TAKE MANY FORMS,

FROM CATS AND DOGS

TO TOADS, BATS, RATS

AND EVEN SPIDERS.

WHAT REAL-WORLD INSPIRATION
LIES BEHIND THE IDEA

OF THE WITCH'S EXTRA TEAT?

AT HER LAB,
COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST

DR. JOY REIDENBERG INVESTIGATES.

Dr. Reidenberg: THE WITCH-HUNTER
WAS LOOKING

FOR A MARK OF THE DEVIL,

IS GOING TO LOOK
FOR ANYTHING OUT OF THE UNUSUAL.

ONE OF THE MOST COMMON THINGS
YOU CAN FIND

ARE LITTLE SKIN TAGS,

AND THAT'S WHAT'S SHOWN
RIGHT OVER HERE.

THIS IS JUST A LITTLE BIT
OF SKIN THAT'S STICKING OUT,

AND IT MAKES A LITTLE LUMP,

AND IF IT WAS VISIBLE,
IT WAS A MARK OF THE DEVIL.

HERE'S ANOTHER THING
THAT WAS OFTEN FOUND.

IF YOU'RE LOOKING
AT SOMEBODY'S CHEST,

AND THEY NORMALLY HAVE A NIPPLE
RIGHT OVER HERE,

BELOW IT,
THERE MIGHT BE ANOTHER NIPPLE.

THAT WOULD BE A THIRD NIPPLE.

THIS IS A REALLY COMMON THING.

IT HAPPENS IN SOMETHING,

LIKE, APPROXIMATELY
5% OF THE POPULATION,

AND IF YOU SEE THIS,
THIS IS, LIKE, THE JACKPOT

BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING
THAT A WITCH COULD USE TO NURSE

AND SUCKLE A DEMON

OR MAYBE ONE OF THEIR DEMONIC
FAMILIARS LIKE A CAT OR A DOG.

Narrator: BUT THIS WASN'T THE
ONLY WAY TO IDENTIFY SOMEONE

WHO HAD MADE A PACT WITH DEMONS.

SUSPECTED WITCHES WERE ALSO
SUBJECT TO TRIALS BY ORDEAL.

THE GOLD STANDARD
WAS THE SWIMMING TEST.

THOSE SUSPECTED OF BEING
IN LEAGUE WITH DEMONS

WERE BOUND
AND PLUNGED INTO WATER.

PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT IF THEY
WERE A WITCH, THEY WOULD FLOAT.

BUT IS THERE ANOTHER EXPLANATION
FOR THOSE WHO ROSE

TO THE SURFACE AND WHO SANK?

AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON,
PHYSICIST SCOTT MELVILLE

HAS DESIGNED AN EXPERIMENT
TO SHOW HOW THE TEST WORKED

AND WHY SOME PEOPLE
WERE MORE LIKELY TO FAIL.

MOST PEOPLE HAVE HEARD
OF WITCH-DUNKING

OR THE SWIMMING TEST

WHEREBY YOU THROW A SUPPOSED
WITCH INTO SOME WATER,

AND IF THEY FLOAT,
THEY'RE A WITCH,

BUT IF THEY SINK,
THEY'RE INNOCENT.

WE WANT TO KNOW IF THERE'S
ANY SCIENCE BEHIND THIS TEST.

HOW WELL SOMEONE FLOATS
DEPENDS VERY MUCH

ON WHAT THEY'RE MADE OF.

IN THIS TUBE,
WE HAVE VEGETABLE OIL,

WHICH IS ROUGHLY AS DENSE
AS BODY FAT,

AND IN THIS TUBE,
WE HAVE CORN SYRUP,

WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT DENSER
THAN YOUR MUSCLE

BUT ROUGHLY THE SAME.

Narrator: THE VEGETABLE OIL
REPRESENTS OLDER WOMEN

WHO TYPICALLY HAVE HIGHER
BODY FAT AND LOWER BONE DENSITY.

CORN SYRUP REPRESENTS MEN

WHO GENERALLY
HAVE GREATER MUSCLE MASS.

SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS SEE
WHICH ONES FLOAT

AND WHICH ONES SINK.

BIG BAG OF FAT FLOATS.

BIG BAG OF MUSCLE...
OH, AND IT SINKS LIKE A STONE.

THE THING TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS
IS THAT BECAUSE MEN TYPICALLY

HAVE MORE MUSCLE PER MASS,
WOMEN ARE BETTER AT FLOATING,

AND SO THIS WHOLE
WITCHCRAFT TEST IS RIGGED

AND WILL DISPROPORTIONATELY
SINGLE OUT WOMEN

AS OPPOSED TO MEN.

Regal: AT THE HEART OF THE FEAR
OF WITCHES IS THE FEAR OF WOMEN.

WITCHES WERE WOMEN
WHO WERE ASSERTIVE.

THEY WERE INTELLIGENT.

THEY KNEW HOW TO DO THINGS.

THEY ARE HATED BECAUSE
THEY DON'T WANT TO BE

KEPT IN THE TRADITIONAL ROLE,

AND THAT IS SOMETHING
WHICH IS DEEPLY FEARFUL TO MEN.

Narrator: FOR 300 YEARS,
A GREAT WAVE OF WITCH-HUNTING

SWEPT ACROSS EUROPE.

TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WOMEN
WERE ACCUSED.

THEY WERE TORTURED
INTO CONFESSING

THAT THEY WERE
IN LEAGUE WITH DEMONS.

IF FOUND GUILTY, THEY WERE
HANGED OR BURNED AT THE STAKE.

[ WOMEN SCREAMING ]

Regal: WITCH TRIALS WERE REALLY
QUITE COMMON.

EUROPE TENDED TO GO
REALLY CRAZY.

IN EUROPE, A WITCH WOULD BE
MORE LIKELY TO BE BURNED

THAN ANYPLACE ELSE.

Narrator:
AS KNOWLEDGE AND SKEPTICISM

GREW OVER
THE FOLLOWING CENTURIES,

BELIEF IN DEMONIC POSSESSION
AND WITCHCRAFT

SUBSIDED ACROSS ENGLAND.

BUT IN NEIGHBORING IRELAND,
ANOTHER FORM OF DEMON PERSISTED

RIGHT INTO THE 20th CENTURY --

FAIRIES.

PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY
WERE RESPONSIBLE

FOR THE MOST TERRIBLE
OF CRIMES.

THIS WAS A PLACE WHERE A GROUP
OF PEOPLE

ENDED UP KILLING
ONE OF THEIR OWN.

Narrator:
WITH THE DAWN OF THE MODERN AGE,

DEMONS WERE FINALLY LOSING
THEIR HORRIFYING GRIP

ON THE IMAGINATION OF EUROPE.

BELIEF IN POSSESSION BY DEMONS

WAS AN ATTEMPT
TO EXPLAIN HUMAN BEHAVIOR

THAT WE DIDN'T
REALLY UNDERSTAND,

SO WITH THE GROWTH OF
PSYCHOLOGY AND MODERN SCIENCE,

THAT BELIEF IN DEMONS
STARTS TO EBB AWAY.

Narrator: BUT IN IRELAND,

ONE PARTICULAR DEMON
WOULDN'T LET GO,

AND IT TOOK THE FORM
OF A CREATURE

YOU WOULD LEAST EXPECT --

THE FAIRY.

THESE FAIRIES ARE NOT
LIKE TINKER BELL.

THEY ARE TERRIFYING DEMONS
ATTACKING YOU

BY TAKING
WHAT IS MOST PRECIOUS --

YOUR CHILD.

Narrator: MYTH HAS IT THAT
THEY SNATCH HUMAN BABIES

AND REPLACE THEM
WITH THEIR OWN.

FIRST, THE CHANGELING
GOES UNNOTICED

BUT SOON TURNS INTO A CONSTANTLY
CRYING NIGHTMARE.

FAIRY CHANGELINGS ARE ALWAYS
HUNGRY BUT FAIL TO GROW

AND ARE SLOW
TO WALK AND TALK.

DESPERATE PARENTS
TAKE DESPERATE MEASURES

AND PUT THE CHANGELING
IN HARM'S WAY.

THEY HOPE THIS WILL FORCE
THE FAIRY MOTHER

TO RUN TO THE RESCUE
AND SWAP THE BABIES BACK.

THE BELIEF IN THE FAIRY LIVED
ON A BIT LONGER IN IRELAND.

YOU HAD MORE PEOPLE THAT WERE
STILL LIVING OUT IN NATURE

THAT WERE STILL VERY MUCH
KIND OF AFFECTED BY THE SEASONS,

SO THAT BELIEF IN FAIRIES
IS VERY MUCH TIED

TO A SENSE OF THE LANDS.

Narrator: CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGIST DEBORAH HYDE

INVESTIGATES HOW BELIEF
IN FAIRIES

IMPACTED PEOPLES' LIVES.

NOW, OUR MODERN FAIRIES
CAN GRANT WISHES.

THEY MIGHT HAVE TINKLING
LITTLE VOICES,

BUT THE TRADITIONAL FAIRIES
WERE POWERFUL,

AND THEY WERE ALSO
POTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS.

ALTHOUGH CHANGELINGS
WERE MOST OFTEN, IN PRACTICE,

THOUGHT TO BE CHILDREN,
IN THEORY,

THEY COULD ALSO BE ADULTS.

Narrator: DEBORAH HAS COME
TO COUNTY TIPPERARY

TO UNCOVER A CASE
OF SUSPECTED FAIRY ABDUCTION.

IT TOOK PLACE JUST OVER
100 YEARS AGO.

I'M HERE TO INVESTIGATE
A MURDER.

NOW, THIS IS A COPY
OF A NEWSPAPER FROM 1895,

AND IT REPORTS THAT A MAN
NAMED MICHAEL CLEARY

HAD KILLED HIS WIFE
BY BURNING HER TO DEATH.

THE JURY WAS FREE TO CONVICT
HIM OF MURDER, BUT THEY DIDN'T.

THEY CONVICTED HIM
OF MANSLAUGHTER

BECAUSE IT BECAME APPARENT THAT
MICHAEL CLEARY TRULY BELIEVED

THAT HIS WIFE
WAS A FAIRY CHANGELING.

Narrator: WHY WAS MICHAEL CLEARY
SO CONVINCED

THAT HIS WIFE HAD BEEN TAKEN
AND REPLACED BY A FAIRY?

WHAT MADE HIM KILL HER?

DEBORAH HUNTS FOR CLUES
AT THE SITE

OF AN ANCIENT
IRON-AGE HILLFORT,

WHERE FAIRIES WERE
ONCE BELIEVED TO LIVE.

Hyde: FAIRY FOLKLORE IS FULL
OF INCIDENCES OF PEOPLE

BEING KIDNAPPED
AND TAKEN OFF TO FAIRYLAND.

A PLACE LIKE THIS WAS
POTENTIALLY SINISTER,

AND YOU WOULDN'T
COME UP HERE BY YOURSELF.

Narrator: BUT IN 1895,
MICHAEL CLEARY'S WIFE, BRIDGET,

DID JUST THAT
WITH FATAL CONSEQUENCES.

BRIDGET CLEARY WAS
AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN.

SHE HAD HER OWN BUSINESS,

AND SHE WAS GOING TO DELIVER
SOME EGGS UP BY A FAIRY FORT.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE PERSON
SHE WAS DELIVERING THE EGGS TO

OR COLLECTING THE MONEY FROM
WASN'T IN THAT DAY,

SO SHE SPENT A LOT OF TIME
OUT IN THE COLD.

THE NEXT DAY,
BRIDGET BECAME SERIOUSLY ILL

WITH FEVERS AND HEADACHES.

SUSPICIONS WERE RAISED THAT

BECAUSE SHE PASSED
BY THE OLD FORT,

SHE WAS NO LONGER HERSELF
BUT A FAIRY IMPOSTOR.

BRIDGET HAD VISITS
FROM SEVERAL PEOPLE

IN HER EXTENDED FAMILY,
INCLUDING A VISIT

FROM A MAN NAMED JACK DUNN,
WHO WAS A DISTANT COUSIN.

HE WAS A LOCAL FAIRY DOCTOR.

HE USED TRADITIONAL METHODS
TO CURE PEOPLE.

HE SAID,
"THAT'S NOT BRIDGET CLEARY,"

AND THAT SUGGESTED
VERY STRONGLY TO ALL AROUND

THAT SHE WAS NOW A CHANGELING.

Narrator: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
TOOK PLACE AT THIS VERY HOUSE.

WOW.

THIS IS THE ROOM
WHERE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED,

AND THIS IS THE HEARTH
WHERE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

Narrator:
TO GET HIS WIFE BACK,

MICHAEL CLEARY DECIDED
TO HOLD BRIDGET OVER THE FIRE.

HE BELIEVED DOING THIS
WOULD TRICK THE FAIRY

INTO RESCUING ITS LOVED ONE
AND RETURNING HIS WIFE.

[ BRIDGET SCREAMING ]

Hyde: BRIDGET CLEARY WAS
BROUGHT OVER HERE,

AND THE FIRE WAS ACCELERATED
BECAUSE MICHAEL CLEARY

DOUSED HER
IN LAMP OIL SEVERAL TIMES.

HER WHOLE FAMILY WAS HERE,

SO IT'S WORTH REMEMBERING,
HE WASN'T ALONE,

AND THEY MENTIONED
THAT THE BLAZES WERE SO HIGH

THAT THEY TRAVELED
NEARLY ACROSS THE ROOM.

[ BRIDGET SCREAMING ]

Hyde: THIS WAS A PLACE
WHERE A GROUP OF PEOPLE

ENDED UP KILLING
ONE OF THEIR OWN.

Narrator: BRIDGET CLEARY WAS THE
LAST IN A LONG LINE OF WOMEN

TO BE BURNED
IN THE BRITISH ISLES

AS A RESULT OF THE HYSTERIA
AROUND DEMONIC CREATURES

THAT LASTED
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.

WHEN PEOPLE GET SCARED
OVER RELIGIOUS REASONS,

IT'S NOT UNUSUAL FOR THEM
TO START USING THAT

AS A PRETEXT
FOR ROUNDING UP PEOPLE

AND THROWING THEM IN PRISON
AND BURNING THEM AT THE STAKE.

Narrator: DEMONS -- THESE
SINISTER SHAPESHIFTING MONSTERS

HAVE TORMENTED MANKIND
FOR CENTURIES.

FROM THE LOWLIEST PEASANT TO
THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND,

THEY EMBODIED OUR GREATEST FEARS
ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION

AND FUELED THE PERSECUTION

AND MURDER
OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT LIVES.

EXPERTS HAVE REVEALED THAT BY
INSPIRING SO MUCH TERROR IN US,

DEMONS WERE THE MOST DANGEROUS
MYTHICAL BEASTS OF ALL.

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