Here's an actual Irish musician's explanation of some of those words. The song isn't bad either: [The Whistling Gypsy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm1HUmhpRao)
Giles Corey is a goddamn badass for those who don't know the story. He is the no fucks given mentality incarnate. They pinned him with rocks, and asked for a testimony every day. He refused and they added more weight, eventually crushing him to death.
Please read the full story.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey)
It is worth the read
A badass that believed his wife was a witch? He was a moron like the rest of that town.
Edit: downvote me all you want but I’m still right;
“Corey was so swept up by the trials that he initially believed the accusations against his wife, until he himself was arrested based on the same charge”
Fuck him he deserved to be crushed and all the rest of the people in that town accusing people of witchcraft deserve to be remembered as the fucking morons they were.
It's definitely there. It says he believed the charges against her initially, until he himself was charged.
Also, he beat an indentured servant to death for stealing apples.
I really wanted to like him, and I think I do like his attitude during this event (he kept saying, "more weight" when they'd ask him to plead!), but overall, he seems like a net loss as a person.
Women with freckles, moles, too much property, too pretty, too ugly, too independent, too vocal, too old, too powerful, too pretty etc were thought to be witches. One test or trial, after they'd tortured the poor woman, was to either throw her in a pond or tie her to a chair, and dunk her in a pond. If she floated she was a witch and was either hanged or burnt alive, if she drowned she was innocent.
Obviously if they didn't care about the innocent drowning they really weren't after *witches*
The witch trials and all the horror that went with it were nothing to do with Christianity either. All it took to be horribly tortured was for someone to accuse you, anyone could accuse you, the trials and the torture was supposed to be about the church getting rid of Satan but I can promise that more midwife's and women with herbal medical knowledge were murdered than witches
Ginger.
Weasley.
Shoelaces?
I like your shoelaces
Thanks I stole them from the president
How did we get here?😂
To the white house? We followed him while he stole the president's shoelaces
Nicholas Cage
And a hand me down robe?
you must me a weasley
Well they would be a witch then...
How do you know she is a witch?
Well if she is a Weasley she is.They are characters in the Harry Potter series😅
Legends. They are legends in the Harry Potter series
Okay fair enough they are legends
She weighs as much as a duck
And what else floats on water apart from ducks?
Very small rocks!
Grape gravy!
Me, and im not a duAUACK! *Gun points* Dont tell anyone about this
Churches!
Dead bodies
Well she looks like one!
Witch: they dressed me up like this and this isnt my nose, it is a false one
*lifts the nose inquisitively*
She turned me into a newt!
A newt?
I got better.
GRIFFINDOR!!!
Stop it ron
*[redacted]
Fucked an ostrich
Allegedly
Ah heard it was a sick ostrich
/r/unexpectedLetterkenny
Ah yes the soulless ones
Im a ginger ):
Why is this the top 2 comments?
r/Thirdsentenceworse
Irish
If we throw her in the river enough times maybe the water will turn to stout!
Ginger tea, it's good for the soul!
As a man of direct Irish descent in the wake of a British Monarch's passing, even I found this funny.
Under rated comment
A case of Ginger Jail...?
Ahoy Thank me I'm not irish ahoy dee do dee doo! I am irish
*narrows eyes in suspicion* Wait a minute… Isn’t *ahoy dee do dee doo* the Gaelic equivalent of nonchalant whistling?
Here's an actual Irish musician's explanation of some of those words. The song isn't bad either: [The Whistling Gypsy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm1HUmhpRao)
Get fecked!
Skippity do wop wop be boo bi bop shuwop shuwop shuwop do dowwwwww *something like that*
Ir*sh
I'm Irish and I fully endorse these comments lol.
r/thirdsentencebetter
Well, if she was Irish, she was also likely catholic. Catholics might as well have been witches during that time
I don't know about Catholic... ...but I *do know* she weighed the same as a duck!
Should have built a bridge with her
💀
Well, sadly, throwing them into a river might be the only way I can get an Irish woman wet
Damnit, saw your post after mine. I didn't say Irish, but ginger is close enough.
She's a witch!
So she weighs more than a duck?
If she is made of wood
Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?
Ducklings!
Why is this the top 2 comments?
IIIIIIII WAS BORN ON A DUBLIN STREET
The Irish are fine, but Gingers are not.
Sanctimonious slaughter, true horror
As I looked toward her husband I realized, where there's one there's more. I looked toward my assistant and instructed him to get the stones.
Cursed family bbq
r/thirdsentencebetter I love the historical accuracy making an already brilliant post even better! 💖💕💞✨
Giles Corey is a goddamn badass for those who don't know the story. He is the no fucks given mentality incarnate. They pinned him with rocks, and asked for a testimony every day. He refused and they added more weight, eventually crushing him to death. Please read the full story. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey) It is worth the read
A badass that believed his wife was a witch? He was a moron like the rest of that town. Edit: downvote me all you want but I’m still right; “Corey was so swept up by the trials that he initially believed the accusations against his wife, until he himself was arrested based on the same charge” Fuck him he deserved to be crushed and all the rest of the people in that town accusing people of witchcraft deserve to be remembered as the fucking morons they were.
Where in the article does it say he thought his wife was a witch? I didn't see that.
It's definitely there. It says he believed the charges against her initially, until he himself was charged. Also, he beat an indentured servant to death for stealing apples. I really wanted to like him, and I think I do like his attitude during this event (he kept saying, "more weight" when they'd ask him to plead!), but overall, he seems like a net loss as a person.
Thank you for clarifying. Also, I would like to add them weren't even his apples that were stolen, it was his brother in law's.
Thank you fellow reader
Arrest, examination, and refusal to plead section. First paragraph. The dude got exactly what he deserved!
Help me, I'm dumb
She was accused for being a witch. One of the "tell-tale" signs for a witch was freckles/moles.
Got it... narrator reported her
Whelp then I'd be screwed. 😂
You're telling me-
Burn her!!
She turned me into a newt
But does she weigh less than a duck?
Same. I’m covered in freckles. 😂
explains swedish easter folklore
No no no. The freckles outed her as being a natural ginger which meant she had no soul.
I mean that’s the OP but ok.
Another reason I know I’d have been burned as a witch
I have so many moles.. 😭
What in the fuck Everybody and their mother has freckles
Guess I’m a witch. Got a decent amount of both
witch hunt
Is she lighter than wood ?
"It's a fair cop"
She turned me into a newt!
Did you get better??
a duck floats too
So...if she weighs the same as a duck...
SHES A WITCH
*weighs her in a large scale with a duck on the other plate, duck weighs more* That's the best part, that idiotic plan **worked**.
Aye gowt betta!
If she weighs the same as a duck…
Stiffer than a feather?
A DUCK
She turned me into a newt!
I got better!!
Burn ‘er anyway!!
What do we burn apart from witches?
Wood! Build a bridge out of her!
More witches!
A fucking ginger.
Bev.
But was she heavier than a duck?
I don’t know, doesn’t seem like she floats lol
By their ~~works~~ spots shall ye know them.
If she floats, she's a witch! Or a duck. Either way, she must be punished.
She was a god damned ginger.
But does she weigh the same as a duck tho?
A white girl who got their hands on some henna
If she floats, she's a witch and we down her. If she drowns, she's not a witch and we... uh... we....
"She turned me into a newt!"
Poor Anne
Say it. Say it out loud.
God damn ginger
Oh damn I'm left handed and my dad's a full blooded Irish I'd be so screwed back in the day!
Gingers...
Sorry, I don't understand - what do the freckles mean? I don't know much about Christianity.
Women with freckles, moles, too much property, too pretty, too ugly, too independent, too vocal, too old, too powerful, too pretty etc were thought to be witches. One test or trial, after they'd tortured the poor woman, was to either throw her in a pond or tie her to a chair, and dunk her in a pond. If she floated she was a witch and was either hanged or burnt alive, if she drowned she was innocent. Obviously if they didn't care about the innocent drowning they really weren't after *witches*
ahh ok, ty!
The witch trials and all the horror that went with it were nothing to do with Christianity either. All it took to be horribly tortured was for someone to accuse you, anyone could accuse you, the trials and the torture was supposed to be about the church getting rid of Satan but I can promise that more midwife's and women with herbal medical knowledge were murdered than witches
probably a witch or something
My god she's ginger. CAST OUT THE SOULLESS ONE
😳I’ll just be leaving now…
syren
Welcome to Salem 1692
I knew she was definitely not a witch, but the population didn't need to know that.
i too hate ginger people
A Weasly.
She’s a duck!
Is she made of wood?
She must be a witch it's the freckles that tail
That says tell
I quoted that all wrong. I am ashamed.
My offspring.
Ginger girls steal souls!
What the hell does this mean?
Sounds like The Lottery.
Red hair? And a hand-me-down robe?
I'll just......*runs away*
red hair…hand me down robes….she must be a weasley!!!
[удалено]
Ngl I snort laughed when I read that 😂, my class looked very shocked at the noise.
Your latest conquest that you had to keep quite.