History Student Reacts to Can Animals Commit Crimes? Historia Civilis

Today we watch Can Animals Commit Crimes? by Historia Civilis.

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[anzaca]

5:45 The lawyer was simply playing the Church's game. They were being ridiculous by putting rats on trial, so he was going to treat them like he would any human client.

[ConkerVonZap]

they really took the whole business of the "justice is blind" a step further 🤣

[anzaca]

3:31 The lawyer was 100% right. This was a court trial, so therefore court proceeding etc MUST be adhered to.

[JeevesAnthrozaurUS]

We, the jury, find the defendant guilty.
The defendant is hereby sentenced to *dinner.*

[Upsedriss]

this is an interesting one haha, watched it a while ago.

[kijkmaarmee]

You should probably watch can a monarch commit crimes by historia civillis

[faketheo]

About murder trials of inanimate objects in ancient Greece: There was this religious festival called Dipolieia in Athens. Part of it was the Buphonia, a ritual sacrifice of an ox. After the sacrifice there would be a murder trial to determine who killed the ox. According to Porphyry the judicial process then proceeds in a ritual manner. The drawers of water accuse the knife sharpeners who then accuse the one who handed over the ax. That person then accuses the one who cut the throat, who in turn accuses the knife. The knife is found to be guilty and is cast into the sea as punishment.

[Derkosson]

Witch trials also started a lot later than most people realise. In fact, it basically didn't happen in the medieval period, with the official church doctrine being that if you are a good christian, you don't believe in witches.

Even when the witch trials became a widespread phenomena, the church maintained this view, and there was noticeably less witch trials in Spain because the Inquisition was stamping out on non-christian thoughts, which included belief in witches.

The one famous witch trial that happened in Spain (specifically, in the kingdom of Navarra between 1525 and 1526) was led by a french priest, and the Supreme Council of the Inquisition intervened, seized control of the proceedings and took control of 30 accused. They would later issue guidelines declaring that in cases where witchcraft was suspected, officials should proceed with skepticism, confiscation of the property of the accused was forbidden, and the sentence should aim to re-educate the witch rather than kill her.