01x04 - Witchcraft & Superstition

[bunniefuu]

-[roars]

-[screams]

[laughing] Oh, f*ck.

What the f*ck?

I'm going to k*ll him.

He's dead. He's--

-[laughs]

-[muttering]

I'm gonna get you.

-Ah!

-Oh!

[upbeat music]

♪

[Graha Scotland is a land

of many superstitions.

[Sam] That's quite true.

There's a superstition

about the direction

-you stir your porridge.

-Really?

You wanna stir your porridge

is it clockwise

or anticlockwise?

It's pretty important you know.

Basically to ward off

the devil.

-Right.

-I feel like I didn't--

haven't been getting it right.

Have you been turning it

in the wrong direction?

-I think I have.

-Yeah, you are basically

Satan's little helper.

Whenever I make porridge, yeah.

They say Satan's clever.

He'd hardly catch

many unsuspecting souls

if he laid his traps

in bogs and tunnels.

Do you have superstitions?

I bet you do.

-The only one I really have

-I bet you do.

to be honest,

is when I run a marathon.

I'll always have a new pair

of socks for each marathon.

Well, I mean,

that's-that's not superstition.

That's just hygiene.

Do you have any superstitions?

Yeah, I kind of do.

I have these sort of weird--

Black cat!

Wow. Uh I used--

Ladder.

-C-can I continue?

-Okay.

I don't want this episode to be

just one near heart attack

after another for me,

if that's okay.

-Aye, okay.

-Yeah.

Oh, my God! What's that?

Oh, sh**t, it was just a

h*-h*! Oh. Oh.

[laughter]

[Sam] I'm going to have

such a good day.

[Graham] Yeah,

you're gonna get it so--oh.

[Sam] Scotland's landscape

is littered

with castles,

cemeteries, and ruins.

The past is ever present,

and the barrier between

the world of the living

and the world of the dead

is especially thin.

[Graham] In years past,

Highlanders would summon

ancestral spirits

to stand alongside them

in battle.

Now Scots invoke

the memory of the dead

through quaint superstitions

and terrifying ghost stories.

[Sam] And it's not just ghosts

that haunt the Scottish mind.

The devil himself lurks

around every corner

and in every shadow.

[Graham] It was

this ever-present specter

of the devil

that led to the passage

of 1563's Witchcraft Act.

[Sam] Still, the old ways are

neither gone nor forgotten.

[Graham] Many modern Scots keep

the ancient flame of paganism

burning brightly

like the bonfires of Beltane.

[Sam] With all this

as backdrop, is it any wonder

that Diana Gabaldon said

of Scotland

[Graham]

"There's no place on Earth

"with more of the old

superstitions and magic

mixed into its daily life."

Here we are

in Greyfriars Kirkyard.

[Sam] Part church, part prison,

and part graveyard.

[Graham] Yeah.

[Sam]

It's the final resting place

of the Covenanters,

Scotland's most famous

religious dissidents.

-[Graham] Yes.

-[Sam] And this is a woman

that proclaims

that as a child,

she would draw skulls.

Charlotte,

your job title is

-Death historian.

-[Graham] A death historian.

A death historian.

And this is, as you said,

one of your-your favorite

places.

It is a remarkably

spooky place

and in fact, actually, I think,

possibly one of the most

populated places in Edinburgh

under the ground.

-By far.

-[Graham] Really?

-[Sam] Yes.

-By far.

We are talking

fingers and everything

-Coming out of the ground.

-coming out of the ground.

-Up here

-[Charlotte] Mm-hmm.

-there was a prison where

-[Charlotte] Yes. Yes.

[Graham] Oh, yeah, there's--

oh, yeah.

[Sam] hundreds of people

were-were buried.

Do you wanna go in a prison?

-I thi--[laughs] I do.

-[laughs] You do?

Can we go and have a look

in a prison?

There's so much to see here.

I think we should start

wandering along.

Are you gonna get naked

in the prison?

-What?

-Um that--well--

Well, you've done that already,

haven't you, Sam?

You-you never know.

It did happen in Outlander.

[Graham] Yes, you did.

I seem to remember that, yeah.

[Sam] It is a remarkable place.

Is it--dare I ask,

is it haunted as the bells

-Well, does it feel haunted?

-go off?

Well, by tradition,

every single burial ground

is haunted

because the last person

to be buried

in a graveyard

or a burial ground

is meant to look after

the rest of the bodies.

[Graham] Tell us a little bit

about the Covenanters.

[Sam] Who were Presbyterian

religious dissidents.

[Charlotte] Yes, Charles I,

who was the last monarch

to be born in Scotland,

he was under

the Episcopalian faith

rather than

the Presbyterian faith.

He brought in

the new prayer book

and the whole of Edinburgh

rioted about this.

They did not want

this new prayer book.

Here at Greyfriars,

there was a riot of women

who chased the minister

out of the building

because they were not gonna

have this new prayer book.

This man here,

we have Alexander Henderson.

He was one

of the founding people

who wrote up

the-the National Covenant.

[Graham] Oh. Hence Covenanters.

This was signed

inside Greyfriars Kirk itself.

Wow.

And basically they were saying,

"We are loyal subjects

to the king."

Yep.

"We're quite happy to do

whatever the king wishes.

"Just take the Episcopalianism

out of Scotland

and we'll all be fine."

[Sam] King Charles clearly

didn't agree.

[Charlotte] We're going towards

the Covenanters' prison now.

The Covenanters

were rounded up.

There was over a thousand

of them.

-And they were brought here.

-[Graham] A thousand?

-[Charlotte] Over a thousand.

-[Graham] In here?

[Sam] Wow.

But basically

just an open piece of ground.

[Charlotte] Open to the damp,

the cold.

They got one penny loaf a day.

That was their ration each.

So a lot of people died

of starvation

while they were here.

What it came down to is

380 people left.

They stuck by their g*ns.

The Covenanters believed

they were God's people.

-They were not gonna back down.

-May we go in?

[Charlotte] I'm quite happy

to take you into the prison.

-[Graham] Please.

-[Sam] Thank you, then.

After you.

No, really, I insist.

After you.

[sighs] Oh, God.

[eerie music plays]

♪

[Graham] Are-are you

locking us in?

[Charlotte] I am locking us in.

-[Graham] Yeah, fine.

-[Sam] Is there a reason?

It's best to have people

unable to get in.

A homeless man broke in

on a really dark

and stormy night.

[Graham] Uh-huh.

He saw this grate

at the bottom.

Yes.

And through the grate,

he saw some stairs.

Yes. Now, let me guess.

-He went down the stairs.

-He went down the stairs.

-Why? Why?

-Don't go down the stairs?

He went down the stairs.

If you're in a graveyard,

it's simple.

-Don't go down the stairs.

-Rule 101 of horror movies.

He's homeless. He's cold.

Meanwhile, in the graveyard,

Graeme the caretaker

and his little pooch

were walking around.

Ah, Graeme the caretaker.

Not sure if it's Graham

with a H.

It's another Graeme.

Don't worry.

[Graham] Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

[Charlotte]

Graeme hears a noise

coming from

George Mackenzie's tomb,

which is meant to be haunted

because George Mackenzie,

atrocities against the people,

it was said

that his spirit would

never be allowed to rest.

We have

the homeless man downstairs,

and he sees three wooden boxes.

[Graham] He doesn't open them.

What's inside the wooden box?

No, he does not.

-He opens

-Oh, for goodness' sake.

the wooden box

and steps back,

and as he steps back,

the wooden flooring gives way

and he falls

into another burial pit.

Graeme sees

this horrendous face

coming up towards him.

-Covered in gunk.

-Covered in gunk.

Graeme and the dog go running

one way out of the graveyard,

and this homeless man

goes off elsewhere.

We don't know what happened

to the homeless man.

He's probably still in shock,

I think.

Graeme's not

a caretaker anymore.

Should imagine not.

But this is

where it goes sinister.

-Oh, there's more.

-There's more.

Oh, sorry.

Shall we continue walking?

No, we don't need

to continue walking.

[Graham]

Oh, we're here, are we?

-[Charlotte] We are here.

-[Graham] Oh, God!

[Sam] Oh.

[Charlotte]

On that fateful night,

something was released

from George Mackenzie's tomb.

Whatever was meant to torment

George Mackenzie forevermore

was released out of that coffin

that night,

and for some reason,

it has taken its leave

in the Covenanters' prison.

Après vous.

I just--I'm really scared!

I'm really scared.

Listen, I'm not

normally somebody

who is scared

about this sort of thing, but--

No, you're not.

You know--okay, let's just

take in the view, okay?

-A black hole

-Mm-hmm.

-with an iron gate.

-Mm.

In you go, gentlemen.

After you.

[Graham] Holy sh*t.

It's horrible.

It is.

All right, you'll just notice

some of the area

in the ceiling up here,

-the discoloration.

-[Graham] Yes.

Yep.

[Sam] Wait. Oh, don't.

-[sighs]

-[Graham] Is that your--

[Charlotte] I have to tell you

what happens in here

and I have to keep you

locked in.

-Is that your idea?

-Wasn't my idea.

Now we are locked

into the Black Mausoleum.

I'm gonna pass you

these photographs.

Oh, yes. Photographs. Great.

[Sam] Oh, God, no.

These are photographs

that people have sent in

of things that have happened

to them

while they've been standing

within the Black Mausoleum.

They get burns,

bite marks, bruises,

and then there's the knockouts.

-The what?

-The what?

The knockouts.

People have been knocked out

in here?

If you're standing in there

and you feel an intense cold

building up inside you,

you can take a step

to the side.

Why-why-why-why-why-why would

we take a step to the side?

Because a few seconds later,

you will be on the ground.

Oh, I see. Right. Okay.

Now, I've seen big, burly men

end up on that floor.

-[Graham] Have you really?

-I have,

and I've had

nothing to do with it.

And--right.

Why is the ceiling

so discolored?

I don't know.

This is one

of the weirdest places

I've ever been to in my life.

I think we should move on.

[upbeat music plays]

[Graham] I'm looking forward

to Wormiston House.

[Sam] Mm.

I'm looking forward to hearing

some of the stories

of the witch trials,

of the persecution, of--

well, of course, the thing is,

you know, they-they talked

about witchcraft,

but really, in-in fact, it was

just about persecuting people

who weren't doing

anything wrong.

That's the reality of it.

They--

Well, I mean,

they were witches, right?

-What?

- They were witches, though.

I mean, if you're a witch

Geillis Duncan,

you're under arrest

for witchcraft.

-[glass shatters]

-Under whose orders?

Well, lookee here.

The other sorceress.

Would you have burnt me

as a witch?

Absolutely.

-Really? No hesitation.

-Absolutely.

You would have gone

and reported

-to the witchfinder general

and said

-Yes. I'd say-

[with high-pitched voice]

"There's a man down the road.

He looks a bit witchy to me."

"There's definitely a stench

of witch coming off him."

"Yes, I saw him--I saw him

dancing with Satan

in his garden."

"He does funny voices too.

He speaks like the devil."

[normally] Right.

Well, that's good to know.

Weren't actors burnt,

um, or at least mistrusted?

-Oh, actors? Oh, my goodness.

-Yeah.

They used to bury actors

at crossroads,

I think sometimes with a stake

through their heart,

because they-they were

so terrified

of them, um, coming back,

because they didn't trust them

because they could pretend

to be other people.

It was a very terrifying time

to live.

Pretty much like right now

with you.

[dramatic music plays]

♪

"Light thickens

"and the crow makes wing

to the rooky wood.

"Good things of day

begin to droop and drowse,

"and night's black agents

to their preys do rouse.

"Ere the bat hath flown

his cloistered flight

"and the shard-borne beetle

with his drowsy hums

"has rung night's yawning peal,

there shall be done

a deed of dreadful note."

♪

-Leonard.

-[Leonard] Hello, sir.

Leonard Low.

Pleasure to meet you.

I'm not sure I'm gonna shake

your hand, Mr. Low.

I see your T-shirt

with a cauldron

with skeletons being burnt

by the devil

as the crow makes its way

towards the wicked wood.

-Rooky wood. Rooky wood.

-Rooky wood.

I love it when you quote

Shakespeare; it's great.

Can't mention witches

without mentioning Shakespeare.

He learnt the story

of the three witches of Forres

and incorporated it

into Macbeth,you see?

That's a true story.

And the Spence family

that built Wormiston Castle,

they're related

to the MacDuffs of-of Macbeth.

-Ah.

-Really?

I dare-daren't ask,

but this magnificent house,

castle, Wormiston,

what happened here?

The Lindsay family took

this house over in 1621.

They were the sheriffs

of Crail.

Crail's a little village

just around the coast.

Recently, I was speaking

to Sir James Lindsay.

"James, your ancestors

were the sheriff.

"And they would've stood

in jurisdiction

over my ancestor, Bessie Mason,

who was burnt for a witch."

-Your ancestor was burnt

as a witch?

-Yes, aye.

Aye, burnt as a witch,

and it was the owner

of this castle,

his ancestors that did it.

[Graham] And Scotland

was particularly zealous

in its persecution of witches,

wasn't it

-Yes.

-compared to anywhere else.

Well, in England,

it was treated as a crime,

a crime that you could-

you could be hanged for.

Right, right.

But in Scotland,

it was treated as heresy,

and heresy, you have to be

burned. Every bit of you.

Oh, of course.

You have to be burnt.

Burn the witch! Burn them both!

[crowd shouting]

Conduct the prisoners

to the pyre, if you please.

I think it's about time

we went and saw

where all the action took place

in the dungeon.

Oh, great.

Yes, let's go to the dungeon.

-Fantastic. I can't wait.

-[laughs]

Let's go to the scary place.

Let's go to the big scary place

where there's no exit.

[Leonard]

Jail cells in Scotland

weren't that secure,

but this one is a beauty.

If you come here--I've got-

I've got a bowl of food.

[Sam] I don't really know

if I want

to follow you anywhere.

This is a bowl of lovely stones

and a bit of, uh, fresh, uh,

whatever that is,

and-and what-what you'd do

as, um, the jailer,

you'd feed your witches

by pushing that through there

to feed 'em.

So if you could push that

through there

-Yep.

-you'll get an idea--

-Oh! No! No!

-Oh, God! Oh, God!

-Not again!

-Oh, damn you!

-I knew it!

-[laughter]

-I'm gonna get you for that.

-I knew it.

-Was it you?

-I knew you couldn't trust him.

It's a hungry witch.

So we're going in, are we?

-[both] Yeah.

-Right.

Oh, God, I don't know

if I wanna go in there.

Well, yeah, after you.

Definitely after you.

-[Sam] Go on!

-[thumps door]

[Leonard] Are you gonna

come out, though?

There's no one there.

-Oh, my God.

-[Leonard laughs]

[Graham] Oh, God. Oh.

It's very cramped.

-Anyway

-[Sam] Yeah, no.

-You're going next.

-[Graham] Wow.

[Leonard]

We need-we need a light.

-Come on in, Sam. Don't be shy.

-[Sam] Oh, God.

♪

This is

a truly terrifying collection

of ironmongery

that you have here.

[Leonard] A witch is to confess

to her sins.

Normally, they would deny all

accusations of witchcraft

Yeah.

because

the-the-the end result

doesn't look too good for them.

[Graham] Mm.

[Leonard] But they had

these methods

to get a confession

through t*rture.

What we have here is, uh,

16th-century, uh, thumb screws.

-Ah, the thumb screw. Okay.

-The dreaded thumb screw.

Now, if I lift, uh,

this up here

and you stick a couple

of thumbs in there

-[Sam] "I'm not a witch."

-Oh.

-[Sam] "I'm not a witch."

-Oh, immediately

But see, we-we've got

this device here

to twist it down to nothing.

[Graham]

Okay, you can stop now, Sam.

-Thanks.

-[laughter]

And-and it got--

That's actually getting

quite sore.

This would crush your bones.

I can't take my thumbs out now.

[Leonard] I'd have a confession

in front of you now.

-"Sign it."

-So they'd be standing--

-"Sign it."

-Right.

[Leonard]

And of course, you go "No."

I would just tighten it more.

-And then keep going and--

-Yeah. Yeah.

When it came

to making their mark,

many couldn't make their mark

because they'd had

their fingers destroyed

in the t*rture process.

[Sam] If he was deemed a witch,

then maybe I might use

one of these.

[Leonard]

You wouldn't believe it,

but this is one

of the lighter punishments.

Before the Witchcraft Act

came into being,

many witches were found

and they-they were simply tried

in the courts

and banished,

and to be banished,

you had to be branded.

-You'd be branded a witch.

-Where would you be branded?

You'd be branded in the face,

on the cheek.

-On the forehead, or

-Around the cheek.

Is this your own personal item?

Uh, no.

Uh, y-yes, I collect these--

You can loosen them now.

[laughs]

I-I collect these-these items.

Oh, let me help you with that.

These-these are-these are

actually real.

-Now--

-Yes, I'll take one of these.

-Thank you.

-This is a pricker.

Oh, look. It's just a little

It's like a needle--

needle or something.

[Leonard]

It-it's a brass bodkin needle.

Um, now, this would be thrust

into his body

Oh.

um, inch by inch,

arm, back, face.

-Anywhere I want?

-Yep.

[Leonard] If you're one

of the devil's creatures

and he's given you

his baptism rites of his own

and he's taken away

your Christian baptism rites,

he's left a mark on your body

that is insensible to pain.

So I need to prick you

with this thing

until I get a spot on your body

which you're not gonna go--

-Which it doesn't hurt.

-Ah.

When you don't--where it--

that's so diabolically awful.

[Sam] What's this, Leonard?

[Leonard] Oh, this is-this is

another device.

Ah.

[Leonard] See, you-you've-

you've entered the jail.

You need to be restrained,

you see?

-Hmm.

-Well, we'd--

Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Hold on.

-What's going on here?

-We'd unscrew this, you see.

Well, you're-you're clearly

a witch,

so we need to lock you up.

How did I become the witch?

Just shh--see, witches--

you're talking too much.

-You would've totally--

-Keep talking, you.

-If there was anybody-anybody--

-Yes, come on.

Let me just-let me just

help you with this

so that I don't actually cut

my own--

And then his hands

through here, is it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just put his hands in there.

One of his little witchy wrists

and your other

witchy one there.

Hold on. Hold on.

All right, mate. Calm down.

-There we go.

-We're all having fun now.

-You just tighten that up now.

-Yeah, we tighten it up there.

Yes, not so clever now,

are you, witch?

That's actually

really quite solid.

-Did you--listen.

-[Sam] Ah.

Can I--hold on one second.

Hold on one second.

-Shh.

-What the--holy sh*t.

-Let's just get that on there.

-Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.

-What-what are you doing?

-Yep.

-Come on, witch.

-He's making an awful noise.

[groans] Oh.

-Now, this is a witch's branks.

-Okay.

This'd be your first initial

walk through the village.

You'd go for a walk with this,

and, uh,

everyone would be like,

"Oh, look, there's a witch."

'Cause why else would you be

wearing it?

[Sam] Then we could

throw things at him.

[Graham] They'd throw things

at me as well?

[Leonard]

They'd be thinking, um,

"That ship that sunk

last week,

the crops that failed,

the-the child that died"

[Graham] Basically anything

that had gone wrong

in the village

or in the community

they would blame

on the poor soul

that was walking along

with all this clobber on.

[Leonard] You would get it.

Are you gonna confess?

-Could you--

-Are you gonna confess?

I-I'm gonna confess something

in a minute, yeah.

Are you gonna confess?

C-could you do me

a favor, Leonard,

and, uh, actually remove this

from my arms?

-Ah.

-What do you reckon?

The problem is,

we don't have the key.

We don't know

if he's a witch yet.

Yeah.

I'll tell you what, Leonard.

Why don't we go have

a cup of tea

and-and we'll come back and see

if he'll confess later on?

You just stay there.

I think it's probably gonna

fall off eventually.

Pints time, is it?

Oh. Okay.

[light buzzing]

Sam?

[upbeat music plays]

Sam.

Sam.

♪

We're in the Outer Hebrides,

the Isle of Lewis,

a beautiful, beautiful island.

[Sam] This is one

of the most iconic locations

inOutlander.

[mysterious rumbling]

-After me?

-After you.

Thank you.

-There you go.

-Oh! Ooh.

-Sorry.

-[speaking indistinctly]

So here we are.

We're in Callanish Stones.

[Sam] Feels like

I'm coming home a little bit.

[soft music plays]

[Graham] Just look at them.

I mean,

they're like works of art.

They're truly beautiful.

[Sam] SoOutlander took casts

of some of these stones.

[Graham] Did they?

They came up here--

[Sam] T hey came up here

and took a cast of it.

But they're in the studio,

and these get moved around

and we put them

in different locations.

But it's amazing to actually

be here and see them.

When you come over

the-the brow of the hill here

you see them standing

silhouetted

on-on the landscape,

they are-they're really

quite something.

[Graham]

They are-they are amazing,

and this is one of the--

I think, the most impressive

stone circles in Britain,

if not Europe.

I mean, there's--

I've been to a few.

Avebury's great.

Obviously, Stonehenge.

[Sam] Stonehenge, obviously.

[Graham] This is

the Stonehenge of the north.

[Sam laughing] It-it is.

-[Graham] It is.

-[Sam] It is.

And is this the stone

in the show

-This is the one.

-that Claire touches?

This is the one, and actually,

there was a point

where we did a sh**t

for one of the seasons

where we had the stone

in a studio

surrounded by, I think,

a hundred cameras,

-so we did

this amazing sequence

-Oh wow.

where it spins around

and I'm on one side

and Caitriona

was on the other.

Um yeah, so we just need

to get a hundred cameras

and we could

re-create it here.

Whatev-whatever reason they had

for bringing these things here,

-they had a reason,

-Yeah.

and it was-it was-it was

a reason that was enough

for them to drag these

a mile and a half.

Can you imagine?

What was it--

when were these built?

Two thousand nine hundred B.C.

Right, so 4--

nearly 5,000 years ago,

they did that.

I don't know

how they would have done it.

I don't know how they did it.

There's loads of myths

about these stones.

They may have been giants

that were frozen,

the ones that didn't convert

to Christianity.

They don't--as they say,

don't know

what they were used for,

some sort of pagan ritual,

maybe,

maybe a gathering spot.

Some people think

they were used

for the cycles of the moon.

[Graham] Yeah.

-Um, different times

of the year,

-Yeah.

every sort of 18 years,

I think,

there's-there's a point where

the sun hits a certain point.

[Graham] Yeah.

Do you think that the people

who put these here

could ever have imagined

that they would've been used

for a television show

about time traveling

back to the Highlands

of Scotland?

I think they'd be-be

pretty happy about it.

-Would they?

-Yeah.

Maybe they'd be--

Maybe that's why

they were built.

One thing's for certain,

they would've known things

-that have been lost

-Yeah.

the people

that brought these here.

And, uh--but that's

kind of wonderful in a way,

that we'll--we don't know.

Sometimes it's good to--

for-for mystery in life,

don't you think?

I would love to have gone back

into that time

and seen-seen

what went on here

and felt the excitement

of being at this site

and the-the-the-the awe

and seeing the sun set

or the-the moon rise and--

it-it must have been--for them,

it must have been so magical.

Forgive me,

but I have to do this.

Do what?

No one's here really,

and, um, it's my only chance.

I mean, I see

every other tourist do it.

Can we-can we just do it

together?

Yes, yes, yes.

-[sighs]

-I'm-I'm sorry, mate.

Ready?

I-I'm gonna break it

to you gently.

It's not gonna work.

The magic of television?

It's fiction.

Outlander'sfiction.

-What?

-It's fiction.

-What, going through the stone?

-Fiction.

You seem to have really

have gone into this weird place

where you actually think

that you're really a Highlander

living in the 18th-centu--

Just touch the stones.

You're telling me

if I touch this,

I won't go through the stone?

Touch the stones.

-You wanna make a bet?

-I'm prepared to be surprised.

[mysterious rumbling]

Yep. Go on.

Yep.

Here he goes.

Grah!

Still here.

-Ah.

-There you go.

-Feel better now?

-Yeah.

Good.

Okay, which way is it now?

That way? Which way?

[soft music plays]

♪

[Sam] Do you have

any pagan tendencies?

[Graham] I do, yes.

I was actually a druid

in a past life.

[Sam] Oh.

I ask because our next stop

is a Beltane celebration.

Beltane falls on my birthday,

and it--

Right. Okay.

For many years growing up,

there used to be

this big Beltane festival

-in Edinburgh.

-Your mum used to come in

covered in paint,

whirling fire?

[with high-pitched voice]

"Hello."

[with high-pitched voice]

"Happy birthday, Sam."

"Happy birthday, Sam."

"I'm going to swallow fire

for you."

"I'm now going to burn you

at the stake."

[normally] I never quite know

whether these people

really believe

in the pagan festival

or they just like

a good old party

where they sort of

throw fire around.

Yeah, I think-I think there's

definitely a mix of people,

people that take it

really seriously

and those that are there

just for a really good time.

[ethereal music plays]

♪

I'm so excited.

-[Graham laughs]

-[Sam] Can you tell?

We decided

to-to re-create Beltane here,

which is, uh, a pagan festival

which celebrates--

Justina, you can

maybe help us here.

-Beltane is the celebration

of fertility

-Fertility.

-when everything comes

to full-full-blown life.

-Fertility stuff.

-It feels very positive, right?

-It is.

So what are we, uh--

what are we to expect?

[Sam] Or experience tonight?

[Justina] Well, we are going

to light this fire.

Okay.

Fire has always been

the element

which drew people together.

And we are going to sing

and dance around it

and celebrate being alive,

being here,

celebrate our ancestors

who were here before us,

and just open up for whatever-

whatever may happen.

Let's be open

to whatever may happen.

Whatever may happen.

Goodness me.

I-I've certainly

discovered that

in the last several weeks.

Whatever may happen, yes.

Okay.

Let's get the fire started.

Let's get this fire started,

huh?

[drum beating]

♪

[people whooping and cheering]

[mysterious flute music plays]

♪

[screams echo]

♪

-Yeah!

-Come on!

-Yeah!

-Yeah!

[Graham] Oh, yeah!

[bagpipe dance music plays]

♪

-[cheers and applause]

-[Graham] Yeah!

Yeah!

Yeah!

♪

Oh, mate. Wow.

It's been insane, hasn't it?

And--sorry to bring it up,

but, uh, you did seem

to attempt

to, uh, scare me to death.

But I-I wanted to take

this moment to just say

-Mate

-I remember that.

there were a couple

other things we wanted to try,

but

You needed me

for the rest of the show.

Yeah, unfortunately.

Yeah.

But anyway,

here's to paganism, eh?

To paganism.

♪

Oh, God.

Oh, God, you're not

getting naked again, are you?

Come on, mate!

-Oh, all right.

-Let's go.

All right, all right,

all right.

-He's like a child.

-Yeah!

♪

-I don't want to go, Jamie.

-Come on, Claire.

-You gotta go back.

-I don't--no.

There's no place for you here.

Jamie, no.

But you're so wonderful.

Stop it. Stop. Stop.

Leave me alone, Claire.

-You're so pretty.

-You're leaning--what--

No, I've not touched it yet.

I'm not touching it.

Oh, you're not touching it?

Okay.

-No.

-Okay.

Sorry, we're-we're completely

losing our minds now.