The History of Witchcraft
Summary: The belief in magic and witchcraft has existed in every recorded human culture; this podcast looks at how people explained the inexplicable, turned random acts of nature into conscious acts of mortal or supernatural beings, and how desperate communities took revenge against the suspected perpetrators. While this might sound like a particularly morbid subject, I aim to present it in an entertaining, but informative, way. Of course, there are cases of genuine tragedy in this history of witchcraft, but with a gap of several hundred years, it's ok for us to find humour in the image of, for example, an Anglo-Saxon witch attempting to ward off the Norman invasion of England by exposing her buttocks. That didn't work very well, if you're wondering...
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Podcasts:
030 - The Lynching of John Lambe
029 - By the Sword of the Magistrate
XXVIII - The Burning of Prospero
027 - A Wonderful Discovery
026 - Demon Women and Foul Devices
025 - Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
024 - Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair
023 - Ten Thousand Hells
Christmas Update
022 - Fairies, Demons, and a Cat called Satan
021 - Gloriana? I Hardly Knew Her!
Patreon Announcement
020 - Witchcraft in Tudor England Revisited
019 - The Eternal City and the Evil Eye
018 - Halloween - From Pagan, to Christian, to Party