The History of Witchcraft

A podcast by Samuel Hume

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49 Episodes

  1. Piety and Heartwork in Covenanter Scotland

    Published: 3/25/2021
  2. 045 - Wittenberg to Witches

    Published: 8/10/2020
  3. 044 - Early Modern English Witchcraft with Professor Darren Oldridge

    Published: 2/16/2020
  4. Extra - Sound Education Experience

    Published: 10/17/2019
  5. Bonus - What's it like to make a History Podcast (feat. Dead Ideas)

    Published: 4/28/2019
  6. Introducing Pax Britannica

    Published: 2/10/2019
  7. 043 - Salem, Massachusetts

    Published: 1/27/2019
  8. 042 - Witchcraft in Russia with Prof. Valerie Kivelson

    Published: 12/9/2018
  9. 041 - Halloween - From Pagan, to Christian, to Party

    Published: 10/27/2018
  10. 040 - The Pilgrims

    Published: 10/7/2018
  11. 039 - A War of Words

    Published: 9/3/2018
  12. 038 - The Wroth of Woden

    Published: 8/27/2018
  13. 037 - Suffer Not a Witch to Live

    Published: 8/19/2018
  14. 036 - Burn to Ashes

    Published: 8/13/2018
  15. 035 - A Magazine of Scandal

    Published: 7/29/2018
  16. 034 - The Witchfinder General

    Published: 7/22/2018
  17. 033 - Satan's Kingdom Divided

    Published: 6/25/2018
  18. 032 - Never a Cross Left

    Published: 6/9/2018
  19. 031 - It's Treason, then.

    Published: 5/27/2018
  20. 030 - The Lynching of John Lambe

    Published: 4/21/2018

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Witches didn't exist, and yet thousands of people were executed for the crime of witchcraft. Why? 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.