The History of Witchcraft
A podcast by Samuel Hume
50 Episodes
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030 - The Lynching of John Lambe
Published: 4/21/2018 -
029 - By the Sword of the Magistrate
Published: 4/16/2018 -
XXVIII - The Burning of Prospero
Published: 4/1/2018 -
027 - A Wonderful Discovery
Published: 3/25/2018 -
026 - Demon Women and Foul Devices
Published: 3/18/2018 -
025 - Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
Published: 3/11/2018 -
024 - Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair
Published: 2/11/2018 -
023 - Ten Thousand Hells
Published: 1/13/2018 -
022 - Fairies, Demons, and a Cat called Satan
Published: 12/10/2017 -
021 - Gloriana? I Hardly Knew Her!
Published: 12/3/2017 -
020 - Witchcraft in Tudor England
Published: 11/16/2017 -
019 - The Eternal City and the Evil Eye
Published: 11/7/2017 -
018 - Halloween - From Pagan, to Christian, to Party
Published: 10/23/2017 -
017 - Poisoners, Soul-Drawers, and Mathematicians
Published: 10/19/2017 -
016 - The Legacy of the Magi
Published: 10/8/2017 -
015 - The Sorcerers of the Pharaohs
Published: 10/4/2017 -
014 - The Scattering of the Knights Templar
Published: 9/25/2017 -
013 - The Crushing of the Knights Templar
Published: 9/17/2017 -
012 - The Rise of the Knights Templar
Published: 9/10/2017 -
011 - Mountaintop Madness
Published: 9/4/2017
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.