The History of Witchcraft

A podcast by Samuel Hume

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49 Episodes

  1. 029 - By the Sword of the Magistrate

    Published: 4/16/2018
  2. XXVIII - The Burning of Prospero

    Published: 4/1/2018
  3. 027 - A Wonderful Discovery

    Published: 3/25/2018
  4. 026 - Demon Women and Foul Devices

    Published: 3/18/2018
  5. 025 - Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot

    Published: 3/11/2018
  6. 024 - Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair

    Published: 2/11/2018
  7. 023 - Ten Thousand Hells

    Published: 1/13/2018
  8. 022 - Fairies, Demons, and a Cat called Satan

    Published: 12/10/2017
  9. 021 - Gloriana? I Hardly Knew Her!

    Published: 12/3/2017
  10. 020 - Witchcraft in Tudor England

    Published: 11/16/2017
  11. 019 - The Eternal City and the Evil Eye

    Published: 11/7/2017
  12. 018 - Halloween - From Pagan, to Christian, to Party

    Published: 10/23/2017
  13. 017 - Poisoners, Soul-Drawers, and Mathematicians

    Published: 10/19/2017
  14. 016 - The Legacy of the Magi

    Published: 10/8/2017
  15. 015 - The Sorcerers of the Pharaohs

    Published: 10/4/2017
  16. 014 - The Scattering of the Knights Templar

    Published: 9/25/2017
  17. 013 - The Crushing of the Knights Templar

    Published: 9/17/2017
  18. 012 - The Rise of the Knights Templar

    Published: 9/10/2017
  19. 011 - Mountaintop Madness

    Published: 9/4/2017
  20. 010 - The Wisest Fool in Christendom

    Published: 8/21/2017

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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.