50 Episodes

  1. 030 - The Lynching of John Lambe

    Published: 4/21/2018
  2. 029 - By the Sword of the Magistrate

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

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

    Published: 3/25/2018
  5. 026 - Demon Women and Foul Devices

    Published: 3/18/2018
  6. 025 - Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot

    Published: 3/11/2018
  7. 024 - Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair

    Published: 2/11/2018
  8. 023 - Ten Thousand Hells

    Published: 1/13/2018
  9. 022 - Fairies, Demons, and a Cat called Satan

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

    Published: 12/3/2017
  11. 020 - Witchcraft in Tudor England

    Published: 11/16/2017
  12. 019 - The Eternal City and the Evil Eye

    Published: 11/7/2017
  13. 018 - Halloween - From Pagan, to Christian, to Party

    Published: 10/23/2017
  14. 017 - Poisoners, Soul-Drawers, and Mathematicians

    Published: 10/19/2017
  15. 016 - The Legacy of the Magi

    Published: 10/8/2017
  16. 015 - The Sorcerers of the Pharaohs

    Published: 10/4/2017
  17. 014 - The Scattering of the Knights Templar

    Published: 9/25/2017
  18. 013 - The Crushing of the Knights Templar

    Published: 9/17/2017
  19. 012 - The Rise of the Knights Templar

    Published: 9/10/2017
  20. 011 - Mountaintop Madness

    Published: 9/4/2017

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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.