The History of Witchcraft

By Samuel Hume

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 Oct 12, 2023


 Apr 14, 2021

Description

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.

Episode Date
Piety and Heartwork in Covenanter Scotland
Mar 25, 2021
045 - Wittenberg to Witches
Aug 10, 2020
044 - Early Modern English Witchcraft with Professor Darren Oldridge
Feb 16, 2020
Extra - Sound Education Experience
Oct 17, 2019
Bonus - What's it like to make a History Podcast (feat. Dead Ideas)
Apr 28, 2019
Introducing Pax Britannica
Feb 10, 2019
043 - Salem, Massachusetts
Jan 27, 2019
042 - Witchcraft in Russia with Prof. Valerie Kivelson
Dec 09, 2018
041 - Halloween - From Pagan, to Christian, to Party
Oct 27, 2018
040 - The Pilgrims
Oct 07, 2018
039 - A War of Words
Sep 03, 2018
038 - The Wroth of Woden
Aug 27, 2018
037 - Suffer Not a Witch to Live
Aug 19, 2018
036 - Burn to Ashes
Aug 13, 2018
035 - A Magazine of Scandal
Jul 29, 2018
034 - The Witchfinder General
Jul 22, 2018
033 - Satan's Kingdom Divided
Jun 25, 2018
032 - Never a Cross Left
Jun 09, 2018
031 - It's Treason, then.
May 27, 2018
030 - The Lynching of John Lambe
Apr 21, 2018
029 - By the Sword of the Magistrate
Apr 16, 2018
XXVIII - The Burning of Prospero
Apr 01, 2018
027 - A Wonderful Discovery
Mar 25, 2018
026 - Demon Women and Foul Devices
Mar 18, 2018
025 - Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot
Mar 11, 2018
024 - Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair
Feb 11, 2018
023 - Ten Thousand Hells
Jan 13, 2018
022 - Fairies, Demons, and a Cat called Satan
Dec 10, 2017
021 - Gloriana? I Hardly Knew Her!
Dec 03, 2017
020 - Witchcraft in Tudor England
Nov 16, 2017
019 - The Eternal City and the Evil Eye
Nov 07, 2017
018 - Halloween - From Pagan, to Christian, to Party
Oct 23, 2017
017 - Poisoners, Soul-Drawers, and Mathematicians
Oct 19, 2017
016 - The Legacy of the Magi
Oct 08, 2017
015 - The Sorcerers of the Pharaohs
Oct 04, 2017
014 - The Scattering of the Knights Templar
Sep 25, 2017
013 - The Crushing of the Knights Templar
Sep 17, 2017
012 - The Rise of the Knights Templar
Sep 10, 2017
011 - Mountaintop Madness
Sep 04, 2017
010 - The Wisest Fool in Christendom
Aug 21, 2017
009 - The Devil's Greatest Enemy
Aug 02, 2017
008 - The Cradle King
Jul 17, 2017
007 - To Kill a King
Jul 03, 2017
006 - The Synagogue of Satan
Jun 19, 2017
005 - "I Have Forgiven the Devil"
Jun 12, 2017
004 - Reigns of Terror
Jun 05, 2017
003 - Heartland of the Witch Craze
May 29, 2017
002 - A Century of Fire
May 23, 2017
001 - The Hammer of the Witches
May 23, 2017