| 1 | Piety and Heartwork in Covenanter Scotland 2021-03-25 |
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| 2 | 045 - Wittenberg to Witches 2020-08-10 |
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| 3 | 044 - Early Modern English Witchcraft with Professor Darren Oldridge 2020-02-16 |
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| 4 | Extra - Sound Education Experience 2019-10-17 |
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| 5 | Bonus - What's it like to make a History Podcast (feat. Dead Ideas) 2019-04-28 |
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| 6 | Introducing Pax Britannica 2019-02-10 |
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| 7 | 043 - Salem, Massachusetts 2019-01-27 |
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| 8 | 042 - Witchcraft in Russia with Prof. Valerie Kivelson 2018-12-09 |
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| 9 | 041 - Halloween - From Pagan, to Christian, to Party 2018-10-27 |
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| 10 | 040 - The Pilgrims 2018-10-07 |
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The History of Witchcraft
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.
