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043 - Salem, Massachusetts
043 - Salem, Massachusetts
If anyone has heard of a particular witch trial, they will have heard of Salem. It's an infamous part of early American ... Read more
27 Jan 2019
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003 - Heartland of the Witch Craze
003 - Heartland of the Witch Craze
Here we begin with the events themselves. Today we look at a case of slander in Rothenburg ob de Tauber, which ended rel... Read more
29 May 2017
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041 - Halloween - From Pagan, to Christian, to Party
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022 - Fairies, Demons, and a Cat called Satan
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042 - Witchcraft in Russia with Prof. Valerie Kivelson
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005 - "I Have Forgiven the Devil"
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034 - The Witchfinder General
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This episode primarily makes use of the following texts:- Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English... Read more
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012 - The Rise of the Knights Templar
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The Knights Templar, or the Poor-Fellow Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, are a fascinating example of ho... Read more
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040 - The Pilgrims
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026 - Demon Women and Foul Devices
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Was James VI and I truly the witch-hunting, demon-studying zealot that he has traditionally been seen as? Today we take ... Read more
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029 - By the Sword of the Magistrate
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013 - The Crushing of the Knights Templar
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038 - The Wroth of Woden
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014 - The Scattering of the Knights Templar
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019 - The Eternal City and the Evil Eye
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The Roman Empire stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Levant for centuries, and today's episode covers a few of the ... Read more
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