The History of Witchcraft
History Podcasts
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.
Location:
United States
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.
Language:
English
Piety and Heartwork in Covenanter Scotland
Duration:00:58:30
045 - Wittenberg to Witches
Duration:00:34:41
044 - Early Modern English Witchcraft with Professor Darren Oldridge
Duration:00:39:31
Extra - Sound Education Experience
Duration:00:20:48
Bonus - What's it like to make a History Podcast (feat. Dead Ideas)
Duration:00:43:01
Introducing Pax Britannica
Duration:00:07:25
043 - Salem, Massachusetts
Duration:00:34:38
042 - Witchcraft in Russia with Prof. Valerie Kivelson
Duration:00:49:22
041 - Halloween - From Pagan, to Christian, to Party
Duration:00:48:18
040 - The Pilgrims
Duration:00:28:04
039 - A War of Words
Duration:00:32:49
038 - The Wroth of Woden
Duration:00:35:26
037 - Suffer Not a Witch to Live
Duration:00:26:41
036 - Burn to Ashes
Duration:00:34:22
035 - A Magazine of Scandal
Duration:00:26:42
034 - The Witchfinder General
Duration:00:34:02
033 - Satan's Kingdom Divided
Duration:00:37:27
032 - Never a Cross Left
Duration:00:35:19
031 - It's Treason, then.
Duration:00:30:52
030 - The Lynching of John Lambe
Duration:00:18:35