Witches - Truth, Trials and Terrors
With a selection of the world's foremost academic experts on witches and witchcraft, we separate the history from the hysteria and discover just what a witch was - and why were they accused and often put to death?
Episodes
5 episodes
5. Who Do You Call When You’ve Been Bewitched?
Your child falls ill. Your cow stops giving milk. You suspect a witch. Who do you call? Across early modern Europe, cunning folk claimed to heal the sick, identify witches, recover stolen property and even send curses back to...
4. Who Invented Witches?
What if witches weren’t discovered at all... but invented? For centuries, Europeans feared magic, demons and heretics. But somewhere along the way, those separate fears were stitched together into something new: the witch, a ...
3. The Witches Nobody Talks About
When you picture a witch, who comes to mind? For most of us, it's an old woman living on the edge of a village. But what if that picture is completely wrong? In this episode of Witches: Truth, Trials a...
