Bitchfinder General - Part 1
Everything Is Awful Forever
English - April 29, 2019 09:00 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsArts Comedy history comedy discussion funny macabre victorian weird indie feminist Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It's time to get familiar with the subject of witchcraft. Who were those adorable imps that hung around suspected magic-users in the medieval period? How did one actually catch a witch? Were witches hanged or burned? And just how many men and women were accused of witchcraft in England, anyway?
This week, Jess and Philippa look at supersitions surrounding witches and witchcraft in England during the mid-1600s, as well as Matthew Hopkins: the self-made Witchfinder General who instigated the biggest witch trial in all of English history.