How was magic viewed and used before the witch trials? Why did so many people willingly admit to being witches? And how, and why, was a nine year old girl able to condemn her family to death as witches?
In Betwixt the Sheet’s limited podcast series Inside the Witch Trials, host Kate Lister investigates stories of witch trials in England, Iceland and colonial Massachusetts. She is joined by historians Eleanor Janega, Ronald Hutton, Ólína Kjerulf Þorvarðardóttir and Marion Gibson.
Across three episodes, Inside the Witch Trials explores the influence of the Reformation in stoking paranoia, how Iceland’s history of magic impacted ideas around witchcraft, and tales such as those of Tituba’s, an enslaved woman whose testimony sparked panic in her remote village.
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