Villains and Virgins History Podcast

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2. Salem Witch Trials- Burn the Witch! Jun 11, 2020

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"Innocent have I come into prison... innocent have I been tortured... innocent must I die. For whoever comes into the witch prison must ...be tortured until he invents something out of his head." These lines come from a letter written by a father to his daughter in 1628, as the witch craze raged across Europe. In this episode we cover this horrifying period of history and explore what caused so many executions.

1. Salem Witch Trials: The Devil in the Old World Jun 10, 2020

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"Witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable." - from the Malleus Maleficarum, the 1486 witch manual.

Bodies swing from the gallows in the small town of Salem in New England. People have been executed on charges of witchcraft in America. How did we get to this? The story starts in Old Europe...

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