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Niamh Is back in Europe this episode with a scene-setting of how we went from folk magic and healing to mass execution. We focus on Scotland, England, Ireland and Germany. Lots of justified slamming of weak murderous men and a little tour of the criminal justice system.

Additional sounds by Pixabay, voice acting from Eleven Labs.

Sources:

• The history of witches in Britain (historic-uk.com)
• The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft (ed.ac.uk)
• England’s Witch Trials Were Lawful | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Possessed By the Devil: The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches - Andrew Sneddon
• Crimes without Criminals: Witchcraft and Its Control in Renaissance Europe Elliott P. Currie, Law & Society Review Vol. 3, No. 1 (Aug., 1968), pp. 7-32 (26 pages)
• The Flying Phallus and the Laughing Inquisitor: Penis Theft in the "Malleus Maleficarum" Moira Smith
• “Wicked Practises and Sorcerye”: Cunning Folk, Witch Trials, and the Tragedy of Joan Flower and Her Daughters - DIG (digpodcast.org)
• Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the ...By Michael D. Bailey
• Witchcraft and Evidence in Early Modern England on JSTOR
• England’s Witch Trials Were Lawful | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Halloween Special - The Lancashire Witches (storiesofbritain.com)
• The Flying Phallus and the Laughing Inquisitor: Penis Theft in the "Malleus Maleficarum" on JSTOR
• The Pursuit of Reality: Recent Research into the History of Witchcraft on JSTOR
• Who Were the Witches? The Social Roles of the Accused in the European Witch Trials -Richard A. Horsley
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