Continuing our series on witchcraft by exploring the transformation which took the idea of the 'witch', a magical practitioner with varying cultural contexts and qualities, and turned it into an archetype of a person capable of being hunted...

Where the Witch Trials inevitable, or part of a process by which a demographic is intentionally marginalised and demonised? Let's find out...

Next week we will be exploring the trials themselves in more detail, so we hope you'll stick around for that.