The History of Witchcraft

The History of Witchcraft

By Samuel Hume

Society & CultureEducationHistory

What's The History of Witchcraft about?

Witches didn't exist, and yet thousands of people were executed for the crime of witchcraft. Why? The belief in magic and witchcraft has existed in every recorded human culture; this podcast looks at how people explained the inexplicable, turned random acts of nature into conscious acts of mortal or supernatural beings, and how desperate communities took revenge against the suspected perpetrators.


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