It’s spooky season, witches!  This week, Liz and Dakota look at the history of European Witches, starting with where they came from, to why the Church was obsessed with them, to the identification of a witch, to nocturnal emissions.  Come with us on a journey to discover what thing wicked this way comes. 

Episode Notes

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2022%3A18&version=KJV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch

https://www.historyextra.com/period/tudor/history-witches-facts-burned-hanged/

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/journey-into-witchcraft-beliefs/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum

https://qz.com/1183992/why-europe-was-overrun-by-witch-hunts-in-early-modern-history/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/witchcraft/The-witch-hunts

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory/chapter/the-witch-trials/

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This week, in honour of The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, Liz and Dakota take a look into the history of residential schools. 

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Episode Notes
https://www.ualberta.ca/admissions-programs/online-courses/indigenous-canada/index.html

https://globalnews.ca/news/8074453/indigenous-residential-schools-canada-graves-map/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/no-guarantees-of-papal-apology-for-residential-schools-after-vatican-trip-afn-1.5492132#:~:text=The%20Anglican%2C%20Presbyterian%20and%20United,Heather%20Butts%20has%20more.&text=The%20Pope%20met%20with%20two,their%20role%20in%20residential%20schools.

https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-peoples-canada-and-indian-residential-schools/historical-background/

https://trauma-informed.ca/trauma-and-first-nations-people/residential-schools/

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools

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This week, Liz and Dakota tackle the history of the Black Death.  Looking first at how it spread across Europe, they examine the disease, cures, and responses to the turmoil that existed in medieval peasants' lives.   Dakota also talks about testicles. 

Episode Notes

https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html

https://www.britannica.com/topic/flagellants

https://www.history.com/news/quarantine-black-death-medieval

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts

https://www.history.com/news/black-death-timeline

https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/black-death

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This week, we find out what happens when Dakota doesn't do his homework.  Instead of doing research, Dakota gets Liz to play Trivial Pursuit with him.  Does it translate to good content?  You tell us. 

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On this week’s very special episode, Liz tells Dakota a story of World War II trickery and deception.  Retelling the Allied invasion of Sardinia, no wait, was it Sicily?  We’re not sure, but Liz explains how the British were able to also confuse the Germans into defending a territory that wasn’t really under attack.  

Episode Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat#German_reaction;_outcome

https://www.history.com/news/what-was-operation-mincemeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBaNrTMUQbM

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Glyndwr_Michael

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This week, Liz predicts the end of times, and explains to Dakota what that looks like in terms of the Christian Bible and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as talked about in the Book of Revelation.  Listen to them talk about the symbolism, how they’ve been interpreted, and what seals have to do with it all. 

Episode Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/millenarianism#:~:text=In%20Christian%20theology%2C%20millenarianism%20refers,an%20end%20to%20history%20altogether.

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse

https://academic.mu.edu/meissnerd/4horses.htm

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On this week's very special episode of The Reluctant Historian, Liz retells the Shakespearean tragedy, Macbeth.  If you've ever wondered just what this whole story is all about, in real English and a bunch of swearing, make sure to give this episode a listen.  

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This week, Liz and Dakota look at an interesting epidemic from history, you know, the one where the people of Strasbourg just couldn’t stop dancing?  Never heard of it?  Well stay tuned to hear all about dancing, curses, possession, and how the only cure for dancing, is, well, more dancing. 

Episode Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitus

https://grimmagazine.com/the-unexplained/2017/dancing-plague-of-1518/

https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161028-the-town-the-nearly-danced-itself-to-death

https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-summer-1518-strasbourg

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On this week’s episode, Liz and Dakota take a look back at a unique, and maybe controversial, cure for Tuberculosis.  In the course of doing so, they discuss old timey beliefs and superstitions and how to get rid of those pesky vampires.

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Episode Notes

https://www.cdc.gov/tb/worldtbday/history.htm

https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2021/07/16/the-curious-case-of-mercy-brown-and-the-new-england-vampire-panic/

https://www.history.com/news/the-last-american-vampire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Brown_vampire_incident

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002333.htm#:~:text=A%20tubercle%20is%20a%20small,a%20tuberculosis%20(TB)%20infection.

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This week, Liz and Dakota take a look back at one of the worst medical disasters in history, the prescribing of the drug thalidomide to pregnant mothers, and the effects this had on the babies they delivered.

Episode Notes

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/thalidomide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/thalidomide-tragedy-lessons-drug-safety-and-regulation

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