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THE WITCH WHO WASN'T: JANE WENHAM - 1712

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The trial of Jane Wenham in 1712, is mostly infamous as "the last witchcraft trial in England". 

But, that's not the only reason why this case should be infamous.

Also:

Police Blotter & Court News - June 1, 1863.

HISTORICAL REFERENCES:

The Witch Who Wasn't: Jane Wenham - 1712.

Guskin, Phyllis J., The Context of Witchcraft: The Case of Jane Wenham (1712),

Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 15, No. 1 (Autumn, 1981), at pp. 48-71 (mistakenly claiming that the Wenham case was the last witchcraft trial in England).

Beadle, Jeremy, The Last Witchcraft Trial in England, The People’s Almanac #2 (1978), at p. 26.  

Davies, Owen, Wenham, Jane, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), online ed., September 2013

Bostridge, Ian, Witchcraft and its Transformations (1997).

Miesel, Sandra, Who Burned the Witches?, Crisis Magazine (October 2001; reprinted June 2012) (debunking exaggerations and untruths regarding persecution of witches). 

Jane Wenham (alleged witch), Wikipedia (2019)

Police Blotter & Court News.

Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 1, 1863.

GUEST VOICES:

The Witch Who Wasn't: Jane Wenham - 1712.

Guest Narrator - Lucy Sadler - free lance voice artist.

Anne Thorne - Bunny - co host of Talk Spooky To Me podcast.

Judge (Wenham case) - Jerry Kokich of New Old Time Radio Dramas

Neighbor / Employer - Kieron Byrne - free lance voice artist.

Police Blotter & Court News. 

Guest Narrator - Glorie Ward - free lance voice artist.

Police Blotter Intro Title Voice - Nina Innstead the host of the Already Gone podcast.

Judge / Call to Order - John Doe, free-lance actor and voice performer.

Judge / Adjournment voice - Cambo Ford - host of True Crime Island podcast.

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Exit Aphorism (voice) – Kit Caren of the Whispered True Stories podcast.

Host Intro – Nina Innsted, the host of the Already Gone podcast.

Exit Aphorism - Source: Chesterton, G.K., Eugenics and Other Evils (book, 1922), reprinted in The G.K. Chesterton Collection (book, 1987), at Chapter VI - The Unanswered Challenge.

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