While the term 'witch' nowadays might be fun and magical, that wasn't the case until the 19th century. Join your Sirens on a chronological deep dive viewing the history of witches, and those who suffered greatly because of it.

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Music by Donald Guzzi

Research Material:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43189/song-of-the-witches-double-double-toil-and-trouble

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2028&version=NET

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/mesopotamian-magic-in-the-first-millennium-bc

https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Hekate.html

https://www.artsy.net/article/alina-cohen-artists-enchanted-witchcraft-centuries

https://www.history.com/articles/witch-hat-costume-origins

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hypatia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Kyteler#:~:text=Dame%20Alice%20Kyteler%20(/%CB%88k,condemned%20for%20witchcraft%20in%20Ireland.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Joan-of-Arc

https://sacred-texts.com/pag/mm/index.htm

https://www.history.com/articles/history-of-witches

https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/the-trial-of-agnes-waterhouse-witchcraft-in-essex-1566/