View and play every informative The Thing About Witch Hunts podcast episode for free. Learn about witch trials, witch hunts, and contemporary witchcraft accusation-related violence. For centuries, people have tracked down and killed persons suspected of causing harm through witchcraft. In the past, this was often a well-organized judicial process. These days, harmful practices related to accusations of witchcraft and ritual attacks are primarily mob violence and murder. However, a few nations do still execute persons accused of witchcraft, all of whom are innocent, as are the victims of the violence. We explore all these subjects and more on this podcast.
The Thing About Witch Hunt podcast episodes cover everything from ancient witch trials to modern-day witch-hunts. Along the way, we discuss ancient belief in witches and the devil, demonological works like the Malleus Maleficarum and King James VI/I’s Daemonologie, witch trials in Europe and European colonies, reverse witch trials, metaphorical witch hunts, and real-life violence stemming from accusations of harmful witchcraft.
You will find many The Thing About Witch Hunts podcast episodes on the Connecticut Witch Trials, the Massachusetts Witch Trials, and the Salem Witch Trials. You will also find many episodes on witchcraft belief and the consequences when people use that belief as an excuse to do harm to others.
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