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ShortHand: Big Witch Special Part 2 - Hunting Witches in Britain

29 min
AboutHistory

In Part 2 of our special spooky series on all things witchy, we take a look at how the hag-hunting insanity spread to the British Isles: thanks to a paranoid new king and a 19-year-old, self-styled Witchfinder General.
Plus: what really goes down at a witches’ sabbath, and why did women make up 90% of the thousands killed?
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