034 - The Witchfinder General

The History of Witchcraft by Samuel Hume

Jul 22, 201835:02Society & Culture

This episode primarily makes use of the following texts: - Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005) - Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The...

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