Introducing House of the Lion: A Blood Soaked Throne
Susan Morrison and Len Pennie explore what it takes to be King in medieval Scotland, where ruthlessness and brutality where qualities at the...
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Witch Hunt
The history of Scotland’s witch hunts revealed with Susan Morrison.
Episodes
8 episodesSatan's Last Hurrah! Demonic possession and the end of the hunt
The Devil was loose in Scotland possessing frightened youngsters - or was he? Susan Morrison and Louise Yeoman find what our historians thin...
Peak Witch Hunt
Scotland carried out five times more executions per capita for witchcraft than the European average but how did people come to believe in su...
Quarrels, Women and Bad Magic
Curses and quarrels abound as Susan Morrison and Louise Yeoman investigate Scotland's war on witches and witchcraft with the help of a team...
Friends of the Fairies
The witchcraft trials were one of the biggest injustices in Scotland’s history, a massive miscarriage of justice, but how did people come to...
Abuses of Justice
Digging deeper into Scotland's war on witches and witchcraft with Susan Morrison, Louise Yeoman talking to a team of top historians.
The King and the Witches' Sabbath
Introducing Scotland's war on witches and witchcraft with Susan Morrison and Louise Yeoman talking to a team of top historians about the rol...
Welcome to Witch Hunt
From the 16th to the early 18th centuries, witch hunts took place in Scotland. In this podcast series Susan Morrison, along with Dr Louise Y...