BUZZING· 77%45m·2026-07-02·HistoryThe Witch Men of Iceland
When we think of the great witch trials of history, we usually picture innocent women accused of impossible crimes... but that wasn't always the case. In the frozen, windswept landscapes of 17th-century Iceland, a wave of witch trials led to the persecution and execution of men accused of practising dark magic. Why…
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“We NEED Kate and Eleanor Janega on the same episode PLEASE!!!”
“Iceland has the highest number of published novelists per capita (by a significant margin) to this day, which i like to think is a direct result of those long dark winter nights of story-telling and folklore”
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