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Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong — Witchcraft and the Great Witch-Hunt, 1484-1700
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Witchcraft and the Great Witch-Hunt, 1484-1700

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

We trace the roots of the idea of witchcraft in the "cunning folk" of the Middle Ages. We consider how the church and state began to fuel fear of witchcraft and persecute witches in the tens of thousands during the age of the Renaissance and the Reformation. We consider theories of why witch-hunting arose so…

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