England’s last witches
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The Last Witch Trials in Scotland
In the popular mind, certainly for many of your listeners, the idea of witchcraft is rooted in the mediaeval period. Witchcraft has all these clichos around it, that accusations came from below and were made by uneducated people who didn't know any better. The sad truth when we look at the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the times of the great hunts, are that very often,. these hunts were driven by alits, people at the upper end of iety - educated rather than the uneducated. And often the urban rather than the rural. This is the period of the royal society, the time of the restoration. If we just think for a minute about the marvell
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