England’s last witches
HistoryExtra podcast
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Introduction
This week's history extra is about the so called bidderford witches. Temperance lloyd, susanna edwards and mary trembles were the last women to be executed for witchcraft in england. A tragic story bound up in the superstition and politics of the late seventeenth century. We also look at how circumstance and ill fortune led them to the gallows.
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