Brooms and Witchcraft, Part 1: A Killer in the Rye?
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Most people are familiar with the stereotypical image of a witch: a haggard, often older individual with a peaked hat, black robes, a demonic familiar and, oddly enough, a penchant for cruising around on broomsticks. But where did that last, weirdly specific, trope of flying on a broomstick actually come from? Join the guys as they explore the bizarre (and racy) theories behind the story in part one of this two-part episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard. |
| 0:07.0 | I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister. |
| 0:11.0 | In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island. |
| 0:16.0 | A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger. |
| 0:23.0 | Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Radiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to the show, Radiculous Historians. |
| 0:59.0 | As always, thank you so much for tuning in. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm Ben, but quick disclaimer at the top before you are opening thing. |
| 1:07.0 | This episode is a little racy, isn't it, Noel? |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah, not racist, mind you. |
| 1:14.0 | No, racism. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, salacious. |
| 1:16.0 | Perhaps not for the littles. |
| 1:18.0 | You ever heard kids refer to you as the littles? |
| 1:20.0 | I think that's really cute. |
| 1:22.0 | I have. I thought there was a children's book called The littles, but there was. |
| 1:25.0 | Are they like the borrowers? |
| 1:26.0 | Because I know they're maybe sort of like small rodents. |
| 1:29.0 | No, no, it'll look like rodents with the size of like mice and they live in the walls. |
| 1:32.0 | That might be the borrowers. |
| 1:34.0 | The littles is very similar to that. |
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