Hi Benchies, we hope you're having a great cancer season and our girl

bossing through this summer. Speaking of girl bossing, we just did a pretty

killer Patreon episode. Drunk Herstery is back, but to celebrate reaching

666 patrons, it is drunk witch-story, and Julian and I both cover an iconic

witch from history. It was really great. We had a live studio audience and so

far if you're already on our Patreon, you know, and are probably loving the

episodes we've gotten lots of good feedback. So if you want to hear that

episode and our many other bonus episodes, reading lists, all of that jazz at

that will be at patreon.com slash bench topia. Once again, that is patreon.com slash

bench topia. Enjoy this teaser. Love you. And police still have no idea about

her plot to kill Louis XIV, or about like the black masses. I forgot to choose

wilding out of that degree. I know she really was. Okay, so despite the lack of

evidence against her. In February of 1980, Catherine was tried and convicted of

witchcraft. And she was sentenced to be burned at the stake. They always did

the witches. It's like, can you come up with something else? They're like, can you

come up with something else? Okay, so she was investigated a final time right

before execution. Jiles Corey's press to death by stones. Dude, we're getting

there. We're getting there. Do you remember Jiles Corey? Yeah, suitable. Yes,

because press to death by stones. Okay, so a similar thing happened to Catherine

because she was investigated a final time before execution. And she was put

under torture by having her legs crushed. So they crushed her legs and like,

tell us everything. With stones? Yes, with stones. But strangely, and listen to

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