Episode 034: Witches and Witchcraft

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In keeping with the Halloween ghouley scary theme, Brittany from History, Bitches and I teamed up again to create a second Halloween themed episode on Witches and Witchcraft. A history of witchcraft scares and trials, as well as profiling some of the earliest witchcraft trials. To learn more go to http://www.englandcast.com. My Tudor Minute (3x/week) is on youtube - so you can subscribe.http://www.youtube.com/hteysko Follow my blog at http://www.kuratory.com! It's totally interesting :) Like the Renaissance English History Podcast on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/englandcast Thanks so much for listening and I hope you have a safe and happy, and not toooo scary, Halloween. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Heather, and I want to remind you about our very special tours to the UK.
0:05.0	In 2017, we'll be doing tours focusing on the Even Song experience.
0:10.0	The Even Song service comes from Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer from the mid-16th century.
0:15.0	It's been dubbed the Atheist's Favorite Service because it requires so little and it gives so much. It's simply
0:23.1	divine choral music sung in some of the most historic chapels, abbeys and cathedrals in England.
0:29.2	We'll be spending 10 days visiting places like Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds,
0:36.2	Winchester and Windsor with walking tours, free time to explore,
0:40.3	and then gathering back each afternoon for the Evensong Service if you choose to attend.
0:45.3	It will be 10 days of beautiful countryside, historic cities and villages, and so, so much music. I invite you to go to Englandcast.com
0:56.6	slash tours for full itinerary and pricing information. Again, Englandcast, E-N-G-L-A-N-D, C-A-S-D,
1:05.5	Englandcast.com slash tours. Thanks so much, and now to the show. Hello and welcome to a very special
1:13.9	ghoulish, spooky edition of the Renaissance English History Podcast. I'm your host, Heather Tesco.
1:21.3	And for the second time this week, this is an episode jointly produced with me and Brittany at History Bitches. Our first
1:31.2	episode was on Ghosts, and this one is on another Halloween theme, Witches and Witchcraft. So I really
1:40.1	hope you enjoy the show. It's mostly a conversation where we share the research that we did on witches and witchcraft.
1:47.0	And just a couple of reminders. First, this podcast is brought to you by Big World Tours.
1:54.0	So I have to give a plug for my company that I'm starting in partnership with a good friend of mine.
1:58.0	We're designing tours that allow you to travel and dive into your passions and interests through travel.
2:05.6	So our first tour is England at the end of April 2016 for nine days.
2:09.6	We're calling it cathedrals and choirs, and we're focusing on the musical history of the English choral tradition,
2:14.6	visiting and hearing music in places like King's College,
2:17.9	Cambridge, Bath, and Winchester. It's going to be an amazing trip, and I really hope you will
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