Hello, friend, and welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast network,

and the original Tudor podcast celebrating 15 years of

telling Tudor stories this year. I'm your host Heather and I'm a storyteller who makes

history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place

in the universe and being much more in touch with our own humanity.

So today we are talking about witchcraft. It is still Women's History Month, and we are going

to talk about the accusations that I'm sure many, many women lived in fear of, and that was to be accused of being a witch.

First, though, a big thank you to all of the patrons and members of this podcast, which helped to keep it independent.

Members get all kinds of perks like extra episodes, and depending on what level you're at, extra mini courses.

This month, the course is Henry the Eighth, the Golden Prince.

So it's going to be about an hour long, an audio course on the very early years of Henry

the Eighth's reign when he was still considered to be the golden prince before he started,

you know, killing everybody. So members who are at the appropriate level, watch out for the

notifications on that in the next week or so. And if you would like to join or become a patron,

depending on where you're watching this or listening, if you're just listening to the podcast, you can join on Patreon, patreon.com slash Englandcast. And you can choose the level and the perks, everything like that. If you're listening to this on YouTube, you can just click join this channel. And again, you'll have the choice of the perks and the levels and that is that so again patreon.com

slash englandcast or click join this channel also i only have seven tickets left to tudercon so if you

want to come to tudercon september 20th to 22nd hcroft hall richmond virginia go to englandcast.com

slash tudercon and final announcement before we get into it. Some of you

have heard me talk about the Tudor Mythbusting Challenge that is happening next week, the week of the 25th.

It's a five-day deep dive into the myths around the Tudors. So we're going to dig into the myths that the tutors themselves

created, as well as other things that have popped up throughout the years and why we still

believe them. For example, that Ambulin had six fingers, which is something that is still

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