The Slaughter

we'll be discussing topics that some listeners may find disturbing.

But people have been intrigued by murder for hundreds of years,

and it's not as brutal as a public hanging.

Creepy like a Sunday morning. I've picked a sort of Halloweeny one this week, but I didn't mean to.

I've been meaning to do this story for absolutely ages partly because I joined a Facebook group about

this and down with the kids and then I watched last night went around my mom's

house and we watched true horror have you heard

of it channel 4 no it's I think it's a fake documentary that's a horror for like a horror story where they have reenactments and it was

fucking scary but clearly incredibly fake as well.

So this made me think of this even though they're not really

related but it was a creepy house in the country which is where this is set. So this is

the story of the

story of the Pendle-Hill witches, depending who you were talking to, but it is the most famous witch trial in British history.

I thought it was a bit different.

So, a bit of background.

James the first was on the throne, you'll know a lot more about this than me because you teach primary history.

First of England, 6 of Scotland. Yeah, so he'd come down from Scotland and he was Protestant and he was really worried about the Catholic threat and the recently there'd been obviously the gun powder plot which was foiled and but he was really nervous about that and he...

Well his mom had been beheaded.

Yeah, he wasn't...

Like times are it hard.

Yeah.

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