King James and the Devil's Work

Tudors Dynasty

RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson

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4.4 • 794 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Today, I’m joined by the brilliant Dr. Steven Veerapen to unravel how the fear and condemnation of witchcraft evolved from the reign of Henry VIII to that of King James. Trust me—this isn’t your typical dry history lecture. Steven brings it to life in a way that’s both eye-opening and fascinating. If you’re thinking “ugh, witch trials—boring,” think again. You won’t want to miss this one!

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0:33.9	hello and welcome back to tutors dynasty and beyond i'm your host rebecca larson and today i'm very pleased to welcome back to Tudor's Dynasty and Beyond. I'm your host, Rebecca Larson.
0:38.7	And today I'm very pleased to welcome back to the show again, Dr. Stephen Viripin.
0:43.5	Welcome back, Stephen.
0:45.2	Hi, Rebecca.
0:46.0	Thank you very much for having me again.
0:48.7	I love having you on the show because you have such a depth of knowledge on things that we don't normally
0:55.9	cover here on Tudor's Dynasty. And you really are part of that and beyond that I've recently
1:03.4	added for the marketing of the show. And today, we're talking about witchcraft, and in particular probably witchcraft under the reign of James I first or James the Sixth of Scotland.
1:16.6	But to get started, I would really love to talk about witchcraft during the reign of Henry the 8th.
1:25.2	Was there anything going on during the reign of Henry the 8th when it came
1:29.4	to witchcraft? Because I feel like I'd never hear anything about it. Yeah, there were no great
1:34.7	witch panics or anything like that. When we think of witchcraft panics and mass trials and everything,
1:40.3	we kind of think of the Puritans. We think of Salem. We think of the outbreaks under King James.
1:46.5	We don't really think of Henry. And it seems to be that Henry didn't have a huge interest in
1:52.3	witches and witchcraft. The whole idea of witches and witchcraft went back hundreds of years.
1:57.1	The Catholic Church had occasionally had an interest in it, and which half seems to be one of
2:02.1	those things that people accepted, or at least the majority accepted as existing, but there was
2:09.7	some kind of debate, particularly academic debate, about how serious it was, how much people
2:15.6	that were thought of as being witches which is, were just deluding
2:17.7	themselves or were crazy and all this sort of stuff. So there were some really serious Catholic
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