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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson. And I'm Holly Fry.

We have done several episodes about witch trials that took place in Europe and North America during the early modern period, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries.

So that includes our episodes on the Varda witch trials of Norway in 1621,

Matthew Hopkins, who framed himself as Witchfinder General in East Anglia in the 1640s,

and the trial of Goody Garlic on Long Island in 1657.

There are some really old episodes by prior hosts on the infamous Salem witch trials that started in 1692 as well.

And, of course, there is our very recent episode on Alice Kittler,

involving the first person to be burned at the stake for witchcraft in Ireland in 1324.

So that was really centuries before these kinds of trials

really peaked.

We also have a past episode

about someone who was tried

for both witchcraft

and lycanthropy.

That was Gilles Garnier,

known as the Werewolf of Dull,

who was convicted in 1573.

We are talking about another convicted werewolf today.

That is Peter Stubb or Peter Stump, also known as the Werewolf of Bedburg.

And these two, Peter Stubb and Gilles Garnier, they were not isolated cases.

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