Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.1 of 3)
Unexplained
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4.4 • 9.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
To some, folk beliefs are little more than the harmless superstitions of a bygone age.
For others, such beliefs and practices are something to be deeply feared as nothing less than the work of the Devil…
Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Get ready, true crime fans. |
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| 0:56.7 | There was a time not so long ago when the practices we know today as witchcraft and magic |
| 1:14.9 | were inseparable from the disciplines of science and medicine. In the pre-enlightenment era, |
| 1:20.9 | before Joseph Lister's germ theory and Henry Gray's anatomical textbook, treatment for diseases were based on the ancient Greek |
| 1:29.2 | belief that the human body was composed of four distinct fluids, or humans as they were known. |
| 1:36.3 | Flem, yellow bile, black bile, and blood. Illnesses were categorized based on whichever one of these so-called humans was |
| 1:47.1 | thought to be off-balance and managed in ways that might seem rudimentary, even mystic, to us now. |
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