It's got to hear with another episode of History and Plug podcast at the height of the Witch

Burning craze in Europe. Thousands of people, largely women, were falsely accused of witchcraft.

Many of them were burned, hanged, and executed, typically under religious pretense. But

this phenomenon largely didn't happen in the Middle Ages. In this episode from the archives,

we look at the phenomenon of witch burnings and debunk this bit of common knowledge about

the Middle Ages, that it was really something that happened during the Renaissance, and more

so in the Enlightenment period of the 18th century. Although executions by being burnt in the

state were somewhat common in the Middle Ages, it weren't used on so-called witches,

there were only on heretics and other disobeyers of Catholic teachings. Witch trials,

their accusations of weather manipulation, transforming in animals and child sacrifice,

have no documented occurrence before 1400, and happened more in the 16 and 1700s. So why was

this event that's often linked to the Middle Ages really an event that happened during the Enlightenment?

We answer all these questions in this episode.

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Hi everyone, welcome back to our series on counterintuitive facts about the Middle Ages.

We're going to be looking at two things that probably everyone associates with the Middle Ages

in this episode. That is, which burnings and the plague. And before I get started, I'd like to give

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