HistoryExtra Academy history of witchcraft course

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HistoryExtra Academy video lecture: witch trials, with Professor Marion Gibson . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An 1866 painting imagines a suspected ‘witch’ being led away from a braying mob during the 17th century (Photo by WAVE: The Museums, Galleries and Archives of Wolverhampton/Getty Images)

Rough injustice: what really happened at a witch trial? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

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Elizabethan witchcraft: a trial that divided a community . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A 20th-century image depicts a ‘witch’ being burned alive in Munich. In reality, most suspects had already been killed before being set alight (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

8 popular misconceptions about the history of witchcraft in Europe . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Suspected witch Mary Sutton is “swum” in a Bedfordshire millpond in 1612, as shown in a contemporary illustration. (Picture by Getty Images)

Witchfinding: what drove the hunters’ cruel crusade and what methods did they use? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A scene from the Salem witch trials, depicted in a 19th-century lithograph. How two girls’ accusations of witchcraft escalated into one of the darkest episodes in early American history has long puzzled historians. (Image by Alamy)

When the devil stalked Salem: the story of the Salem witch trials

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The dark side: A man summons demons in a 14th-century English encyclopaedia.

From healing spells to conjuring demons: the medieval obsession with magic . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of an unknown woman, c1490–95. She sports a necklace in a painting from c1485. Coral jewellery was widely believed to ward off evil spirits. (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval magic at work: 7 spells and charms our ancestors used