Schedules have been crazy, and someone (Destiny) decided to get sick. But she sucked it up for a night and pulled through for us. So, Kudos to her.

On this episode, we discuss the basis of the views that sparked the witch hunt hysteria throughout the medieval and early modern period. We get into some of the religious zealotry that drove all that nonsense. We also touch on the Malleus Maleficarum written by Heinrich Kramer, a Catholic clergyman, published in 1496; and Daemonologie, written by King James the Sixth of Scotland/the First of England, and published in 1597 - 14 years before he published "his" "translation" of the Bible. Both books (Malleus Maleficarum and Daemonologie) were viewed as definitive works on the nature of witches, why they're so evil, and what to do about them. It's some wild stuff, and I highly recommend reading both books, as tough as they can be to get through. At some point, we'll do deep dives into various witch trials throughout Europe and the US, for which this episode is intended to be somewhat of a foundation.

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You can also read the Malleus Maleficarum and Daemonologie in the Internet Archive at www.archive.org, which is an online repository of over 4 million books. You can create a free account and have access to all of them. Our music is from Monument Studios, which is not free but also isn't that expensive and is well worth the money. Terry comes to us from Destiny's phone. I don't know what new-fangled thing she uses - I'm fairly useless with that kind of stuff. It's probably some kind of witchcraft. Ask her.

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