The Thing About Witch Hunts

Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack

The Thing About Witch Hunts explores historical witch trials and modern witchcraft persecution worldwide. Hosted by Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack, each episode investigates the real history behind witch hunts — from the Salem Witch Trials to the deadly witchcraft accusations still happening worldwide today. Essential listening for history lovers, true crime fans, and human rights advocates. #witchhunts #witchcraft #SalemWitchTrials #history #truecrime #humanrights #witchtrial #historypodcast #persecution #folklore #colonialhistory #advocacy

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The Thing About Witch Hunts

Episodes (258)

Wed Apr 22nd Devil, Witchcraft and English Demonology with Prof. Darren Oldridge
Wed Apr 15th The Conjuring Explained: The Real Bathsheba Sherman and Salem Witch Trials Victim Mary Esty
Wed Apr 8th Cunning Folk at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center: Witchcraft and Occult Knowledge

The Thing About Witch Hunts

Apr 22, 2026
51½ minutes
47 MB

What did the scholars who studied witchcraft most seriously actually believe? And why did their conclusions so often cut against prosecution? Professor Darren Oldridge of the University of Worcester joins Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack to examine the intellectual world that produced English demonology and shaped witch trials on both sides of the Atlantic. In this episode: Why the devil mattered far more than witches to learned English Protestants The demonological writers whose work traveled directly to colonial New England What Reginald Scott and George Gifford argued, and why...

The Thing About Witch Hunts

Devil, Witchcraft and English Demonology with Prof. Darren Oldridge

Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack

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