About the Show
The belief in magic and witchcraft has existed in every recorded human culture; a way to
explain the inexplicable, to turn random acts of nature into conscious acts of mortal or
supernatural beings, and to allow desperate communities to take revenge against the
suspected perpetrators. This podcast attempts to understand the cultural motivations behind
these beliefs, as well as the actions taken against witches.
While this might sound like a particularly morbid subject, I aim to present it in an
entertaining, but informative, way. Of course, there are cases of genuine tragedy in this
history of witchcraft, but with a gap of several hundred years, it’s ok for us to find humour in
the image of, for example, an Anglo-Saxon witch attempting to ward off the Norman
invasion of England by exposing her buttocks.
It didn’t work.
