Ep. 47 : Witch Hunters - The Men Behind the Madness
We’re obviously pro-witch on Easy Bake Coven, but the same can’t be said of men in the 15th century. A woman who thought for herself was a threat to the crown, the household and even penises of men everywhere. You read that right! Men feared a witch could take away his member and hide it in a box. To mitigate such travesty, men took matters into their own hands and burned some 50,000 people at the stake. Tonight we’ll unveil the monstrous witch hunters of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries and dig in to the doctrines that ruled them. We’ll laugh at the ridiculous text that is the Malleus Maleficarum, explore King James I’s Daemonologie and cringe at how small minded and creative people were back in the day. From the witch trials of Pendle Hill to the Trier Witch Trials of Germany, we’ll uncover all the horrors of Europe’s gruesome history. Halee spices things up with some brown butter toffee cookies, and we all enjoy a little banter about our favorite vampire/werewolf duo. Grab hold of your broomsticks, witches! We’re in for a ride. Happy Haunting!
The Hunters
The Hunted
Literature
Sources
The ‘Hammer of Witches’: An Earthquake in the Early Witch Craze – The Historian
https://listverse.com/2015/10/07/10-infamous-witch-hunters-from-history/
The Malleus Maleficarum Quotes by Heinrich Kramer
Elisabeth Plainacher - Wikipedia
Burned Alive - Worst Ways to Die
The life of Matthew Hopkins, the opportunistic 'Witchfinder General' | Sky HISTORY TV Channel
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Witch Scene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sébastien_Michaëlis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Rémy
The witch trial that made legal history - BBC News
King James VI and I’s Demonology, 1597 | The British Library