HeyJaredRoaming Raven Podcast
Step beyond the village path and into the shadows of folklore. This podcast explores the hidden histories of witches, midwives, grave-walkers, and dream guides — women who worked at the thresholds of life, death, and the unseen.
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Helen Duncan & The 1944 Witchcraft Act Trial (opens the original)
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It's 1944. Britain is at war. Allied forces are preparing for D-Day, London is still being bombed, and secrecy can quite literally mean the difference between life and death. And at the Old Bailey, one of Britain's most famous mediums is about to stand trial under a law passed more than two hundred years earlier. Her name is Helen Duncan. She claimed to communicate with the dead. During her séances, spirits apparently spoke, walked around the room and even materialised in front of witnesses. Her
"The 'Witch Hunt' as a Political Metaphor" (opens the original)
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For most of this series, when we've talked about a witch hunt, we've meant exactly that: people accused of witchcraft, pursued, prosecuted and sometimes executed. But today, you don't need a witch to have a witch hunt. We hear the phrase constantly—in politics, journalism and increasingly on social media. Public figures claim they're the victims of witch hunts. Newspapers accuse groups of conducting them. Online, thousands of strangers can descend on one person almost overnight. In fact, we're r
The Legacy: Why Did the Witch Trials End? (opens the original)
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Over the course of this podcast, we've told the stories of people accused of doing impossible things. Causing storms. Killing livestock. Making children ill. Flying through the night. Meeting the Devil... And for centuries, courts across Europe took those accusations seriously. People were questioned. Tortured. Imprisoned. And thousands were executed. Then something changed. Not everywhere at once. Not because everybody suddenly stopped believing in witches. And certainly not because Europe woke
Anna Göldi: Europe's Last Execution (opens the original)
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When we think about the witch trials, we often imagine them belonging to a distant past. We picture the seventeenth century—Matthew Hopkins, Salem, Pendle—and assume that by the Age of Enlightenment, Europe had finally left those dark days behind. But history is rarely that tidy. Today's story takes us to Bavaria in 1775, forty years after Britain passed the Witchcraft Act and declared that witches simply didn't exist. www.roamingraven.co.uk
"Anna Maria Schwegelin: The Last Conviction in Germany" (opens the original)
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What happens when a country suddenly decides witches don't exist? By the early 1700s, something extraordinary was happening. Across Europe, the great witch hunts were coming to an end. Courts were becoming more sceptical. Judges were beginning to question evidence that, only a generation earlier, had been accepted without hesitation. You might think this was the moment governments finally accepted that witches were real people with real beliefs. But that's not what happened. www.roamingraven.co.
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