Witches - Truth, Trials and Terrors Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:47:48 +0000 https://witches.buzzsprout.com en-gb © 2026 Witches - Truth, Trials and Terrors yes 248b5698-1afb-546f-93ed-ddcc5ae0ee1b jon@jonbriggs.com Jon Briggs episodic false With a selection of the world's foremost academic experts on witches and witchcraft, we separate the history from the hysteria and discover just what a witch was - and why were they accused and often put to death? 

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Jon Briggs jon@jonbriggs.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/fltev2qfbzehgkhyjfp7cqwv42xr?.jpg Witches - Truth, Trials and Terrors https://witches.buzzsprout.com Jon Briggs 1. A World Before Reason 1. A World Before Reason Imagine living in a world where every illness, every storm and every stroke of bad luck had a supernatural cause.

Long before Europe's witch hunts began, people believed the world was filled with unseen forces capable of helping... or harming them.

In Episode One of Witches: Truth, Trials and Terrors, broadcaster Jon Briggs, historians and witchcraft specialists Robin Briggs and Professor Alison Rowlands uncover the world in which our ancestors were steeped, a world that made belief in witches seem perfectly rational. 

Before people believed in witches, they believed in a world where almost nothing happened by accident. A World Before Reason. 

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]]> Imagine living in a world where every illness, every storm and every stroke of bad luck had a supernatural cause.

Long before Europe's witch hunts began, people believed the world was filled with unseen forces capable of helping... or harming them.

In Episode One of Witches: Truth, Trials and Terrors, broadcaster Jon Briggs, historians and witchcraft specialists Robin Briggs and Professor Alison Rowlands uncover the world in which our ancestors were steeped, a world that made belief in witches seem perfectly rational. 

Before people believed in witches, they believed in a world where almost nothing happened by accident. A World Before Reason. 

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]]> Jon Briggs Buzzsprout-19441031 Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 2545 #Witches, #HistoryPodcast, #History, #Witchcraft, #DarkHistory, #EuropeanHistory, #Folklore, #Superstition, #Magic, #TheDevil, #HiddenHistory, #HistoryNerd, #AncientBeliefs,#Salem 1 1 full false Professor Alison Rowlands Robin Briggs Jon Briggs