26. Witches

“Some of the most famous words ever written by Shakespeare. And they're spoken, of course, by one of the witches in Macbeth.”

“I've got a lot of dark arts stuff in my house because my son is massively into J.K. Rowling.”

“the author of a series of award-winning books on early modern history, including most recently The Voices of Nîmes about women, sex and marriage in Reformation Languedoc.”

“she's also the author, more germainly for our purposes, of the recently published Ladybird Book of Witchcraft.”

“the famous book Malleus Maleficarum, The Hammer of the Witches, which was written by a German Dominican monk called Heinrich Kramer.”

“James the sixth of Scotland had written a book called demonology in 1597 in which he had given people instruction on how to find witches.”

“The speaker mentions writing a forward for a book called 'A History of Magic Witchcraft' which discusses the history of magic and witchcraft across the world throughout time.”