A Surprising 1485 Witch Trial with Marion Gibson
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Icy Sedgwick interviews Marion Gibson about the 1485 witch trial of Helena Scheuberin and its historical implications.
In this episode of Fabulous Folklore, I'm chatting to Marion Gibson about Helena Scheuberin and her witchcraft trial in 1485 in Innsbruck, how her clash with Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer led to the Malleus Maleficarum , and how that hateful book led to such widespread disaster across the centuries. Marion Gibson writes accurate, engaging books about witches and magic in history. She’s been interested in witches for over thirty years, since she read the words of women accused of witchcraft in Elizabethan England. Why were they accused of crimes they didn’t commit? And why did they confess? Marion’s books tell the stories of these women and the men accused alongside them, and she explores the wider history of witch trials, folklore, magical and pagan beliefs and things that go bump in the night. Buy Witchland: A Tale of Witch Hunting and War in Seventeenth Century Britain : https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12992/9781398545144 Find Marion online: https://mariongibson.co.uk/ Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at…
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