28: Women of the Witch Hunts

Season #1

Episode 28: Women of the Witch Hunts is a taste of Miriam's new course Spindle & Flame: Women and the Witch Hunts, beginning November 2nd.

This is the second part of a 3-part series on Witches. You'll hear Miriam speak on:

 

  • Creation of the Diabolical Witch 
  • Heinrich Kramer and the Malleus Maleficarum:
  • The Myth of the Midwife-Witch 
  • King James VI and Daemonologie
  • Sexualised Violence in the Witch Hunts
  • The Witch-Hunting Economy
  • Old Women & the Witch Archetype 
  •  Women Accusing Women
  • The five witch wounds


Spindle & Flame begins on November 2nd. Read more about it here.Website: The Academy of Feminine Spirituality.
Instagram: @miriamropschitz
With gratitude to our friends at Earth Echo Sound Collective for providing our beautiful soundtrack.

Below are some of the texts quoted or used as source material in the creation of this episode, with immense thanks to the authors, except Kramer who can rest in piss.

Brian P. Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (4th ed., Routledge, 2016)

Richard Kieckhefer, European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300–1500 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976)

Heinrich Kramer, The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum, trans. Christopher S. Mackay (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Lawrence Normand and Gareth Roberts (eds.), Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI’s Demonology and the North Berwick Witches (University of Exeter Press, 2000). 

Robin Briggs, Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft (2nd ed., Blackwell, 2002)

Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (Yale University Press, 2004)

Thomas Potts, The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1613). 

Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584)

David Harley “Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-Witch” (Social History of Medicine, 1990)