Episode 169: Blood Money (ad-free) (Patreon)

We’ve all been told to beware things that seem too good to be true, and for good reason. But beyond the world of hucksters and frauds, one special group of people fooled an entire culture, at the cost of hundreds of lives.

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Further Reading

1. Burton, Dan, and David Grandy. Magic, Mystery, and Science: the Occult in Western Civilization. Indiana University Press, 2004.
2. Carlton, Charles (1995), Charles I: The Personal Monarch, Great Britain: Routledge.
3. “Christian Caddell: Scotland's Female Witch-Pricker.” Spooky Scotland, 8 Aug. 2019, spookyscotland.net/christian-caddell.
4. Goodare, J., "Witch-hunts", in M. Lynch, ed., The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
5. Henderson, Tony. “The Newcastle Witch Trials of 1650 Which Saw 15 Executed on Town Moor.” Nechronicle, 17 Nov. 2015, www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/newcastle-witch-trials-1650-saw-10455524.
6. Henderson, Tony. “The Newcastle Witch Trials of 1650 Which Saw 15 Executed on Town Moor.” Nechronicle, 17 Nov. 2015, www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/newcastle-witch-trials-1650-saw-10455524.
7. Jacobs, Frank. “​Find over 3,000 Witches on This Map of Scotland.” Big Think, Big Think, 16 Mar. 2020, bigthink.com/strange-maps/witch-map-of-scotland.
8. John Gaule, 1646, ‘Select cases of conscience touching witches and witchcraft’.
9. “John Kincaid, Scottish Witch-Finder - KINCAID.” Rootsweb.Com, 30 Sept. 2004, lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/kincaid.rootsweb.com/thread/7008706.
10. “John Kincaid, Witch-Finder.” Engole, 12 Aug. 2018, engole.info/john-kincaid-witch-finder/#zp-ID-4565-4928910-3D6B4U32.
11. Kennedy, D. E. (2000), The English Revolution, 1642–1649 (London: Macmillan).
12. Lenora. “King Coal and the Witch-Pricker: the Newcastle Witch Trials of 1649/50.” The Haunted Palace, 5 Feb. 2017, hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/king-coal-and-the-witch-pricker-the-newcastle-witch-trials-of-164950.
13. Levack, Brian P. “The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661-1662.” Journal of British Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, 1980, pp. 90–108.
14. Levack, Brian P. The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014.
15. Levack, B. P., The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (London: Longman, 1987).
16. Levack, Brian P. The Witchcraft Sourcebook. London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group, 2004).
17. MacGowan, Doug. “Witch Prickers of 17th Century Inquisition.” Historic Mysteries, 19 Sept. 2019, www.historicmysteries.com/witch-prickers-inquisition.
18. Ralph Gardiner’s England’s grievance discovered, in relation to the coal-trade(1655).
19. Scottish Notes and Queries .. IV, D. Wyllie & Son, 1891.
20. “The Burning Times: The Scottish Witch Trials.” Spooky Scotland, 30 Oct. 2018, spookyscotland.net/scottish-witch-trials.
21. “The Story of John Kincaid.” Arcgis.com, www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=6c3d5b6e5bf34189879f44ed69fc6391&extent=-3.7654.
22. “Witch Hunters.” Nightbringer.se, www.nightbringer.se/witch_hunters.html.
23. “Witchfinder General - Data Visualisation Internship.” Witchfinder General Data Visualisation Internship, 30 Aug. 2019, blogs.ed.ac.uk/ecarroll3_witchcraft_visualisation/2019/08/30/a-whirlwind-of-witchcraft-visualisations.