Episode 223: Worlds Collide (ad-free) (Patreon)

There are a lot of well-worn tales in the world of folklore. But there are some truly astonishing—and frightening—stories waiting for us just off the path, hidden away in the shadows.

Written and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with research by GennaRose Nethercott, and music by Chad Lawson.

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Further Reading

1. “10 Weird Facts About Witches.” Mental Floss. October 28, 2015. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53438/10-weird-facts-about-witches
2. “A quarter of people executed for witchcraft were men, and other surprising facts.” The New Statesman. November 23, 2018. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2018/11/quarter-people-executed-witchcraft-were-men-and-other-surprising-facts
3. “Beyond Salem: 6 Lesser-Known Witch Trials.” History.com. March 24, 2021. https://www.history.com/news/beyond-salem-6-lesser-known-witch-trials
4. “Farrow on Worobec, 'Possessed: Women, Witches and Demons in Imperial Russia'” H-Russia. April 2002. https://networks.h-net.org/node/10000/reviews/10269/farrow-worobec-possessed-women-witches-and-demons-imperial-russia
5. Giles Corey. Salem.lib. Accessed June 17, 2022, https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/people/gilescorey.html
6. Hagen, Rune Blix. “Witchcraft Criminality and Witchcraft Research in the Nordic Countries.” The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America.  March 2013.
7. Howe, Katherine. The Penguin Book of Witches. (Penguin Books, 2014). P 6-17.
8. Hutton, Ronald. The Witch. (Yale University Press, 2017). pp 180-181, 192-193.
9. “Icelandic Magic, Witchcraft, and Sorcery and the Tragic Case of Jón Rögnvaldsson.” Ancient Origins. February 16, 2017. https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/icelandic-magic-witchcraft-and-sorcery-and-tragic-case-j-n-r-gnvaldsson-021227
10. Kivelson, Valerie A. “Male Witches and Gendered Categories in Seventeenth-Century Russia.” Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul., 2003), pp. 606-631. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3879463
11. Levack, Brian P. New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology. (Routledge, 2001), pp 67-70.
12. Levack, Brian P. The Witchcraft Sourcebook. (Routledge, 2004), pp 214 – 219.
13. Mackay, Christopher S. The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum. (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Pp 1-6.
14. McLachlan, Hugh V., and J. K. Swales. “Lord Hale, Witches and Rape.” British Journal of Law and Society, vol. 5, no. 2, 1978, pp. 251–261. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1409631
15. Monter, William. “Toads and Eucharists: The Male Witches of Normandy, 1564-1660.” French Historical Studies. Vol. 20, No. 4 (Autumn, 1997), p. 563. https://www.jstor.org/stable/286912
16. “The Witchcraft Trial of Giles Corey.” History of Massachusetts Blog. October 11, 2011. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-curse-of-giles-corey
17. “Witch.” Merriam-Webster. Accessed June 20, 2022. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/witch#learn-more