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EPISODE · Dec 22, 2025 · 1H 6M

Discovering Firsthand Just How Old Witchcraft Truly Is

from Colonial Era to Present Day History Buff

Discover what truly defines the most common interpretation behind full meaning of being a witch. Determine exactly how people tend to associate witches with certain well known familiar images. Learn just how old “witchcraft” itself is. Explore the notion into witchcraft being connected to societies that believed in both black and white magic. Figure out exactly what constituted a devil’s mark. Learn if pricking someone could be used as an effective tool behind determining whether they really were a witch. Determine if the Virginia Court’s went about ordering examinations for devil’s or witch’s marks. Get an in depth analysis into the role familiar refers to in dealing with witchcraft. Agree if it’s fair to say that most people in the Virginia Colony firmly believed witches could fly. Learn how flight or flying got widely mentioned during Salem, Massachusetts, Witch Trials. Discover how many people believed that witches were to have gone as far as riding horses including other farm animals for flight. Learn how it was possible for those to believe that a witch required ointments in order to fly. Get an in depth analysis behind one custom which never made it to the Virginia Colony, but yet holds true relevancy. Discover the utmost commonly held belief which many colonial Virginian’s held regarding weather and its connection with witchcraft. Learn how one woman met a tragic fate in the year 1654 involving witchcraft while onboard a ship en route to Virginia. Get a basic understanding behind weather witching or weather magic and if it existed in the Virginia Colony. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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