Human Interest

'We speak to Professor Ronald Hutton about his new book The Witch, which reveals how societies throughout the globe have lived in fear of witchcraft for more than 2,000 years.'

'Between 1482 and 1782, thousands of people across Europe were accused of witchcraft and subsequently executed. But why were so many innocent people suspected of such a crime, and what would they have experienced? Here, writing for History Extra, historian and broadcaster Suzannah Lipscomb dispels some of the myths surrounding witches, and explains why so much of what we believe about them is untrue…'