Willow Winsham - To Their Terror & Afrightment: Spectral Evidence & the Witch Trials - Part of UK Ghost Story Festival
£6.50
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21 Feb 2025
12.30pm-1.30pm
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Belief in, and fear of witches was endemic across Europe and areas of America from the 15th century until well into the 18th and beyond. During this time, the idea that a witch could send their spirit or spectre to harm the innocent took firm hold, with countless victims relating how they had been attacked and abused by an invisible tormentor.
The idea of spectral evidence was one of the most hotly contested and debated questions of the period of the witch trials: Could a witch really send their spirit to cause harm or was it the Devil taking the witch’s form? Could the Devil impersonate an innocent person, or only the guilty? And, crucially, was such evidence alone enough to put a person to death?
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