Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition

The Witch Craze and Its Historians (1x18)

Air date: Jan 01, 2002

A look at the 80,000 to 100,000 people, mostly elderly women, executed because they were believed to be witches. To explain how this came about, this lecture looks in detail at the social, economic, and political changes that took place in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.