Chronicle Medieval History

Hysteria: The Indiscriminate Violence Of Witch Finder Britain | Century Of Murder (2023x2)

Air date: Jan 11, 2023

Four hundred years ago, hundreds of innocent people were killed as an obsession to stamp out Satanism swept the British Isles. A brutal scourge plagued Britain in the 17th century, taking many innocent lives along with it. Dr Suzannah Lipscomb investigates the origins of the obsession for mass witch-hunts.