Happy Halloween!!! Our October roundtable discussion is a nod to this holiday as we talk about witches in history and in pop culture. This conversation could have gone on forever and we did, indeed, spend a decent chunk of time after the recording engaged in topics we didn't get to touch on in the recording. This is a huge topic, spanning centuries, which made it difficult to get to everything, but we sure tried!
I want to thank our students who show up each week and for these recordings, this wouldn't happen without you: Laurel Shriner, Aaron Ehlerding, Ryley Deputy, Megan McVay, Emilie McVay, our new friend Thomas, Ashley Masoner, Kyla Forkert, Cheyenne Stoppenhagen, Kyle Gibson, Joe Connely, Caleb Johnson, and Logan Krueger. I deeply appreciate the courteous, thoughtful, respectful discourse that takes place among all these people. I'm adding a couple videos here that talk further about witches and the history of Halloween, for anyone who is interested in deepening their knowledge on these topics.
The book that was read from at the beginning of the episode was Witchcraft in Europe 400-1700 Edited by Alan Charles Kors and Edward Peters, Second Edition. We also pulled information from the Malleus Maleficarum, The Hammer of Witches. You can read a synopsis of this book and its influence here. For a real deep dive, if you're a student at PFW, Dr. Suzanne LaVere is offering her course on Witchcraft and Witch Hunts Spring semester 2020.
Have a good one, listeners! Traci Henning-Kolberg President, History Club Executive Producer, Byte-Sized History
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