Historian Malcolm Gaskill joins us to break down depictions of witches and witchhunts from movies and TV shows, including The Witches, Doctor Who, Witchfinder General, Jonestown, and Hocus Pocus. Order The Ruin of All Witches here: https://amzn.to/3MKid1F

The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, reallife folktale of witchhunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage. Drawing on uniquely rich, previously neglected source material, Malcolm Gaskill brings to life a New World existence steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in curses and enchantments, and precariously balanced between life and death.

Through the gripping microhistory of a family tragedy, we glimpse an entire society caught in agonised transition between supernatural obsessions and the age of enlightenment. We see, in short, the birth of the modern world.



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