S3E42 - Summer Book Club - How to Kill a Witch
Published: September 19, 2025
Duration: 1:00:46
In this edition of the Summer History Reading Book Club, Charlie Higson is on a witch hunt.
As a woman, if you lived in Scotland in the 1500s, there was a very good chance that you, or someone you knew, would be tried as a witch. Witch hunts ripped through the country for over 150 years, with at least 4,000 accused, and many women's fates sealed by a grizzly execution of strangulation, followed by burning.
In their book How to Kill A Witch: A Guide For The Patriarchy writers and podcasters Claire Mitchell, KC, and...