Witchcraft Skeptics And The Spanish Inquisition (E306)
Added 2024-12-24 01:06:32 +0000 UTCAnnie Kelly brings Jake, Julian, and Travis tales of the lesser known figures of the European witch hunts during the early modern period: the skeptics who openly doubted that every accused woman was actually a witch.
At the time, it was common for village communities in England, Spain, and France to accuse local women of cursing cows and similar satanic mischief. But a handful of men didn’t believe the mainstream belief that witchcraft was widespread. Doubts were raised by the Spanish royal physician Andrés Fernández de Laguna, the English gentleman Reginald Scot, and the inquisitor Alonso de Salazar Frías. Salazar even established rules on investigating witchcraft that set a high standard of proof. This subsequently saved an untold number of accused witches from being hanged or burned at the stake.
What can all of this tell us about the modern right’s use of the language of demonology to describe their enemies? Listen to get exclusive analysis from the National Baby.
To get a better background on the history of witch hunting, Annie interviewed Professor Marion Gibson from the University of Exeter, and author of the book Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials.
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Annie Kelly
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Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials by Marion Gibson
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Witchcraft/Marion-Gibson/9781668002438
Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com)
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Comments
Annie episode?.... TOADS! In wizards outfits!? Omg
Sian Watson
2025-01-05 10:49:23 +0000 UTCI have fallen into a terrible rabbit hole: this podcast. I may have to start a new podcast: QAAA, to help get myself out! 😂
Bettina Grassmann
2025-01-04 13:02:55 +0000 UTCStrong witches create good times. Good times create weak witches. Weak witches create bad times. Bad times create strong witches. 🧙♀️
Jack Gude
2025-01-03 18:09:46 +0000 UTCWhat is the clip at the end of the episode?
Shifty Comfort
2025-01-02 16:47:04 +0000 UTCit’s really inspiring how julian manifested that exploding tesla with the sheer power of his hatred for elon
jengatoads
2025-01-02 04:40:47 +0000 UTCJulian wishing cybertrucks would catch fire and then one explodes on new years day in front of trump tower. ☠️ He's a witch!
FillynotFully
2025-01-01 23:23:14 +0000 UTCAnnie has an amazing radio voice. I'd def pay for an anny kelly read game of thrones audiobooks. Shed have to do different voices for each character though.
Ruth Kiszka
2024-12-30 22:13:04 +0000 UTCThe rant at 16:30ish reminds me of Invader Zim.
Jamie Fritz
2024-12-30 18:23:37 +0000 UTCAnd he had that fucking awful racist set at the Laugh Factory
Jordan Clementi
2024-12-29 09:29:14 +0000 UTCI'm catching up with episodes and I came here to comment just for that 😂
Megan Hazzard
2024-12-29 06:54:16 +0000 UTCOh hey that's really nice of you to ask! My first graphic novel is "Witchfire" published by Markosia and available here https://markosia.com/books/worlds-of-horror/witchfire/ I'm obviously just starting work on the sequel now, so it'll be a while before that's out.
Melissa Hudson
2024-12-28 19:32:40 +0000 UTCAny luck finding it?
Big Aussie Idiot
2024-12-28 11:57:18 +0000 UTCHey what's your thing called sounds cool
Big Aussie Idiot
2024-12-28 11:56:57 +0000 UTCI felt like I was hearing about the very first conspiracy theory ever listening to this podcast.
Roseminda Nabehet
2024-12-28 10:00:35 +0000 UTCThis really was an amazing gift of an episode, I'm currently researching and writing my second graphic novel about the English witch-hunts and Gaule and Hopkins have been a major focus. It is wild (and not great) to see the modern parallels.
Melissa Hudson
2024-12-27 18:15:54 +0000 UTCAnnie Kelly 🍠
Ian Price
2024-12-27 07:55:42 +0000 UTCGosh I really want to know too, don't want to give them views but like, morbidly fascinated
KillingVector
2024-12-27 06:51:30 +0000 UTCHi, does anyone know what this ep’s Auto Q at the end is from (or how to find out?)
Josh Veal
2024-12-27 01:20:00 +0000 UTCExcellent work as usual, Annie. Now I must get back to knitting unique outfits for toads before they report me to the Devil.
Storky
2024-12-26 18:06:00 +0000 UTCYes! And as a result of what unfolded, midwives were turned from being an ally to people -often women- giving birth, into becoming informants to the state (abortion attempts or anything interpreted that way, with extreme punishment for not reporting people to the state for perceived attempts to abort). I think it's important to understand what was lost with the witch trials! And this is the medical culture around pregnancy that we've come from in recent centuries. Bodies are treated as vessels for creating future workers, regardless of the needs or wishes of the pregnant person.
hhhhhm
2024-12-26 10:27:57 +0000 UTC🍆
hhhhhm
2024-12-26 10:23:59 +0000 UTCCannot recommend Caliban and the Witch enough! Though, perhaps a note for gender essentialism (would like to hear perspectives on this from anyone else here who read it!)
hhhhhm
2024-12-26 10:16:48 +0000 UTCAble-bodied White Supremacist Cisheteropatriarchy was baked into the very foundations of capitalism in a very literal way. First [EDIT: technically not first - there was of course the enclosure of the commons before this. A significant power grab from women, in particular (and from the working class, overall). In fact there's a few blows in the run up to the witch trials - it's in the book!) via the Europe-wide witch trials (lasting 3 centuries) then additionally on foreign lands, whereby after the 'success' of the European witch trials to dominate/divide and conquer the working class, witch trials were then exported and replicated as part of the capitalist expansion beyond state borders -e.g. colonialism, *and sometimes embedded witch hunting culture there before departing* before ponderously pointing a finger from the colonial homelands at how 'barbaric and superstitious' they are sometime after the enlightenment got cooking. Just to note that antisemitism was also part of the European witch trials, because they just couldn't leave that out of course.
hhhhhm
2024-12-26 10:01:14 +0000 UTCI invoke the will of Saint Boner!
Sean Marshall
2024-12-26 03:53:22 +0000 UTCOoft. Down for this episode when I get the chance. Read Caliban and The Witch (Sylvia Federici) and thought it was absolutely wild how much we talk about capitalism without reference to its creation and the role of the witch trials
hhhhhm
2024-12-25 21:23:35 +0000 UTCYou should mention in English the book translates to the Hammer of Witches. Very metal
Scott Kannady
2024-12-25 03:23:02 +0000 UTCOmg how could I forget
Melazond
2024-12-24 23:11:31 +0000 UTCWow this was really great!
Melazond
2024-12-24 23:11:17 +0000 UTCAnnie always makes me giggle, no matter how grim the story. Great job everyone. Sending a great set of holiday wishes to the entire crew of my favorite pod!
bigphoton
2024-12-24 19:12:20 +0000 UTCAs a Brit, I’ve often noticed that if an American podcast drops a UK cultural reference, 70% of the time it’s to Monty Python. I never appreciated before how much that comedy troupe left a mark on a certain segment of the American imagination!
Andrew Billings
2024-12-24 18:17:59 +0000 UTCAlways a treat to hear from Annie. Also sending love to The National Baby Jr.--Christmas is more fun with kids in the family ❤️
Laura
2024-12-24 16:54:56 +0000 UTCIn 30 years I'll be telling kids "back in my day we called it a vibe check"
Jordan Clementi
2024-12-24 16:18:19 +0000 UTCAnnie Kelly 🫶
Hannah Blumenfeld
2024-12-24 15:38:32 +0000 UTCGreat episode. We really are in a bizzaro world where we are represented by genocide joe and antony butcher of gaza blinken
Ruth Kiszka
2024-12-24 14:58:35 +0000 UTCAnnie Kelly
Hedvig Skirgård
2024-12-24 12:35:46 +0000 UTCThis was great, thanks Natl Baby et al.!
Benjamin Gould
2024-12-24 10:08:47 +0000 UTCThe national baby
Ben Thelen
2024-12-24 06:32:14 +0000 UTCAnnie Kelly! ❤️
Lisa Bentz
2024-12-24 05:33:23 +0000 UTCFuckin' Kramer, man. Dude hated women and got so many people tortured and killed.
Alannah Small
2024-12-24 04:11:54 +0000 UTCAn episode about the Eternal Travis
Jordan Clementi
2024-12-24 04:06:11 +0000 UTCWhat’s strange is that while I was listening to this episode I dropped my phone in water and it started to float because it’s a WITCH
MCL
2024-12-24 04:04:59 +0000 UTClove to hear the gang recreate the “the very much did kill Jesus” tumblr classic
Lydia
2024-12-24 03:27:51 +0000 UTCLove this episode except when Jake sells out to Christmas. Can’t you just grow a pair and cancel your fomo and just relax like a normal Jewish person? Be glad you don’t have to buy everyone presents.
Claire Hofbauer
2024-12-24 03:12:46 +0000 UTCI like the character of a warlock who *needs* a witch trial to get cred with a prince demon
SM21
2024-12-24 03:12:34 +0000 UTCDon’t worry, nobody else ever expects them, either.
Behold a Pale Whore
2024-12-24 03:09:52 +0000 UTCMerry Witchmas! 🧙♀️🧹
Schwartz666
2024-12-24 02:47:47 +0000 UTCI was just thinking about witches and witchcraft, thank you folks
Ben H
2024-12-24 02:32:18 +0000 UTCThe Spanish Inquisition? I didn’t see that coming
hdqf12@gmail.com
2024-12-24 02:13:00 +0000 UTCI've heard that accusations of witchcraft also shifted the healing arts from women to men
ROU Sentient Lichen
2024-12-24 02:09:58 +0000 UTCwitches, amirite? call Larry Nichols
Brendan Luster
2024-12-24 01:29:52 +0000 UTCLiv agaric
ROU Sentient Lichen
2024-12-24 01:29:24 +0000 UTCIs Jake proposing a witchcraft barometer to determine whether tImes are happy or sad? We can weigh the amount of hocus pocus content against True Detective
Brad Plumb
2024-12-24 01:23:08 +0000 UTCWitchcraft + Annie = Best. XMas. Gift. Ever.
Justine Riekena
2024-12-24 01:17:41 +0000 UTCIt's a Christmas miracle from the National Baby!
Grease Witherspoon
2024-12-24 01:10:07 +0000 UTC
