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Historian Answers Witchcraft Questions | Tech Support | WIRED Historian Mikki Brock joins WIRED to answer the internet's bubbling cauldron of questions about witches, witchcraft, and witch hunting through the ages. Can men be witches or only women? Do witches really cast spells and create potions? Who came up with the concept of witches flying on brooms and why? Why do cartoon witches always have such a pointy nose? Why do we associate black cats with witches? Why did the Salem Witch trials start? Answers to these questions and an entire coven more await on Witchcraft Support. 0:00 Witchcraft Support 0:17 Boy Witches 2:11 Witch torture in old Scotland 3:59 Whoever is in charge of marketing over at the Salem Witch Trials, amazing job 5:14 Burned in the USA 5:49 Witch Tests 7:01 Concurrent witch trials worldwide? 7:35 Spells? Potions? 8:44 Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? 10:57 Brooms: Why? 12:51 Malleus Malefic arum 15:18 Mass hysteria 16:32 Why are you booing me I’m right 18:02 Witch noses 20:04 Cats and witches through history 21:39 How to spot a witch 22:38 Why did The Salem Witch Trials start? 26:09 Actual witches or ergot poisoning? 27:27 Five-fingered Anne Boleyn 28:56 How does one avoid being accused of witchcraft? 30:52 Regretfully we have not beaten the witch charges 32:41 The witch slander must end 33:33 Blessed to report that we have beaten the witch charges 34:14 Witches: Origins 36:57 Witch hunting never ends 37:43 “Come, we fly!” Correction: An edit in this episode makes out that Elizabe
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