Evaludate Episode 99: The Devil Is Real (Tyril I Lister of even if Tempest, Part 1)
Summary:
On today’s TWO HOUR EVALUDATE SPECIAL, we’re getting into the real-world history of witch hunting and witch trials around Europe and North America, Madelyn insists that everyone else insisting that she would like Tyril is still wrong, and being a murder suspect is boring now–it’s time to get deputized.
Content Warnings:
- Discussion of antisemitism and islamophobia: 13:23 - 14:45, 54:28 - 54:55
- Sexual Assault: 25:17 - 25:59
- Emetophobia: 1:06:08 - 1:07:31
- CSA: 1:16:50 - 1:17:20
- Suicide: 1:16:50 - 1:17:20
- Incest: 1:30:43 - 1:31:05, 1:34:04 - 1:34:16
Corrections, Notes, and Sources:
Air misspoke when saying Pope John XXII’s declaration of witchcraft as heresy in 1320 took the form of a papal bull. Though the pope eventually described witchcraft and announced that anyone who engaged with it would be excommunicated in his 1336 papal bull Super illius specula, his initial 1320 judgment was outlined in Cardinal William of Santa Sabina’s “Letter of 22 August 1320, to Inquisitors of Carcassone and Toulouse”
In the episode, Air stated that Matthew Hopkins charged around £20 per town, in reference to how much he was reported to have charged the town of Stowmarket in A.G. Hollingsworth’s History of Stowmarket (1844). According to the records, he charged £23 plus traveling expenses. Hopkins himself, however, stated that he only took “twenty shillings a town” (A History of Witchcraft In England from 1558 to 1718)
Please note that some of Air’s sources are primary documents, and tread carefully. There are a lot of hot stoves in this source list.
The Cheese and The Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi
Daemonologie by King James I
The Discovery of Witches by Matthew Hopkins
Esoterica Witchcraft Lecture Series by Dr Justin Sledge
A Guide to Grand-Jurymen by Richard Bernard
The History Of Witchcraft And Demonology by Montague Summers
A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses by Régine Pernoud
Male Witches in Early Modern Europe by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow
Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, translation by Montague Summers
