Pitchforks and Witchcraft in Nineteenth-Century Warwickshire March 1, 2023
Author: Beach Combing | in : ModernIn this month’s podcast we are looking at the last of the American witches. We also talked a good deal though about their British cousins and particularly witch killings. Here is an especially nasty nineteenth-century witch attack where an individual took it upon himself to do away with a neighbour because she had overlooked his […]
The Fewston Witches: A Yorkshire Coven October 1, 2022
Author: Beach Combing | in : ModernThe latest episode of the boggart and banshee podcast is on the Fewston Coven; see also the Pwca book of Edward Fairfax’s witch diary, the readalong for the podcast. In 1621 a coven of six witches in Fewston (in the old West Riding of Yorkshire) decided to persecute a local family, the Fairfaxes. In one […]
Buckinghamshire Fairies and Little Witches July 12, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, ModernFairy legends are common in the Celtic fringes and the north of Britain. They are to be found in northern England and south central England: they also occasionally crop up in the English Midlands. However, they were as rare as gold dust in south-eastern England and East Anglia by the time that folklore records were […]