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Witches

Today, witches are the stuff of fairy tales…but step back to the 16th and 17th centuries; everyone thought witches were terrifyingly real! Investigate the evil spells and dark rituals of witchcraft in Britain during the reign of the Tudors and Stuarts. Witches were a parody of a woman’s real role in society. They were thought to attend satanic covens where they would dance and sing backwards, make stews from human body parts and fly on a broom greased with the bones of dead babies

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