When you picture a witch, who comes to mind?

For most of us, it's an old woman living on the edge of a village.

But what if that picture is completely wrong?

In this episode of Witches: Truth, Trials and Terrors, broadcaster Jon Briggs is joined by Oxford don Robin Briggs and Professor Alison Rowlands to uncover one of the biggest surprises in witchcraft history - the forgotten victims of the witch hunts, the men!

We explore why women were still far more likely to be accused, why women often accused other women? And why have the thousands of men who stood trial for witchcraft been almost completely forgotten?

The truth is far more complicated, and far more fascinating, than the stereotype.

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How many people were really executed during the witch hunts?

The answer is almost certainly not the one you think.

In this episode of Witches: Truth, Trials and Terrors, broadcaster Jon Briggs is joined by historians and witchcraft experts Robin Briggs and Dr Jan Machielsen to unravel the myths surrounding Europe's witch trials. From the famous claim that nine million women were burned to the surprising number of men accused of witchcraft, you'll discover why the real history is every bit as fascinating as the fiction.

If you think you know the story of the witch hunts... think again.

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Imagine living in a world where every illness, every storm and every stroke of bad luck had a supernatural cause.

Long before Europe's witch hunts began, people believed the world was filled with unseen forces capable of helping... or harming them.

In Episode One of Witches: Truth, Trials and Terrors, broadcaster Jon Briggs, historians and witchcraft specialists Robin Briggs and Professor Alison Rowlands uncover the world in which our ancestors were steeped, a world that made belief in witches seem perfectly rational.

Before people believed in witches, they believed in a world where almost nothing happened by accident. A World Before Reason.

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