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W is for Witches: Mother Shipton & The Witch of Edmonton
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Casey and Karen are at their best with this spooky topic. Casey cracks us up with a cave dwelling, big boned witch, Mother Shipton. Karen gets weird with the Witch of Edmonton and her devil dog Tom.
Artwork: Jovana Stekovic
Logo: nydaaa
Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod
Casey's Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/witch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_(disambiguation)
https://www.weirdhistorian.com/mother-shipton/
https://www.mothershipton.co.uk/the-story/
https://www.crystalinks.com/mother_shipton.html
https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-witch-tests/tamar-altebarmakian?utm_source=sendgrid_newsletter&utm_medium=WeirdHistory&utm_campaign=Active&utm_content=210819
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Armada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Shipton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Shipton%27s_Cave
Karen's Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sawyer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2019/10/royal-obsession-black-magic-started-europes-most-brutal-witch
Gibson, Marion. Early Modern Witches (p. 315). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.
https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-life-expectancy-in-the-uk/
Ford, John; Dekker, Thomas; Rowley, William. The Witch of Edmonton (New Mermaids) (p. 79). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch_of_Edmonton#Plot
Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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