Four hundred years ago, hundreds of innocent people were killed as an obsession to stamp out Satanism swept the British Isles. A brutal scourge plagued Britain in the 17th century, taking many innocent lives along with it. Dr Suzannah Lipscomb investigates the origins of the obsession for mass witchhunts.

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