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Spring is smudging into a hot summer.
Our journey with the witch.
This series has already opened up a path through magic and through the natural world that we live in.
But all this time we're being followed by a brutal past.
This is a series all about what it means to be a witch.
And you can't say witch without conjuring up the witch hunts.
But what if almost everything we know about that period of history is wrong?
Maybe you've heard of witches being burned at the stake or that they consorted with the devil at wild orgies.
Maybe you believe the witches were practitioners of ancient bad magic, a fertility cult or were mystic healers.
The witch trials are so very often seen as a weird curiosity.
They are a tourist attraction, fodder for cheap thrills or the punchline of a joke.
But there have been some very efficient and clever tales told to us that have reduced the execution of an estimated 60,000 people, predominantly women, across Europe, to gags about bubbling cauldrons and warty noses.
Because the people executed weren't witches at all.
From BBC Radio 4, I'm India Rakison and this is Witch Episode 3.
The witch is.
That building.
There's also the High Court.
Which one?