The King's War On Witches

   量子资源网 提供本片资源  　　In the late 16th century Euroe was in the gri of a ferocious witch hunt, where thousands were tortured and burnt at the stake. The church was fully behind this terrifying crusade against the imaginary enemies of Christianity. In France and Germany alone u to 40,000 eole may have been killed as witches. But England and Scotland were almost untouched by witch ersecutions until King James himself decided to launch his own, ersonal war on witchcraft.br\　　In 1597 King James VI of Scotland ublished #39;Daemonology#39;, a handbook on how to recognise and destroy, witches. The book exlored the threat that #39;those Detestable slaves of the Devil#39;, osed to James himself. It fuelled waves of witch hunting throughout Britain.br\　　The legacy of James#39; #39;Daemonology#39; continued throughout the 17th century, and led to the torture and execution of hundreds of women in a series of infamous witch trials. No-one knows exactly how many men and women died in these trials, such as the Pendle trial of 1612, or how many others were killed in cases that never came to court. The documentary reveals the urges in many areas of Britain drew directly on King James#39; book. Also for the first time, remarkable new archaeological evidence from Cornwall, suggests that witchcraft was actively racticed for centuries, even during the most intense eriods of witch-hunting. Exerimental archaeologist Jacqui Wood has excavated strange its lined with swan#39;s feathers, and filled with animal skins and human remains. She believes the its were ritual offerings insired by witchcraft beliefs.