Step beyond the village path and into the shadows of folklore. This podcast explores the hidden histories of witches, midwives, grave-walkers, and dream guides — women who worked at the thresholds of life, death, and the unseen. Through immersive storytelling, historical cases, and modern reflection, we uncover how ritual, herbs, and quiet magic shaped communities and still echo today. A place for myth, meaning, and the power of those who lived at the edges.
Roaming Raven Podcast
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Podcast Overview
Step beyond the village path and into the shadows of folklore. This podcast explores the hidden histories of witches, midwives, grave-walkers, and dream guides — women who worked at the thresholds of life, death, and the unseen. Through immersive storytelling, historical cases, and modern reflection, we uncover how ritual, herbs, and quiet magic shaped communities and still echo today. A place for myth, meaning, and the power of those who lived at the edges.
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July 10, 2026
The last trial in the UK
<p>The year is 1716. The place is Huntingdon, a small market town in Cambridgeshire, England. The Enlightenment is spreading across Europe. The scientific revolution is gathering pace. The last person condemned for witchcraft in England—Jane Wenham—had been pardoned by Queen Anne just four years earlier. The age of reason, it seemed, had finally arrived.</p><p>But in Huntingdon, the old beliefs still held.</p><p>Mary Hicks and her nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were accused of witchcraft by a neighbour who claimed they had cursed his cattle. The evidence was thin. The case was flimsy. The magistrate who committed them to trial admitted he had his doubts.</p><p>They were tried at the Huntingdon Assizes on 28 July 1716. The jury took little time to deliberate. Both mother and daughter were found guilty. They were sentenced to death by hanging.</p><p>www.roamingraven.co.uk</p>
July 3, 2026
Island Magee – The Last Trial
<p>The year is 1711. The place is Islandmagee, a narrow peninsula on the north-east coast of Ireland, jutting into the Irish Sea. It is a land of windswept fields, rocky shores, and a population largely descended from Scottish Presbyterians who had settled there a generation earlier .</p><p><br></p><p>In February of that year, a young woman arrived in the village to keep a grieving family company. Her name was Mary Dunbar. She was eighteen years old. Educated. Respectable .</p><p>Within days, she was showing signs of demonic possession: shouting, swearing, blaspheming, throwing Bibles. She fell into fits whenever a clergyman approached. She vomited pins, buttons, nails, glass, and wool .</p><p>www.roamingraven.co.uk</p><p></p>
June 26, 2026
Salem witch trials - the collapse
<p>The Salem witch trials are nearing their end—but not because fear has faded. As accusations spread to the colony's elite, Governor William Phips steps in, spectral evidence is finally rejected, and the hysteria that claimed innocent lives begins to unravel. Discover how one of history's most infamous witch hunts finally collapsed, and the lasting lessons it left behind.</p><p>www.roamingraven.co.uk</p>
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