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An 1866 painting imagines a suspected ‘witch’ being led away from a braying mob during the 17th century (Photo by WAVE: The Museums, Galleries and Archives of Wolverhampton/Getty Images)

Rough injustice: what really happened at a witch trial? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HEXA Witchcraft WK2 Leads Quiz

HistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week two . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HEXA Witchcraft Vod WK2

HistoryExtra Academy video lecture: Demonology, with Professor Marion Gibson . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HEXA Witchcraft Wk1 Quiz

HistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week one . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HEXA Witchcraft Vod WK1

HistoryExtra Academy video lecture: What is a witch? with Professor Marion Gibson . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An illustration of a crow chasing a silhouette of a man running away in the distance

The supernatural signs that unmasked murderers in early modern England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of a woman with an insect net looking at some larger-than-life butterflies and moths.

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Eleanor Glanville: the butterfly collector

Ships in battle on the sea

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When pirates ruled Asia’s waves

A purported portrait of Elizabeth Báthory as a young woman

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Elizabeth Báthory: a 17th-century ‘serial killer’

Photo of Hiram Bingham

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How a proto-Indiana Jones rediscovered the Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu

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Jai Singh II (third from left) built astronomical observatories across northern India in the 18th century, incorporating knowledge he’d sourced everywhere from China to Portugal (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Alamy Stock Photo)

Why the scientific revolution was far from just a European phenomenon . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Athénaïs de Montespan, one of the official mistresses of Louis XIV, was a suspect in a scandalous plot to murder the French king (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Affair of the Poisons: who plotted to kill King Louis XIV? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mermaid combing her hair

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Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories

Paris became a charnel house during the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, as shown in this painting by François Dubois (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

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Catholics vs Huguenots Your guide to the French Wars of Religion

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An engraving of the pirate Henry Avery with his ship in a notorious raid that almost pushed England and India to war (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Hell on high water: the rise and fall of the golden age of piracy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.