Demonology
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Oct 31, 2026
Tim HarfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Just ask the King of England, King James, who literally wrote the book on it.
Tim HarfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Demonology.
Tim HarfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Such assaults of Satan are most certainly practiced, the king assured his readers.
Tim HarfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Witches, those detestable slaves of the devil, deserve most severely to be punished.
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Tim HarfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They include Alizon's mother and brother and various local associates of the family – One of these people is not like the others.
Tim HarfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Her name is Alice Nutter.
Tim HarfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In his book Demonology, King James had explained how the devil allures such persons as are in great misery and poverty.
Tim HarfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
While that described most of the unfortunate souls the Lancashire magistrate had arrested for witchcraft, it did not describe Alice Nutter.
Carter MacKenzieGUEST
They were likely carrying a pamphlet written by King James VI himself.
Carter MacKenzieGUEST
He wrote a pamphlet called Demonology, which was all about catching the detestable slaves of the devil who were the witches.
Carter MacKenzieGUEST
And I wanted to include this poem because it's about state-sponsored crime, legal harm, and everybody's involved.
Carter MacKenzieGUEST
Witchfinder learns as he goes, learns as he does, something he must have been born for.
SpeakerDGUEST
I could offer you Horus Heresy and or Chaos Space Marine.
SpeakerDGUEST
I've got Lord Demonology, but I somehow get the sense that's not...
SpeakerDGUEST
Horus
Thurston HillmanHOST
Heresy, again, at a minus 10 is doable.
MeganHOST
Many historians say that it was this book that was partly responsible for the hysteria that spread like wildfire across Europe and led to the death of over 40,000 people in the centuries after its publication.
MeganHOST
Add to this King James VI and I, and his Demonology, published in 1597.
MeganHOST
And we have a true recipe for social disaster.
MeganHOST
In it, James said witches were real.
Chuck MisslerHOST
Now, one of the ways we've prattled on here, and obviously it's not hard because there's lots of literature available on this.
Chuck MisslerHOST
Meryl Unger's book, Demonology, is one of the classics.
Chuck MisslerHOST
There's many, many classic books on demonology.
Chuck MisslerHOST
If you want to build your library, it's easy to do.
SpeakerDGUEST
I could offer you Horus Heresy and or Chaos Space Marine.
SpeakerDGUEST
I've got Lord Demonology, but I somehow get the sense that's not...
SpeakerDGUEST
Horus
Thurston HillmanHOST
Heresy, again, at a minus 10 is doable.
Dominic SelwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And this happened because of two things.
Dominic SelwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The first was that in 1597, King James I of England had written a book called Demonology.
Dominic SelwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And in it, he tried to convince the world that witches were real and their offenses were so diabolical that all evidence possible should be taken and should be used to find them, including children's evidence.
Dominic SelwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then not long afterwards, in Pendle in Lancashire in 1612, there was a very famous trial in which a nine-year-old girl, Janet Device, sent her entire family to the gallows.
GraceHOST
which basically kicked off witch trials in other parts of Scotland because they had the unilateral right to use torture and to carry out their own investigations.
GraceHOST
Around this time, he began writing a book which was published in 1597 called Demonology.
GraceHOST
And this book defines the hierarchy of witchcraft.
GraceHOST
It outlines how to identify witches.
SpeakerDGUEST
I could offer you Horus Heresy and or Chaos Space Marine.
SpeakerDGUEST
I've got Lord Demonology, but I somehow get the sense that's not...
SpeakerDGUEST
Horus
Thurston HillmanHOST
Heresy, again, at a minus 10 is doable.
Kyle WoodHOST
When he returned home, King James personally supervised the interrogation and torture of suspects in the notorious North Berwick witch trials, where defendants confessed to casting spells and tossing charmed cats into the sea to summon the Tempests.
Kyle WoodHOST
In 1597, James published Demonology, an academic treatise positing the reality of dark magic and arguing that witches deserved execution.
Kyle WoodHOST
When he later inherited the English throne in 1603 as King James I, William Shakespeare decided to focus on the king's interests to win his favor.
Kyle WoodHOST
He wrote Macbeth around 1606 with the iconic trio of witches in their brewing cauldrons conjuring storms.
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