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Susan Millard

Curator of Rare Books at the University of Melbourne, specialist in early printed books and Special Collections.

Oct 7, 2026

5:06
So is this the main reason?
5:08
It's one of the reasons.
5:09
And look, it, it's sort of partly because, because this idea that witches were always around in the medieval period, but usually they weren't executed.
5:20
They were, you know, they might have been reprimanded or, you know, had some sort of punishment.
5:24
But this idea that Kramer really puts forward is that women are just in- they are so susceptible to Satan and the devil, and that they become ...
5:34
They have a pact with the devil and that they need to be ...
5:37
They are harmful to society and that they need to be removed.

6 MINS LATER

11:26
... tell us a little bit about him.

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