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The witch trials in northern Moravia claimed nearly two hundred lives and remain one of the darkest episodes in the history of today’s Czechia. In Blood in Bohemia, a special series of Czechast, Vít Pohanka and Rob Cameron revisit the story with historian Jaroslav Čechura. The episode explores both the traditional interpretation of the trials and a thought-provoking new perspective on their origins.
The witch trials that swept through northern Moravia during the late seventeenth century have become a symbol of fear, torture and injustice.
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Author: Vít Pohanka, Rob Cameron