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Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley

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Lucy Worsley and I discuss Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch. Did she have the power to cure and banish evil or was she just an opportunistic murderer?

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Day of the Medieval Dead
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Day of the Medieval Dead

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Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley
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Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley

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Fabulous Folklore with Icy Sedgwick
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Fabulous Folklore with Icy Sedgwick

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The Torrelaguna House
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The Torrelaguna House

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Werewolf Legends

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Talk TV: Unravelling the Enfield Haunting
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Talk TV: Unravelling the Enfield Haunting

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Folklore of the malign and macabre. Former Ed. @TheSkepticMag. Regular #Uncanny expert. Fellow: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Patron: Humanists UK.

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jourdemayne Deborah Hyde 🇺🇦 @jourdemayne ·
3 Nov

Here are Stevyn Colgan and I after Wycombe Paracon. Thanks to Ashley Darkwood for the piccie.

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3 Nov

There is a great cauldron in a Surrey Church. But was it from a witch or the fairies?

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3 Nov

On Saturday I saw lots of lovely familiar faces at Wycombe Paracon, and I got to talk about the Green Children of Woolpit, video series here https://tinyurl.com/y67646zs Thanks to Stevyn Colgan for the piccie.

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31 Oct

Fun night at fascinating @Humanists_UK #VoltaireLecture by Professor Anil Seth on whether AI could develop consciousness (spoiler: he doesn’t think so, and we shouldn’t try to engineer it). Adam and I caught up with lovely @jourdemayne and @chriscfrench afterwards over drinks.

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