The Exorcisms which resulted in being Hanged Drawn And Quartered whilst still alive!

Religious paranoia had a alot to answer for in the early modern period. Within Queen Elizabeth the firsts royal court, whispers of unruly catholics harbouring demoniacs were starting to circulate, and her royal highness was not best pleased.

A new priest was gathering support for catholicism in Denham in Buckinghamshire and a few stubborn villagers refused to convert from protestantism so he used something he had stashed in his back pocket as the most impressive way of showing his connections to god...exorcisms.

People arrived in their hundreds to witness these mainly young women undergo many casting's out. These were fantastical events, the women would screm and growl, their eyes would turn black and they'd exhibit super strength breaking free of their restraints which tied them to heavy wooden chairs. But these highly attended events were not going unnoticed by the queens spies and when the priests took their show on the road to London, they strayed too close to the dragon...but would they get burned? Well, let's just say the fire spread and resulted in one of the worst executions London has ever seen...

All that and more on this weeks episode.

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