Dr. Kate Lister
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1,100 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Dr. Kate Lister’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It says that you mustn't do it anymore.
Bad magic should be punished on pain of death.
So he's even in that decree, he's acknowledged that there is a kind of magic that everybody does.
It's just part of the course.
It's like crossing your fingers or knocking on wood.
It's just what people do.
And then there's bad magic.
The problem is, is that when the witch hunt craze gets to Iceland, this really entrenched and longstanding tradition of folklore looks like witchcraft.
So it's something that everybody's been doing.
It's knock on wood, cross your fingers, saluting at magpies, only they're like putting down runes.
Suddenly that comes into conflict with the Christian faith.
We're trying to stamp all of this out.
We need to get rid of it.
And something that everybody did and it had been going on for centuries now looks suspicious and strange.
Maybe not even thinking about it.
It's like so into the culture that you would just put runes on your home.
You'd have them on not paper, I guess, but like bits of leather and you'd keep them about your person or you might have amulets.
It was just what everybody did.
even when they're not religious if they pass by religious sites they will bless themselves it's that kind of thing it's that kind of thing it's like if you ask most people do you believe in magic i think most people probably say no but if you actually like seriously sit down and think do you have little superstitions like weird things that you do to yourself if you spill the salt you throw it do you bless yourself do you
touch words do you like all of these little customs and superstitions that we all still cling on to in the year of our Lord 2026 when like we still don't when like most of us like I'm an atheist I don't believe in it at all but it's but for some reason you're still not going to risk it what do you hold on to what what are the ones that you find yourself doing
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