Kate Forsyth
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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He preached against her in the pulpit every day for hours.
He called her that French whore.
Absolutely.
And quite possibly, if she had done that, her history would have been completely different.
But Scotland had been torn apart by war.
and decimated all of her life.
And all she wanted was trying to bring peace and prosperity.
She wanted religious toleration.
She was way ahead of her time.
Now, Queen Elizabeth, her cousin in England, was not nearly so gentle as Mary.
And so there was a lot of hunting down of Catholics and a lot of torture and execution of Catholics
in Britain under Elizabeth I, but this wasn't happening in Scotland.
But because of what she was trying to do was to find a way to reach an accord.
She was using soft diplomacy and he was using black propaganda.
And, of course, maleficarium means maleficent, so it's often called The Hammer of Witches, this book.
This German priest wrote this incredibly misogynist book where he said witchcraft was an act of treason against God and because you'd have to be a devil worshipper.
So up until that time, every single country in the world had, you know, wise men and wise women and they would have like, you know, the village herbalist and healer.
Nearly every single person had a level of superstition in their lives.
So they would say prayers to try and make the weather better so their crops wouldn't get wrecked.
They would hang like a little star made of Rowan above the baby's cradle so that the fairies wouldn't steal it.
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