{"id":2071,"date":"2024-08-27T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-secret-history-of-witches-bbc-ideas\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T09:30:09","slug":"the-secret-history-of-witches-bbc-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-secret-history-of-witches-bbc-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret history of witches | BBC Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ZTcQfNDal8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Persecution, torture and swimming &#8220;tests&#8221; &#8211; what it was like to be accused of witchcraft in 17th Century England?<\/p>\n<p>Made by Preston Street Films in partnership with @TheOpenUniversity. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Ideas \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/2F6ipav<\/p>\n<p>____________________________<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a curious mind? You\u2019re in the right place.<\/p>\n<p>Our aim on BBC Ideas is to feed your curiosity, to open your mind to new perspectives, and to leave you that little bit smarter.  <\/p>\n<p>So dive in. Let us know what you think. And make sure to subscribe!  \ud83d\udc49https:\/\/bbc.in\/2F6ipav<\/p>\n<p>Visit our website to see all of our videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/ideas<br \/>\nAnd follow BBC Ideas on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcideas<\/p>\n<p>#bbcideas #history #witch #halloween<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ZTcQfNDal8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persecution, torture and swimming &#8220;tests&#8221; &#8211; what it was like to be accused of witchcraft in 17th Century England? Made by Preston Street Films in partnership with @TheOpenUniversity. Subscribe to BBC Ideas \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/2F6ipav ____________________________ Do you have a curious mind? You\u2019re in the right place. Our aim on BBC Ideas is to feed your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150508,"featured_media":2072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2052,197,2041,2042,2044,495,2053,193,2045,527,2061,384,182,77,2046,2043,2051,2058,2050,2049,2054,2055,2048,2060,2047,2057,2059,2056],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-a-brief-history-of","tag-animations","tag-bbc-ideas","tag-bbcideas","tag-curious-minds","tag-explainer","tag-halloween","tag-history","tag-learning","tag-magic","tag-modern-conspiracy-theories","tag-philosophy","tag-psychology","tag-science","tag-self-improvement","tag-short-films","tag-the-open-university","tag-what-happened-to-witches","tag-what-is-a-witch-hunt","tag-what-were-the-witch-hunts","tag-what-were-witches","tag-witch-master-general","tag-witch-hunt","tag-witchcraft","tag-witches","tag-witches-in-england","tag-witches-mark","tag-witchfinder-matthew-hopkins","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}