Episode 93: Wales Is The Clit

Mar 5, 2020

Amanda and Sarah head to different parts of the world for dives into early witch history and cabin fever. Sarah goes back to 1300s Ireland for the story of Alice Kyteler, the first recorded person condemned for witchcraft in the country. Amanda longs for the coming of spring with a look at how cabin fever may have caused multiple cases of madness and murder in the Antarctic. Other subjects covered include an eyeball injury, a bean mystery, and an adventure in nipple clamps.

Recommendations:

Amanda just kinda recommends the show Good Omens. 

Sources:

A Deed Without a Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft by Lee Morgan

A contemporary narrative of the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler : prosecuted for sorcery in 1324, by Richard de Ledrede, bishop of Ossory

History Ireland

Wikipedia/Alice Kyteler

Ancient Origins (https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/alice-kyteler-0010954, https://www.ancient-origins.net/opinion-guest-authors/pity-petronilla-de-meath-ireland-s-first-witch-burning-009711, https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/medieval-witch-0010917)

Brooklyn Museum

The Meaning of “Cabin Fever”/The Journal of Social Psychology 

Cool Antarctica/Adrien de Gerlache, Belgica Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897 - 1899

ABC News

The Iowa Gazette

ATI (The Mystery Of The South Pole’s Only Murder)

Mental Floss (Death at the South Pole: The Mystery of Antarctica's Unsolved Poisoning Case)

The Guardian (Mystery of poisoning in Antarctic deepens as suicide is ruled out)

 

Sky News (Man stabs colleague at Antarctic base after suffering 'emotional breakdown')

 

Science Alert (A Researcher in Antarctica Has Been Arrested For Stabbing a Colleague, Reports Say)

 

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