Uncanny Collective

COMING SOON to a podcast platform near you. We've been busy beavering away behind the scenes, trying to work out what kind of podcast we would want to do and, more importantly, bring to you, & the result is PARANORMAL MATTERS... Paranormal Matters will be a podcast that discusses matters of the paranormal because we know that the paranormal matters to a lot of people out there in so many varied and different ways. We want to try to bring something different to the already excellent paranormal podcast party. We'll have guests, chit-chat, interviews, opinions, discussions, debates & probably disagreements BUT we'd love your input, so if you would like to get involved or make a suggestion about what you'd like to hear, please email us at the cunningly named [email protected] or drop a DM or a message on this thread & we'll get back to you. Rember #ParanormalMatters... – at East Midlands, England

The Catholic Church saw #witchcraft as a threat to all of its followers. In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull titled [“Desiring with supreme ardor”] that recognized the existence of witches, saying, “Many persons of both sexes, heedless of their own salvation and forsaking the Catholic faith, give themselves over to devils male and female,” and that they “afflict and torture with dire pains and anguish, both internal and external, these men, women, cattle, flocks, herds, and animals, and hinder men from begetting and women from conceiving and prevent all consummation of marriage; that, moreover, they deny with sacrilegious lips the faith they received in holy baptism; and that, at the instigation of the enemy of mankind, they do not fear to commit and perpetrate many other abominable offenses and crimes, at the risk of their own souls, to the insult of the divine majesty and to the pernicious example and scandal of multitudes.”  The papal bull effectively gave Kramer and Sprenger—the writers of the Malleus Maleficarum—the God-given authority to begin their inquisition. – at Sutton in Ashfield, England