Season of the Witch: The Killing of Ann Tennant | Victorian Witchcraft

Podcast: AFTER DARK | True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories · True Crime, Mysteries, Paranormal, Unexplained, True Scary Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-09-12

On 15 September 1875, seventy-nine-year-old Ann Tennant left her home in the Warwickshire village of Long Compton to buy a loaf of bread. Minutes later she was attacked by agricultural labourer James Haywood, a neighbour who had become convinced that Ann and a number of other villagers were witches. His extraordinary claims would follow him from the harvest fields of Long Compton to the courtroom at Warwick and eventually to Broadmoor. As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time...