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This time on Medieval Death Trip, we celebrate Black Friday weekend with some black magic in our belated Halloween anniversary episode. We look at a couple of quite different medieval witches, a Cornish wildwoman from the Life of St. Samson and the famous Witch of Berkeley, as well as a report of a night-hag from the 18th century.\n\nToday's Texts\n- William of Malmesbury. Chronicle of the Kings of England. Edited by J.A. Giles, translated by John Sharpe and J.A. Giles, George Bell & Sons, 1895. Google Books.\n- The Liber Landavensis, Llyfr Teilo, or the Ancient Register of the Cathedral Church of Llandaff. Edited by W.J. Rees, William Rees, 1840. Google Books.\n- Burnett, George. Specimens of English Prose-Writers from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches Biographical and Literary, Including an Account of Books as Well as of Their Authors; with Occasional Criticisms, etc. Vol. I, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. Google Books.\n- Sprenger, James, and Henry Kramer. Malleus Maleficarum. Originally published 1486. Translated by Montague Summers, 1928. Sacred-Texts.com.\n\nAudio Clips:\n- The Tragedy of Macbeth. Directed by Joel Coen. Apple Studios, 2021.\n- The Witch. Directed by Robert Eggers. A24, 2015.\n- The Witches. Directed by Nicholas Roeg. Warner Bros., 1990.\n- The Blair Witch Project. Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo S\xe1nchez. Artisan Entertainment, 1993.\n- Suspiria. Directed by Dario Argento. Produzioni Atlas Consorziate, 1977.\n- Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. EMI Films, 1975.\n- The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. MGM, 1939.\n- Clash of the Titans. Directed by Desmond Davis. United Artists, 1981.\n- Young Frankenstein. Directed by Mel Brooks. 20th Century Fox, 1974.\n\nAdditional Music Credit: Ludwig van Beethoven, Coriolan Overture, composed in 1807 (the same year Burnett published his Specimens of English Prose Writers), and performed by the Musopen Symphony (CC-PD).\n\nChapters\n00:00:00: Introduction\n00:04:54: Movie witchlore montage\n00:10:12: Introduction, cont.\n00:14:00: Text: from the Malleus Maleficarum\n00:21:10: Introduction, cont.\n00:23:24: Text: from The Life of St. Samson in the Book of Llandaff\n00:27:44: Commentary\n00:45:36: Text: from William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum\n00:51:50: Commentary\n01:04:21: Text: from George Burnett's Specimens of English Prose Writers\n01:09:40: Commentary\n01:11:38: Mystery Word: baggaged\n01:17:03: Outro