Witchcraft, Omens and the Magic That Ruled Anne Boleyn's World | Tudor England | History for Sleep

Five hundred years ago, the darkness of an English night was something we have almost entirely forgotten. No street lamps, no distant glow from a town, only the low red eye of a fire on the hearth and a single rushlight guttering against the walls. This video walks through the hidden world of Tudor superstition, from the village wise women and herb-wives who walked a fine line between healer and witch, to the protective marks scratched above cottage doorways, to the astrologers charting the fates of kings. It traces how ordinary Tudor people understood spirits, fairies, and the Devil himself as plain facts of daily life, as certain as the harvest and the cold. At the centre of it all sits Anne Boleyn, the most watched woman in England, whose enemies reached for the language of witchcraft to help bring her down. A calm and unhurried journey into the age when the dark was still full of meaning.