Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-02-25
Books mentioned on Who Put Bella In the Wych Elm?
One of the more famous unsolved true crime cases concerns a woman found stuffed into a tree in a woods outside Worcestershire during WWII. Despite an extensive effort by police at the time of her discovery, she still has never been identified.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Witch Cult in Western Europe
Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray is an academic and folkloric study that explores historical witchcraft and the origins of covens.
Discussed“so she wrote a book a prominent folklorist and archaeologist she wrote a book you know many books but one of them was called The Witch cult in Western Europe”
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Murder by witchcraft
Discussed“uh there's a writer named Donald McCormick uh who picked up the case for a book he was writing called Murder By Witchcraft”
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