The Local Mythstorian Podcast

Scholar of Magic - Ranulf Higden and the Wands of Chester Cathedral

November 09, 2023 Eli Lewis-Lycett Season 2 Episode 2
The Local Mythstorian Podcast
Scholar of Magic - Ranulf Higden and the Wands of Chester Cathedral
Show Notes

The Cheshire monk Ranulf Higden is remembered to historians today as the author of a distant world history from the fourteenth century. However, beyond his daily religious work in the abbey at Chester, he was an inquisitive and curious man of his age; traits that can help us understand better why such a figure of Christian piety would come to be buried with a notorious totem of the magical arts.

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