Hunter's Moon Is a Folk Horror Adventure Based on England's Real Life Witch Hunts

'Set in the 17th century, a time when real-world England was on a crusade to eliminate so-called witches..'

Complete misconceptions that films and other media, now you too, continue to perpetuate. It happened but nothing like how you think it did because of how you've been influenced to think of it. To call it a crusade is hugely exaggerated. It's was localised and sporadic in Britain, not centralised, organised and sustained.

This looks kind of cool. The title design is awful and not really consistent with the rest of the art style, they should have spent a little more money on that, but the trailer was actually a little creepy.

@TheDarts sounds like something a witch would say- to the ducking stool for you

@Mergatro1d 😆😆 my cat warned me you were coming

I'm an Ex-witch and I like it, maybe it will inspire someone to watch Witchfinder General. 1968 Vincent Price movie.

@Darts One of us, One of us. Seriously are you? because that's my reading list. I was deep into it for a very long time. Not Wicca or nature worship, more hardcore. I'm a practicing Occultist, but don't rock a cauldron anymore. I started because organized religion said I was one, they said some other things too. Like everything I went all in. Studied, practiced, made what was an insult and condemnation into something positive. I suppose to say I'm well-read on it would be an understatement so I'll just say your comment was correct, very accurate. I pondered saying nothing but do have some people from here as friends in other places and they already know.

Also I'll add that it's a raw topic at the moment. It's seen as taboo and almost illegal in my home country now, some of my books were burned, my collection now resides in England. They have been pushing harder and harder to outright ban it, the sale of books, advertising it, from sites etc too. Anything not of God is being done away with. I quit for myself not because of that reason. But yes modern day witch hunts are still a thing.

@TheDarts That’s fair when it comes to the word “crusade.” But calling the broader idea a misconception goes too far.

Witchcraft was explicitly criminalized, with some offenses punishable by death, and around 500 people were executed for it in England. In southeast England alone, more than 500 people were put on trial between 1560 and 1700.

For comparison, the Salem Witch Trials, one of the most notorious examples of witch persecution in popular culture, involved more than 200 accusations but only 20 deaths.

So yes, “crusade” is too sweeping, but the persecution was very real.

Looks interesting, cool setting for a game.

@GirlVersusGame @anubisvel I said it did happen but not at the scale that's portrayed in films, TV and other media, nowhere near. It wasn't some kind of holy war organised nationally by the State or the Church. But it did happen, there were communities and magistrates who persecuted people during periods of heightened anxiety at various points in time, the 1640 witch hunts episode being a good example.

And from what the lovely @GirlVersusGame says there still an element of society doing it. So no, I didn't say it didn't happen, please take that back, I clearly referred to it being classified a crusade as being a misconception, and I appreciate that what did happen was a travesty.

@GirlVersusGame I'm sorry to hear that. You should be free to practice what you like as much as those against you are free to. Nobody should impose their beliefs on others if no harm is done.