SYMHC Classics: The King’s Evil - a podcast by iHeartRadio

This 2017 episode examines the practice of British and French monarchs laying on hands to cure sick people from the medieval period to the 18th century. One disease was so often "cured" it came to be known as the King's Evil.

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