17. The Salem Witch Trials

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, 30 found guilty and 20 whom were publicly executed and remained guilty until some 300 years later. Join Carly and Tab this week as the unpack the story of one town's strange journey from paranoid to pardon and one of the most notorious cased of mass hysteria in American history filled with dubious witch hunting practices and bizarre accounts of "counter-magic".

Content Warnings: discussions of violence.

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Case Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVd8kuufBhM

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/02/22/women-arrested-witchcraft-salem/#:~:text=Sarah%20Good%2C%20Sarah%20Osborne%2C%20and,witches%20in%20Salem%20in%201692.

https://www.history.com/news/7-bizarre-witch-trial-tests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#:~:text=The%20Salem%20witch%20trials%20were,fourteen%20women%20and%20five%20men).

Right Answers Mostly Podcast, Salem Witch Trials: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4gA0V7qGNK6TkquWhQnucl

The Crucible, 1996.