The Salem Witch Trials

Step into the chilling tale of Salem's witch trials, a story of fear, betrayal, and the deadly cost of ignorance. Unearth the hidden motives and dark secrets that turned a village into a hunting ground for witches. This episode will grip your soul, leaving you to ponder the unsettling echoes of Salem in today's world.

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RESEARCH & RESOURCES:

  • Christobel Hastings, “The True Story of Tituba, the Slave at the Center of the Salem Witch Trials,” VICE, 10/5/2018

  • Stacy Schiff, “Unraveling the Many Mysteries of Tituba, the Star Witness of the Salem Witch Trials,” Smithsonian Magazine, 11/2015

  • Erin Blakemore, “The Mysterious Enslaved Woman Who Sparked Salem’s Witch Hunt, History, 6/27/2023

  • Chadwick Hanson, “The Metamorphosis of Tituba, or Why American Intellectuals Can’t Tell an Indian Witch from a Negro.” The New England Quarterly, 1974

  • Carla Gardina Pestana, “Salem’s problem: not witches but torture,” HuffPost, 1/30/217

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  • Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, “This Hallucinogenic Fungus Might Be Behind the Salem Witch Trials,” Discover Magazine, 10/12/2021

  • Rebecca Falconer, “Judge rejects Tulsa Race Massacre reparations lawsuit,” Axios, 7/10/2023

  • Mary Beth Norton, “In the Devils Snare,” Penguin Random House, 2003

  • Carol F. Karlsen, “The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England,” W.W. Norton & Company, 1998

  • Marilynne K. Roach, “Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials,” Da Capo Press, 2013

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