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Oct 2023
30m 51s

S3 Ep24: The Salem Witch Trials

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
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Bubble, bubble, toil and lots of trouble. The Puritanical witch hunt of Salem, Massachusetts took the lives of 19 innocent people as one of the most dramatic instances of scapegoating in American history. Was there something in the rye? Evil in the water? Sexism in the air? Well, that goes without saying.

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