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Feb 2024
1h 42m

Salem Witch Trials Timeline and Fancasts

Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne
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Blair and Carley are back, they hate the Titanic now, they're only about witches. Sign up on Patreon for episodes a week early and ad-free, plus bonuses! patreon.com/GirlHistorians


Welcome to the Salem Witch Files! Carley and Blair start the new season (after some movie talk) with an overview, timeline, and casting choices for the Salem Witch Trials, so that before diving deeper in later episodes, you know who, like, the illiterate doctor is. (They're played by Lea Michele.)


Also: Season 2 and Patreon housekeeping, actors whose faces belong in certain decades, ski jump noses, looking terrible when young, Charles Melton, Mean Girls the Musical, personal history with the Salem witch trials, the math of a lesbian band, hanged versus hung, saying “witch hunt” in present day, Puritans being annoying, Protestant schools, refusing to be diagnosed with more things, Little Miss Sunshine era Abigail Breslin, season affective disorder-driven vengeance, dark cottagecore, witch cakes, Animal Crossing, fingering parties with the devil, reality show casting competitions, and outie vaginas.


Hosted by: Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne

Produced by: Rob Moden

Music by: Jacob Ollivier

Cover artist: Nicola Lyttle

v1.03


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