On this special Halloween episode, Brian and Emma talk about the worst witch hunt in colonial American history. They go over how and why these things could happen and just who could be to blame for it.

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Sources for this episode:

https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#Timeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_the_early_modern_period

https://www.bibleref.com/John/6/John-6-10.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Parris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Parris

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tituba

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Good

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Osborne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Willard

Davies, Owen. America Bewitched: the Story of Witchcraft after Salem. Oxford University Press, 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salem_Village_-_map_of_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17845.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather