Episode 31 of MARS MESSINA PRESENTS records a brief history of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials during the Puritanical era in Massachusetts. As we cover this dark moment in American history, we ask our audience to reflect on how superstition, jealousy, fear, and lying can all have an adverse effect on everyone in a given community or a larger society as a whole, if these weaknesses are not bridled and tempered with higher thinking, calmness, and mindfulness. Additionally, we must curiously observe why societies continue to be threatened by feminine power and the subsequent clamping down on female independence and their economic and intellectual parity with men.

Bedtime Stories From The Acoustic Bookshelf rounds out today's episode with an excerpt from the play, THE CRUCIBLE, by Arthur Miller.

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