Remarkable Providences

Remarkable Providences

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Remarkable Providences episodes

  • 12: Are You A Good Putnam Or A Bad Putnam?

    In this season finale, we explore the family at the heart of the 1692 trials, and learn some valuable lessons, like: don't sue your family members.

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    30 min
  • 11: City Upon A Hill

    We try to understand what Puritanism is, and what it isn't, while the people of Salem turn on one of their inner circle. Benjamin Franklin's aunt throws a shoe.

    This episode features the voice of Ester Ellis.

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    27 min
  • 10: Gospel Woman

    Panic increases as the accusers hone in on a new target, shocking the village. An old face returns to Salem.

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    30 min
  • 09: The Woods

    Heads up for some graphic depictions of colonial violence at 04:30-05:05 and 13:30-14:15.

    War haunts the Puritans of Salem. Trapped by their own hand in an endless cycle of bloody conflict against indigenous people, their conception of a Satanic enemy blurs with their image of the people they slaughter by the hundreds. Are the Puritans the bad guys?

    Additional Voices

    Josh Rubino as Robert Roules

    James Oliva as John Hathorne

    Danielle Shemaiah as Tituba

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    31 min
  • 08: Tituba: Origins

    While Tituba fights for her life from the witness stand, we take a step back to discuss slavery. What fun!

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    27 min
  • 07: The Usual Suspects

    The town sits back and eats popcorn while three women fight for their lives against an imaginary charge they cannot refute.

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    20 min
  • 06: What We Talk About When We Talk About Witches

    This week, we're taking a deeper look at what Puritans mean by "witch," what we mean by "witch," why that's different, and why that matters.

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    32 min
  • 05: Peece of Cake

    Oh my god. I can't believe this is the real episode title. We discuss the very scientific method that was used to track the witch afflicting Betty and Abigail, and Samuel brings a bunch of dumbasses to town to ask for advice. The first targets of what would become the trials are named.

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    18 min
  • 04: Remarkable Providences

    We read both Mather Reports and take a look at some of the cases of supernaturally-themed bigoted political murders that Salem residents might have seen before in this ostentatiously self-titled episode.

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    21 min
  • 03: Under an Evil Hand

    The Parris girls are afflicted; we talk about what that means and why that matters, and debunk a few common theories about it while taking the long way down Lay Off Tituba, Y'all Lane.

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    24 min

About Remarkable Providences

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A spiritual crisis grips the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692 that results in the deaths of twenty-five people and effectively ended a budding American theocracy. Remarkable Providences dives deep into the climate of purity and resentment that generated one of the most enduring–and misunderstood–American myths. Kate Devorak, a former Salem tour guide and current Salem nerd, takes us through the story of how fear, greed, prejudice, and zeal caused a community to nearly destroy itself from the inside out.