Listen "ECW 27: Witch trials in the Devils Isles "
Episode Synopsis
America's history of witch executions started 40 years before the Salem Witch Trials. Its first victim was Connecticut's Alse Young in 1647. Soon, Massachusetts had joined in the practice, as had Bermuda. Devastated Bermuda and legally-dubious Connecticut saw the largest numbers of witch trials in these years, and we examine how that came to be. Featuring a random elk that bugled outside my window as I was recording.
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