Morbid - Episode 23: The Salem Witch Trials

Episode Date: October 17, 2018

Wow. Salem was wild back in the day, guys. You think you know about the infamous Salem Witch Trials but you have no idea how bananas it really got. We take a deep dive into the beginnings of this hysteria, the madness of the "trials" and executions and then we try to figure out how the hell this all began in the first place. Join two Massachusetts natives as we guilt our way through this black mark on our local history. Sources: Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. Roach Records of the Salem Witch Hunt by Bernard Rosenthal See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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That was extra terrestrial. That was me being spooky. You sounded more like alien-esque. Damn it. Idiot. What's up? We're here! Here we are. No we're alone. Yeah we don't have guests this time around. Just Danny on the flow. I just Danny on the flow. Oh look at that Slay-S face she just made. Too bad just made a visual podcast. We had a lot of fun collaborating with oops we watched it again in the right wrong turn podcast.

Head over to their pages and give them a follow and listen to our episode with them. Yay! It was so much fun. We gave you a little taste with the right wrong turn episode of Salem. But today we're going to take a super deep dive into the Salem Witch Trials. Woo! And we just went to Salem. Yeah we did. To get research. We wanted to be authentic so we went all the way to Salem.

Mm-hmm. We walked in a graveyard. We did. We walked, we walked in the old burial ground on Howard Street. Mm-hmm. I thought the memorial was really cool. The memorial is super heavy. Super heavy. Like very heavy. Because when, and we'll talk about it later, because I have it down like, you know,

when it was dedicated and all that. But when you stand in like the, you look at it from like the middle. Because the memorial and Salem for all the victims of the witch trials that were executed is like the semi-circle of just stone benches with their names and the date they were executed. And like there's always like a bunch of flowers and stuff.

Yeah and people leave flowers and stuff and but when you look at all the because you know it happened. Right. But it makes it real. But when you stand there and see all the benches and you see how many people were just hung for no fucking reason at all. Like we will get into this and this infuriated maze. These little bitches. But it's so heavy you're just like holy shit. It's wild. They killed all these people You know what though when we learned about the Salem witch trials and like I think they like dabble and like third or fourth grade

They like blow past it and school like we learn about because it's our state. Yeah, but they don't like spend weeks and weeks on it But I remember like thinking I was a witch and third grade, I was like, oh, I'm a witch. Yeah, I gotta ask a book of shadows way too early. And the principal called my mom and was like, your daughter tried to turn one of the girls into a frog. And also she has a cousin and isn't letting everyone in, so. I was so proud of you.

I remember it was actually fourth grade because my teacher Mrs. Gavin found like a list of all the people in my cousin because of course I kept it fucking organized. And she was like, there was two Ashlies in my class and I wrote like Ashlies' cousin. Ashlies' cousin. And she was like, can both of the Ashlies come

to my desk before recess? So all the other kids got to recess. Which one of you as a comment? And that's pretty much what she said. And I was like, oh, it me. Oh, it me. Like, watch yourself, Miss G. And then I got home. My mom was like, did you try to turn somebody into a frog? And I was like, hell yeah, mom. And she was like, all right.

My favorite part about that whole story. I remember specifically, because I remember your mom, my sister being like, yeah, I don't see the problem because she was successful. Did she turn the person into a frog and your teacher was like, well, no, and she was like, then I would see the problem. Why are you calling me at work, bitch? That's actually a great way to handle that. Yeah, it was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really was. It really. It really was. It really comes to my mom. Hey, oh. Yo. Anyways. So yeah, I was like a super witchy bitch.

Oh, hell yeah. And so I was super into that aesthetic. In fact, I don't think my friend Leah listens to this podcast. But maybe I'll tell her too. Because Leah and I had our own little like two-person coven. Yeah. And we like tried to make an altar and stuff. We were like really into it.

I just remember like collecting rocks at recess and we like, I'll use these for a spell. These are my altar. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. I think everybody kind of had like a moment where they wanted to be a witch. I'm actually a witch though right now. One time Annie's brother said that I was a white witch. You said that on like six different podcasts. Because it made my entire life. I'm like six different pockets because it made my entire life. I'm six different episodes. Don't edit it out. Because one time Annie's brother said I was a white witch. I'm gonna get a tattooed on my butt.

Not just white witch, just get one tattooed on his back. No, yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'll sip my tea now. It actually is not tea. Oh, I was gonna say she's literally sipping tea, but apparently it's not tea. It's a latte with skim. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Yeah, it's not skim because it's like trendy to drink skim milk because I think skim milk kind of sucks, but skim milk is ass. Whole milk makes my tum tum hurt. It's like skim milk to me is just cloudy water. Oh, which is so good. I'm not bad at us enough for home milk. We have because we didn't get to

thank our newest Patreons in the collab episodes because we didn't want to take over there. Right, exactly. And we wanted to be able to like sit down and actually thank you instead of speeding through it. Yeah. So we're going to go ahead and catch up and thank our newest Patreon members. Are you ready? Trembo! Okay, so. So who are they? Our weirdos this week are Candice Lee. Thanks Candice. I like that you still Candice with the camera. I was gonna say isn't it Candice with the camera? Sure is. I like it. Thank you Candice. Thanks Candice. And we have another weirdo. Please Stewart. Thanks Lee! Thank you! I like the name Lee.

Yeah I do too. It's just a nice, it's just a name. Yeah, hi I'm Lee. It's a good name. I like it. Like I don't think I've met a Lee that I didn't like. We have a lot of names, the speak that I like. I'm just gonna say we have a lot of names.

Yeah we have so many names. No we have a lot of names the speak that I would like consider for like a future bid. A future bid. Did I say my number one baby name on air before? I think you did. I think I did too. It's Cleo. Bye. In the window latch and cuffin. We have... Alright, so me and Elena had a debate about this name. So is your name... Adi? Or is it... 880 you thought it was? I think it's 880 only because it's

A-I-D-E-E. And my name is spelled A-L-A-I-N-A. And I think it's 880 only because it's A-I-D-E-E. And my name is spelled A-L-A-I-N-A and if there's no I, it's a Lana, but because there's an I, it's Elena. And that was this week's episode of Phonics, with Elena. This is just how my brain reasoned it out. Alright, well maybe she's right, so 80GS, thank you.

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Yeah. I have three first names. You're connecting with all these people with first names. Connect, connect, connect. Connect, first names. with all these people with first names connect connect connect first names Then we have Ashley Flott. Thanks Ashley Flott. We then have Emily Blalock Thank you Emily Blalock and then we have Jason Hodges. Thank you Jason Hodges. We then have somebody you know Briea Milbury Yeah, you did. Cool.

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And our first evil onion is Shannon Von Alt. Hey, O Shannon. I love your last name, girl. Yeah, I always say that I would like a Vaughan in my name. Yeah. Even though Ashley Vaughan Kelly wouldn't make any sense. It would be awesome though. It always makes me sound like a really cool ancient vampire when you have a

fun on your last name. It's like, yeah do. So maybe if you are a very cool ancient vampire shannon, let us know. Hit us up because we appreciate it. Either way, even if you're not we appreciate it but it would be cool. We then have Taya Edwards. Thank you so much Taya. I also love that name.

Yeah, that's a really cool name. And then we have J. Little Gala. Thank you, J. Little Gala. Not Gala. Not Gala. I got a very hilarious message from him and I inter-respond to him. I meant to. But I love it because he said his name is pronounced Gala.

Not Gala. Even though he is, and I think he wrote, even though I am very homosexual, it is not pronounced gala, and I laughed very hard. Right, tweet. And then we have a jagged little bitch that is very near and dear to my spooky ass heart, my spooky soul sister, Alexa Gagnon. Thanks Alexa Gagnon.

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Let's get to it. So yeah, like we said today, We're gonna cover the Salem witch trials Spook spook spook spook and then a lot of people think they might know what's going on here But you know, and you really dive into this shit. It is bonkers not bananas. No, this is bonkers. This is like a whole another level of banana another tier bonkers Like I'm gonna use that word a lot because there's a lot of bonkers shit in here. Mm-hmm. And there's some banana shit. Mm-hmm. So, um, I know we covered with the right wrong turn podcast of the story.

Now I've heard Giles Corey and Giles Corey. I called him Giles because I've heard that. I'm gonna keep calling him Giles. Okay. Because I want to. So maybe it's Giles. I don't that. I'm gonna keep calling him Giles. Okay. Because I want to. So maybe it's Giles. I don't know, either way you know who he is. This is your podcast, bro. It is from my podcast.

I got to name him. Whatever. What if you're just like, so I heard it, called Giles and Giles, but we're just gonna call him Hank. We're just gonna call him Hank and Cory, so. But we covered the story of Giles Cory, the unfortunate story.

And the George W. The Lord House. We of Giles Cori, the unfortunate story. And the George Corwin. The George Ward House. We talked about George Corwin, who was the sheriff who presided over all of these things. He was the one who arrested. I just want to catch you up so you're up to speed. He was the one who arrested all the accused. He's the one who interrogated a lot of the accused. He tortured them.

And he was the one who carried out the executions. So he's a big dick. It was a real bad guy. Now I'm just gonna lay this all out right now. There's a lot of people in this story that are like legendary assholes, like legendary. Like when you actually research this you're like wow these people were straight up garbage people. Should we put that on the shirt? Legendary assholes. Legendary assholes. I would put that on a shirt? Legendary asshole. Legendary asshole. I would wear that.

Right, I think we should. These were just like malfunctions of the human genome of the highest order. Okay. Like this, it'll piss you off. Genome. Yeah, it was just real bad. So let's start it off, shall we? Here we go.

So these trials officially began in February 1692 and ended in May, 1693 when the last remaining accused were released from jails. So a little, you know, over a year. But that was it. So it doesn't seem like a long period of time, but they really like used that time. It was a hellish year. It was, it was a year. Now, it's important to note before we go into this that this was 17th century in America so there wasn't a good solid legal system in place yet. There was no checks and balances and the colonies were still just trying to figure out what the fuck was

going on with themselves. Right. And we were still in the process of aggressively stealing this land from the Native Americans who rightfully owned that shit. So everything was kind of a hot mess at this point. Now, records show that 200 people were accused during this short period of time. Between 140 and 150 were actually arrested for it. 20 people were executed. 14 were women. 6 were men. And somewhere around 13 more people died while in jail awaiting their trials.

Oh, in two dogs were accused of witchcraft and they were shot in the house. I didn't know that because Salem was bonkers as fuck here. Two dogs, two dogs! How are you witchcraft as a dog? Well, and I'm gonna get more into it lately, but they like use dogs a lot in these. Like they really like, they they I think at one point Somebody said that dogs like they believed that dogs had a close relationship with the devil. That's weird Which is weird because there's like something cats would well, there's a weird thing about black dogs being like the undertakers

Hey, maybe they're well, I want a black lab so I hope not we have black labs like all in our family I love them. Yeah, if they were the undertakers of the underworld I'd be like, that's bad ass. Yeah. I'd be like, don't take me there. Just, I feel like it's cool. Keep doing you dog. Now all but Giles' Corey were hanged. These hangings occurred on a place called Proctor's Ledge which is at the base of Gallowas Hill. The Ledge is not at the top of the hill which a lot of people assume it was because they weren't going to cart all these people in like up a hill. The ledge is not at the top of the hill, which a lot of people assume it was, because they weren't going to cart all these people in like up a hill. Yeah. So this was at the bottom of yellows hill. Why did they not? You made me say this in the last podcast. Did you, did you say why they didn't hang guys?

Yes. And it was mainly because he didn't confess to witchcraft and he also didn't deny it. He refused to enter a plea. So if you entered a plea, you just got paid. So if you entered a plea, everyone who was killed entered a plea of innocent, which is crazy. But everybody who was executed

denied that they were witches. Every single one. And Giles Corey refused to enter a plea at all. So he was, that wasn't meant to technically, like they weren't doing that as execution, they were doing it as interrogation. Okay, got it. Because he just died as a result.

Got it, got it. Uh, we'll go back and they have a little bit later, but um, now Proctor's Ledge, which is at the bottom of Gallows Hill in Salem, is, was seen as a good place to do this because it was visible to a lot of the town. Oh, that's right. So whoever was hanged could be seen swinging from a tree. Because they didn't use actual gallows, they just hung the accused from one of the trees on the left.

Jesus! Now, no one was burned at the stake, which is a common myth now. A common myth now. Not in Massachusetts or in America, actually. This is more of a European thing. We like to hang our witches. They like to burn theirs. OK.

According to historyofmastachusits.org, which is a really interesting website, probably not for anybody, but us in Massachusetts. The reason for no one being burned at the stake here is because English law only allowed death by burning to be used against men who committed high treason and only after they had been, which we talked about in the torture episode, hung till almost dead, quartered, and drawn.

The English considered it unacceptable to burn a woman because it involved nudity. So they were like, it's cool that we killed her, but like, we can't see her naked. Yeah, we can't see those boobies. Put your tits away. And let's worry about your rip them off. Yeah, exactly. So go back to our torture episode if you want to hear about that. IE torture episode. So burning at the stake was more popular in countries with a strong Catholic church because it did not involve the shedding of blood. And that's because the Roman, according to the Roman Catholic doctrine, they didn't want any shedding of blood, they wanted it, which is weird because I'm like burning does shed blood just in a different way.

Yeah. But whatever. And it also insured that burning at the stake ensures that the person doesn't have a body to take back to the afterlife. Like they don't have to do anything. Yeah, so they don't really have to do anything. Yeah, so they really have to do anything. So that's more with like Roman Catholic shit. Plus you don't really have to think about

where their remains are growing. Yeah, because they're just gonna be a pile of dust. It's actually. So none of the people, like I said, none of the people who were executed confessed to witchcraft and none of them initially received a proper burial after being executed.

They were all buried in random, unmarked graves all over the area. No one knows where these fucking graves are. So most people think a lot of them might, or at least a few of them might still be buried somewhere on Gallows Hill, but like, where the fucking knows. According to William P. Uppum, Uppum, yeah I think it's Uppum. Four of them. Peabody Historical Society in 1903. He said, quote, it is well known that the victims executed as witches on gallows hill in Salem in 1692 were thrown into mere shallow graves or crevices in the ledge under the gallows

where the nature of the ground did not allow complete burial so that it was stated at the time that portions of the bodies were hardly covered at all. So they threw them in a shallow hole on the execution site, or they threw their bodies into fucking crevices in the rocks near the galley. Jesus fucking wilds. That's bananas. Now I don't get this, because if they were so scared of which is, then why wouldn't they make sure that the bodies were properly entombed so they couldn't come back. Yeah. Like you would think they'd be scared. Because on top of that one of the dogs that was shot and killed after one little one of those little shithead

girls that was running around accusing everybody and accused her neighbor's dog of being a witch. After she accused it of being a witch they they shot it immediately. Because apparently dogs don't get trials. I don't know. He'd died immediately as a result. And cotton mother, who is a reverend, who will get to lay in a second, but he's a dick. He was like, oops, that probably wasn't a witch because the devil doesn't die. So we made a mistake. So why are they hanging people and just dropping them into rock quarries if the devil doesn't die? Why are you doing any right that doesn't make any sense so you can see right there that none of their shit was Making sense. They were just they didn't have any yeah, like they didn't have any rhyme or reason

They didn't keep to specific rules with this shit It was kind of like whatever they fit what they needed at the moment So it's like they were just a bunch of dicks. Like they ate a bunch of dicks. Ugh. So, like Ash mentioned, some of the victims' families did come and retrieve their bodies from the execution sites to bring them back to their house to secretly give them a burial at their house. Only two victims have actual known marked grave sites, and they are Rebecca Nurse and George Jacob Senior.

This was because their families were two of the ones that came back to take them. Now, all the accusers, the accusers, not the accused. All of the accusers were women who were between the ages of nine and twenty years old. This is odd because this isn't the case for other historical which trials. Other which trials mostly had men accusing women of witchcraft. So Salem was like progressive. I guess if you want to say that. If it's like the most fucked up way you can be progressive, it's like you know what, we're gonna have women accusing women. We're gonna ratchet it up a notch.

Yeah, ex. Now, if you would deny the accusations against you you were likely executed But again if you confessed nine times out of ten you were set free. What did they do with them when they set them free? Well, they would have their land taken from them so they would kind of be set free into like Poverty like extreme poverty like stream So no wonder people were like, oh no, I'm not. And I think people were just like, Fuck you. Fuckin' witch, like, fuck you.

And they didn't know at the time, they were like, do I deny it? Or do I, I don't know what the right thing to do here is what's gonna get me not hanging from a tree. Right, you would think that if you were like, I'm not a witch, they wouldn't hang you. They don't know. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh're not a witch. Exactly, like awesome. So most historians think that a lot of families in Salem, particularly the fucking

Putnam family, who are a bunch of rock hard douchebags. I can't even, I'm trying to, they're fucking hemorrhoids. It's just a bunch of family of fucking rock hard hemorrhoids. That's what the Putnam's are, they're dicks. I'm not sure if I'm calling people hemorrhoids. It's just a but it's family of fucking rock hard hemorrhoids. That's what the putnames are. They're dicks. I'm gonna start calling people hemorrhoids in traffic. Call them rock hard hemorrhoids. I love that. Feels good. So the putnames were fucking rock hard hemorrhoids. Okay. They took advantage of the hysteria and started accusing neighbors and just like people they didn't like. Like anyone they had any beef with, they were like, you're a witch and I know if I say that,

you're gonna hang for a tree, so. That's so scary. I would've been so nice to everyone back then. Sure. I would've been so angry. You know how many people today would accuse me of being a witch? Do you know how many people today would

accuse me of being a witch? And we're on the air saying that a witch is. And do you know that red heads were immediately accused of being a witch? Well, that's fucked up. Yeah. So just my head would make me a witch never mind my entire existence. Which

would just confirm there. That sucks. Yeah, that sucks. Whatever. Fuck these people. So basically anyone who didn't follow their crazy ass puriting code and religious requirements got accused of being a witch. And most of the accused women happened to be outspoken. Or the men and women were quakers and people who didn't agree with the witch trials. Like people who came out and were like, this is fucking nuts. What are we doing, Salem? They were like, whew! Like immediately. Now, right before the trials started tearing this place apart, another curse took up residence in Salem Village. Oh! there was a smallpox outbreak right before all this began. And it certainly helped to like,

stoke the flames of hysteria that the devil was working in Salem Village. Okay. Somewhere around 500 people died of the outbreak, which is from bananas. Yeah, that's insane. And of course, and this had to be blamed on someone, not lack of medical technology.

Like they weren't like, oh, we just don't know what vaccines are yet. They were like, nope, someone did this. Now Reverend Cotton Mather, not to be confused with Cotton Warrie. I was gonna say that. Was a real fucker. Oh, well, his name's Cotton, so what to do with Vectic? He quickly threw the blame for the smallpox outbreak onto a sale-mresident named Martha Carrier claiming she brought thepox upon sale village

He is on his historical record as calling her a quote rampant egg. Oh, and quote queen of hell Which I'd be like hey yo Can we make a shirt that says that? I would get that emblazoned on like my fucking cotton Puritan dress Queen of hell like fuck the skylet letter. I was like, oh that shit. We should put that on. I would wear that. I would wear a queen of hell t-shirt. So the Salem documents themselves to say that obviously she was not just a rampantag in the queen of hell. She was accused by cotton matter because she was quote an

Indep she had an independence of mind and an unsubmissive character. Oh, well basically she was badass bit shooting who was like fuck all y'all Even now people get mad at that. Yeah, exactly. I'm like what year is this again? 1492 no 1692 Well no right now. I was making a joke. Well, it would be 1692. Yeah, no, I know that's when this happened. I was just thinking about Columbus.

I like it though. Thanks, bye. When your joke doesn't land. Haha! I got too logical that it is my fault. So, in 1542, so a little while before this, this is when this kind of the seed of witchcraft kind of really took hold. In 1542, the UK Parliament passed a law called the Witchcraft Act. No way.

Yes, shit was fucking wild back then. This act outlawed the act of witchcraft and anything that seemed like witchcraft and made it punishable by death So that's what they were working off of here. They're like nope. We can kill people we think are doing witchcraft They would have executed my third grade ass. Exactly. Of course. This is what set off the notion to them that they were doing God's work because parliament was telling them this is what you need to do. Yeah, parliament says some should. Yeah It was so serious that by 1644 the English government had created an official position called the witchfinder general Geez, this is real life. This is like a JK Rowling a like world

I don't even know what to do with this rolling. I think it's that I'm wrong rolling In January 19 or 16 I keep saying 19 what did it in January 16 92 is when this all began in Salem okay little ship face nine year old Elizabeth Paris with her first name little shit had nine year old yes okay I got it middle name Elizabeth and other little shit face, 11-year-old Abigail William. Twins? Twins. Twinsies. Who were the daughter and niece, respectively, of Salem Village's first or dane minister, Reverend

Samuel Paris, began having strange fits, and the exhibiting behavior that was atypical. Now, the girls were said to have started, this is what they were afflicted with. They were started to make weird sounds and screaming randomly, contorting their bodies in unnatural ways and throwing things. This sounds like typical toddler behavior to me, but maybe I'm just momming too hard right now.

Right? Maybe just give them a timeout. I don't know. What I would say to Salem back then is like, maybe don't take these girls that they're worried about this behavior being the work of witches? Yeah, nine-year-old say some shit. So 11-year-old Ann Putnam and a few other gals in Salem also started exhibiting this strange behavior and I'm kind of thinking this was like the first pregnancy pact. Remember that? Oh my god, yes. That is like a lostter high school. They had these girls had this like pregnancy pact and it was a huge thing.

It was weird. Yeah, that was a really weird. And it was like weird. They all wanted to get pregnant at like 15. Like they were just making a pact about it. Yeah. And instead of a pregnancy pact, I think this was just like these girls just decided to get a bunch of innocent people hanged.

Pact. Oh, like I think a pregnancy pact would have been better. I mean, I think a pregnancy pact is snappier Yeah, I'm saying for sure instead of a get innocent people hanged back, but you know to lot to write down 1692 We weren't a snappy and witty back then you had to do something. Yeah, you gotta do something. I mean they were bored as fuck Oh, yeah, and we will talk about that later as that's possibly part of the reason this started. Oh, I think that's why it started They were bored and bratty. Yeah literally, now instead of just being like girls chill, they were seen by the doctor who was thought to be, they aren't positive of his name, but they think his name was Dr. William Griggs. I say the doctor because this dude was straight up the only

doctor in all of sale. Normal. This physician said that these girls were not showing any physical ailments, so they were clearly suffering from a chronic case of bewitchment. Ah, you know. Like, I'm gonna blame all my asshole moods on that. Like I'm just bewitched. I'm not being a mess egg. I'm just fucking bewitched. And then wrinkle my nose a little.

Exactly. And since no one else was around to give a second opinion, the people at the town were like, YUP! That's it! Makes sense! His bitch is bewitched! Exactly. And since no one else was around to give a second opinion, the people of the town were like, yup, that's make sense. His bitches be bewitched. Bitches be witchin'. So this alone would just be like, what, like what, what are you doing Salem? Like sure, they'll be witched. Get them a snappy sitcom, you know, but no. The town's people were like, alright, let's bring some more people into this madness real quick.

So the town magi-strates. People were supposed to be like, with it. John Corwin and John Hathorn told the girls, start naming names. Oh no. Like adults. Look at these fucking children, these fetuses, and we're like, tell us who's they're watching you. Like that's smart.

Also, as if you know Well, that's what I'm saying and so and well, so these girls started accusing people of bewitch it like they're like okay I'll just start pointing at people this where my girl Ticchiba comes in Ticchiba does come in poor Ticchiba Yeah, so first they immediately pointed to Sarah Osborne Sarah good and a woman named Ticchiba Ticchiba was the slave of Reverend Paris and actually confessed to be witching the girls but it is thought pretty hard that she was she confessed after being beaten so yeah and tortured. She was probably just like okay. You know what? She got out. She got off. Good.

So good for her man. She said in her confession, quote, the devil came to me and bid me to serve him. I mean, like respect. She was just straight up. I really, you know what? I did it. Well, I just respect. She didn't dance around it. Like she wasn't like, maybe I'm doing something mystical. She was like, oh, no, the devil time came. And he was like, do this. And I like, yeah. And I was like, oh, car. So, all right, Tijiba. She keeps that one on it. Now, the bummer is that she also said that there were other witches in Salem that were trying

to harm the Puritans. So they were like, well, got to flush them out. Oh, Tijiba. Oh, Tijiba. You tried, honey. I got it. So, May 27, 1692, the very special and very infamous court of Oyer and Terminer, which translates to here in Determin, was created by Governor William Thips, who was the Governor of Massachusetts at the time. Now this court

consisted of eight judges. They were Jonathan Corwin, Botholum Eugedney. Botholum and Botholum. Botholum and Botholum. Botholum and Botholum. Botholum and Botholum. If you wantney. Boffaum, what about? Boffaum, what about? Boffaum, what about? If you want to know what that's about, listen to our other episode. Boffaum. John Hathorn, John Richards, William Stoten, who is the chief magistrate, Samuel C. Woll, Peter Surgent, and Waitstill Winthrop. That's a great name. Winthrop.

So, I love John's. So many John's. Sounds like our family. Yeah. This court was not exactly how we think of courts and trials of justice and shit today. One-thr-p. So love Johns. So many Johns. Sounds like our family. Yeah. This court was not exactly how we think of courts and trials of justice and shit today. There wasn't any lawyers or any evidentiary rules. It also was much more guilty until proven innocent kind of situation where if accused, you were

not likely to prove urinous in such a situation. No, boy no. Now suddenly after this happened, nine Salem girls were afflict afflicted. Oh weird. You want to be famous? They were Elizabeth Booth Elizabeth Hubbard Mercy Lewis Betty Paris and Putnam Jr Susanna Sheldon Abigail Williams Mary Walcott and Mary Warren. Mary, Mary Elizabeth, Mary and Elizabeth. Literally. So they all started throwing out Axi's accusations left and right.

In court, someone would suddenly say that a witch was like doing their business. And suddenly the girls would all start like having fits and acting crazy. Because they were straight up, these girls suck. This sometimes included the accusers breaking into fevers, which sounds legit. Well, you probably just work yourself. Well, that's the thing. You have to remember that there weren't digital

thermometers back in the 1600s. Yeah, they were just moving a lot, so they got hot. Yeah, they could, exactly. They could have increased body temp just because they were having fucking fits. Right. And like working yourself out. Like working yourself out or something,

you're going to be warmer. Your body temperature rises. It's just the way it is. So I think they worked them to their shit up. They came off probably flushed in a little heat overheated and they were like, Favis! Oh no! They were Southern, I don't know. So, as was superficial the ways of the 1600 Salem hysteria-trial examinations were held at the Salam Village Meeting House in Reverend Samuel Paris' House in Salam Village in Ingrosal Tavern at Salam Village in Inhabitals Tavern in Salam Village. Super official. Poor one out for these salam witches. Literally. It was during the very first trial of this court of Oyer and Terminer that Bridget Bishop was found guilty of witchcraft.

Bridget was the first to be hanged during the Whipersale and Witch Trials, but she wasn't the first to be accused. She just was the first to be hanged. Between the months of July and September 1692, 18 more people were found guilty of witchcraft and executed after her. Was Bridget the one that they just said was too, like, lusty? They said she was lusty, and then apparently she was like a gossip. And that's why. Oh my god, I would have been like, yeah, hanged straight away.

Am I? Of course they weren't just going to go off the crazy notions of children, right? No, I did. Of course not. Nothing they did. No. The good people of Salem at this time

created a series of highly scientific tests to determine whether or not the Sarah of the hour was dancing with the devil. The Sarah of the hour. Because all of these girls were named Sarah. I swear like everybody. If your name was Sarah back then, you were a witch. Sarah Mary and Elizabeth. But yeah, and especially Sarah. There's like 14 Sarah's that were, it's insane. But they, you know, they wanted to see if she was just merely pissing off her neighbors by not being a submissive Puritan or she was dancing with the devil. So the tests for this were the first one was the infamous water test. Uh-oh. I'm sure people know of this or of the very least heard of it, maybe in like pop-york culture. Pop-y-ler culture.

I'm on a bee pop-y-ler. this or the very least herd of it, maybe like pop your culture. Pop your lurch culture? I'm on a bee pop your lurch. Wicked, another witch music, look at that. Thank you. I like it. You're welcome. So the accused would be tied up, but not in the way you're thinking. One finger would be tied to the opposite toe,

and then they would be slowly lowered into the water. What? If they floated, then they were damn witch! But if they sank, they weren't. They were all so drowning, so that sucks. Like if they floated to the top, they were like witch. But if you fucking sank to the bottom because you were in a ball tied up, they were like, oh, you're not a witch.

So that's fun. So either way you died. Yeah. So the whole thing, the whole reasoning behind this because you're like How the fuck did they come up with that? Like how why do witches float? Well the whole reason was Witches were thought to have spurned the sacrament of baptism so they would be rejected by water and thus float So the second test is called witch cakes. Witch cakes. That sounds cute, right? Yeah. It's not cute. Oh Once make them. Yeah, you won't want to right? Yeah. It's not cute. Oh.

Let's make them. Yeah, you won't want to make them after you hear it with there. Oh, okay. So you might not know this one, because I didn't know this one. They would make a basic cake from flour and rye, and then they would just, you know,

mix in the urine of the person that was supposedly bewitched. So just a basic cake. Ew. Just a basic kick. And then the witch had to eat it? No. Then they would feed this culinary abomination to a fucking dog. If the dog showed the same symptoms as these

assholes, then it had to have been a witch. But the dog's always just running around to be crazy. But you know what? Good news. Because they weren't just like, oh, it was a witch. The dog would then tell them who the witch was. How? By pointing. Well, that's fucking fingers. Either it's, either with, either with its mouth. It's now to nose. The hell? Yeah, it makes sense. You know, Salem. Salem Logic, back then. Makes sense. 1600 Salem Logic. Salem. Say all for everybody's cool in there. So the next test was the touch test. It was thought that while the bew of them. Say all of them. Say all of them. Say all of them.

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it's got free. The accused were often landowners and they would have their land seized by the government if they were accused. Just for being accused. So this would make them homeless out of the blue, like right away. That's so close. So in back then land was everything. Yeah. It was like all your money. It worked for land and then it just got taken away from you like what the fuck. The accused were held in jails all over Salem, Boston and Ipswich because there were just so many of them that they couldn't all fit in one place.

They were considered super dangerous prisoners and were relegated to the basements and dungeons of these places. In a book called A Delusion of Satan, the full story of the Salem Witch Trials, it's described as, quote, As the most dangerous inmates, the witches were kept in the dungeons. These were perpetually dark, bitterly cold, and so damp that water ran down the walls. They wreaked of unwashed human bodies in excrement. They enclosed as much agony

as anywhere human beings could have lived. The stone dungeons of Salem Town Prison were discovered in the 1950s in St. Peter Street when the site was excavated to build a New England telephone company building. In 1692, they stood under a wooden structure, a 20 feet square, known as the, quote, witch jail. Since they were so close to the banks of a tidal river, they were probably infested with water rats. Certainly, they were a breeding ground for

disease, but accused witches were worse off than the other unfortunate prisoners. Their limbs were weighted down, and their movements were restricted by manacles, chain to the walls so that their specters could easily, could less easily escape to wreak havoc. Oh my god. So they weren't just like thrown in these basins, they were chained to shit and weighted down. Wow. Yeah. Hey there fellow podcast listener, it's Elena. And Ash, and we're taking you back to the days before streaming services. Whoa! You know when you would come home from high school and it was only a few hours until that TV show

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I'll fuck you up. Such as the case with one girl named Dorothy, good. She- history calls her Dorcus, good. Yikes. But they- that's not- I- from what I read her name was Dorothe, I don't know how Dorcus was a name back then, so I don't know if they just got it wrong. Well this girl was the daughter of Sarah Good. March 3rd, 1692, and fucking Putnam,

but it was deposed and claimed this, quote, I saw the apparition of Dorothy Good, Sarah Good's daughter, who did immediately almost choke me and tortured me most grievously, and so she hath several times since tortured me by biting and pinching and almost choking me, tempting me also to write in her devil's book. And also on the day of her examination, the apparition of Dorothy Good tortured me during the time of her examination in several times since. That sounds like a big bunch of bullshit. Are you ready to hear how much of a vicious con and putnam is?

Ready. Now, March 24th, 1692, Dorothy was taken into custody and examined, quote, unsuspition of witchcraft. Examined when she was literally chained up in the dungeon in an Ipswich jail. Oh, Dorothy was four fucking years old. She was four? Yep. Oh, I think I remember hearing of that.

Accused a four-year-old. A witchcraft, and this four-year-old was locked up alone in a dungeon. That's horrible. That's how can evil these people are. They, I can't even, she was chained up in the dungeon from March 24th to December 10th. After they hanged her mother for witchcraft. They forced her poor father, who was poor.

They were like living on the streets to scrounge up $50, which was like a billion dollars back then to release her. Oh my God. She suffered such psychological damage while in prison as a four-year-old that she was said to be completely insane after a release. Like they had to pay someone to take care of her. Oh my God. Yeah. A four-year-old. What was she like five when she got released? She must have she she probably was close to five, or at least five. But after all, like I said, prison sucked ass. So while awaiting trials in prison, the accused were repeatedly not only weighted down, starved all that good stuff, they were repeatedly humiliated as well by being forced to undergo

physical examinations of their bodies. Now, there was something called the Mark of the Devil that they looked for, and basically it was like any Mark mole, anything like that, that they said the accused got branded with when they made the pack with the devil. So it was like an abnormal thing? Yeah, like anything. It could be a mole, a beauty mark, a birthmark. I have a birthmark on my stomach. Yeah, they would have, that is what I did.

And you have that. They feel like, yeah, no. They also would look for a teet from which the, which is familiar was believed to have nursed from. Yes, they were looking for her another boob. They were looking for a teet that appeared somewhere on these people's bodies from which a spirit animal would drink from.

Reality was not something that the Salem Puritans were very close with. So you're telling me they were looking for a third boob. A third nipple. Oh. They were looking for a third nipple. From which a which is familiar would come a drink from. They ever find that? No. Don't saying things. No. Weirdly enough. No. It's still looking. So when this was done, the accused were stripped naked in front of a group of people, and their bodies were just like poked and protted.

Yeah. If any suspicious marks were found, they were pricked with needles. Ouch! Female prisoners boobs were often examined multiple times a day. Ready? For any sign of lactation or breastfeeding and the appearance of their breasts were recorded and discussed in the courtroom. What if they were pregnant? Well, some of them were. Yeah, I know. Actually Sarah Good gave birth to an infant in jail. Yeah, and goody proctor was too. She was, she had her baby after she got. It's fucked up. Damn.

Yeah. They're even started forming at this time actual witch hunters who would go door to door in Salem and ask people to accuse other people of witchcraft. What? Like they would just be like, tell me somebody who did witchcraft and these people are so fucking scared. They were like, oh, that person. Well, you probably want to accuse somebody.

You know, if you don't accuse somebody, they might be like, Hmm, you might be which then. Right. Anything. Any little thing. I would have moved. Seriously, it's like that's terrifying. Now, those that were accused were not just tested brutally, but also tortured in order to extract confessions.

A la George Corwin. We talked about him in the other episode that he was infamous for being a brutal interrogator during this time. And the methods include cutting, dunking, the heretics fork, which we talked about in the Torchary episode. The pair of anguish, which is a device placed into a person's orifice, and gradually expanded. Sleep deprivation and more. George Corwin's famous method of getting a confession was to tie the accused's neck to their ankles and then slowly pull until a stream of blood shot out of their nose. And then they died. So he was a really good guy. Now let's just go quickly

through because I want to mention who was executed. Bridget Bishop was the first one. Her age was somewhere in the 50s. Oh wow. Bridget, now there was a lot of elderly people that got mixed up. Yeah, looks like. Because back then you probably didn't live crazy long, but a lot of people were here,

and they were cut short by fucking executions themselves. So Bridget Bishop was a widow who lived in Salem. She had a bad reputation around town because she had been accused of witchcraft before all this because she had like runins with the law. She was a gossip. She was just like a fun link. I was gonna say she sounded like a good time. And she wasn't the first person accused, like I said, but she was the first person tried because it was believed the case against her was going to be super easy to win. Okay. Because everybody thought she was a witch anyway.

Right. Bridget was accused by five of the afflicted girls, Abigail Williams, and Putnam Jr., Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, and Elizabeth Hubbard, who stated that she had physically hurt them and tried to make them sign a pact with the devil. During her trial, Bishop repeatedly said, I am innocent, I know nothing of it, I have done no witchcraft,

I am as innocent as the child unborn. She was brought to trial on June 2nd, found guilty quickly and became the first person hanged during the witch trials when she was hanged on June 10th, 1692. Wow. The next one is Sarah Good. She was 39 years old. She lived in Salem Village, was the wife of William Good.

She was poor and pregnant, and this is the mother of Dorothy Good. She was poor and pregnant with another baby, and she would often go door to door and Salem begging for food and anything, like just handouts while her husband worked as a laborer just to try to make ends meet. So her neighbors were annoyed with her, so I think they just were like, yeah, accuse her. She was one of the first people accused by the original two bitches. She along with, this was along with Sarah Osborne and Ticchiba, the three of them were the first ones. Sarah Good was brought to trial June 29th and executed on July 19th, 1692.

The next one is Elizabeth Howe, she was 57 years old. She lived in Toppsfield and was the wife of Farmer James Howe. She had been accused of witchcraft before, like Bridget Bishop, but she nothing really happened out of that because it wasn't crazy then. No charges were ever brought about the other one, but she later was refused admitant's into the Ipswich church because she was accused before. Oh, that's fucked up. I know.

In May of 1692, she was accused by the afflicted girls in Salem Village. She was arrested, brought to trial on June 29th and executed July 19th. How'd they even know her? I know. Like a lot of people from outside of Salem were accused. Like prominent people too.

Oh, that's why they knew who they were. This next one is kind of crazy. This is George Burrows. It's weird that men were executed. Right. It's very rare. George Burrows was a Harvard educated minister who was accused by other alleged witches

from and over of being their mastermind. During the trial, accusers said he was biting them while they testified, and he was like standing there being like, they're like, where are the bite marks? Well, then they produced bite marks, and it was said that they had matched with Burrow's teeth. So basically, they literally bit themselves before the trial and then showed them. That's a look at Steve's. So they bundied him way before Bundy, Bundy, himself. But yeah, so that's the thing so People in court even outside of the accusers started claiming that while he was being

Tried that they saw spirits in the room and one of them was saying that they were the spirits of burrows dead wives Oh shit Then they went full JK rolling and said he was using an invisibility cloak that was given him by the devil shut the fuck Who said this? No, not the little children and cotton them the chief justice said that K. Rowling and said he was using an invisibility cloak that was given him by the devil. Shut the fuck up. Now who said this? No, not the little children. And Kuntnam. The chief justice said that.

The chief fucking justice was like invisibility cloak. I bet it's an invisibility cloak, right? Like that makes sense. Ah, before his execution, Burrows recited the Lord's Prayer perfectly without any mistakes, which is our sentence, be unable to achieve this. So people who are watching, because of course like hangings were like the social content of the season, and so the crowd that had gathered suddenly was like, wait a second, he's not supposed to be able to do that if he's a witch, but they had the gallows all rigged

up so they were like, and they just hung them anyway. Oh my God! So he proved it! This is what I mean but they win against their own rules all the time. That's why they were even worse monsters because it's like they made these rules and they really continuously broke them. Yeah that's sad. Just to fuck with people it's like what?

So the next one was Susanna Martin, who's 71 years old. Oh, yeah. Susanna Martin was a poor widow who lived in Amesbury at the time. Much like Bridget, she had also been accused of witchcraft before. In the previous case, she was accused of infanticide, intormenting people with her specter. But every- What's infanticide? Killing an infant, your child.

The charges were dropped and dismissed, because obviously they were like, you didn't kill a child. Right. She was accused of witchcraft by the afflicted girls in the spring of 1692. She was taken to Salem Village from Amesbury, brought to trial on June 29th,

and executed on July 19th. So these trials and executions also were like boom, what you got tried, you got charged and you were executed. The next one is Rebecca Nurse, who was 71 years old. Rebecca was an elderly grandmother from Salem and the wife of farmer Francis Nurse. She was pious, she was popular with everybody, everyone loved her. But she had a feud with the fucking Putnam family. Over what? Over border boundaries between their lands. You're kidding. She also disapproved of the appointment of Samuel Paris, who was a close friend of the Putnams. Samuel Paris is the father of the girl who started this whole shit. Oh, yeah.

So, the putnams were Rebecca's main accusers. Oh, that's true. Yeah, and many of them testified against her. Now, during her trial, during the Salem witch trials, like during this time, she was found guilty. Or, I'm sorry, she was found not guilty. Okay. At the end of her trial on late June, but when that verdict was read out loud in the court,

the afflicted girls started flipping the fuck out, falling over and screaming, and they asked the jury to reconsider the decision. So she was found not guilty, and they flipped out, so the jury reconsidered and came back and told to she was guilty. How does that even allow it?

It doesn't make any sense. She was executed on July 19th, 1692. And this execution was when a lot of people in Salem started being like, I don't think this is right. Like this is not right. She was found guilty. She was found not guilty. These little bitches have a shit fit in court. Right. And they're just like, yeah, okay, guilty. Let's hang her. And you're counting on 9 and 10, 11 year olds. Yeah, a little... I want to go... I want to like, retroactively just kick them all in the fucking two. I know, I want to get to the end, because I don't remember if anything happens to them. So the next one, Sarah Wildes, who was age 65, she lived in Toppsfield too,

and was the wife of a local judge, John Wildes's This is what like start prominent people started getting accused here She had a kind of a bad reputation because she had some brushes with the lock kind of like bishop And now when girls that they're picking on in 1649 She was accused of fornicating out of woodlock with Thomas Wardwell and in 1663 she was accused of ready wearing a silk scarf Oh fuck what a bad bitch. Oh Sarah Don't be wearing that so hot. We're help her sweltering in here with that. Wow scandal Imagine if you had to go to trial for that because you were and also I love that you didn't it wasn't like she wore one

She might have she might have worn that like woo woo you know I know I'm stressed so after she married widower John wilds in 1663 John gold and Mary gold redding tin who are the brother and sister of John wilds late wife so the like like her in laws. They hated her. So in 1670, they began spreading rumors that she was a witch. This was obviously before. They probably meant to say bitch. They probably did. And they got misheard. This was in 1670, so it was before the trials began, so they were just like, this bitch is a witch. Like I think they were just like, I don't hate her. They didn't know that she was going to be going into a tree. So the rumors obviously continued for years, and finally, Sarah Wilde's got so pissed at Mary Goldworth, what, Reddington, her somewhat sister-in-law, that she physically attacked

her on the road. Good. But they pulling her off her horse and throwing her to the ground, which I'm like, it's class for you. I would have done the same exact thing. You know what, you can only push someone so far. Now even Mary Gould, after Mary Gould, Reddington died from natural causes years later. Mary's friends continued to harass and torment Sarah. Oh my god. She was just getting bullied because they didn't like her. The Gould family, ready? They were close friends with the putt numbs.

And shortly after the sale and witch trials began, the Putnam family was like, Sarah Wilde's a witch! Oh, fucking Putnams! I'm so angry at the Putnams. She was arrested in April 19, 1692. John Wilde's daughter from a previous marriage in Sun and Law, who were Sarah and Edward Bishop, were also arrested at this time. As was John's other daughter Phoebe Wildes, Sarah Wildes was brought to child June 29th and executed July 19th.

Wow. A lot of people were executed on July 19th. I know that was like a very busy day for the tree. Yeah. But uh, and also a lot of like if one person in the family was accused, a lot of the times, it would like the rest of the family would get accused. I mean it like sort of makes sense. They would just be like, all of you did it. The next one is Martha Carrier, age 33. She's the one that cotton mother originally was like, you caused the small box. Oh yeah. Martha Carrier lived in and over and was the wife of Thomas Carrier. She was also the niece of an outspoken opponent of the Salem Rich Trials, Reverend Francis Dane of Andover, and the sister of accused which married two-thaker of Bill Rica. Carrier was the first person in Andover accused during these trials.

She was accused by her neighbor Benjamin Abbott after the two had a dispute overland and Abbott immediately fell ill. Oh, her children were also accused, and then they were coerced into testifying against her. Oh. So Carrier was brought to trial on August 5th and executed August 19th. So her kids testified against her? Yes, they were forced to. And they did that a lot.

That's how fucked up. Yeah. The next one is John Willard, who was about 30 years old. He was the deputy constable in Salem at the time. He was one of the first people in Salem to speak out against the witch trials. He was responsible for helping to arrest the accused witches, but soon he started to be like, whoa, like this is fucked up. So he quit his job in protests.

Oh wow. Which like what a badass stand up do. Yeah. Like, wait a minute, your money or your mouth is. Shortly after all this, he was accused of witchcraft by... Ampatnam. Ampatnam, Jr. Bitchface.

Who also accused him of beating her baby sister to death. Whoa. Willard was not immediately arrested, but his in-laws, the Wilkums family, began to suddenly be suspicious of him. But did she have a baby sister to that side? I think she did, but it was probably just because it was 16. Right. So everybody died.

Willard was accused a second time by his wife's grandfather, Bray Wilkins, after Wilkins fell ill, upon receiving a cross look from Willard. Oh, God. He probably just had a sneeze or something. Right. So just a few days later in May 1692, Bray's grandson, Daniel Wilkins, was found dead. His body was bloody beaten like brutally.

And according to the court records, it says, quote, to the best of our judgment, we cannot but apprehend, but that he died an unnatural death by some cruel hands of witchcraft or diabolical act. Wow. So in a restaurant was issued for John Willard because they were like it had to have been him. Ridiculous.

He had already fled Salem. So as soon as I got him, I was like, I'm sorry, he was like, I'm in that air. But a second arrest warrant was issued for him and he was hunted down in Nashua, New Hampshire. Oh, wow. During his examination, which is at Beatles Tavern in Salem, the incident with Bray Wilkins and Daniel Wyckham's was brought up. So they were like, he's just an

awful devil. Several confessed witches testified against Willard and the afflicted girl and Putnam Jr. testified that she saw many ghosts of the people Willard allegedly killed. So John Willard was brought to trial on August 5th and executed on August 19th. Jesus. None of those charges were ever proven. They were just all lovied against him, but nothing was ever proven. Next one is George Jacob Sr. age 72. He was accused by several people, including his granddaughter Margaret Jacobs. He was a reluctant church goer is what he's same and he was also an outspoken critic of the trial. Good. He was first accused by his servant Sarah Churchill who but then was also accused by Margaret Jacobs his granddaughter. Then his

son George Jacobs Jr. was accused as well, but he evaded a rest. So a lot of people testified against him. Almost all the members of the church family. Almost all of them, all the members of the Patent & Family said that they came, that he came to them in spectral form and beat them with a cane. That sounds legit. I would have fucking came to them in spectral form and beat them with a cane. That sounds legit. I would have fucking came to them in spectral form, beat them with more than a cane. I know I want to now. And I bet the people were like, the George Judges were like,

you know what, he has a cane. He did it. That checks out. Yeah, I got it. He was found guilty on August 5th and executed August 19th. Jacob's family was one of the ones who retrieved his body from the execution site and buried him. He's one of the only two that has an actual mark grave. The next one you might remember from the Crucible because

it's just like the name of your own remembers John Proctor. I remember him. age 61 he was a wealthy farmer who lived on the outskirts of Salem Village. He was an outspoken critic of the witch trials and he often threatened to beat or whiff The afflicted girls for their role in the witch trials. Good. I think it's hilarious. I think that's hilarious too Someone needs to punch them in the face for real So after his wife Elizabeth Proctor was arrested on charges of witchcraft in April of 1692 and she was pregnant Yeah, well then the girls decided to turn on John Proctor. During Elizabeth's examination is when they suddenly were like, he's also a witch.

So it was like he was there just to like support his wife and they were like, you too, you're a witch, like right in the middle of the thing. Oh my God. So then his entire family was eventually arrested for witchcraft. Holy shit. Proctor knew that now he knew that Salem was clearly in the middle of fucking hysteria. Right. Which he could see it. Obviously he was like this is insane. So he wrote a letter to the Boston clergy in July asking that they intervene and he was like please move. Because you're in a wipe out a whole town. When he was like this is insane. Like no one can stop this and he was like can you move the trials to Boston?

Because at least there it could be fair. The clergy did respond but they said it was too late to save Proctor who was brought to trial on August 5th and executed August 19th. Another day that was really busy. The 19th is big. His remaining family members were either never charged or found guilty and eventually pardoned. So Proctor's body was reportedly retrieved from the execution site and secretly buried, but no one's ever found it. Next one is Alice Parker. Her age is unknown. She was the wife of Fisherman John Parker.

They lived in Salem Town where Alice was known as a pious and honest woman. She also had a reputation of being being clairvoyant and on one occasion successfully predicted that a friend's husband had died at sea. So that's no good. We don't have any special abilities. Just click and clean and say your parents. Don't be different or special in any way. Don't do it. In May of 1692, a flick to girl Mary Warren suddenly was like Alice Parker is a witch during her trial. She made Warren made several weird ass accusations against Alice. Of course she did.

She claimed that Alice had bewitched her mother to death, made her sister ill, and had drowned several men and boys at sea. Casual? Yeah. So she was brought to trial on September 9th and executed on September 22nd. The next one is Mary Parker, who was about 40. She was a widow from Andover. She was accused by Sarah Phelps and Martha Sprayg of Andover, and it's not really known why.

So she stated during her examination that there was another woman in Andover named Mary Parker, and suggested maybe it was like a mistaken identity. That's what I would have said. Like good play. I would have said that. There's another absentee. It was probably her. Definitely wasn't me.

But then Martha's break was like, nope, you're her. So she was brought to trial September 17th and executed on September 22nd. Apparently they just like put aside a few days like a day a month. They probably did, because there was probably so many, well, there was so many people. It's insane.

The next one is Ann Pudet her. I think it is, she was in her 70s. She was a widow who lived in Salem. A lot of them were widows, I feel sad. I know, that's really sad. She also worked as a nurse and midwife, but she had a reputation for being, quote, sharp tongueed. She was just another girl trying to have a good time. She was just like, fuck this.

She would just tell you how it is. Yeah. I mean, she's seen some shit. She was a nurse and a midwife and the 1600s. Let her be sharp tongueed. She's seen shit. I would have been sharp tongueed. Yeah.

She was accused in May by Sarah Churchill and several other the bitches. Some of her medical supplies, such as foot ointments were confiscated and they were like, look, this is from the occult. I'd be like, yeah, I was a fucking nurse and that's gold bond. I'm helping you assholes. I've been helping you and healing you. During her trial, she was like, and she was like sharp tongue to the end. She was like, they are lying. They're liars.

She made sure to say it. She was brought to trial on September 9th and executed on September 22nd. The next one is milk, willment red. I don't know her age. She lived in Marblehead and was the wife of Fisherman Samuel Redd. Like Bridget and a few of the other ones, she had been accused of witchcraft before, I think in 1687. She was unpopular because she kind of had like an abrasive personality.

It happens. Yeah, and it's just like, her daughter was the wife of fellow accused, which Reverend George Burrows. So that's a little connection there. She was accused in May. She was brought to the Inger Saul tabern in Samuel Village for her examination. She had actually never met any of the afflicted girls before and when asked why they were afflicted she stated they were in a sad condition. What? So she was like, I don't know these bitches. And they were like, so somebody was like, well why are they afflicted then?

And she was like, I don't know, they're in a sad condition. Like, I don't know what the fuck is like. She was like, whatever. She was like, they're fucked up. She was indicted. And apparently several marble head residents testified against her. Because again, this is like, massacery. Everybody's pointing fingers.

She was brought to trial on the 17th of September and executed on the 22nd of September. Next one is Margaret Scott. She was 77 years old. Oh, yeah that's wild. It was a widow. I know. She was a widow from Rowley and she had seven children but only three survived childhood because 1600s man. children but only three survived childhood because 1600s man. Her husband had died in 1671 and after that she was left like super poor and had to like beg from her neighbors so they all hated her because how dare her be poor. Yeah She was accused by two of Rally's most notable families, the Wycombs and the Nelson's. Okay. A member of the Nelson family also sat on the grand jury that convicted her. That makes sense, right? How's it going to say that was a lot? Yeah, that's fine.

Everything was a lot. She was brought to trial on September 17th and executed on the 22nd. Whoa! The next one was Samuel Wardwell, age 49. He was a carpenter from Andover. He was a fortune teller, and he practiced folk magic. That's kind of what led to his accusation, unfortunately. He wasn't doing anything wrong. He was a fortune teller. He was jailed in Salem, which is a particularly rough jail. After he was arrested, his wife and his daughters were also arrested.

They immediately pointed to his fortune telling in, like, magic foreshadowing and said the devil may have taken advantage of him for these reasons. He then confessed to making a pact with the devil but later recanted that confession. He was brought to trial in mid-September and executed on September 22nd. Big day. Next one is Martha Cory. Kyle is his wife. Kyle is his wife.

She had a reputation. Her reputation was being a pious member of the church and community, and everybody liked her. Yeah. Like I think I mentioned on the other episode. She had a child at a weblock in the 1670s before marrying, uh, Giles. But even despite that, everyone was like, she's really nice. Yeah. It's like a church girl, where she's great. She was also an outspoken opponent of the witch trials and she stayed in many times that she thought the girls that were accusing were liars. Oh wow. So of course, they turned right on her.

And during her own examination, she told the judge, quote, we must not believe all these distracted children in what they say. It's true though. For each girl. Now, Giles actually ended up testifying against her in court, stating, and he said that she may have bewitched his farm animals and himself.

Jesus! Yeah. Now, she was brought to trial on September 9 and executed on September 22, just three days after Giles had been tortured to death for her using their plea. Next one is Mary Eastie, age 58. Mary Easter was the sister of accused which is Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Cloise. She lived in Toppsfield. Again, she was considered pious.

She was well respected. She was well liked. Mary, she was accused of witchcraft arrested but then released in May. But she was accused again a few days after her release and was arrested again. So she was found not guilty, everything was fine, they let her out and then they immediately brought it back in. She was examined and dided on two charges of witchcraft. She was brought to trial on September 9th and executed on September 22nd. New it.

The last one that was executed is Giles Corey. He was in his 80s. That's so fucked up. That's wild. Yeah, it's insane. So we kind of talked about him on the last episode, but basically he didn't want to enter a plea. He was tortured for three days in a field on Howard Street in Salem and it's time to force a plea out of him. He died on September 19th, 1692, and Robert Kalyf said this guy was like present for it. He said, quote, in the pressing Giles Corrie's tongue was pressed out of his mouth. The sheriff with a cane forced it back in again. Oh brutal. In a small victory though, because he didn't enter a plea, the government could not take his estate, and so he died in full possession of his land and assets, which were given to his heirs.

Well that was likely his intention doing this. Because if he entered a plea, they took up a plea. No one would have been able to have it. Cory was noted by witnesses that his torture was saying with his last dying breath, quote, damn you Sheriff, I curse you in Salem. Four years later at age 30, Sheriff George Corwin, who had arrested brutally tortured and executed the accused during the trials, had a fatal heart attack and died. Good. In haunted happenings, a book by Robert Ellis K. Hill, who was a former high sheriff of Essex County, noted that every sheriff since Corwin, including himself, a period of almost 300 years, all headquartered at the Salem jail

overlooking the spot where Corrie was pressed to death, had died while in office, or had been forced out of his post because of heart or blood ailments. That's wild. It's like a legit curse. I'm mad because I meant to take a picture of it when we were in Salem,

and I thought, that's what I was just looking for, but one of the women said, like, I curse you and like, you'll die with blood in your mouth. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And then one guy had like a mouth ulcer or something. Yeah, I was like a hemorrhage of some sort. And died with blood in his mouth. Yeah, I remember reading a poem.

Isn't that crazy? That's like crazy one. It's karma. It is so karma. So October 3rd, 16 finally an intelligent gentleman named who was minister Increased mother. His name was increased mother on October 3rd. He asked me what day it was he did it was October 3rd Increased mother tried to convince the court to stop taking spectral evidence as actual evidence in the court anymore. Because it was dumbass. Spectral evidence means the accusers were claiming that the accused came to them in like

spirit or ghost form. Yeah. So after a full year of allowing this shit to go on, they're like, you're right. Well suddenly Governor Fips' wife, Mary, all of a sudden got brought in and was interrogated on suspiciousness that she was a witch. After this, Governor F governor was like, No. He decided out of the goodness of his heart that he should set the accused free and stop the trials.

So he dismantled the court of Oyer and Terminer and he replaced it with the superior court of judicature. This court was different because they were forbidden from taking spectral evidence in a consideration. So they actually put a rule on them. The judges for this new court were William Stoton, Thomas Danforth, John Richards, Wait So Winthrop, and Samuel Sewell. So eventually by May 1693, Governor Fipps pardoned all the remaining accused.

October 17, 1711, the surviving accused and some of the victims' families convinced the colony to pass a bill that cleared some of the accused and executed victims' names. They should. These victims and families were also paid restitutions. Good. In 1957, so jumping up a little bit, Massachusetts governor Foster for Kalo signed a bill until law that officially apologized for the sale in witch trials. I just think that's so funny. It's like... Yeah, we're sorry. Whoops! Like your... Carbine. Yeah, your apologies are totally great. A little lady. Yeah, thank you for that.

So did anything ever happen to Ann Putnam and the Bitchee girls? No. They just got to live their lives. Yeah. No one was mean to them. No, not that. I mean, maybe. But I would have been real mean to them. Well, and luckily this build they signed in 1957, officially cleared the name of some of the remaining victims

that weren't listed in the original 1711 law. Oh, that's good. In 1992, on the 300th anniversary of the trials, the city of Salem built the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, and the City of Danvers built the Salem Village Witchcraft Victims Memorial and honor them for all the victims. And like we're saying, it's really spooky and heavy if you like stand in the middle of that shit.

It's crazy. And just like see how many? It's just really, it's a lot. Um, on October 31st, 2001, the state amended the 1957 apology, clearing the names of all remaining victims. Oh, wow. In what it says is, quote, chapter 145 of the resolves of 1957 is hereby amended by striking out, in line one,

the words one, and putature, and certain other persons, which is what the origin of them said. And inserting in place, there of the following words, and Pudature, Bridget Bishop, Susanna Martin, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott, and Will Met Red, because those are the ones that were left out of the original one. So theories for why this all happened in the first place? Because I call the book Does This Star? Well, a behavioral scientist Linda Caparral suggested something

that's like kind of... Make sense. Holds water. They think that the afflicted girls may have been exposed to a fungus called ergot. The fungus can grow on grains like rye, which were very common used in Salem in this time period. This fungus can cause convulsive ergotism, which

can cause someone to have hallucinations, muscle contractions, similar to seizures, vertigo, and crawling or tingling sensation. So this sounds like a lot what the guys were dealing with. The fact that rice supplies had a long storage life back then, and there was a lot of moisture due to this like tiny ice age that was going on back then. It was like super cold. Yeah. So there was a lot of moisture due to this tiny ice age that was going on back then. It was super cold. So there was a lot of moisture in the air. That could have caused this fungus to grow, and they wouldn't have known back then that

you were supposed to eat that. So do you think that happened and then they went too far with it? But the girls didn't show any of the physical symptoms of Ergot convulsive ergotism because it sometimes includes literal disintegrating fingertips It's like a sense. Whoa, and they didn't have any of that right? So it's like I don't know it makes sense So a point now another theory is just straight up hysteria And the reason for the hysteria could be attributed to I mean in one instance Robert K. Leif who was a Salem merchant I mean, in one instance, Robert K. Leff, who was a Salem merchant, accused Samuel Paris, who was the original accuser's father, of using the witch trials to get back his power

that he was losing in the village, and he claimed that Paris must have forced his slave Ticchaba to confess, thus starting the whole thing off. Right. Now, in 1684, right before the trials, King Charles II revoked the Massachusetts Bay Colonies Royal Charter, which was a legal document granting the colonist permission to colonize the area. The Charter was revoked because the colonists were said to have violated a lot of the rules that were set out in the Charter, which include basing laws on religious beliefs and discriminating against, Anglicans. A new or more anti-religious charter was

replaced in 1691 and also combined the Massachusetts Bay colony, Plymouth colony, and several other colonies into one. So the Puritans who had left England due to religious persecution started thinking their religion was going to be attacked again because of this. So they all got worried about losing control of the colony, political instability, and now the threat to their religion again. That made this feeling of uneasiness and anxiety, so that's all happening. And then on top of that, what was going on back then was King Philip's War. Which was real fucked up. Exactly. It was ongoing at this time, which was real fucked up. Exactly.

It was ongoing at this time. In the front lines of that, we're only like 70 miles away from Salem. Oh, wow. So most of the people of Salem had seen some of the shit that was going on in the wars. Like, they'd seen really fucked up shit. So, and then they were also fearing that Native American attacks were going to happen at any time. So several of the afflicted girls had witnessed a lot of atrocities

in shit. So they were like maybe it's post-traumatic stress that would cause this hysteria because we're still going on the hysteria theory. And on top of that, children at this time were restricted from almost all forms of play. They were expected to really just do chores and study their Bible. And that sounds like a lot of nonsense. So of course they're going to be bored in this book, which is going to cause hysteria. And also on top of that, the stress of living in such a rigid religious society on this dangerous place that's sitting right next to a fucking war that's going on could make this happen. And I mean, if you really look at what hysteria is defined as, it's quote, a condition affecting a group of persons categorized by excitement or anxiety,

or rational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness, or another definition of it is basically the same. It just says, a rapid spread of conversion disorder, a condition involving the appearance of bodily complaints for which there is no organic basis. In such episodes, psychological distress is converted or channeled into physical symptoms. Wow. So my money is on hysteria, stemming from all of those things. Stemming from boredom. The war.

The war. Boredom. It was really cold. They were going through a crazy, like, long cold spell at that point. There's just a ton of shit going on. the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... the lower... Maybe it can be distributed to it a little bit. Sure. Who knows? Boredom hysteria with a little touch. A little dash of fungal infection. It's a little dash of fungal infection. Just like, if we're making a potion. If we're making a potion.

Which we're not. I'm not doing it. A pinch of it. That's a lot of pinch. Now, if you want the legitimate full transcripts of the entire Salem Witch Trials, and all the accused. Go to salam.lib.virginia.edu and they have literally the transcripts of everything, like

all the court trials and everything is actually fascinating. I feel like that was so much. But go there if you really want to see what's going on. And yeah, so that is that. That is the Salem Witch Trials. So that was a lot to take in. But don't accuse your neighbors. Yeah, the moral of the story is if somebody's name is Putnam, be wary. Hell yeah. Be cotton wary about this. Be cotton wary of the Putnam. You should be.

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