In a 17th century New England town, called Salem, Massachusetts, a sudden illness sparked the largest witch hunt in American history. Over a hundred people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 were sent to their deaths before the panic eventually died down. The town wore the event like a scarlet letter for centuries. But it’s since embraced its legacy as modern-day witchcraft practitioners have taken over the town once more.
Episode Source Material
DOCUMENTARIES (FILM & TV)
- YouTube: WE MET A REAL WITCH IN SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS – Pentagram Shoppe Witchcraft 2021.
- YouTube: I spent the Day with Salem’s Satanists & Witches.
COURT DOCUMENTS
ACADEMIC PAPERS
- Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2013 volume). Lavender and the Nervous System, by Peir Houssein Koulivand, Maryam Khaleghi Ghadiri, and Ali Gorji.
- Complementary Therapies in Medicine (volume 68). The effect of lavender on stress in individuals: A systematic review and meta-analysis, by Tina Ghavami, Mohsen Kazeminia, and Fatemeh Rajati.
- Pharmacognosy Research (Volume 7, supplement 1). Cinnamon: mystic powers of a minute ingredient, by Pallavi Kawatra and Rathai Rajagopalan.
- Science (Volume 192). Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem? by Linnda R. Caporael.
WEB/SOCIAL MEDIA/MESSAGE BOARDS
- Vox: There weren’t any witches in Salem in 1693. But there sure are now (website).
- Salem Witch Museum: The Salem Witch Trials (website).
- Salem.org: Salem Witch Trials of 1692 (website).
- Spiritual Travels: The Witches of Salem Today (website).
- Enchanted Living: A Salem Legend – Laurie Cabot on Turning a Witch City Around (website).
- TikTok: untitled post. (TikTok post).
- Penn Today: Possessed: The Salem Witch Trials (website).
- Encyclopedia Britannica: Salem witch trials (website).
- Smithsonian Magazine: A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials (website).
- Famous Trials: Sir William Phips (website).
- Salem Witch Museum: Bridget Bishop Hope and Orchards, Site of (website).
- Salem State University: Laurie Cabot (website).
- University at Albany, State University of New York Scholars Archive: Confessions in the Salem Witch Trials (online honors master’s thesis).
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project: Sarah Good. (website)
- Salem Witch Museum: Sarah Osborne House. (website)
- TIME: The Witch Trials That America Forgot. (website)
- Pharmacy 180: Ergot. (website)
- Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Cropwitch: Ergot in Wheat – UNL Cropwatch, July 8, 2011. (website)
- Boston: The theory that may explain what was tormenting the afflicted in Salem’s witch trials. (website)
- Huffington Post: Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria. (website)
- Encyclopedia Britannica: Cotton Mather. (website)
- World History Encyclopedia: Salem Witch Trials. (website)
- PBS: S2 EP 1: Witches Curse Clues and Evidence. (website)
- Salem Witch Museum: Debunking the “Moldy Bread” Theory. (website)