BONUS 9 - The Salem Witch Trials

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

So much crazy in one episode. In 1692, the residents of Salem Village became obsessed with the idea that the Devil himself was in their midst and that he was being helped by an army of witches looking to bring down all of New England. A special court was created to bring these witches to justice, and residents were hanged because another resident claimed they saw them doing witch stuff in a dream. A dream!! So nuts and one of my favorite, if not my very favorite, episode of Timesuck so far. Enjoy! Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact

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0:00.0	Between 1692 and 1693, hundreds of people were accused of practicing witchcraft, the Devil's
0:06.3	Magic, and 20 were executed in Salem Village, Massachusetts, right where the present day
0:11.0	city of Danvers, Massachusetts now sits.
0:14.5	Danvers incidentally would later be the home of a horrible place known as the Danvers
0:17.7	Lunatic Asylum, a Kirkbride plan asylum later known as the Danvers Hospital for the
0:23.3	criminally insane, inspiration for HP Lovecraft's horror story, Arkham Sanitarium, which in
0:28.7	turn inspired Batman's Arkham Asylum.
0:31.6	What a dark history this little area of Massachusetts has, and it was at its darkest in the late
0:36.8	17th century when scores of early Puritan settlers were accused, arrested, and put on trial
0:43.3	to determine if they were an actual witch.
0:45.6	Can you imagine that?
0:46.8	That's like not only being accused of being a vampire, but actually putting jail and
0:50.3	given a trial overseeing by community leaders to determine if you are in fact something
0:55.0	that is impossible to be.
0:57.1	And then in some cases, be put to death for crimes you couldn't commit.
1:01.5	Being tried for being a witch makes about as much sense as being tried for raping a unicorn,
1:07.5	but it happened and people died.
1:09.7	So let's go colonial, let's go supernatural.
1:13.2	Let's get puritanically paranoid right now on TimeSuck.
1:27.5	Greetings, TimeSuckers.
1:29.4	Welcome to this special 900-iTune review Friday bonus edition of The Suck on the Incomments,
1:36.5	and this is TimeSuck.
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