SALEM EPISODE 5: Satanic sabbaths and supernatural sins

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🗓️ 7 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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From flying witches to demonic familiars and translucent cats, the Salem villagers believed themselves plagued by a spectrum of supernatural terrors. In this episode we’ll be investigating the long history of witchcraft beliefs that influenced accusations, from the first witches in the ancient world to the explosion of witch hunts triggered by fears of a satanic conspiracy in Early Modern Europe and America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.5	Welcome to Salem, investigating the witch trials.
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0:41.9	This is episode five.
0:53.5	If anything the Salem tells you, it's about the intensity of the fear of witches,
0:58.0	all the things and harmful things they do, all the misfortunes that can be explained on
1:01.8	on these people, on neighbours, on family members who you think want to do harm to you.
1:05.8	It may seem like the most obvious thing in the world to say that the Salem witch trials
1:10.0	happened because people
1:11.3	were afraid of witches. But if there's one thing that all the historians I spoke to wanted to
1:16.7	stress more than anything else, it was this exact fact, the power and pervasiveness of belief in
1:23.0	the supernatural that abounded in communities such as Salem. And if we start to understand the intensity
1:28.7	of these beliefs better, then seeing translucent cats or hairy monsters by your fireside
1:35.1	might not seem so crazy. Although, as Stacey Schiff, author of a history of the Salem Witch
1:41.4	Trials, has revealed. To begin with, this can all be quite
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