Salem Witch Trials: Coven of Conspiracy with Em Schulz and Christine Schiefer | 44

The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Back in the day, Salem Village was awash in bad vibes. What started as a few stressed out colonial tweens messing around became a conspiracy of religious paranoia with townsfolk turning on each other quicker than Kendrick and Drake. Months of false testimony and baseless accusations in packed courtrooms resulted in death, ruin, and one of the most embarrassing judicial failures of all time.

The co-hosts of, And That's Why We Drink, Em Schulz and Christine Schiefer, join Misha to hex the patriarchy and point the finger at The Salem Witch Trials.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Big Flop early and ad-free.
0:05.3	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:19.7	Tidjaba has nowhere left to turn. She shivers from the cold and the fear. It's winter of 1692,
0:28.3	and she's on trial in Salem, Massachusetts, accused of practicing witchcraft. As an enslaved woman of
0:36.4	color in colonial America, Tichuba's basically helpless.
0:41.4	The men, in charge, have told her over and over that she has to confess or else.
0:48.4	At this point, she has no choice.
0:52.0	So she decides to lean in and give them what they want. Tichiba steadies herself.
0:59.5	The devil came to me, she announces, and told me to serve him. The onlookers gasp. She continues,
1:10.0	describing him to a captive audience. He's tall, white
1:15.0	haired, stylish, draped in a long black coat surrounded by wicked women. Who are these other
1:23.5	women? I didn't get a good look, but they're definitely out there, yet lots of them.
1:29.2	And now, I can't see! She screams. Wow. Satan must be really angry with her for giving up his
1:36.9	secrets, right? Tichiba delivers the performance of a lifetime, and the gambit pays off.
1:45.9	The authorities dismiss her.
1:47.1	She's safe.
1:49.0	But problem!
1:53.3	Now the locals have to catch the actual spellcasters, and since those don't exist,
1:56.0	this is shaping up to be a real witch hunt.
2:00.2	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
2:03.6	Some folks in the Puritan village blamed the odd behavior of several young girls on witchcraft.
2:13.6	The big problem in the 17th century is that witches are real.
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