Salem Witchcraft Trials: More Bonkers Than You Know

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Looking back 300 years on, it’s easy to overgeneralize why the Salem Villagers decided to persecute (and execute) their neighbors. But as much as this story has become an American history chestnut, we still don’t understand why Salem lost its mind.

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0:31.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
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0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.0	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there.
0:46.0	There's Jerry over here lurking around like a bit of a ghoul because it is the Halloween
0:51.1	season after all.
0:53.2	And this is Stuff You Should Know.
0:55.2	That's right.
0:56.7	Spooky Witch Trials.
0:59.4	Yeah, yeah.
1:01.1	It is.
1:02.1	It's really nice to have stuff like this that you can be removed from by a few hundred
1:06.1	years and just kind of evokes that Halloween spirit or whatever but Chuck.
1:12.3	I have found just in recently researching this.
1:16.8	If you put yourself into the position that people who are walking to the gallows and think
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