Hello everyone and welcome to this third installment of our off-season break

where we are exploring some previous episodes of the dusty tome that looked deep

into the topic of witches and specifically the Salem

witch trials in Massachusetts. We hope that you all enjoyed part one of the

official Salem study and this is part two and that means that after this episode, there are only three more weeks of the off season from the main show of Haunted Cosmos.

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Enjoy. Witchcraft or the twisted and evil and improper use of supernatural power has been around since days before words were ever even written, or so it seems.

For example, long ago, it probably seems like many worlds ago to many of us, the Patriarch

Jacob took he and his household into the land of Egypt.

A famine had been assaulting the region for many years and the

aging servant of Jehovah was nearing the end of his rope and his wits. But by

some miraculous turn of divine Providence. Old Israel himself had learned that his most beloved son,

Joseph, the one he thought was long dead, was actually alive, and was ruling in Egypt, second in command to Pharaoh himself.

And Joseph had bid his father and his brothers and all of their household with them to come

to Egypt so that they might dwell in a land of security and sustenance.

Thus began the nation of Israel's long sojourn in the land of Egypt, the land of Goshen.

Long would be their stay in this fertile place along the banks of the Nile

Delta, and near the end of it it would grow hard and tiresome. The Egyptians grew threatened

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