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This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

The Salem Witch Trials

This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.43.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In 1692, Salem Massachusetts was overrun by the Devil himself.  Or that's what the Puritan men running the Massachusetts Bay Colony believed.  Hundreds of men and women, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft, and more often than not, by a group of young girls.  Throughout the witch trials that took place throughout that year, 18 people were hanged and one man was pressed to death.  

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0:00.0

It sounds to me, parts of it, like a really bad, like, mushroom trip that my ex-boyfriend's friend had.

0:10.0

Like, they all did shrooms one night, and this guy just had a really bad trip.

0:14.5

That immediately is what this sounded like to me.

0:16.8

And, you know, the Puritans were eating shrooms.

0:30.5

Yeah. And, you know, the Puritans were were eating shrooms. This is a big one, you guys.

0:32.8

This is a big one.

0:34.1

It has so many more implications than we even ever realize. And it's one that we all know

0:41.3

because of the crucible. So let's get into it. In 1692, Salem, Massachusetts was overrun by

0:49.5

El Diablo, the devil himself. Or that's what the Puritan men running the Massachusetts Bay Colony believed.

0:59.3

All right, I'm not going to start.

1:01.3

I'm not going to start that yet.

1:03.0

Okay.

1:03.7

Hundreds of men and women, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft and more often than not

1:08.3

by a group of young girls.

1:10.6

Throughout the witch trials that

1:11.6

took place that year, 18 people were hanged and one man was pressed to death.

1:20.3

Little excessive Salem, but you know, let's talk about it. We are going to talk about

1:27.3

domestic abuse, witchcraft, and general a buffoonery.

1:32.3

We're going to talk about important men having important thoughts.

1:35.8

And look where that got us.

1:39.7

A big old, hey girl, thanks to Beth, who requested this case, who wrote this case up, and who visited Salem, I guess last year now.

1:50.0

And, yeah, just loving all of that for Beth.

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