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Salem Witch Trials Daily follows the 1692 Salem witch trials in real time. Day by day. Document by document.Hosted by Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack — co-hosts of The Thing About Salem and The Thing About Witch Hunts — each micro-episode covers what was actually happening in…
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The Witchcraft Trial of Martha Cory: September 8, 1692 (opens the original)
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Andover’s Mass Touch Test and Martha Cory’s Conviction — September 8, 1692 The Andover phase of the witch-hunt escalates with a rare mass “touch test” at the Andover meetinghouse, where suspects are blindfolded, made to touch the afflicted, and then arrested under a warrant from Justice Dudley Bradstreet before being taken to Salem for examination. Using later declarations and Increase Mather’s reporting, we trace how women such as Mary Osgood, Deliverance Dane, and others described relentless p
The Witchcraft Trials of Ann Pudeator and Alice Parker: September 7, 1692 (opens the original)
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September 7, 1692: Divination, Spectral Claims, and Guilty Verdicts for Alice Parker and Ann PudeatorWe take you straight into September 7, 1692, as Salem Witch Trials history turns on examinations, divination, and courtroom spectacle. Our hosts follow Rebecca Johnson Sr. and Henry Salter as “sieve and scissors” and “Bible and key” methods are treated as witchcraft, while afflicted witnesses collapse, recover at a touch, and swear they see the devil. The action intensifies with nine witnesses ac
The Trial of Dorcas Hoar: September 6, 1692 (opens the original)
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September 6, 1692: Ann Pudeator’s Grand Jury Evidence and Dorcas Hoar’s Guilty VerdictStep into September 6, 1692, as we track a pivotal day in the Salem witch trials: Alice Parker is re-examined, the Court of Oyer and Terminer summons witnesses against Mary Esty, and the grand jury presses forward on Ann Pudeator with accusations from Sarah Churchill, Mary Warren, Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann Putnam Jr., Sarah Bibber, and Mary Walcott. Then the focus shifts to Dorcas Hoar’s witchcraft trial, where te
Alleged Witches from Gloucester and Reading: September 5, 1692 (opens the original)
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Touch Tests and Confessions: September 5, 1692 at Salem CourtWe take you straight into the Salem Witch Trials on September 5, 1692, as arrests in Gloucester bring Elizabeth Dicer and Margaret Prince before the Salem justices alongside Jane Lilly, Mary Colson, and Mary Taylor. Our account follows the courtroom chaos of fits, the notorious touch test, and escalating accusations tied to the deaths of William Hooper and Edward Marshall and the burning of Hooper’s house—complete with testimony about
The Search for Witchcraft Suspect Elizabeth Colson: September 4, 1692 (opens the original)
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Constable Parker’s Arrests and Elizabeth Colson’s Escape — September 4, 1692We follow Reading Constable John Parker as he arrests Mary Colson, Mary Taylor, and Jane Lilly, including a chilling remark attributed to Taylor about Mrs. Marshall facing a fate like Mary Warren’s and a “hotter pot” hereafter. The search intensifies when Parker tries to seize Elizabeth Colson, long complained of, and with William Arnall and Arnall’s dog tracks her to Lydia Dustin’s house—only to watch Elizabeth bolt acr
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