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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are listening to a great podcast on the Salem Witch Trials. Back then, and now, are so similar
My wife and I are working our way through a really interesting, well done podcast called Unobscured. Season one focuses on the Salem Witch Trials, which happened in 1692.
One thing that is very clear - even though it was nearly 330 years ago, the factors that led to the erroneous hanging of so many people are clearly on display with trump and his trump cult.
We thought it would be fascinating to learn about a part of history neither my wife or I knew all that much about (and being New Englanders, it is really fun to fill in parts of history not far from where one grew up)...we were not prepared to find so many parallels to today. There are some great interviews with scholars, and each one draws analogies to life and the thinking process (and disregard for the truth) of cult type behavior.
Give it a listen - if you are in to podcasts, particularly ones focused on history or true crime.
https://historyunobscured.com/season1/
JDC
(10,133 posts)if you get to the Mass N Shore be sure to go.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)family research a few years ago
Delmette2.0
(4,169 posts)I love podcasts about history. I have to look it up.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)This is not meant to apply to real Christians and there are many.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)My mom did thousands of hours of research on our family tree and discovered that she was the only person ever tried for witchcraft in PA. "She was found guilty of having the common fame of a witch but was acquitted of actually being one". After the trial her family moved to NJ. Neighbors said that missing livestock and ill animals were connected to her as well as making the stock levitate. This part is funny, "The evidence to convict her disappeared". Of course it would if she were a real witch, right?
When I was teaching 5th Grade the textbook said that the Salem witches were often mid-wives who were taking business away from the male doctors so the doctors badmouthed them. I always wondered how much of that is true.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)It was very good! Still hard to fathom how the whole thing got started, how people were actually convicted and killed, and how long it seemed to take to stop it. BTW they are apparently going to be releasing the soundtrack played in the background at some point.