Show Notes
Unanswerable Questions, Unquestionable Answers
In this episode, it’s 1692 and Caitlin and Francesgrace find themselves on opposite sides of the sharp divide between the Witches and the Hanging Judge. Welcome to Salem.
Accessibility: A large stone bench, roughhewn, reads: John Proctor | Hanged | August 19, 1692. On top of the bench, there are decaying flowers and a painted stone.
The Witches:
“Historic Burying Grounds” April 6, 2016. https://www.salem.org/blog/historic-burying-grounds/
Aronson, Marc. Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials. New York: Atheneum, 2003.
Baker, Emerson W. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014.
Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice. “The Salem Witch Trials Victims: Who Were They?” August 19, 2015. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/salem-witch-trials-victims/
Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP 1974.
Swift, Adams. “Where were the Salem Witch Trial victims buried? Peabody researchers have an idea.” Itemslive.com. November 9, 2017. https://www.itemlive.com/2017/11/09/salem-witch-trial-victims-buried-peabody-researchers-think-know/
Taylor, Betsy. “Documents Shed New Light On Witchcraft Trials” The Salem Evening News. (Salem, MA) Nov. 4, 1999.
Trask, Richard B. The Devil Hath Been Raised: A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692. Wichita, KS: Yeoman Press, 1997.
Upham, Charles. Salem Witchcraft. Mineola, NY: Dover Publication, 2000.
Bonus Link:
Accessibility Description: A green field bisected by a white walking path. On both sides of the path, there are old gravestones. there are trees and buildings in the background.
The Magistrates:
Baker, Emerson W. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014.
Foulds, Diane. Death In Salem: The Private Lives Behind The 1692 Witch Hunt. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2010.
Martin, Lois. The History of Witchcraft. Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, 2007.
Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. New York: Vintage Books, 2002.
Schiff, Stacy. The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem. Boston: Little Brown, 2015.
Upham, Charles. Salem Witchcraft. Mineola, NY: Dover Publication, 2000.
Bonus Link:
Land Acknowledgment:
We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.
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