{"id":6517,"date":"2021-10-31T13:17:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T12:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=190299"},"modified":"2021-10-31T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T13:04:19","slug":"salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-1-introduction","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/salem-witch-trials-podcast-episode-1-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Salem witch trials podcast, episode 1: introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 31 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In 1692, 19 members of a small New England community were hanged for witchcraft. Over the course of the year, young girls convulsed and barked like dogs, women confessed to flying on poles to satanic sabbaths, and villagers recounted seeing ghostly apparitions and translucent cats. How can we explain these seemingly inexplicable events? 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