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AF-254: The Connecticut Witch Trials: Witch Hysteria in America Long Before Salem
AF-254: The Connecticut Witch Trials: Witch Hysteria in America Long Before Salem
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9 minutes
Released:
May 31, 2019
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Podcast episode
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If you thought the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692 were the only incident of witch hysteria in colonial America, that is understandable. This incident is widely known and talked about, probably because of the sheer volume of numbers of people who were convicted and accused. There were twenty victims who were unjustly executed, while hundreds more for miles around and from far outside of Salem were accused and spent time in jail before the hysteria ended. However, the incident in Salem Village was not the first or only time this happened in colonial America. There are other incidents of witch hysteria or individual witch accusations that are simply overlooked. One of the most notorious of these “forgotten” witch incidents happened a generation before Salem in Hartford, Connecticut... Show Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/the-connecticut-witch-trials-witch-hysteria-in-america-long-before-salem/ Listen via: https://ancestralfindings.com/itunes https://ancestralfindings.com/youtube Weekly Giveaways: https://ancestralfindings.com/drawing Free eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Hard To Find Surnames: https://ancestralfindings.com/surnames Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.twitter.com/ancestralstuff https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/willmoneymaker Send me a postcard: https://ancestralfindings.com/mail
Released:
May 31, 2019
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Podcast episode
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