Speaker 1: It's April eighth, sixteen thirty eleven ships known as the
Speaker 1: Winthrop Fleet, led by one John Winthrop, are docked at
Speaker 1: Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, just off the south
Speaker 1: coast of England. The Arbella, the flagship of the fleet,
Speaker 1: is loaded ready to depart, along with its three escorts,
Speaker 1: the Talbot, the Ambrose and the Duel. The air is
Speaker 1: unusually cold for the springtime, and oppressive gray clouds hang
Speaker 1: ominously low overhead, then far off in the distance. A
Speaker 1: shining golden ray of sunlight breaks suddenly through a small
Speaker 1: gap in the clouds. For the throng of Puritan women,
Speaker 1: children and men that stand expectantly waiting to board the vessels.
Speaker 1: This is a divine blessing, an undeniable sign from God
Speaker 1: that they are making the right decision. Back then, England
Speaker 1: under King Charles the First was a dangerous place for Puritans.
Speaker 1: The Anglican Church of England, with Charles at its head,
Speaker 1: had too many Roman Catholic rituals for their liking. For them,
Speaker 1: worshiping God was supposed to be a simple and austere act,
Speaker 1: not one framed by gold and idolatry. More pertinent for Charles. However,
Speaker 1: was the fact that Puritans also rejected the divine right
Speaker 1: of kings, the idea that monarchs are granted their power
Speaker 1: by God and therefore only answerable to God. Their mere existence,
Speaker 1: as far as King Charles was concerned, an act of treason,
Speaker 1: and so many Puritans decided their best hope was to
Speaker 1: cut ties with England entirely and trust in their God
Speaker 1: to guide them to another world where they could live freely,
Speaker 1: unmolested by the English authorities. An early attempt was made
Speaker 1: to establish a community in the Netherlands, but there they
Speaker 1: still had to exist within the framework of an already
Speaker 1: established nation. What they really needed was a blank slate,
Speaker 1: just as the founders of Jamestown had done in sixteen
Speaker 1: oh seven and the Mayflower Pilgrims of sixteen twenty. Clearly
Speaker 1: what they had to do was to take to the
Speaker 1: seas and strike out for the new World. In the
Speaker 1: late sixteen twenties, the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded.
Speaker 1: Its purpose, as the name suggests, was to develop a
Speaker 1: colony in the region of Massachusetts Bay, an area incorporating
Speaker 1: the shoreline of what is present day Boston. Though ostensibly
Speaker 1: a business venture, it quickly became a popular means of
Speaker 1: escape to many Puritan families. In sixteen twenty nine, John
Speaker 1: Winthrop is elected its governor. Shortly before departing for Yarmouth
Speaker 1: to begin the journey to the Americas, he gives a
Speaker 1: rallying sermon at Holyrood Church in Southampton, at the time
Speaker 1: titled a Model of Christian Charity, but since immortalized as
Speaker 1: the City upon a Hill. Puritans believe that they alone
Speaker 1: serve God correctly, and so only they, out of all people,
Speaker 1: will be accepted into the Kingdom of heavy It stands
Speaker 1: to reason that the success of their future colony will
Speaker 1: be evidence that their beliefs are indeed the true will
Speaker 1: of God. Winthrop's speech concludes with the words, we must
Speaker 1: consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill.
Speaker 1: The eyes of all people are upon us, so that
Speaker 1: if we shall deal falsely with our God in this
Speaker 1: work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw
Speaker 1: his present help from us, we shall be made a
Speaker 1: story and a byword through the world. In other words,
Speaker 1: should things go well in the New World, their beliefs
Speaker 1: will be vindicated, and they will forever be a beacon
Speaker 1: of hope and truth to all who wish to follow them.
Speaker 1: Should they fail, however, or should some unequivocal disaster before them,
Speaker 1: that too would be God's will and proof that they
Speaker 1: had in fact been wrong all along. After two months,
Speaker 1: enduring the cold and wet, seasickness, and gale force winds,
Speaker 1: in June sixteen thirty, Winthrop's fleet and the seven hundred
Speaker 1: Puritans traveling with it finally reaches its destination, a peninsula
Speaker 1: of the fledgling New England, known to many local communities
Speaker 1: as Noomkeg. To these new arrivals, however, it is known
Speaker 1: as something different, inspired by the Hebrew word for peace,
Speaker 1: they call it Salem. You're listening to Unexplained, and I'm
Speaker 1: Richard McLean Smith. The Winthrop fleet lands at Salem Town,
Speaker 1: the major port city of the region. Over the next
Speaker 1: fifty years, a further twenty one thousand more Puritans follow
Speaker 1: and quickly establish settlements throughout New England. In that time,
Speaker 1: the city on the Hill weathers many storms. Most difficult
Speaker 1: of all is the war that breaks out in sixteen
Speaker 1: seventy five between the New England colonists and a number
Speaker 1: of indigenous communities. It claims the lives of thousands of
Speaker 1: native tribe members and immigrants alike. Many consider the war
Speaker 1: to be the last genuine opportunity that the indigenous communities
Speaker 1: have to eject the New England colonists from the continent.
Speaker 1: They do not succeed, however. The war claims the life
Speaker 1: lives of ten percent of the Puritan's male adult population
Speaker 1: and the destruction of a third of their newly established towns,
Speaker 1: and leaves a long, terrifying shadow in its wake. A
Speaker 1: nervy paranoia pervades the homes and churches of New England.
Speaker 1: Then another war breaks out soon after. This time, the
Speaker 1: battle is more directly between French and English colonists, each
Speaker 1: aided by some local communities with whom they'd formed loose alliances.
Speaker 1: For the Puritan settlers, of course, this isn't a sign
Speaker 1: that God didn't want them there after all, as John
Speaker 1: Winthrop had warned them to be vigilant for all those
Speaker 1: years ago, but rather just further proof that they were
Speaker 1: exactly where they were supposed to be. The settlers always
Speaker 1: considered the world beyond their villages and towns to be
Speaker 1: a strange and dark frontier, but there is no doubt
Speaker 1: now that the New world is but a proxy for Hell,
Speaker 1: and the devil does not want them there. But it
Speaker 1: was their god given duty, their divine mission, to drive
Speaker 1: back that darkness. However, it manifested whether that meant resisting
Speaker 1: the French armies or purging their new home of the barbaric,
Speaker 1: ungodly savages that already lived there. It is amid this
Speaker 1: febrile atmosphere that in June sixteen eighty eight, Samuel Paris
Speaker 1: travels to Salem Village, a disparate community of roughly six
Speaker 1: hundred people about five miles northwest of Salem Town. Paris
Speaker 1: is to be installed as its new minister, the fourth
Speaker 1: in fact, since the settling of the village, who had
Speaker 1: so far failed to unite the quarrelsome community. The problem,
Speaker 1: thinks Paris, is that the flock has simply lost its way.
Speaker 1: Is no nonsense approach, It's exactly what they need to
Speaker 1: be brought back into line. He begins by enforcing strict
Speaker 1: rules for membership. Only those who have fully committed to
Speaker 1: their conversion are accepted into his congregation. He also lengthens
Speaker 1: the sermons. A typical Sunday involves a three hour sermon
Speaker 1: in the morning at the meeting house where the congregation gather,
Speaker 1: and another extended service in the afternoon, with only a
Speaker 1: short refreshment break in between. Anyone caught nodding off faces
Speaker 1: the wrath of the tithing Man, a stern ominous figure
Speaker 1: who tiptoes silently around the world hall as Paris's dark,
Speaker 1: gloomy voice rings out. He carries a weirdly long stick
Speaker 1: with one end pointed and the other fixed with a
Speaker 1: bushy or feathery tail. Fall asleep and you get a tickle.
Speaker 1: Fail to wake and you get a sharp poke in
Speaker 1: the ribs. Minister Samuel Parris's changes do little to ingratiate
Speaker 1: him to his new community. Their disgruntlement only increases when
Speaker 1: he demands full ownership of the parsonage. Ordinarily, this would
Speaker 1: be given back to the church when the minister moves
Speaker 1: on to a different post, but Paris elects to keep
Speaker 1: it solely for himself and his family. He also declares
Speaker 1: that you will not pay for firewood, and negotiates a
Speaker 1: bonus for every outsider he brings into his flock. Despite
Speaker 1: all this, however, such as the vital importance of the
Speaker 1: church for most villagers, week after week, they dutifully trudge
Speaker 1: in to listen to Paris's sermons, but also, week after week,
Speaker 1: the divisions between those who support Paris and those who
Speaker 1: are beginning to despise him grow wider and wider. In October,
Speaker 1: at a town meeting, Paris's opponents take a vote to
Speaker 1: stop paying him entirely, so angered are they by his
Speaker 1: practices and demands. But Paris remains defiant, as he repeatedly
Speaker 1: tells his congregation, any opposition to him is nothing but
Speaker 1: a conspiracy manufactured by Satan himself, and so things can
Speaker 1: continue into the bitterly harsh winter of sixteen ninety one.
Speaker 1: It's some time toward the end of the year when
Speaker 1: a knock comes at Samuel Parris's door. He opens it
Speaker 1: to find Sarah Good standing on his doorstep, shivering in
Speaker 1: the cold, with little more than rags for clothes. Good
Speaker 1: looked considerably older than her thirty eight years, and life
Speaker 1: had left her angry and embittered. At the age of sixteen,
Speaker 1: her wealthy father committed suicide, leaving no will. Her father's
Speaker 1: property in Salem was divided between her mother and two brothers,
Speaker 1: with a small holding given to Sarah and her six sisters.
Speaker 1: But when Sarah's mother married again, her mother and new
Speaker 1: stepfather took it from her. Destitute and with nowhere to go,
Speaker 1: Good had little choice but to marry for security. Then
Speaker 1: her husband died unexpectedly, leaving her with debts she couldn't pay.
Speaker 1: These debts were carried over into a second marriage to
Speaker 1: William Good. William found occasional work as a laborer, but
Speaker 1: the couple are frequently reduced to begging to survive. For
Speaker 1: many Puritans, it is an unseemly practice. On Samuel Parris's doorstep,
Speaker 1: with snow all around, the shivering Sarah asks the minister
Speaker 1: if he has anything to spare, perhaps hoping a man
Speaker 1: of God might find it in his heart to grant
Speaker 1: her some charity. Paris eyes the woman suspiciously, then looks
Speaker 1: down the road toward the meeting house. I have not
Speaker 1: seen at my sermons these past few weeks, he says,
Speaker 1: Why is this? Sarah blows into her hands to warm them,
Speaker 1: then looks down at her clothes. I haven't the proper attire,
Speaker 1: she replies flatly. Paris regards her sorry state for a moment,
Speaker 1: then shees her away. Sarah seems about to say something
Speaker 1: but instead simply turns around and walks off back into
Speaker 1: the cold. Some will say this is all that occurred,
Speaker 1: Others that Sarah Good muttered something under her breath that
Speaker 1: day as she walked away from the Minister's home. One Sunday,
Speaker 1: during another endless sermon in early January sixteen ninety two,
Speaker 1: conditions have become so extreme that when the communion bread
Speaker 1: is passed around, it is frozen, and so it is
Speaker 1: with huge relief as the congregation huddles together, their teeth
Speaker 1: chattering and stamping their feet to keep them from going numb,
Speaker 1: when Minister Paris finally concedes it is too cold to
Speaker 1: continue and sends everyone home. Back at the parsonage that afternoon,
Speaker 1: as a healthy fire burns in the hearth, Paris's niece,
Speaker 1: eleven year old Abigail Williams, and his nine year old
Speaker 1: daughter Betty, are in the kitchen together. Abigail tells Betty
Speaker 1: to fetch a glass of water while she hunts for
Speaker 1: an egg in the larder. Moments later, Abigail cracks the
Speaker 1: egg into a bowl and carefully separates the yolk from
Speaker 1: the white. Then, as Betty holds out the glass of water,
Speaker 1: Abigail plops the egg white into it. Betty looks with
Speaker 1: confusion at the strange, viscous fluid now squirming about in
Speaker 1: the glass. Now says Abigail, would you like to play
Speaker 1: a game? For the young women of Salem Village? Opportunities
Speaker 1: for fun are thin on the ground. Puritans believe entertainment
Speaker 1: to be a sinful distraction from studying the scripture. There
Speaker 1: is no dancing or music, no parties or society events.
Speaker 1: This is especially true of the Paris household, whose patriarch
Speaker 1: runs his family like his congregation. Family time is spent
Speaker 1: studying scripture by firelight and listening to him lecture, even
Speaker 1: after the long days of church services. Perhaps it is this, then,
Speaker 1: the cloistered monotony of their existence, that leads Abigail and
Speaker 1: Betty to play with the venus glass. In sixteen forty,
Speaker 1: the New England settlers drew up the Massachusetts Body of Liberties,
Speaker 1: a legal framework for the colonists to adhere to. Number
Speaker 1: one on the list of crimes worthy of the death
Speaker 1: penalty was the worshiping of any other god other than
Speaker 1: the puritan's own god, and number two was being a
Speaker 1: witch or consulting with the devil. Such was the paranoia
Speaker 1: over witches at the time. Even small folk magics were
Speaker 1: condemned as heretical and blasphemous by ministers in the area.
Speaker 1: Small folk magics like the Venus Glass. The Venus Glass,
Speaker 1: or Overmancy is used to determine the career of one's
Speaker 1: future partner with the use of an egg white poured
Speaker 1: into a glass of water. When the white separates from
Speaker 1: the water, the shape it forms is said to provide
Speaker 1: the answer. If the shape is a crown, your partner
Speaker 1: might be a king. If it is a cross, a
Speaker 1: minister perhaps, or a ship might suggest a sailor. Abigail
Speaker 1: and Betty stare at the glass of water as the
Speaker 1: viscous albumen swirls about. Then Betty's face crumbles in horror
Speaker 1: because it isn't a cross or a ship that she sees,
Speaker 1: but a Coffin. A few days after Abigail and Betty's
Speaker 1: session with the Venus Glass, something peculiar comes over nine
Speaker 1: year old Betty. She seems preoccupied with something to the
Speaker 1: point of distraction, but won't say what it is. At times,
Speaker 1: Samuel Parris finds her sitting alone, staring silently into other
Speaker 1: times she forgets her errands. She becomes fidgety and restless
Speaker 1: during prayer time. One night in the parsonage, the Paris
Speaker 1: family are gathered once again by the hearth as the
Speaker 1: orange light of flickering flames dance on their faces. Samuel
Speaker 1: is solemnly reciting the Lord's prayer when a bone splitting
Speaker 1: cry rings out. It is Betty, crying out in pain,
Speaker 1: as if the words are tormenting her. When Paris yells
Speaker 1: at her to stop it, she barks wildly at him
Speaker 1: like a dog in shock. Paris sends his daughter to bed,
Speaker 1: completely bemused as to what is going on. Over the
Speaker 1: next few days, whatever dreadful malady has befallen the girl intensifies.
Speaker 1: She throws herself onto the floor and breaks into fits,
Speaker 1: or goes suddenly stiff, her body contorting into unnatural positions.
Speaker 1: During one especially violent outburst, she throws a Bible across
Speaker 1: the room. Then Abigail starts fitting too. Even stranger is
Speaker 1: when she has found one day to be covered in
Speaker 1: angry red welts, as if someone or something had bitten
Speaker 1: and pinched her all over. Abigail claims to have no
Speaker 1: idea how the marks got there. At a loss with
Speaker 1: what to do, Paris seeks the help of Reverend John
Speaker 1: Hale from the neighboring village of Beverly. Hale suggests a
Speaker 1: simple course of prayer and fasting to remedy the situation,
Speaker 1: But no matter how hard he tries, Reverend Paris's prayers
Speaker 1: do nothing to halt the strange inflictions. Then, in late January,
Speaker 1: disturbing news reaches the village of Salem. It was early
Speaker 1: in the morning of January twenty fourth when English settlers
Speaker 1: in the village of York, about fifty miles to the north,
Speaker 1: were startled awake by the sound of war cries. Before
Speaker 1: they knew what was happening, around three hundred Panawab scary men,
Speaker 1: a tribe local to the region, tore through the village,
Speaker 1: burning down houses and murdering villages. The attack, coordinated with
Speaker 1: the colonial French army, left one hundred men, women and
Speaker 1: children dead, with another eighty taken prisoner. The town's minister,
Speaker 1: Shubbal Dammer, was stripped naked and his body mutilated before
Speaker 1: he died. News of the town's demise strikes fear through
Speaker 1: all in Salem. Here was yet more evidence of the
Speaker 1: demons that lurk on the horizon, just waiting for the
Speaker 1: right moment to strike. It was a fear some reminder
Speaker 1: how vital it was to remain vigilant at all times
Speaker 1: to even the slightest hint of a threat to their
Speaker 1: lives and their mission. In mid February, a month after
Speaker 1: Betty and Abigail began acting strangely, Samuel Parris, disturbed by
Speaker 1: the manner in which York's minister Shibal Dummer was murdered,
Speaker 1: finally confides in his close friend Thomas Putnam about what
Speaker 1: has been going on in his home. The Putnams are
Speaker 1: a prominent family in Salem Village and vocal supporters of Paris.
Speaker 1: Putnam arrives at the parsonage accompanied by his daughter Ann
Speaker 1: Putnam Junior and his servant Mercy Lewis, both of whom
Speaker 1: are friends of Abigail and Betty. He takes one look
Speaker 1: at the pale and exhausted young girls and tells Paris
Speaker 1: to call for a doctor at once. Doctor William Griggs
Speaker 1: was likely self taught with no official medical background. On
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth of February, he arrives at the Paris
Speaker 1: home to carry out an assessment. Samuel and his wife Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: watch on nervously as Griggs inspects Abigail and Betty while
Speaker 1: they lie silently in bed. Having finished, he bids Samuel
Speaker 1: and Elizabeth to follow him into an adjoining room. He
Speaker 1: tells them solemnly that he found nothing physically wrong with
Speaker 1: the girls. Therefore, there can be only one conclusion. He says,
Speaker 1: an evil hand is upon them. In other words, the
Speaker 1: girls were under the curse of some kind of demonic
Speaker 1: spell placed by a witch. Samuel and Zabeth's eyes widen
Speaker 1: in horror. For the minister, it is his worst nightmare,
Speaker 1: but vindication too for his insistence that Satan is alive
Speaker 1: and well in Salem. The following day, Minister Paris and
Speaker 1: his wife leave to attend a lecture in another town.
Speaker 1: In their absence, the explosive news spreads through the village.
Speaker 1: Mary Sibley, who lived close to the Paris, is especially disturbed.
Speaker 1: She takes it on herself to offer some advice. Shortly
Speaker 1: after Samuel and Elizabeth leave, she visits the parsonage where
Speaker 1: she speaks to the family's enslaved couple, John Indian and Tituba.
Speaker 1: John is an indigenous native of what is known today
Speaker 1: as South America. Titchuba's origins have been much debated over
Speaker 1: the years, though it is generally thought that she was
Speaker 1: from the Carrabe Being. At some point she was abducted
Speaker 1: from her community and enslaved by a British plantation owner,
Speaker 1: before eventually being inherited by Samuel Parris. Mary Sibley tells
Speaker 1: them to make a witch's cake to combat the spell
Speaker 1: and expose the demonic witch. A witch's cake is made
Speaker 1: by adding the urine of one suffering from a witch's
Speaker 1: curse to some rye flower, which is then baked into
Speaker 1: a biscuit. This is then fed to a dog. An
Speaker 1: active ingredient of a witch's curse is thought to be
Speaker 1: present in the inflicted's urine. If the dog exhibits the
Speaker 1: same symptoms after eating the biscuit as the person who
Speaker 1: has been cursed, it is confirmation that the curse is real.
Speaker 1: Some also believe the witch will cry out in pain
Speaker 1: the moment the dog eats the biscuit, as if they
Speaker 1: themselves were being chewed up by the dog. John Indian
Speaker 1: dutifully collects urine from Abigail and Betty and hands it
Speaker 1: to Tituba. Who mixes it with rye flower before baking
Speaker 1: the pungent mixture in hot ashes. Tituba is then said
Speaker 1: to have fed it to the family dog while she
Speaker 1: John and the Paris's other children, Thomas and Susannah nervously
Speaker 1: watched on for any sign of distress, but the dog
Speaker 1: simply gobbles it up, licks its lips, and ambles away.
Speaker 1: Perhaps they think with relief there is no witch after all.
Speaker 1: A short time later, a few miles away, a scream
Speaker 1: rings out in the home of Thomas Putnam. Inside the
Speaker 1: Unham's home, Thomas looks on aghast as his twelve year
Speaker 1: old daughter Anne rides about on the floor, seemingly in
Speaker 1: the grip of the exact same thing that has afflicted
Speaker 1: young Betty, Parris and Abigail. As Anne screams out in pain,
Speaker 1: she also screams three names, Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Titchuba.
Speaker 1: She screams for them to stop attacking her also, Thomas
Speaker 1: Putnam would later state. Meanwhile, at the home of doctor
Speaker 1: Griggs two miles away, more screams are hurt, this time
Speaker 1: coming from Elizabeth Hubbard. Griggs is great niece with whom
Speaker 1: he and his wife Rachel had taken on as a servant.
Speaker 1: She too claims to be under attack from three witches.
Speaker 1: She also names them as Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Titchuba,
Speaker 1: or so it would later be stated, All three, as
Speaker 1: Elizabeth would later attest, appeared to her as ghostly specters
Speaker 1: moving about the house. Like Sarah Good and Titchuba, The
Speaker 1: forty nine year old Sarah Osborne was also an outsider
Speaker 1: of sorts. When Sarah's first husband died in sixteen seventy four,
Speaker 1: his will dictated that she be entrusted with their land
Speaker 1: and money until their two young sons came of age
Speaker 1: to inherit it. Shortly after, Sarah took on a farm
Speaker 1: hand named Alexander Osborne, an Irish indentured servant. Sarah and
Speaker 1: the younger Alexander became close. Sarah paid off his indenture
Speaker 1: and later married him, before trying to seize the control
Speaker 1: of the estate from her sons against her late husband's wishes.
Speaker 1: This brought her into direct conflict with Thomas Putnam and
Speaker 1: his brother John, who were the executors of her deceased
Speaker 1: husband's will. Later that day, Samuel and Elizabeth Paris return
Speaker 1: to find their daughter Betty and her cousin Abigail, seemingly
Speaker 1: suffering even more from the apparent witch's curse. But now,
Speaker 1: as will also be stated later, the girls could apparently
Speaker 1: see exactly who it is that's tormenting them, Sarah Good,
Speaker 1: Sarah Osborne, and Titchuba. The next day, Abigail and Betty
Speaker 1: tell their parents that Titchubah made things worse by making
Speaker 1: them eat a witch's cake. Moments later, Samuel and Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Paris watch on in horror as the girls seem suddenly
Speaker 1: to be in the grip of unseen hands that cantort
Speaker 1: and twist their bodies in hideously in human ways, go
Speaker 1: for breath, clawing at their throats as if they are
Speaker 1: being strangled. Samuel Parris is said to have beaten Titchiber
Speaker 1: savagely after hearing about the witch's cake. Minister Paris invites
Speaker 1: several men of high standing in the local community to
Speaker 1: see Abigail and Betty's strange behavior for themselves. They two
Speaker 1: are in no doubt that the girls are clearly under
Speaker 1: the spell of something satanic. Titchiba is interrogated, and, despite
Speaker 1: her protestations, is accused of being a witch. Over the
Speaker 1: next few days, as the four girls, Betty, Abigail, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: and Anne continue to seemingly suffer at the hands of
Speaker 1: the apparent witches. The townspeople begin to gossip among themselves,
Speaker 1: trading stories of their own experiences with the accused women.
Speaker 1: Sarah Good has always been difficult and rarely thankful whenever
Speaker 1: anyone offers her charity or a place to stay with
Speaker 1: her husband, They say, isn't it strange how she goes
Speaker 1: around muttering to herself? And didn't she do it that
Speaker 1: one time after paying a visit to the Paris's home, Perhaps,
Speaker 1: they wonder, is that when she first cast her spell
Speaker 1: on the minister's daughter and niece. As for Sarah Osborne,
Speaker 1: married to her own indentured servant, it's no surprise that
Speaker 1: a woman of such a subversive and antagonizing nature would
Speaker 1: be in league with the devil. And then there is Tituba,
Speaker 1: who knew what sort of things her people were capable of.
Speaker 1: On February twenty ninth, sixteen ninety two, a group of
Speaker 1: men led by Thomas Putnam ride out to Salem Town
Speaker 1: to pay a visit to the town's magistrates, Jonathan Corwin
Speaker 1: and John Hathorne. The men on behalf of Salem Village
Speaker 1: request that Sarah Osborne, Sarah Good and Titchuba be charged
Speaker 1: with suspicion of witchcraft. Later that afternoon, three arrest warrants
Speaker 1: are duly issued, and by the end of the day
Speaker 1: all three women are arrested, taken into custody, and placed
Speaker 1: in the home of Nathaniel and Goody Ingersoll the village
Speaker 1: tavern to await inspection. The Salem witch trials have begun.
Speaker 1: You've been listening to Unexplained Season seven, episode twenty five,
Speaker 1: The City upon the Hill, Part one of three, Part
Speaker 1: two will be released next Friday, July fifth. This episode
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