Ep.10 Northeastern Witches

Learn more about what defined a witch in Northeastern America.
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The Witch, Albrecht Dürer, c.1500, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Witches, Hans Baldung, 1510, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Witches Preparing for Sabbath, Andries Stock, c.1610, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Plate 64 from 'Los Caprichos': Buen Viage, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, c.1500, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A Witch Sailing to Aleppo in a Sieve, Charles Turner, 1807, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Round of the Sabbath or Witches' Sabbath, Louis Boulanger, 1835, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Weird Sisters (Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 3), John Raphael Smith, 1785, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Helpful Resources

Books

Demos, John Putnam. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. Updated ed. 2004, Oxford: Oxford University. Press, 1983. [Link]

Godbeer, Richard. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England. 2002, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. [Link]

Karlson, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. 1998, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1987. [Link]

Starkey, Marion L., The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials. 1969, New York: Anchor Books, 1949. [Link]

Websites

Bell Witch folklore [Link]

Anne Hutchinson [Link]

Salem witch trials [Link]

HausWitch [Link]

J.Southern Studio [Link]

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