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New episode out tomorrow (Jan 29) with Alice Markam-Cantor to discuss her book The Once & Future Witch Hunt, Salem, and the “witches” that are still being hunted.
Even before assuming office, #MadDogMusk assumes #role of lead prosecutor in a 21st century version of #the #SalemWitchTrials on #X
Via #RobertMcCoy, #TheNewRepublic
"*Elon Musk Keeps Unleashing His Crazed Followers on Government Workers
Musk is singling out federal employees by name on social media.*"
"...#senior advisers 4 climate + environmental justice @ the Dpt. of Housing + Urban Development,... Dpt. of Energy."
https://newrepublic.com/post/188891/elon-musk-crazed-followers-government-workers?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
https://newrepublic.com/post/188891/elon-musk-crazed-followers-government-workers?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
"In 1973, the landmark case of Roe vs. Wade meant that a woman's right to terminate her pregnacy became protected by the US Constitution.
In June 2022 the Supreme Court overturned that ruling, and as a result abortion is now restricted or effectively banned in many US states.
Historic legal precedents were quoted to support the court's decision, including those by Matthew Hale.
The judge whose ruling made spectral evidence¹ admissible three hundred years ago in the Salem witch trials."
"He is the guy that allowed invisible evidence to be admissible in court. The fact that he has any say at all about women's autonomy over their own bodies in the 21st century is madness."
"These issues are baked into our justice system and the fact that 400 years later this deeply misogynistic man, who you know you could argue was responsible for the deaths of so many women, has now been part of stripping so many millions more womens of their rights to autonomy over their own bodies.
It's just horrifying, especially over and above the objections of hundreds of thousands of women protesting, using their voices today, who are alive today."
#RoeVWade #Abortion #SalemWitchTrials
We Now Know What May Have Caused the #SalemWitchTrials
- A new study purports to have discovered the source of the “#WitchCraze” that led to witch hunts across Europe and America in the 15th through 17th centuries.
- New ideas about #Witches—casting them as a “conspiratorial activity against godly society” — came from a #Book called #MalleusMaleficarum
#JohannesGutenberg
#1428Valais_HexenHunts
#MassProducedBook #BestSeller #PopularCulture #ConspiracyTheories #Religion #Folklore #IdeationalDiffusion
#MassMedia #Printing #MassMediaLiteracy #PrintingPress #BeliefSystems #MassProduction #SocietalParanoia #Books
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a62546301/witch-trials-cause
How dogs were implicated during the Salem witch trials
https://theconversation.com/how-dogs-were-implicated-during-the-salem-witch-trials-239802
> Dogs appeared several times during testimonies typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do her bidding, or because the devil appeared in the form of a dog.
We Now Know What May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a62546301/witch-trials-cause/
2/2 Meanwhile, on another branch of my paternal line, my 8th great-granduncle, Capt. John Alden, Jr., lost his freedom & nearly lost his life as one of the accused!
#SalemWitchTrials ##genealogy
https://www.thoughtco.com/john-alden-jr-biography-3528118
1/2 On this date in 1699, my 8th great-grandmother, Deliverance (Putnam) Wolcott, died at 43 in her hometown of Salem, MA.
As the sister of Ann Putnam, Jr., the 2nd wife of Capt. Jonathan Wolcott, & the stepmother of Mary Wolcott, she had several immediate family members on the accusatory side of the #SalemWitchTrials. 
Pity I didn’t know any of this when I visited Salem as a teenager with my dad (this was his side of the family!), long before my interest in #genealogy.
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ma-putnam/
@universalhub Salem should be ashamed of their witch-hunting past, not making it fun and games and profitable. But I'm a grumpy party pooper.
These are scary times and not just because it is almost October 31. I am however continuing with my series on #Halloween material from the #Commonplace back catalog with an intriguing piece by Steven Biel about the story of a forged #SalemWitchTrials death warrant. #history #histodons https://commonplace.online/article/brother-can-you-buy-a-salem-witch-death-warrant/
Great suggestions in this essay about "temporal displacement, time loops, time skips, time slips or parallel timelines." https://www.salon.com/2023/07/25/gotta-get-back-in-time-the-current-explosion-of-time-travel-novels-goes-beyond-sci-fi-and-fantasy/
If #time is of interest, you can check out a volume of essays I edited, published by #CambridgeUP, that takes up this issue in #US #literature from its #indigenous roots to #DonDeLillo, from the #SalemWitchTrials to the #graphic novel, #RichardMcGuire's #Here. I also wrote a book on #tempo(e)rality with, you guessed it, #Poe as the (wobbly) center.
There are some women in Salem who would like a word with the GOP. #WitchHunt #SalemWitchTrials
#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 7: a town meeting for #NationalTownMeetingDay
Raymond Rouleau's Les sorcières de #Salem (FR/GDR, 1957) – , with a screenplay by Marxist philosopher Jean-Paul #Sartre – is a very early #film adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1953 #TheatrePlay The Crucible. An allegory of #McCarthyism, the play is a (partially dramatised) retelling of the #SalemWitchTrials, a dramatic episode in early US-American history. During several court and town meetings, 200 people were falsely accused of meddling with the Devil; 19 of them were eventually executed.
Miller himself was accused of un-American activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. Which doesn't mean that #WitchTrials are a thing of the past. As easily one can transplant Puritan religious mass hysteria to 1950s McCarthy anti-socialism, as easy is it applicable to the state of the world today.
#ArthurMiller #JeanPaulSartre #TheCrucible #DDR #SimoneSignoret #YvesMontand @film
Very, very cool #History
Adding some hashtags so I can find this again!
#NewEngland #Witches #Histodons
#SalemWitchTrials
#WomensHistory
