11: What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?

IT'S THE BEST MONTH OF THE YEEEAAR! Let's celebrate with a subject most befitting: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Specifically, host Ivy talks about what events actually led to this deadly event. Was it all a land grab? Misogyny? Ergot poisoning? Let's find out!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oddanthropology/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oddanthropologySubstack: https://oddanthropology.substack.comEmail: [email protected] by Joel Fazhari from PixabayResources used for this episode:Bolitho, Riley. The New England Puritans: History, Social Order, and Gender, Perspektywy Kultury, 2021;34(3):59-72 Linder, Douglas O. The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: An Account, UMKC School of Law, famous-trials.com/salem/2078-sal-acct. Accessed 29 June 2025.Parker, Geoffrey. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, “The Little Ice Age”, 1st ed. 2013 Yale University PressSchiff, S. (2015) The Witches: Salem 1692, New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2015