Into the Record | Colonial Witchcraft or Something Else?

A 1671 court record accuses Eleanor Neale of witchcraft.But in the same testimony… something doesn’t make sense.The man making the accusation, Edward Coles, also claims he “hath layn with Mrs. Neale… and several others.”So which is it?In this Into the Record episode, we step directly into the original documents from Northumberland County, Virginia, reading the testimony as it was written and examining what happens when an accusation begins to fall apart.Because when you follow this record backwards, it doesn’t lead deeper into witchcraft.Inside the Inner Circle on Patreon, I go deeper into the earlier records, including a 1652 testimony where someone is offered payment to repeat a sexual accusation tied to the same household.And that changes everything.Join here: patreon.com/legacylorepod