Sea Witches: The Women the Atlantic Swallowed | Season 2

Before they ever reached the shores of colonial America, two women were accused of witchcraft at sea.Season 2 of Legacy Lore uncovers the forgotten maritime witchcraft cases of Katherine Grady and Elizabeth Richardson, two women executed aboard transatlantic ships in the mid-1600s. Accused during violent Atlantic storms, they were tried and hanged not in courts or churches, but on open water, where fear replaced law and superstition dictated justice.Blending true crime history, colonial legal history, women’s history, and genealogy, Sea Witches: The Women the Atlantic Swallowed explores how witchcraft accusations traveled across the ocean, how maritime justice operated beyond colonial oversight, and why so many records, and lives, vanished once the ships reached land.