Witchcraft or Heart Disease: May 25, 1692

Chest Pain on the Road Past Procter’s HouseWe track Salem on May 25, 1692, as magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin push paperwork forward with a mittimus transferring prisoners to Boston Jail—despite those prisoners already being there. Then our attention turns to a tense ride from Newbury to Boston: Priscilla Bailey and her husband Joseph pass through Salem Village and near John Procter’s house, where Joseph is suddenly struck by crushing pains, momentarily loses his speech, and believes he sees John and Elizabeth Procter at the house even though they are jailed in Boston. Priscilla sees only a “little maid,” and later Joseph’s vision of an approaching woman dissolves into a cow. The road quiets, but back in Newbury, Joseph reports invisible pinching and nipping that won’t let him go.00:00 Welcome and Date00:13 Magistrates Paperwork00:27 Baileys Pass Procter House01:13 Speechless on the Road01:26 Second Blow and Apparition01:49 Aftermath Back in NewburyLinksMary Esty: Victim of the Salem Witch Hunt with Mary Bingham: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mary-esty-victim-of-the-salem-witch-hunt/id1643770324?i=1000637013845Salem Witch Trials History YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCliis4vjMIUgg3wcA0pXeYQ/⁠Salem Witch Trials Daily Hub: https://aboutsalem.com/salem-witch-trials-daily/⁠⁠The Thing About the Salem Witch Trials: https://aboutsalem.com⁠⁠The Thing About Witch Hunts: https://aboutwitchhunts.com⁠⁠Bernard Rosenthal, ed., Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt: https://bookshop.org/a/90227/9781107689619⁠Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid, The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651-1695: https://bookshop.org/a/90227/9780802081711⁠Emerson W. Baker, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience: https://bookshop.org/a/90227/9780190627805⁠⁠Marilynne K. Roach, The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege: https://bookshop.org/a/90227/9781589791329⁠High Quality Scans of Original Court Documents - Peabody Essex Museum Salem Witch Trials Collection: https://pem.quartexcollections.com/collections/salem-witch-trials-collection