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Episode 5 - Examinations

Witch Hunt - history told in music, sound, and story - October 30, 2023 20:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
The three suspected witches are now in custody in Salem Village and are publicly examined by colonial magistrates at the Meeting House. The first two suspects, local beggar woman Sarah Good and the scandalous but frail Sarah Osborn, deny being witches and blame others. The third suspect, Rev. Pa...

Episode 4 - Accusations

Witch Hunt - history told in music, sound, and story - October 27, 2022 02:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
The hysterical and violent fits of the young girls in Salem Village spreads from the family of Minister Samuel Parris to that of Thomas Putnam, the head household of one of the most powerful families in the village. When Elizabeth Hubbard, niece of the local doctor, begins to have fits the door ...

Episode 3 - Fits

Witch Hunt - history told in music, sound, and story - March 09, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
During the extremely cold winter of 1692 an intense frustration has been building in Salem Village, a small farming community up the road from the more prosperous and worldly port city of Salem Town.  Many factors are coalescing into a perfect storm: the repressive nature of the Calvinistic Puri...

Episode 2 - The City on a Hill

Witch Hunt - history told in music, sound, and story - October 31, 2020 18:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Samuel Parris takes on the job as minister to Salem Village, a marginalized farming community split by rivalry and controversy. Salem Village is overshadowed by the larger and much more prosperous Salem Town, one of the two largest towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The colony is ruled by th...

Episode 1 - Tituba's Journey

Witch Hunt - history told in music, sound, and story - September 29, 2020 22:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
This is the story of an Arawak woman called Tituba: how she was kidnapped by the English from South America when she was just a young girl and enslaved. Growing up on a plantation in Barbados, she absorbed multiple cultural influences from her fellow enslaved Africans and her English mistress. H...