American Witches (TRIH ep 331)
1650 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Professor Malcolm Gaskell about witchcraft and early colonial life in 17th-century New England, centring on his book The Ruin of All Witches. The conversation opens with a vivid account from Springfield, Connecticut, and follows the lives of William Pynchon (founder), and the married couple Mary Lewis (later Mary Parsons) and Hugh Parsons. Gaskell explains Puritan beliefs, the economic drivers (land, fur trade) and social pressures that shaped...
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