EP 309 - Halloween Special: The Salem Witch Trials

About this episode

Our Halloween special is loose! And it's finally time for us to take a trip to Salem, Massachusetts, to see if there be witches here... What sparked a sudden witch hunt in Salem? What was the evidence? And what could have really caused such horror? The secret ingredient is...SO MANY WITCHES! Get cocktails, poisoning stories and historical true crime tales every week by following and subscribing to The Poisoners' Cabinet wherever you get your podcasts. Find us and our cocktails at www.thepoisonerscabinet.com Join us Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepoisonerscabinet Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepoisonerscabinet Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoisonerscabinet/ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePoisonersCabinet Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoisonersCabinet Sources this week include: • Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, Cambridge University Press. • In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 • Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. • www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials • www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-