The air is crisp, the leaves are falling and it’s the perfect time for a little spooky history! In this special October history-sode, Auntie Jo Jo takes you back to the 1600s and 1700s to explore the real witch trials of colonial America.
Sources for this episode:
“Records of the Witchcraft Cases in Virginia” – Virginia Colonial Records Project, Library of Virginia (mentions Grace Sherwood, Joan Wright, Katherine Grady).
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive & Transcription Project – University of Virginia.
Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman (1987) — a well-researched book on witch trials in New England and Virginia.
Godbeer, Richard. Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Demos, John. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (Oxford University Press, 1982).
Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History (University Press of Kansas, 1997).
Library of Congress: “Witchcraft in Colonial America” primary source set.
National Park Service: Grace Sherwood Statue, Witch of Pungo history summary.