Why Women Were Accused: The Social Anatomy of Witchcraft Panic

Why Women Were Accused: The Social Anatomy of Witchcraft Panic

Why were certain women accused of witchcraft in the 1600s?

This mini-"between the seasons"- episode of Legacy Lore explores how fear, gender, religion, and social control shaped witchcraft accusations across Colonial America and England.

Learn how coverture laws, the domestic sphere, and community suspicion made widows, midwives, healers, and outspoken women vulnerable during the witch trials. Witchcraft wasn’t about magic. It was about power and patriarchy.


Sources:

  • Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. Norton, 1987.
  • Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
  • Willis, Deborah Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England, 1995.
  • Roper, Lyndal Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany 2004.
  • Gibson, Marion Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches 1999
  • Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, 1780–1835
  • Erickson, Amy Louis Women and Property in Early Modern England 1991
  • Rediker, Marcus Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World 1987


Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(26)

Into the Record | Investigation Series Part 1: The 1825 Outer Banks Mystery

Into the Record | Investigation Series Part 1: The 1825 Outer Banks Mystery

Sixteen mutilated bodies wash ashore along the North Carolina Coast. An abandoned brig loaded with valuable cargo drifts into Beaufort. Local newspapers blame pirates. But nearly 200 years later, does...

4 Juni 11min

Between the Seasons: Why We Remember | The Stories History Keeps

Between the Seasons: Why We Remember | The Stories History Keeps

Why do some stories survive while others disappear completely?In this Between the Seasons episode of Legacy Lore, host Sammy Jo reflects on memory, oral history, genealogy, folklore, and the emotional...

21 Maj 11min

Into the Record | Colonial Witchcraft or Something Else?

Into the Record | Colonial Witchcraft or Something Else?

A 1671 court record accuses Eleanor Neale of witchcraft.But in the same testimony… something doesn’t make sense.The man making the accusation, Edward Coles, also claims he “hath layn with Mrs. Neale… ...

7 Maj 5min

Going Deeper into the Story | The Archive Key + The Inner Circle

Going Deeper into the Story | The Archive Key + The Inner Circle

There are always parts of a story that don’t make it into the episode.The details that shift perspective, the records that complicate what we think we understand, and the moments that stay with you lo...

23 Apr 1min

 Erased, Not Absent: Witchcraft, Women, and the Silence of the Record

Erased, Not Absent: Witchcraft, Women, and the Silence of the Record

In this final episode of Season Two of Legacy Lore, host Sammy Jo steps back from the archives to reflect on what remains when women are erased from history but the systems that silenced them endure.T...

16 Apr 12min

Elizabeth Richardson, Maritime Justice, and Witchcraft at Sea | Who the Law Remembered

Elizabeth Richardson, Maritime Justice, and Witchcraft at Sea | Who the Law Remembered

By the time the courts of colonial Maryland closed the case against Edward Prescott, two things were true: Elizabeth Richardson was dead and the men responsible for her execution were free.In this epi...

9 Apr 15min

Elizabeth Richardson and the Witch Trial That Never Was

Elizabeth Richardson and the Witch Trial That Never Was

Elizabeth Richardson was hanged aboard a ship bound for Maryland in 1658, accused of witchcraft during a dangerous Atlantic crossing. Like Katherine Grady, she never reached land alive.But unlike Kath...

2 Apr 14min

Storms That Accused: Witchcraft, Maritime Law, and Fear at Sea in the 17th Century

Storms That Accused: Witchcraft, Maritime Law, and Fear at Sea in the 17th Century

In the seventeenth century, storms at sea were rarely understood as random events. To sailors and passengers crossing the Atlantic, violent weather carried moral meaning. Wind and waves were believed ...

26 Mars 17min

Populärt inom Historia

massmordarpodden
motiv
p3-historia
historiska-brott
kod-katastrof
olosta-mord
rss-massmordarpodden
historiepodden-se
historianu-med-urban-lindstedt
rss-brottsligt
rss-historien-om-2
konspirationsteorier
bedragare
harrisons-dramatiska-historia
nu-blir-det-historia
vetenskapsradion-historia
krigshistoriepodden
militarhistoriepodden
palmemordet
rss-folkets-historia