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Episode 75 Sources: The Salem Witch Trials Part I

Almost four years into our time as the Spooky Science Sisters and we are finally delivering on our promise of talking about the Salem Witch Trials. What we thought would be one of our original set of episodes back in 2020 was pushed back, along with our own trip to the Witch City. Well, in September 2023, we finally took that trip, and we are so excited to share our thoughts about Salem with you! We promise the wait was worth it. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and more.

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Here are our sources:

  1. https://www.pem.org/salem-witch-trials.
  2. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/
  3. https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/overview.html
  4. https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/possessed-salem-witch-trials
  5. https://www.neh.gov/article/records-salem-witch-trials
  6. https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/the-robbins-collection/exhibitions/witch-trials-in-early-modern-europe-and-new-england/
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_the_early_modern_period
  8. https://www.science.smith.edu/climatelit/witch-trials/
  9. https://www.thoughtco.com/european-witch-hunts-timeline-3530786
  10. https://www.thecollector.com/european-witch-hunting/
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
  12. https://www.britannica.com/topic/witchcraft/The-witch-hunts
  13. https://time.com/4543405/connecticut-witch-trials/
  14. https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/salem-witch-trials-legal-resources/

Episode 73 Sources: A Not-So-Pagan Christmas Story

A lot of you have probably come across social media posts and even news articles that the holiday we know as Christmas is just ripoff of Pagan mythology and traditions. Meagan is joined by Substitute Sister Tyson Kemp to discuss and debunk many of these claims. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and more.

You can find Tyson telling wonderful, well-researched spooky and skeptical stories @tysonunkempt on TikTok and Instagram!

To read more about debunking the Pagan origins of Christmas, we recommend you check out blog posts by Spencer McDaniel (https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/12/08/just-how-pagan-is-christmas-really/) and Dr. Peter Gainsford (https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/12/concerning-yule.html).

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Here are our sources:

  1. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna50284202
  2. https://bigthink.com/the-past/no-christmas-not-stolen-pagan-festival/
  3. https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2022/december/who-waged-the-very-first–war-on-christmas–.html#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20the%20Christian%20celebration,longer%20after%20the%20winter%20solstice.
  4. https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-christians-really-steal-christmas-from-the-pagans
  5. https://unherd.com/2020/12/the-myth-of-pagan-christmas/
  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_syncretism
  7. https://psmag.com/social-justice/a-brief-history-of-the-christmas-controversy-pagan-roots-secularization-97073
  8. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/invictus.html
  9. https://historyforatheists.com/2020/12/pagan-christmas/
  10. https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/12/08/just-how-pagan-is-christmas-really/
  11. https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/12/concerning-yule.html
  12. https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/12/christmas-reminder-2017.html
  13. https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2015/12/christmas-and-its-supposed-pagan-links.html