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13 O’Clock Episode 223 LIVE: The Witchcraft Trial of Margaret Mattson

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On today’s spellbinding installment, Tom and Jenny are discussing an interesting and not-very-well-known witchcraft trial from the 17th century. Swedish immigrant Margaret Mattson, suspected of cursing the neighbors’ livestock, was brought before a judge and jury in what was the state of Pennsylvania’s only official witchcraft trial, and one that took place nearly a decade before the much more famous events in Salem. Presided over by state founder and Quaker William Penn, the trial was notable for its outcome, which was quite different than the tragic results of later trials. Hop onto your broomsticks and get ready for the magical journey into colonial American history that is episode 223.

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13 O’Clock Episode 171 – History of Thanksgiving, Food, and the Darker Side of Colonial America

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On this overstuffed installment of 13 O’Clock, Tom and Jenny are celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday with a fun, wide-ranging discussion about Thanksgiving history, food, and a few dark corridors of American colonial history, such as the brutal Pequot War, the execution of colonial America’s first murderer, and the prevalence of cannibalism in the Jamestown colony. Carve the turducken and pile on the carbs, it’s a calorie-rich historical smorgasbord on episode 171.

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13 O’Clock Episode 105 – The Salem Witch Trials, Wandering Wombs, and Clever Corvids

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Tom and Jenny return to the American history well on this week’s installment, covering one of the darkest chapters of the colonial era: the Salem witch trials. During a brief, fifteen-month period in the 1690s, numerous people were accused and twenty were executed for witchcraft in and around Salem, Massachusetts. Why did it happen? Was it simply a case of mass hysteria, fueled by jealousy and religious hatred? Or was there some medical cause for the bizarre paroxysm? Listen in as we break down the event, as well as spend entirely too much time yapping about wandering wombs and really smart birds. Heat up the cauldron and ready the eye of newt, because episode 105 is about to cast its spell.

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Clip at the beginning taken from the 1996 film The Crucible.
Song at the end: “Witch Hunt” by MDFMK.

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