Liberty Chronicles, Episode 14: "Lives of the Necromancers," and the Salem Trials
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2017-08-01

The Salem trials were largely the result of a combination of personal animus, avarice, and cruelty within a deeply occultist culture. New England courts executed nineteen witches and subjected many repented convicts to purifying torture. One thing only ended the feverish trials: accusers gradually turned on the affluent and influential after using up the easier targets of marginalized and poor women.

Further Readings:
https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/lives-necromancers-part-i
https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/witch-trials-sweden-salem


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