March 4, 2025

The Prequel To Salem Witch Trials

The Prequel To Salem Witch Trials

A look at an important event that happened before the Salem Witch trials

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A look at an important event that happened before the Salem Witch trials

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central. Good evening everyone.

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It is Tuesday, March the fourth, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently seven thirty eight pm Central Time, and I

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am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now tonight, I'm going

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to be presenting this in a very different way. Typically,

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I break things down, kind of do an outline form,

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work through points. It's very it comes across maybe very organic,

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very like, hopefully somewhat conversational. I ask a lot of questions,

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I try to make points. Tonight is going to come

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across more like I'm presenting a narrative. I'm gonna present

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this in a narrative form, and I hope it will

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be impactful and hopefully people will appreciate at least the

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attempt to do it in somewhat of a different way.

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Can I pull it off? I don't know, but we're

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gonna I'm gonna do my very best. And then after

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I present this in kind of a narrative form, then

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we will return to the same material and then I

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will break it down in far more detail. Probably in

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a different episode. So I hope that I can accomplish

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this this evening. Now, as many of you know that

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the city that I have a strong connection to, I

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feel I can't explain it. From the very more very

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first time I drove into Salem, Massachusetts, I got this

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feeling that it impacted me in a way that I

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cannot explain. I just can't explain it. I mean, I

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my first night driving into Salem, it was nighttime, it

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was cold, it was October, and just before I saw

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anything before, It's just like, oh, there's something here. I'm

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not saying it was spiritual. I'm not saying it was supernatural.

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I'm just saying that sometimes you drive into a city,

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you go to a location, and you just find yourself

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with some kind of connection. And I have a strong

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connection to Salem, Massachusetts. Everything that happened there, I feel

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like I feel it. I have an emotional connection to it,

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maybe more than the people can understand. And I feel

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it's more significant than I think a lot of people understand.

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And I feel that everything that happened in Salem, Massachusetts,

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I believe screams that every Christian, every church, every homeschooling family,

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should know everything that happened and Salem everyone should go

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visit it and learn the lessons, because I think there

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are lessons there for Christian. So I have continued my

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study of everything that's happened in Salem since my first time.

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I mean I started my study of what happened in

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Salem way before I ever arrived in the city. But

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from the first time all the way to night. I've

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been to the city now multiple times, and I plan

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on going back multiple more times. I'll be going back

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to Salem this year at some point because I just

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love I mean, I love it. If I had the ability,

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I would probably live there because there's just something about

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the city. Now, if you don't know anything about Salem, Massachusetts,

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and if you don't know anything about what happened, let

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me just remind you briefly, and then we're gonna fall

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into a very important narrative that I want you to

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pay close attention to. All right, and if this is

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one of those maybe you just want to listen. You

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don't necessarily need to take any notes. I know I

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have a tendency to present things as if I want

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you to write them down. I want you I'm going

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to try not to do that. It's kind of built

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to my DNA to teach that way. I kind of

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teach it a very conversational way, wanting you to write

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things down, giving you questions. But I'm going to try

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to do this very different this evening now. For those

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who may not be familiar with this, and I think

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there's probably very few of you, the Salem Witch Trials

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were one of the most infamous episodes of mass hysteria

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and religious extremism and early American history. The Salem Witch

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Trials took place between sixteen ninety two and sixteen ninety

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three and Salem Village which is now modern day Danvers, Massachusetts,

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and we talked about that in our last broadcast. The

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trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, mostly women,

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and the imprisonment of many others. This was all based

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on accusations of witchcraft rooted in Puritan beliefs, social tensions,

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and fear of the supernatural. The trials reveal the dangerous

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consequences of fear driven justice and unchecked authority. That is

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a very simple, simple description of the Salem Witch Trials.

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There is so much to them, and so much I

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want to talk about it. But everyone, for the most part,

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I think everyone knows something about the Salem witch trials.

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They know something. Now, they may start talking about them,

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and you kind of go, well, okay, you got some

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of the information right. Sometimes they don't have all the facts.

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But I would say that most everyone knows about the

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Salem witch trials of sixteen ninety two. I think it's

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fair to say that if you don't know this, I

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think it's fair to describe it this way, that the

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Salem witch Trials is one of the darkest and most

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infamous events in American history. But what if I was

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to tell you, what if I was to tell you

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that to understand Salem, we have to understand something that

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happened before Salem. We have to talk about something that

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happened before Salem. And if you understand that, it may

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cause you to question everything you've ever heard about the

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Salem witch trials. And you may question it, and it

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may make this Salem witch Trials even that much more

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diabolical and that much more evil when you consider maybe

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what was going on. What if I was to tell

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you that, nearly four years before the first accusations in

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Salem occurred, there was another situation involving accusations of witchcraft.

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What if I was to tell you that previous event

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involving accusations of witchcraft that occurred four years before Salem,

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What if I was to tell you it followed almost

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the exact same pattern, down to who was afflicted, down

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to who was making the accusations, down to the doctor

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making the diagnosis, down to the use of spectral evidence,

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and all the way down to the execution of well

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of different individuals. What if I was to say that

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it was so similar, almost identical, that it should make

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you to me, it gives me chills to think, wait

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a minute, so you're telling me four years before Salem,

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basically the same identical thing happened, almost down to the letter,

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like it makes you question everything. And what if I

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was to tell you that the Salem witch trials may

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have never happened if only people had learned from the

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mistakes of what happened, not in another country, not even

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in another state, but if the people would have learned

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what happened in Boston in sixteen eighty eight. Now, the

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Salem witch Trials begin in sixteen ninety two in Salem Village, Salem,

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the city of Salem, right, and what if they would

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have learned what happened in Boston. Boston is not that

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far away from Salem. I mean, I mean, of course,

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now I make the trip and a car, but it's

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still not that far, right, It's still not that far.

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In other words, the people in Salem and Salem Village

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would have probably have had some understanding of what happened

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in Boston, because some of the people living in Salem

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at the time the witch trials began guess what they

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had lived in Boston when this had occurred, and they

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had moved from Boston to Salem, and they were in

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some cases positions of say leadership, they knew what happened

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in Boston. Tonight, I want to help you uncover kind

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of the forgotten prequel to Salem. I want to talk

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about the story of a woman. Her name is Anne

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or was Anne. I want to talk about everything that happened.

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I want to talk about Barbados, how does that come

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into play in Boston and Salem. And I want to

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talk about how everything that happened to this woman, Anne Barbados,

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sixteen eighty eight, how all of this set the stage

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for what happened in Salem in sixteen ninety two. So

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I want to take us back in time. Let's go

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to Boston, Massachusetts. Boston. That's where my daughter lives. That's

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why I end up in Salem because if I go

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see my daughter, I'm like, well, it's great to see you.

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Can we go to Salem? All right? Hey? But hey,

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there's this to do in Boston. Can we go to Salem? Hey,

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but there's we could do this in Boston. Can we

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go to Sale? Hey, this is happening in Boston. Can

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we go to Salem? All right? I always want to

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go to Salem because I want to study the Salem

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Witch Trials, and I just want to experience the ambiance

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of the city. I want to just walk around Salem.

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I just want to be there. But I missed this

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as well. Maybe all of my time I've spent in Salem,

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what I really needed to do was go walk around Boston.

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Now I've walked around Boston quite a few times. In fact,

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I may I walked past a very important something that

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kind of remembers what we're going to be talking about,

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and I didn't even realize I walked past it. Okay,

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because the more I study this I'm like, wait a minute,

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I was like, right there, I walked right past that place.

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What wait? I was right there? But I did not

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because this is kind of the forgotten prequel to what

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happened in Salem. To understand Salem, we have to go

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to Boston. We have to go to the year sixteen

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eighty eight. An Glover. She was an outsider from the

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moment she arrived in New England. She wasn't a Puritan,

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she wasn't English, she wasn't wealthy, she definitely wasn't powerful,

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and she wasn't even free. You see, before Anne Glover

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came to Boston, she'd already suffered greatly under the English.

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She was originally from Ireland, but in the sixteen fifties,

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during Oliver Cromwell's conquest of Ireland, she and thousands of

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others were rounded up and forcibly deported to Barbados. Once

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she got there, she became an indentured servant on a

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sugar plantation, alongside enslaved Africans and indigenous laborers. It was

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a brutal world. It was filled with suffering, It was

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filled with diseases, it was filled with violence. The Puritan

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elite who controlled these plants saw their workers as disposable.

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Many Irish servants died there. Anne's husband happened to be

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one of them. So she's an indentured servant and her

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husband dies. Now why did he die? According to some reports,

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he died because he refused to renounce his Catholic faith.

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He was Catholic. The Puritans don't like Catholicism. He won't

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renounce it. Many believe he was killed because he would

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not renounce his Catholicism. They had indentured servants. The people

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were being brutalized. It was slavery. I mean, everything about

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it is just vile. At some point, Ann and her

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daughter left Barbados and made their way to Boston. She

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worked as a housekeeper for the Goodwin family. Now this

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family is a well respect acted Puritan household. But despite

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living in Boston, Anne was never fully accepted because she

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was a Catholic and a Puritan society. She spoke primarily

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Irish with very broken English. To her employers, she was

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a foreigner. To her employers, she was strange, and to

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many she was dangerous. And then and the summer of

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sixteen eighty eight, everything changes. Now, sixteen ninety two, January

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sixteen ninety two is when the Salem, when the hysteria

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of witchcraft and Salem begins. Right, But we're in the

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summer of sixteen eighty eight, right, and everything's about change. Now.

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What happened, Well, it started with Martha Goodwin, the eldest

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of the Goodwin children. She was just thirteen years old.

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She had an argument with Anne Glover's daughter over some

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possibly missing laundry. But what should have been a simple

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household dispute turned into something much, much darker. Not long

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after the argument, Martha and her siblings began exhibiting strange behavior.

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They screamed, they towarded their bodies, They spoke in voices

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that supposedly were not their own. They fell into trances,

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and the parents panicked. Does that not sound familiar? Does

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that not sound very familiar? Okay, Remember I'm trying to

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do this as a narrative, Okay, because I want to

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right now. I could just break and go into all

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kinds of points here, but I'm not going to do that.

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A doctor and we'll talk about this doctor later. But

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this doctor was called in and guess what he could

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not find. He couldn't find a medical explanation. I don't

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know why why they're, you know, contorting themselves. I don't

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know why they're yelling. I don't I don't. I don't

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know why they're doing all of these things. I can't

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come up with a medical reason. I have no I

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have no explanation. So he reached a conclusion the children

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were not sick. They were under the influence of the devil.

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They were under the influence of maybe a witch. Witchcraft

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is involved, And from that moment the search for the

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witch began. And since the children had quarreled with Anne

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Glover's daughter, suspicions and quickly fell on Anne herself. We

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gotta find the witch. So you've got these young girls, Well,

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we got to who's the witch? Who's Oh well, I

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wonder why Anne may get blamed. I wonder why she

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may get blamed. Well, they get in an argument with

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the daughter that there's some there's some questionable things going

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on here. And Glover was arrested and she was put

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on trial. But this was not a trial in the

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modern sense. There was no presumption of innocence, there was

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no solid evidence, but there was fear. There was a

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lot of fear. The authorities did not trust and Glow

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because she was Irish. They did not trust and Glover

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because she was Catholic. They did not trust and Glover

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because she had lived in Barbados, and in their eyes,

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she was already guilty. There was no love thy enemy,

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There was none of that. There was nothing about honesty

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and justice and don't bear false witness and that you

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need witnesses and you need evidence. No, all of that

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was thrown out. Now, during her interrogation, she was ordered

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to recite the Lord's Prayer in English. Now, this was

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a common Puritan test because what they believed is if

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you could not recite the Lord's Prayer, you are a

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witch because you couldn't say the words of scripture without stumbling.

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So you had to recite the Lord's Prayer, but you

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had to do it perfectly, no stummymbling, no hesitation, because

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if you could not, you had to be a witch,

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because a witch would stumble over sick because they couldn't

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say the words of scripture. So tell me right now,

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let's try it. Stand on a chair right now in

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your house and recite the Lord's Prayer perfectly, no stumbling,

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no missing any words, or you are a witch. And

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you deserve to die now. And Glover is going to

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have a problem because she didn't speak primarily English. She

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spoke primarily Irish, and she struggled with English words. To

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the Puritans, this was not a language barrier. No no, no, no,

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no no no. It was proof that she was in

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league with the devil. But that wasn't all. Investigator searched

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her home and they found small dolls or what was

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known as poppets. They immediately declared that these were tools

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of witchcraft used to curse the Goodwin children. We found

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the evidence. There's these dolls. We don't know what these

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dolls are for. They're for witchcraft and she's using it.

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This is how she's tormenting, torturing the children. The Goodwin

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children are being tormented by this witch because she was mad,

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because the Goodwin children dared argued with her daughter, and

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so she's mad. And Glover was found guilty and on

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November the sixteenth, sixteen eighty eight, she was hanged in Boston.

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She was executed. She was killed. Now where the hanging

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took place, there's some speculation. Many believe it happened in

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the Boston Commons. There used to be like a large,

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large oak tree there that was there forever it got toard.

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I can't remember when it got destroyed, what year it was.

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I think it was in the seventies or eighties when

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it got tore down by a storm. It's no longer there,

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but in the Boston Commons some people believe that's where

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it was. There's other possible locations, but there is a plaque.

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It was at different churches. It's been moved around Boston.

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I can't remember the name of the church right now

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that it's at, but I was. I was there. I

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was in Boston not too long ago, and I think

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I walked by the very church where the plaque is

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and I didn't see the plaque. I can't, I can't.

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I can't believe I missed it, right, But the plaque

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is there, and next time I'm Boston, I'm gonna have

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to go see it. But there's a plaque remembering her execution.

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Now they and I think, I don't remember what year.

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I don't. Maybe it was the nineteen eighties, maybe it

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was the nineteen seventies. They declare an and Glover Day,

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and I think it's uh. I think the end Glover Day.

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I think it's November the sixteen every year. I don't know.

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I don't think they do a lot about it or

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mention it. Probably most people living in Boston don't even

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know it's Anglover Day. But is to remember because I

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believe she is the last woman to be executed for

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witchcraft and Boston. She's the last one because there's a

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whole lot of things messed up about the case. Now

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when you look at the case, just remember there's someone

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very much involved in this case, a puritan who writes

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a book. Right. Oh, and there is a family living

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in Boston at this time, and that family is going

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to be very important to what starts in Salem. Oh

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and the father of that family happens to have the

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book written by this puritan who was involved in this case.

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And oh, by the way, that book kind of outlines

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what happened in this case. There's the connections here are fascinating. Now,

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if if that was the where the story ended, it

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might have been forgotten. But things kind of get even

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kind of more strange here because four years later, like

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if that would have just ended there in sixteen eighty eight,

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that would have been like, Okay, that's horrible that's bad.

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Horrible things happen, but things kind of get strange because

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four years later, in sixteen ninety two, I think to say,

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a similar case unfolded in Salem village. I think, as

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an understatement, a strikingly similar case unfolds and Salem village

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once again. It began with young girls showing strange symptoms.

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Once again, a doctor blames witchcraft. Once again. The first

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accused were women from the margins of society, and once

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again one of them had a connection to Barbados, now

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in Salem. Her name was Titshaba, Tishaba, tit Uba tis Shabba.

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It's crazy the similarities. Four years later, Salem not that

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far removed from Boston, not that far removed in time.

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And remember a very important book has been printed that

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outlines what happened in Boston in sixteen eighty eight. You

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got people in Salem who was in Boston at the

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time this happened, who now play a part in all

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of this. You have young girls showing strange symptoms. You

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have again a doctor shows up and says it's witchcraft.

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You have a woman being accused who's a margin of society,

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and once again Barbados comes into play, and this time

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her name is tis Shabba. The Tishiba was an enslaved

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woman in the household of Reverend Samuel Parris. No wait

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a minute, And Glover was basically a servant and a

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family and Glover is an outcast, and Glover is connected

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to Barbados. Oh wait, oh wait, and and Salem, oh wait.

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The first woman accused is an enslaved woman, Tishiba. And

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guess what, Just like Ann Glover, she was brought to

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New England from Barbados. You got say the same. They

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come from the same place, Barbados. They're both outcasts, they're

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both basically servants, slaves. Young girls basically accused them. The

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similarities here become it's almost like, if you're not careful

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when you read about this, you're like, wait a minute,

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is that that case or that they're so identical. Historians

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believe tis Shaba was maybe indigenous Arawak or of African descent,

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but in the Puritanize it doesn't really matter. She was

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seen as an outsider with strange beliefs, just like Glover,

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and when the girls accused her of bewitching them, Tishaba

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does something different than Anne Glover and Glover would not confess,

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and Glover would not admit it. But Tishiba confesses. She's like, okay, okay, okay, okay,

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I will confess. I will confess. This is where the

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stories part a little bit. Now. Ann Glover's story should

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have been a warning, but instead it became a blueprint.

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The same fears, the same accusations, the same flawed justice

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system that condemned her resurfaced in Salem. So how come

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no one talks about Ann sometimes referred to as Goody

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Glover case? Today, nobody talks about it. Nobody talks about

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Ann Glover. Nobody If you go to Salem and you

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go to all the different museums and listen to the

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tour guides and to the people giving the presentations, and

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Glover gets forgotten, it's like nobody mentions her. And it's like,

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wait a minute, wait a minute. The cases are so

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similar all the way down to how Anne is very

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much like Tishaba. Tisha Bug gets talked about obviously, but

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wait a minute, it was young girls, same symptoms. They

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all accuse someone who's an outcast. Now, maybe maybe because

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history doesn't like to admit when it repeats itself. I

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don't know why it's forgotten, but we should remember. Because

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fear and hysteria never stay buried long. We should remember.

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We shouldn't forget. We shouldn't forget the connection here. Now,

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what I want to do now, that's just gonna runs

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it through as a narrative. I could have done less

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giving commentary there, but I just want you to see

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how the connection. I want to build on this, Okay,

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I want to build on this. I want to build

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on this connection. Right, So I want you to write

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down a couple of things. Now I'm going to break

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out of the narrative and kind of I want you

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to write down ang Glover. I want you to write

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that down. I want you to write down Barbados. And

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I want you to write down Tisshaba, right because Tisshububb

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is the Anglover is the Boston sixteen eighty eight, Tishaba

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January sixteen ninety two. All right, are you ready to

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go through some of this? Okay, let's just start with

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Now that's we looked at sixteen eighty eight. Let's jump

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to January sixteen ninety two. Let's go. Now we're four

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years basically removed from sixteen eighty eight. Now we're in

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sixteen ninety two. Let's go to j January sixteen ninety two.

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All right, we have the onset of symptoms. Who are

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the accusers. Betty Paris nine years of age, and she's

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the daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris. Now, Reverend Samuel Parris

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and his family, including Betty Paris, were living in Boston

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at the time of the trial and the execution. They

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were there, right, Abigail Williams, she's eleven years old. She's

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the niece of Reverend Paris. So you've got Betty Paris,

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the pastor's daughter, the pastor's niece. All right, these girls

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began exhibiting unusual behaviors, fits, convulsions, uncontrollable screaming, and trance

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life states. In fact, it almost reads verbatim as the

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thing that happened in Boston in sixteen eighty eight, almost

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to the it's as it's almost as if Betty Parris

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and Abigail william saw a video of it and said, hey,

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let's do the same thing. Now. I know, I don't

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want to be I don't want to make I don't

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want to be too dogmatic, but it's hard not to

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see the similar the similarities here is like, wait a minute,

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both young girls, both almost identical symptoms, right, Oh, and

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they're gonna They're gonna basically accuse a very similar type

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of woman is what they're going to do. Right, So

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there's their symptoms. February sixteen ninety two. Now we go

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from January the escalations. You have escalation and initial accusations.

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Now you have additional accusers. You have and twelve years old.

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She's twelve years old. You have Elizabeth Hubbard seventeen years old.

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Guess what. So now you have more young girls. And

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this is crazy. You've got young girls in Boston. You

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got young girls that start in Salem, and then the

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next accusers in Salem are young girls. It's all young

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girls making all of these accusations. How does the community respond?

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They're like, okay, what is going on? What was going on?

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They contact a local doctor and the doctor historically is

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assumed to be doctor William Griggs. He examined the girls,

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but he could find no physical element. He suggests witchcraft. Now,

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according to Manny, this is the exact same doctor who

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investigated and determined that the girls in Boston were being

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tormented by the devil or by a witch. It's witchcraft.

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Now four years later, same symptoms, it's witchcraft. Now from

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a medical perspective, you could see in his mind this

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may oh see, I know I was right in Boston.

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I know because now the same symptoms are happening. There's

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no medical explanation. This confirms my diagnoses. This confirms it

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that this has to be witchcraft. So he would be

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can we say he would have a motivation to say

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it's witchcraft, because then it would confirm that, Hey, you

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remember that woman in Boston who was killed. Well, you

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know those girls were being tormented. They had the same symptoms,

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same symptoms. It's got to be it's got to be witchcraft. Now,

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under pressure to identify the source of their afflictions, the

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girls accused three women. Sarah Good, a destitute woman known

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for her unpleasant demeanor in tendency to beg So they're

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gonna go after the most vulnerable women in society, right,

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They're gonna go after Sarah Good. The woman's destitute, she's begging.

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She's not known for being super nice, and well, oh

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that's her, that's her. And if she's the town or

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the village beggar, who's destitute, and probably the parents are

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like to stay away from her. That would be an

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easy one to blame. Sarah Osborne. She's an elderly woman,

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does not attend church, was involved in legal disputes over

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her late husband's estate, and most things we know about

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Sarah Osborne. She wouldn't play the Puritan reindeer games. She

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wouldn't go along with the Puritan games. And then Tishuba,

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she's an enslaved woman of indigenous descent owned by Reverend Paris.

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Now remember Reverend Paris, his family lived in Boston when

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everything went down. Reverend Paris was greatly influenced by the

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00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:03.640
Puritan minister who was a part of the trial in

458
00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:06.839
Boston and who wrote a book outlining it. And guess

459
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:10.639
what we find out. Reverend Paris has that book in

460
00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:14.880
his house and it's his daughter and his niece who

461
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:20.199
starts play. I mean, they follow the playbook to the letter,

462
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:23.760
and nobody can't. Nobody's like, wait a minute, wait a minute,

463
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:26.400
wait a minute. Does anybody find this kind of suspicious

464
00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:30.079
that these girls are like and know in their minds?

465
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:35.840
Oh oh, the witchcraft has spread. Now, note all the

466
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:39.320
accusers are all young girls at this point. Oh, in fact, well,

467
00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:41.360
when you look at all the accusers, but they're all

468
00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:45.159
young girls. Now, I think this is interesting and significant

469
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:49.119
and understanding how this all came about. The fact that

470
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:53.159
all the initial accusers were young girls was unusual, and

471
00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:56.920
it did raise some skepticism. It did raise some, but

472
00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:00.320
not nearly enough. And those who raised skepticism, well, you know,

473
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:03.480
we'll talk about what happened to them at some point.

474
00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:07.840
But there are several factors that may contribute to why

475
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:11.639
their accusations were taking so seriously rather than dismissed as

476
00:35:11.960 --> 00:35:16.119
youthful imagination and mischief. I mean, maybe someone should have said,

477
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:19.400
are the girls just I mean, it's January February, we're

478
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:24.119
in Salem, it's cold, it's harsh winter. Maybe the girls

479
00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:28.119
a bored? Okay, maybe have they heard all of these

480
00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:30.519
stories about what happened to the girls in Boston. I

481
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:33.840
think they probably very familiar with what happened to the

482
00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:37.400
girls in Boston, especially the pastor's daughter and his niece.

483
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:40.920
They and the very book that outlined what happened was

484
00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:44.239
in the very house, so they you know, they had

485
00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:46.239
heard about it. I mean, I don't think that's even

486
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:51.159
wild speculation. But why is this unusual that these are

487
00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:55.000
all young girls making the accusation. Well, it's uncommon and

488
00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:59.360
legal precedent, it's very uncommon, and prior cases of witchcraft

489
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:03.840
accusation in Europe and in New England, accusations came typically

490
00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:09.480
from adults, particularly neighbors or rival community members. It was

491
00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:12.440
an adult game. I'm gonna call it a game because

492
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:14.320
in many cases it was like, Oh, I hate you,

493
00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:15.960
I accuse you of being a witch. Oh I want

494
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:18.079
your land, I'll accuse you of being a witch. Oh

495
00:36:18.199 --> 00:36:20.159
I don't like you and my church, i'llccuse you of

496
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:25.079
being a witch. Young children had testified in the past

497
00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:28.639
witch trials, but were rarely the sole indicators of accusations,

498
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:31.199
as they were in Salem. You may bring the kids

499
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:34.440
in at some point to confirm something or to say

500
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:37.119
to give their account, but they were never the sole

501
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:39.599
accuser in any way, shape or form. So this is

502
00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:46.400
already very very unique. Now you also had the Puritan

503
00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:51.599
views on children. Now, Puritan theology viewed children as inherently sinful,

504
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:56.280
but at least it appears, according to some sources, that

505
00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:59.480
they felt that the children were innocent of worldly deceit,

506
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:02.440
which is kind of crazy. Hey, they're inherently sinful, but

507
00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:06.119
they're actually innocent when it comes to worldly deceit, So

508
00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:10.320
meaning that maybe in the Puritan mind that children were

509
00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:13.679
more likely to be seen as honest witnesses, which is

510
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:17.800
just crazy. Hey, you're inherently sinful, but you make really

511
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:21.320
good honest witnesses because you don't have any worldly deceit

512
00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:25.400
or the most ridiculous thing ever, kids lie, Kids deceive

513
00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:28.320
and lie really really really quick. Okay, so they come

514
00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.840
from the womb telling lies. I mean that's because we're

515
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:39.159
inherently sinful. So maybe this explains it. Maybe maybe, but

516
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:43.800
it's all very uncommon legal precedent. Definitely, maybe their views

517
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:48.559
on children, maybe it explains it. I don't know. Another

518
00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:52.320
reason this may be in at least somewhat unusual suspicion

519
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:56.599
from some Salem residents. Some in Salem village were skeptical

520
00:37:56.599 --> 00:38:00.960
of the young girl's credibility. John Proctor Laid, who was

521
00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:04.519
later executed, publicly doubted the girls and claimed they were

522
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:08.639
fabricating their afflictions. John Proctor was like, hey, guys, what

523
00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:12.159
are you not seeing here? They're making this up? You

524
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:15.880
die and so they kill him. So then at that

525
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:19.800
point you're like, let's not say anything negative about these

526
00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:21.960
young girls. Now, at this point, you would think someone

527
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.679
in Salem would have been like, hey, guys, four years

528
00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:30.400
ago Boston and I mean, are we not seeing a similarity.

529
00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:32.800
But I think maybe in their minds, if they would

530
00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:34.960
have brought it up, it may have been in their minds. Oh,

531
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.920
it's confirmation, it's spreading a set of going. Maybe the

532
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:41.039
girls are just mimicking it. Maybe they've heard the story.

533
00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:51.119
Even Increase Mather now Mather is Cotton Mather's father, which

534
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:54.519
he becomes Cotton Mather is critical in this whole story.

535
00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:58.639
An Increase Mather was a leading Puritan minister. He later

536
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:03.719
criticized the trials the reliability of afflicted children as primary evidence. Well,

537
00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:06.079
I think that makes sense. If the children are afflicted

538
00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:08.920
by a witch, if the children are afflicted by Satan,

539
00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:13.719
they're your primary witnesses, they're the accusers. Can you trust

540
00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:16.679
anything they say? If they're being tormented by a witch

541
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:20.079
or being influenced by Satan? You think those who are

542
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.719
the last people you would want to listen to. You're like, Okay,

543
00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:25.400
we feel bad for you, you're the victim, but we can't

544
00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:27.960
believe a thing coming out of your possible lying mouth,

545
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:31.480
because Satan is the father of lies. No, and witches

546
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:34.480
are deceitful. No no, no no no no no no, We're

547
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:36.159
not gonna trust you, but no, no, no no, the

548
00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:46.000
girls are like their words become gospel almost. Now, why

549
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:49.840
were the girls believed instead of questioned? Well, some say

550
00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:51.920
we need to go back to what we've already covered,

551
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:56.039
the trial and execution of Anne Glover in sixteen eighty eight,

552
00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:59.280
because it's a significant event in the history of witchcraft

553
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:03.079
accusation and colonial America. So I'm going to go back

554
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:05.800
now through it, not just in a narrative form. I'm

555
00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:07.239
going to kind of now go it and form and

556
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:11.400
outline so that you can really get this down. So

557
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:14.400
we have Anne Glover, as we've already established, he was

558
00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:18.280
an Irish Catholic woman who, along with her daughter, worked

559
00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:21.559
as a housekeeper for the Goodwin family in Boston. So

560
00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:23.320
you may want to know again I told you to

561
00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:25.960
write down Ann Glover's name. She has a daughter. Now,

562
00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:30.280
this is the cultural context. As an Irish Catholic and

563
00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:33.519
a predominantly Puritan society, Glover was part of a marginalized

564
00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:40.039
community facing religious and ethnic prejudice. Right, the Puritans don't

565
00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:42.400
like them, and there was a lot of issues with

566
00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:45.000
the Irish in Boston as well. You can go study

567
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:51.559
that history. Now, the inciting incident, as we've already discussed,

568
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:56.559
it's the summer of sixteen eighty eight. Martha Goodwin, aged thirteen,

569
00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:02.119
accuses Glover's daughter of stealing law. This accusation led to

570
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:05.960
a heated argument between Glover and the Goodwin's children. All Right,

571
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:10.559
so Glover's daughter is accused of stealing by the Goodwin

572
00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:14.360
daughter who's thirteen, she stole it, and well then Anne

573
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:17.320
obviously gets mad trying to take up for her child. Now,

574
00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:19.559
of course, probably not smart for Anne to try to

575
00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:22.519
take up for a child. They are the servants. They

576
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:25.920
don't really have many rights or anything to say, say anything,

577
00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:31.760
and guess what happens. Well, the Goodwin children, well, right

578
00:41:31.800 --> 00:41:37.639
after the confrontation, they begin exhibiting strange behaviors. They fall

579
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:45.559
into fits, bizarre conduct, and the local doctor says it's witchcraft. Oh,

580
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:53.039
how convenient. Right, because Glover primarily speaks Irish and spoke

581
00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:57.159
Irish and some broken Latin making communication during the trial,

582
00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:00.719
challenging initially her use of Irish was is construed as

583
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:04.000
speaking the language of the devil. Hey, what is that

584
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:07.559
language she's speaking? Oh, it's the devil. It was later

585
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:11.480
recognized as her native tongue. An interpreter was eventually provided,

586
00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:15.840
so at least they do bring an interpreter. But Glover's

587
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:21.840
Roman Catholic faith was highlighted during the trial. Reverend Cotton Mather.

588
00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:27.360
There he is Cotton Mather. Remember that name, Cotton Mather,

589
00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:30.800
because he's another connection between what happens in Boston and

590
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:34.039
what begins in Salem in January. Now you already see

591
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:38.960
the similarities, right you see. Young girls are involved, Young

592
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:43.679
girls have the exact same symptoms. Who gets blamed, these

593
00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:48.159
marginalized women with no power, no standing, no say so?

594
00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:52.960
Who are foreigners? Ooh? Who? They're scary, they're they're not

595
00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.639
like us. Oh you can see how this is all

596
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:59.119
coming into play. And now we have an only that

597
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:03.320
you've got the reverend and his family. It's his daughter

598
00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:06.400
and his niece who makes the accusations in Salem. They

599
00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:09.760
were living in Boston during this entire situation with Ang Glover,

600
00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:13.800
and they're influenced by Cotton Mather, who plays an important

601
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:19.880
role in this entire trial. All right. So during the trial,

602
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:24.559
Reverend Cotton Mather described her as a scandalous old Irish woman,

603
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:31.519
very poor, a Roman Catholic, and obstinate in idolatry. Her

604
00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:35.079
inability to recite the Lord's Prayer in English was considered

605
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:37.840
evidence against her, as it was believed that witches could

606
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:41.199
not say the prayer correctly. All right, So she's in trouble.

607
00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:44.079
She's in all kinds of troll Just remember, Cotton Mather

608
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:49.639
is right here, all right. He's the bridge between Boston

609
00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:55.199
and Salem in my estimation. Now, the evidence that's presented

610
00:43:55.199 --> 00:43:57.719
in the trial, the authorities found small images or dawl

611
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:00.400
like figures in their home, which were interpreted at tools

612
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:05.119
of witchcraft. Glover allegedly admitted to praying to various spirits,

613
00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:10.199
which Matther constructed as demons. Now was she saying she

614
00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:13.159
prayed to different spirits or was she saying she prayed

615
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:17.880
to the saints? I don't know. Now. Her mental competency,

616
00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:23.039
there were concerns about Glover's mental state. Five out of

617
00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:26.960
six physicians who examined her deemed her competent to stand trial,

618
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:28.719
but there was at least one who was like I

619
00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:30.960
don't know what is going on here. Now, it may

620
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:34.400
have been just majorly a language barrier, cultural barrier. They

621
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:38.599
didn't understand, and maybe they didn't care to understand. Maybe

622
00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:43.440
she didn't even know what was really going on. Glover

623
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:46.199
was found guilty of witchcraft based on the evidence and

624
00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:50.719
testimonies presented. On November the sixteenth, eighteen eighty eight, Glover

625
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:54.039
was hanged in Boston. Reports indicate that she maintained her

626
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:57.599
innocence regarding the children's afflictions, suggesting that her death would

627
00:44:57.639 --> 00:45:04.599
not cure them, and implying that other were responsible. Now,

628
00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:07.719
Anglover is recognized as the last person to be hanged

629
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:10.719
for witchcraft in Boston. Her trial and execution a court

630
00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:14.159
occurred four years before the infamous Salem witch trials and

631
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:18.360
are considered a precursor to the events in Salem. In

632
00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:22.559
nineteen eighty eight, the Boston City Council proclaimed November sixteenth

633
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:25.519
as Goodie Glover Day to honor her memory, making her

634
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:29.440
the only victim of the witchcraft hysteria in the Massachusetts

635
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:32.760
Bay Colony to receive such a tribute. The case of

636
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:38.320
ang Glover underscores the intersection of religious and tolerance, cultural

637
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:43.599
differences and the pervasive fear of witchcraft in seventeenth century

638
00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:50.719
New England. Now does all of that sound extremely familiar?

639
00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:56.039
How this all works together? Well, let's look at the similarities.

640
00:45:56.400 --> 00:46:01.039
Let's really dig into the similarities, all right. The Salem

641
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:06.519
witch trials sixteen ninety two, they absolutely mirror the Ann

642
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:11.880
Goody Glover case Boston sixteen eighty eight, and they mirror

643
00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:16.199
each other in several key ways. These similarities suggests that

644
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:23.360
events in Boston were widely publicized by Cotton Mather may

645
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:29.159
have influenced how Salem's community interpreted, accused and persecuted alleged witches.

646
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:34.800
Below is a detailed outline comparing the two cases. All Right,

647
00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:39.280
so I this is where I went to. I used

648
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:41.480
AI to for a lot of this, to compile things,

649
00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:44.480
but this I needed AI. I'm like, okay, give me

650
00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:48.159
the two put them together. Put them together. Because of

651
00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:51.239
my mind, I'm like, this is crazy, all right. So

652
00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:53.840
AI is like, I'm here to help you, all right.

653
00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:58.280
So AI gives me number one accusers, and we already

654
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:04.239
know the similarity young girls with the supposed victims of

655
00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:09.079
witchcraft and in many the accusers. Goodie Glover k sixteen

656
00:47:09.159 --> 00:47:15.719
eighty eight. The Goodwin children, ages five through thirteen, exhibited fits, convulsions,

657
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:19.159
strange speech, and transl like states. Their afflictions began after

658
00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:22.960
a minor household dispute between Martha Goodwin and Anne Glover's daughter.

659
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:31.199
Cotton Mather personally observed and documented their symptoms. Here's the book.

660
00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:33.559
Everyone needs to write down the name of this book.

661
00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:45.480
In Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions sixteen eighty nine,

662
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.960
Cotton Mather m A. T. H. E. R. He writes

663
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:58.280
a book immemorialble Providences relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions. That

664
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:06.840
book is absolutely key to understanding the Salem witch Trials. Now,

665
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:11.079
so there's sixteen eighty eight and sixteen eighty nine. Sixteen

666
00:48:11.119 --> 00:48:14.079
eighty eight, you have the case of Goodie Glover, and

667
00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:18.079
Goodie Glover she's killed, she's you know, executed. Right, everything

668
00:48:18.119 --> 00:48:21.000
that happens there, you've got the same way. You've got

669
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:25.159
young children supposedly being the victims here, and Cotton Mather

670
00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:26.599
is right there in the middle of all of this.

671
00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:28.840
Now we jumped to Salem Witch Trials sixteen ninety two.

672
00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:33.559
The first accusers are Betty Paris nine Abigail William eleven,

673
00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:37.800
who exhibits similar symptoms to the Goodwin's children. I think

674
00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:43.000
similar is an understatement. It's almost identical. It's not similar,

675
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:46.320
it's almost identical. In fact, you look at all the

676
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:48.800
different I looked in multiple books in the way they

677
00:48:48.840 --> 00:48:52.320
described them, and it's like these sounds like the in

678
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:58.079
some gives you may think it's the same case. Now,

679
00:48:58.079 --> 00:49:01.360
their symptoms spread to other young girls, including Anne Putman,

680
00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:06.559
Mercy Lewis, Mary Wilcott Walcott, and Elizabeth hu Hubbard. All

681
00:49:06.599 --> 00:49:11.159
of those are young girls too, twelve and seventeen. A

682
00:49:11.239 --> 00:49:15.599
local doctor, unable to diagnose a physical cause, blamed witchcraft.

683
00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:20.960
Just has been done in Boston. Both cases began with

684
00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:25.400
young girls exhibiting mysterious affliction which were quickly attributed to

685
00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:29.159
witchcraft other than illness or psychological factors. And again many

686
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:33.480
believe it's the exact same doctor. Many so we got

687
00:49:33.480 --> 00:49:37.000
the exact same doctor. So we got so much, so

688
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:41.960
much going on here. And remember in Salem, it's very

689
00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:47.239
important to understand in Salem, those girls who make the accusations,

690
00:49:48.960 --> 00:49:55.119
they all lived in Boston before while that the anglover

691
00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:59.480
case was occurring. All right, so all right here, let

692
00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:02.719
me let me go back here. All right, So I

693
00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:05.360
think that's I think you can see the similarities here,

694
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:08.960
all right. Both cases begin with young girls exhibiting mysterious

695
00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:12.079
affliction which were quickly attributed to witchcraft rather than illness

696
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:16.000
or psychological factors. All right, So that's the accusers are

697
00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:19.360
young girls victims of witchcraft. You have a lot of

698
00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:25.719
similarities there, okay. Second accused marginalized non conforming women and

699
00:50:26.119 --> 00:50:30.079
Goodie Glover sixteen eighty eight. She's Irish Catholic woman. She's

700
00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:33.400
accused of bewitching the Goodwin children. She's poor, she's a widow,

701
00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:38.480
she's an immigrant. She does not conform to Puritan religious expectations.

702
00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:42.039
She struggles to recite the Lord's prayer. And while they say,

703
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:45.679
well she's guilty, now you've jumped to Salem. The first

704
00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:49.599
three accused women Tishiba, an enslaved woman from the West Indies,

705
00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:55.199
Sarah good a homeless beggar. Sarah Osborne. She doesn't conform

706
00:50:55.239 --> 00:50:57.599
to Puritan norms, and she doesn't like going to church,

707
00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:02.679
and she's the devil. All these women were outsiders in

708
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:06.400
Puritan society, just like Goodie Glover. The first accused women

709
00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:10.320
in both cases were socially marginalized, poor, or ethnically different,

710
00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:13.920
making them easy targets for accusations. The similarity, I mean,

711
00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:17.840
it's like you're reading the same case now, except in

712
00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:20.920
Boston they accused one woman. Here, three women get accused.

713
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:24.360
But it's the same type of women, and it's young

714
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:28.519
girls who are victims and young girls making the accusations.

715
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:36.159
The investigation forced confessions and spectral evidence Goodie Glover case.

716
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:40.519
Under interrogation, Glover confessed, but insisted that her spirits had

717
00:51:41.239 --> 00:51:45.440
acted independently. All right, so she confessed, But she tries

718
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:48.280
to say, the spirits are doing their own thing. It's

719
00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:50.599
not me. She tried to come some way to get

720
00:51:50.599 --> 00:51:54.039
out of it. Right, My spirits are these spirits are

721
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:57.159
doing things apart for me. It's not me that's doing it.

722
00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:02.880
Authorities dolls in her home, which were used as evidence

723
00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:09.920
that she performed witchcraft. Spectral evidence claims that spirits harmed

724
00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:13.159
others while the accused person was elsewhere, was used against her.

725
00:52:14.039 --> 00:52:18.280
Spectral evidence is evil because anyone could say that person,

726
00:52:18.679 --> 00:52:21.199
they're a witch and they were tormenting me. When did

727
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:26.000
they torment you? On Friday at two pm. Well, the

728
00:52:26.159 --> 00:52:28.960
woman you're accusing as being a witch who tormented you,

729
00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:32.159
she was one hundred miles away Friday at two pm.

730
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:36.559
Doesn't matter. It was her spirit. Oh okay, Well she

731
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:39.480
could do that, so spectral evidence could be used. Well,

732
00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:42.400
then the other person could. They couldn't even defend themselves

733
00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:44.280
even if they were nowhere to be found or nowhere

734
00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:48.559
near the event itself. Well, guess what Salem witch trials.

735
00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:52.440
Tishuba confessed after being pressured and claimed Sarah Good and

736
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:56.840
Sarah Osborne were also witches. Now, Tishuba, if you study her,

737
00:52:56.880 --> 00:52:59.519
she's pretty smart, even though she's a slave in this

738
00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:03.679
and you she maybe naive, and she kind of plays

739
00:53:03.679 --> 00:53:07.320
it really smart. She's kind of like, okay, okay, guys, okay, guys,

740
00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:09.119
I did it. But but up, up, up up. But

741
00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:14.280
I know things. I know things. I may know other witches.

742
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:17.280
I may know the other spirits. And so they're like, okay, well,

743
00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:19.679
we can't kill her. They kept her in prison, but

744
00:53:19.719 --> 00:53:21.880
they were like, we can't kill her. We need her

745
00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:25.119
because she kept kinda she'd kind of she would drag

746
00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:27.440
it out. Oh okay, okay, I can give you a

747
00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:29.960
little bit more. Well, I don't remember that right now. Well,

748
00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:31.880
we're gonna kill you, okay, okay, I'll give you a

749
00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:34.639
little like she kept always finding a reason for them

750
00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:40.880
to keep her alive. Well, sadly, she accused Sarah Good

751
00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:44.639
and Sarah Osborne while also witches. Hey what were the

752
00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:47.440
other names of the other women accused. Yeah, yeah, they're witches.

753
00:53:47.599 --> 00:53:51.760
They're witches. Go focus on them, because I've already confessed.

754
00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:56.639
I'll help you out kind of thing. The afflicted girls

755
00:53:56.679 --> 00:54:01.320
reported visions spectral evidence of the accused attacking them in dreams.

756
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:05.199
Many later accused, which is, were forced to confess or

757
00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:10.400
implic and implicate or implicate others under duress. So you

758
00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:13.960
get forced confession, you get later on other people who

759
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:17.840
confess or like being forced or being you know, under duress.

760
00:54:18.840 --> 00:54:23.159
And I've been to the Dungeon Museum in Salem and

761
00:54:23.239 --> 00:54:26.840
I've seen the the the cells that they were held in.

762
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:29.800
And you were held in a cell depending on the

763
00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:32.960
money your family had, if you came from a poor family,

764
00:54:33.360 --> 00:54:36.280
you were put inside these cells that were so small.

765
00:54:36.440 --> 00:54:40.079
Basically all you could do is stand, You couldn't sit.

766
00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:43.119
You were I mean, you talk about just a horrible

767
00:54:43.199 --> 00:54:46.639
situation and I saw some of that, and these women

768
00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:51.360
not good. So in both cases, interrogators pressure the accused

769
00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:56.039
into confessing, spectral evidence was accepted, and physical objects were

770
00:54:56.119 --> 00:55:00.880
used as proof of witchcraft. So's it's like am I

771
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:04.719
in Boston or I'm in Salem? It's the same thing.

772
00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:14.360
Outcome execution and a precedent for future trials. The Goodie

773
00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:17.880
Glover case sixteen eighty eight, Boston, and Glover was found

774
00:55:17.880 --> 00:55:22.079
guilty and executed by hanging on November the sixteenth, sixteen

775
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:25.159
eighty eight. She warned that her death would not cure

776
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:30.119
the afflicted children, and the Goodwin children continued having fits

777
00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:36.920
after her execution. Her case was publicized by Cotton Mather,

778
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:41.079
making it a well known example of a successful witch trial.

779
00:55:41.199 --> 00:55:45.599
Now this is crazy. The children keep having symptoms. Nobody

780
00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:49.199
talks about that in history. But Cotton mathers like, this

781
00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:52.559
was successful. Why was it successful? Because if you can

782
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:55.159
get a dad witch, it's successful. But wait a minute.

783
00:55:55.239 --> 00:55:58.840
If the children are still having symptoms, then it wasn't

784
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:02.559
obviously the woman you who killed? So who is tormenting them?

785
00:56:03.320 --> 00:56:06.159
Where it? Did? The kids try to make more accusations?

786
00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:07.960
There's a lot there. I don't know when it comes

787
00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:12.039
to the historical record, how long did the kids keep having?

788
00:56:12.159 --> 00:56:16.320
No more women were executed in Boston for witchcraft? So

789
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:19.920
did they finally say, kids, snap out of it, come on,

790
00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:25.079
stop it? Well, did anyone go? Wait, I don't think

791
00:56:25.159 --> 00:56:28.880
Anne did this. I don't think maybe we messed up. No,

792
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:30.880
Cotton Mather is like, I'm going to write a book

793
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:32.719
and I'm going to tell everyone this is how you

794
00:56:32.760 --> 00:56:37.280
get rid of witches. Okay, the whole thing is crazy.

795
00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:42.079
I mean, I mean, that's just it's just nuts nuts.

796
00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:44.519
Her case was publicized by Cotton Mather, making it a

797
00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:47.480
well known example of supposedly a successful witch trial. Now

798
00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:49.639
you get to the Salem witch trial sixteen ninety two,

799
00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:53.639
Tisshaba was spared. She later recanted her confession and was

800
00:56:53.639 --> 00:56:57.320
sold to a new owner. So she spared, She confesses,

801
00:56:57.840 --> 00:57:00.719
than after when everything starts dying down, you were cants

802
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:03.760
and like, I didn't do anything. As she gets sold

803
00:57:03.760 --> 00:57:05.880
to a new owner, and she moves on with her

804
00:57:05.960 --> 00:57:08.440
life as a slave, of course, you know, as a

805
00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:11.840
slave in good Christian America. Okay, but we won't even

806
00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:15.679
get into all of that, Okay, Sarah Osborne, she dies

807
00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:19.280
in prison May the tenth, sixteen ninety two, and Sarah

808
00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:23.760
Good was hanged July the nineteenth, sixteen ninety two. So

809
00:57:24.239 --> 00:57:29.000
you got well, you got the hanging down, right, They

810
00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:33.639
got the hanging down pretty good. Okay. Nineteen others were executed,

811
00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:38.000
setting a new legal and social precedent for mass witch

812
00:57:38.039 --> 00:57:42.400
trials and the colonies. I mean, that's it's just crazy

813
00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:46.440
how that all plays out. Now, what is the similarity?

814
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:50.280
Both cases resulted in executions based on weak evidence, and

815
00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:54.840
in both instances, the accused deaths did not stop the afflictions.

816
00:57:55.039 --> 00:57:58.920
No one ever cut onto that. Again, it's the exact

817
00:57:58.920 --> 00:58:03.000
same thing. Boston. This woman is a witch, she's afflicting

818
00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:06.079
my children. Kill her, she dies, my children are still

819
00:58:06.119 --> 00:58:09.639
having the same symptoms. Nobody's like, well, maybe we messed

820
00:58:09.719 --> 00:58:12.920
up in Salem. Hey, this woman is a witch. She's

821
00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:17.679
afflicting these children. Kill them. The children are still being afflicted. Well,

822
00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:19.400
then we gotta find a new witch, kill a new

823
00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:22.119
witch now in Boston. For some reason. It's see, that's

824
00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:26.440
the mystery here in all of this. It's just like, well, okay, oops,

825
00:58:26.719 --> 00:58:28.400
I don't know if everyone just kind of said, well,

826
00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:31.280
did they finally go to the kids and say could

827
00:58:31.360 --> 00:58:33.800
you stop it now? Could you find something? Did the

828
00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:37.280
kids kind of laugh and go, okay, well, I mean

829
00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:40.880
I don't know. You figured in Boston they would have

830
00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:43.960
been kept killing people, but no, But in Salem they're like,

831
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:46.639
oh well, let's kill some more witches. Let's kill some

832
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:54.559
more witches. Now again the similarity. Here's Cotton Mather. I

833
00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:58.880
keep telling you his name. Cotton Mather had strong influence

834
00:58:58.920 --> 00:59:03.360
on Salem, all right, name of his book Memorable Providences,

835
00:59:03.960 --> 00:59:08.199
Goodie Glovercase, sixteen eighty eight. Cotton Mather published Memorable Providences

836
00:59:08.199 --> 00:59:10.800
in sixteen eighty nine, which describes in detail how to

837
00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:15.559
identify and persecute witches. Mather emphasized how young children could

838
00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:19.000
be afflicted by witches and how accused witches might confess

839
00:59:19.239 --> 00:59:24.559
under pressure. Salem Witch Trials sixteen ninety two. Here we go.

840
00:59:25.360 --> 00:59:33.119
The Reverend Samuel Parris owned a copy of Memorable Providences

841
00:59:34.039 --> 00:59:39.480
and likely used it to interpret Betty and Abigail's symptoms. Now, remember,

842
00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:41.400
not only did he own a copy of the book,

843
00:59:41.800 --> 00:59:46.400
him and his family lived in Boston when the trial happened.

844
00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:49.920
In the execution occurred, then they moved to Salem. Now

845
00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:51.760
some will say, well, he just used a book to

846
00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:54.960
interpret the symptoms. I would say, how could the girls

847
00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:58.880
get the symptoms down almost identical to what happened in Boston?

848
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:09.360
Did they hear the stories? The Salem Trials closely follow

849
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:12.679
Mathers description of the Goodwin case from the Girl's Fits

850
01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:16.840
Say Please note that the Salem Trials closely followed the

851
01:00:16.880 --> 01:00:21.440
description from the Girl's Fits. The girls fits how they're described,

852
01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:24.960
it's the same way they play out in Salem. Well,

853
01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:30.599
how is that possible? They use spectral evidence and they

854
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:34.719
force confessions? What is the similarity? Cotton Mathers book shape

855
01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:38.599
the Salem Trials, providing a blueprint for handling witchcraft cases

856
01:00:38.679 --> 01:00:41.559
based on what happened to Goodie Glover or a Glover

857
01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:51.599
in Boston. The Salem witch trials did not emerge in isolation.

858
01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:57.000
Nothing ever emerges in isolation. Nothing ever emerges in isolation.

859
01:00:57.280 --> 01:01:01.440
There's always something that leads to it. There's always something

860
01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:05.519
that starts it. Let's and I'm not even saying the end.

861
01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:09.039
Then Glover case, there may have been something that led

862
01:01:09.159 --> 01:01:11.199
up to it prior to. We would have to go

863
01:01:11.440 --> 01:01:15.079
find what happened prior to. But there's no way to

864
01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:19.199
get around. Hey, you got this. I mean the connections

865
01:01:19.199 --> 01:01:25.159
there are just crazy, are just crazy. The Salem witch

866
01:01:25.159 --> 01:01:28.320
trials did not emerge in isolation. They follow an established

867
01:01:28.360 --> 01:01:30.519
pattern that had already played out in Boston with and

868
01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:35.400
Goodie Glover just four years earlier. The similarities between the

869
01:01:35.519 --> 01:01:39.360
two cases strongly suggest that the Salem trials were in

870
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:44.719
part a continuation and an escalation of what happened happened

871
01:01:44.800 --> 01:01:49.400
in Boston. So I asked AI, Hey, give me some takeaways.

872
01:01:49.559 --> 01:01:52.159
Here we go. This is what AI gives me. Both

873
01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:57.039
cases begin with young girls exhibiting supposedly mysterious fits. Both

874
01:01:57.079 --> 01:02:02.440
accused women are outsiders, poor, marginal lies, non puritan. Both

875
01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:07.079
trials used force, confession, and spectral evidence. Both executions failed

876
01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:09.760
to stop the afflictions, showing that these trials were not

877
01:02:09.800 --> 01:02:15.400
truly about stopping witches. Cotton Mather's book on the Goodie

878
01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:18.719
Glover case helped shape how Salem authorities handled their own

879
01:02:18.760 --> 01:02:22.639
witchcraft crisis. I think, I think that I think the

880
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:25.599
first two girls were I don't know how they They

881
01:02:25.679 --> 01:02:28.400
had to be influenced. It's the only thing that makes

882
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:33.119
sense to me. And only don't forget Barbados don't forget

883
01:02:33.199 --> 01:02:38.840
Barbados and Tishuba connected to Barbados, which is just fascinating.

884
01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:42.440
It's fascinating. You got young girls, fascinating. They have the

885
01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:46.280
same symptoms, fascinating. The accusations go to marginalized women who

886
01:02:46.360 --> 01:02:50.519
from bar who came from Barbados, both of them are foreigners.

887
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:55.840
The whole thing stinks. The whole thing seems like, give

888
01:02:55.960 --> 01:03:00.760
me a break. Now, here's what blows my mind. Here's

889
01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:05.159
what blows my mind is wait a minute, wait a minute.

890
01:03:05.519 --> 01:03:08.920
These young girls. Now you can argue whether you think

891
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:12.760
they're innocent or guilty or playing everyone or whatever. These

892
01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:17.679
young girls ultimately become the reason and the source that

893
01:03:17.719 --> 01:03:21.800
all of these religious leaders, these civil leaders, the medical authorities,

894
01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:26.480
they all just fall into full blown witchcraft, panic. The

895
01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:30.519
devil is everywhere. The young girls are able to do this.

896
01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:33.440
Now again, as Christians, we like to say, well, Christians,

897
01:03:33.440 --> 01:03:37.239
we have great insight, we have discernment, we have the truth.

898
01:03:37.360 --> 01:03:40.320
Our eyes have been opened. Really, because it doesn't look

899
01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:42.639
like their eyes are opened. Didn't like they have the truth,

900
01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:45.239
did not like they had discernment. Looks like they had

901
01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:47.639
a lot of fear. They had a lot of panic,

902
01:03:48.159 --> 01:03:53.320
a lot of prejudice and maybe some not so pure motives,

903
01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:56.159
because when you get into it, some of the people accused,

904
01:03:56.199 --> 01:03:58.920
it's like, well, this family's accusing that family and just

905
01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:01.360
happened to be there in a land dispute, or maybe

906
01:04:01.400 --> 01:04:04.119
this person doesn't like this person. Then there's a church dispute.

907
01:04:04.480 --> 01:04:07.400
You get into some of the accusations of people being killed,

908
01:04:07.639 --> 01:04:11.760
it's for some very sinful and ungodly things, which demonstrates

909
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:14.360
what I know Christians. I know you don't like to

910
01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:17.239
hear this, but we love to run around claiming, Oh,

911
01:04:17.280 --> 01:04:20.719
we're not like the world, We're godly, we've been set

912
01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:23.559
free from the power of sin. If anyone's in Christ

913
01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:25.920
is a new creature, old things are passed away, all

914
01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:28.000
things have become new. And we say all of that

915
01:04:28.119 --> 01:04:31.480
is if it's true practically, But the reality is none

916
01:04:31.519 --> 01:04:35.239
of it's true practically. It's true positionally. Positionally, I am

917
01:04:35.239 --> 01:04:37.639
a new creature, the oldest passed away. All is new

918
01:04:37.880 --> 01:04:41.000
in Christ. Not in practice, I'm still a sinner. We

919
01:04:41.159 --> 01:04:42.800
like to believe that we've been set free from the

920
01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:45.000
power of sin. We've been set free from the power

921
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:47.119
of sin. As far as us being condemned and going

922
01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:49.280
to hell. But in a practical sense, we've not been

923
01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:50.960
freed from the power of sin, because if we were

924
01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:52.960
freed from the power of sin, we could be perfect.

925
01:04:53.039 --> 01:04:55.079
If we can't be perfect, that means there's something still

926
01:04:55.119 --> 01:04:58.119
in control that would be sin. So we're still sinners.

927
01:04:58.239 --> 01:05:07.199
And church history demonstrates vile, evil, disgusting things happening, backstabbing, lying, deception, murder, bearing,

928
01:05:07.280 --> 01:05:11.840
false witness, all of this nonsense happening inside the church.

929
01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:13.760
Now you can sit back and go, well, none of

930
01:05:13.800 --> 01:05:16.639
them were saved, and of course you are, but you're

931
01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:23.840
just as ungodly of them, just in a different way.

932
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The similarities are frightening. Now. I cannot dogmatically state that

933
01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:33.880
the two girls, let me go back here to the

934
01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:39.519
very beginning here. I cannot go back and say for

935
01:05:39.599 --> 01:05:45.039
sure that Betty Paris and Abigail Williams had read the book,

936
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:49.119
Cotton Mather's book. I would be hard pressed for them

937
01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:52.360
to not have heard about it. Right, They're living in

938
01:05:52.480 --> 01:05:56.079
Puritan society, which is very close knit. That story in

939
01:05:56.159 --> 01:05:58.400
Boston had to go. We go the talk of the

940
01:05:58.440 --> 01:06:01.320
town that this woman is a witch. And you know,

941
01:06:02.639 --> 01:06:07.800
it's so similar it's hard to ignore that, well, their

942
01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:12.280
father is the pastor, and he had a copy of

943
01:06:12.280 --> 01:06:16.000
Cotton Mathers's book. They lived in Boston, and he had

944
01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:18.840
a copy of the book itself. If he had a

945
01:06:18.880 --> 01:06:23.199
copy of the book, you telling me that the girls

946
01:06:23.199 --> 01:06:26.159
didn't hear about it. And he's the one preaching sermons.

947
01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:32.519
And he starts even before January night, sixteen ninety two,

948
01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:35.320
before the trials. He I mean, you can look up

949
01:06:35.639 --> 01:06:38.480
some of his sermons, Richard Paris. You can look up

950
01:06:38.480 --> 01:06:41.719
his sermons, and he's already talking about Satan and witchcraft.

951
01:06:41.880 --> 01:06:46.119
He's already dropping already the ideas before it starts. And

952
01:06:46.159 --> 01:06:49.599
it happens to be his daughter and his niece who

953
01:06:49.679 --> 01:06:53.320
starts supposedly having the symptoms and making the accusations. It's

954
01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:57.440
almost like they were being psychologically preconditioned exactly what to

955
01:06:57.519 --> 01:07:02.639
do now? Did do it knowing it? Did it start

956
01:07:02.639 --> 01:07:06.159
off like have a little fun, and then they were like, well, guys,

957
01:07:06.199 --> 01:07:09.079
you've got to name someone. Well let's see what do

958
01:07:09.119 --> 01:07:12.000
we do here? We either name someone or we got

959
01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:16.639
to come clean. Well, let's name Tisshaba. I mean, that's

960
01:07:16.679 --> 01:07:18.440
that's a good place to start, right, I mean, who's

961
01:07:18.440 --> 01:07:24.320
gonna she's the slave, she's from Barbados, she's a foreigner,

962
01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:28.599
she's she's you know, oh yeah, everyone, no one's gonna

963
01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:31.320
believe her. And of course she didn't have a she

964
01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:33.920
didn't have a chance, so she I mean, that's why

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01:07:33.960 --> 01:07:37.000
she folded immediately and confessed. And she also, though, was

966
01:07:37.159 --> 01:07:40.880
very very very very very smart because she kept herself alive.

967
01:07:41.039 --> 01:07:42.599
And then when it was all over, then she's like,

968
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I didn't I didn't. I didn't say one thing that

969
01:07:46.079 --> 01:07:49.320
was true. I lied about it all. Okay, she recants

970
01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:52.440
at all, but she was the only smart one able

971
01:07:52.480 --> 01:08:00.000
to stay alive. That the similarities are. It's like I'm

972
01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:03.159
telling you, you go to Salem, of all the times,

973
01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:06.559
all the things I've gone to, no one says and

974
01:08:06.599 --> 01:08:12.719
glover that poor woman, and no one says, hey, these girls,

975
01:08:12.880 --> 01:08:16.560
what in the world. I've heard all of the speculation

976
01:08:17.279 --> 01:08:21.960
about the young girls, that the two young girls in Salem,

977
01:08:23.359 --> 01:08:26.119
Betty and Abigail, always forget their name, Betty and Abigail.

978
01:08:27.359 --> 01:08:29.520
I've heard every kind of theory. Well, maybe there was

979
01:08:29.640 --> 01:08:32.560
like there was this plant and the pollen of that

980
01:08:32.600 --> 01:08:36.359
plant caused these kinds of reactions. Maybe they had epilepsy,

981
01:08:36.760 --> 01:08:39.399
maybe they had. Oh, everyone tries to come up with

982
01:08:39.439 --> 01:08:45.399
a million ideas, and I'm like, well, or maybe maybe

983
01:08:46.039 --> 01:08:50.560
call me crazy. They were acting out they on Glover

984
01:08:50.640 --> 01:08:59.640
case and it sparked panic and twenty people died, twenty

985
01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:02.239
one if you count and Glover. But those two girls

986
01:09:02.239 --> 01:09:05.439
obviously weren't involved in that case. But the similarities are

987
01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:14.159
so perfect, and modern day Christianity is not. We've talked

988
01:09:14.199 --> 01:09:17.359
about all the similarities with the Great Satanic Panic of

989
01:09:17.399 --> 01:09:20.439
the nineteen eighties. Oh, I can go different times when

990
01:09:20.439 --> 01:09:22.840
everybody was screaming the Illuminati was going to destroy all

991
01:09:22.880 --> 01:09:25.560
of us. Ooh, Disney is gonna is out to get

992
01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:29.079
all of us, and watch out and hitting hidden messages

993
01:09:29.159 --> 01:09:31.359
and Disney movies and this, and Satan is this and

994
01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:33.920
demons here and this and this, and they're out to

995
01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:35.319
get us and we're all gonna be we're all gonna

996
01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:37.520
be possessed and oh my goodness, this and this and this.

997
01:09:38.159 --> 01:09:43.359
It's always panic, panic, panic, panic, fear, fear, fear, fear. Now.

998
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:46.000
I'm not saying there aren't spiritual things to be concerned about,

999
01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:48.520
but we had to handle in a reasonable rational way,

1000
01:09:49.079 --> 01:09:53.319
not this irrationality. And Christians love to bear false witness.

1001
01:09:54.039 --> 01:09:57.640
I've heard pastors. We accuse politicians, we accuse singers, we

1002
01:09:57.720 --> 01:10:00.560
accuse actors of things, and come to find out none

1003
01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:02.920
of it's accurate or true. We don't care. We never repent.

1004
01:10:03.640 --> 01:10:07.560
Now and back then people died. Now, but it doesn't

1005
01:10:07.600 --> 01:10:09.079
matter if people die or don't die. We're not to

1006
01:10:09.079 --> 01:10:11.399
bear false witness. We're supposed to speak the truth. We

1007
01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:15.319
are supposed to love our enemy. We're supposed to pursue

1008
01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:20.800
things a correct way. We're not supposed to have a

1009
01:10:20.840 --> 01:10:29.039
spirit of fear, but of the sound mind. I think

1010
01:10:29.079 --> 01:10:35.159
the similarities, the similarities are absolutely fascinating. I think they

1011
01:10:35.199 --> 01:10:39.279
need to be. Why no one explored, even AI acknowledged,

1012
01:10:39.640 --> 01:10:47.199
nobody really, nobody really thinks about this puts it together, nobody.

1013
01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:53.880
But now you know, I guess the rest of the story,

1014
01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:58.960
you know, the prequel sixteen eighty eight, sixteen ninety two.

1015
01:11:01.359 --> 01:11:05.239
You gotta know both, and then you can go what

1016
01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:13.840
and the world was going on here? And once people

1017
01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:20.840
were overcome with fear, once people I mean, I put look,

1018
01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:25.720
let me state it this way. The enemy the enemy

1019
01:11:26.920 --> 01:11:29.880
to our theology, no matter how right our theology may be,

1020
01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:32.479
no matter how good we are at exegeating scripture. The

1021
01:11:32.520 --> 01:11:35.119
Puritans are always given a lot of you know, praise

1022
01:11:35.239 --> 01:11:38.199
for their you know, exposition of scripture, and how much

1023
01:11:38.239 --> 01:11:40.079
they were committed to the glory of God, and how

1024
01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:42.279
much they were committed to the scriptures, and all the

1025
01:11:42.279 --> 01:11:44.439
good things we can say, no matter how good your

1026
01:11:44.479 --> 01:11:48.520
theology is, no matter how how committed you are to

1027
01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:51.920
the scriptures. Look, here's the things always working against us.

1028
01:11:52.159 --> 01:11:57.720
Our own internal depravity, which will always go against our theology,

1029
01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:01.439
no matter how good it is, always goes against it. Fear.

1030
01:12:01.960 --> 01:12:05.720
Once we become fearful, once we become fearful, we will

1031
01:12:05.720 --> 01:12:10.880
dehumanize and make other When once we become fearful, then

1032
01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:13.640
whoever we feel fearful of, or whatever we become fearful of,

1033
01:12:13.880 --> 01:12:17.319
we will dehumanize those people. They become the enemy. We

1034
01:12:17.399 --> 01:12:19.920
dehumanize them. We no longer see them as people creating

1035
01:12:19.920 --> 01:12:21.359
the image of God. There are our enemy that must

1036
01:12:21.399 --> 01:12:24.600
be destroyed. And once that fear begins, it will override

1037
01:12:24.600 --> 01:12:29.159
our theology. Our own internal depravity, our own fear, our

1038
01:12:29.199 --> 01:12:36.960
own prejudice, our own sinful motives, all of that will

1039
01:12:37.039 --> 01:12:40.920
triumph our theology over and over and over again. It

1040
01:12:41.039 --> 01:12:45.399
always does. Now I believe, in fact, I was going

1041
01:12:45.439 --> 01:12:48.159
to grab my Bible, but instead of reaching down, let

1042
01:12:48.159 --> 01:12:51.640
me do this, because I believe I can pull this

1043
01:12:51.960 --> 01:12:56.680
up really quick this way, and I can read it

1044
01:12:56.720 --> 01:13:01.279
in a number of translations this way, all right, because

1045
01:13:01.399 --> 01:13:06.119
I think this could be helpful, I'm going to read

1046
01:13:06.119 --> 01:13:09.119
it from a number of translations. For the spirit of

1047
01:13:09.119 --> 01:13:14.479
God gave us not let me read this again. For

1048
01:13:14.560 --> 01:13:17.479
the spirit God gave us does not make us timid,

1049
01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:23.079
but gives us power, love, and self discipline. New Living Translation.

1050
01:13:23.399 --> 01:13:25.359
For God has not given us a spirit of fear

1051
01:13:25.399 --> 01:13:30.359
and timidity, but of power, love, and self discipline. The ESV.

1052
01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:32.600
For God gave us a spirit not of fear, but

1053
01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:35.760
of power and of love and of self control. The

1054
01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:38.199
King James is what I know, and you know. Probably

1055
01:13:38.399 --> 01:13:40.239
God has not given us the spirit of fear, but

1056
01:13:40.279 --> 01:13:47.399
of power and of love and of a sound mind.

1057
01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:55.439
Cannot be controlled by fear. We need to exercise some control,

1058
01:13:55.600 --> 01:14:02.600
some rationality thinking. We need to have love, not hatred,

1059
01:14:02.720 --> 01:14:09.520
not prejudice, not bigotry. We need to have a sound mind,

1060
01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:16.840
a sound mind. We may never be like the people

1061
01:14:16.880 --> 01:14:21.119
in Salem or in Boston, but we will be like them,

1062
01:14:21.199 --> 01:14:23.199
and I mean what made me stated this will never

1063
01:14:23.239 --> 01:14:26.119
be like them in the exact same way because times

1064
01:14:26.119 --> 01:14:30.399
have changed, but we will be exactly like them in

1065
01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:37.159
different ways. Thanks for listening, God bless