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42 - Imagining the Witch (German Witch Trials w/ Laura Kounine)

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The Salem Witch Trials

Most Americans are probably most familiar with the Salem witch trials, which took place between 1692 and 1693. In Europe, many more witch trials actually took place in the decades before those trials in Salem. By some estimates, between 1560 and 1670, more than 40,000 people were executed for witchcraft in Europe. And like we said, the connection here and posting this episode now is because it's witchy side in Germany.

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