Episode 500: The Salem Witch Trials Part I - Get Your Buckles!
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Is She a Dead Ie?
A witch cake was a loaf of rye bread mixed with urine of the afflicted and baked into hot ashes. A neighbor told them that if they really wanted to figure out if they were being plagued by a witch, they needed to practise a little magic of their own. If you removed a part of their bodies, in this case, urine, you could bake it into a cake and feed it to the family dog. It's supposed to hurt the witch because you're being eaten - but didn't even work as well as expected.
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