The Devil Hath Been Raised in Salem: The Baking of the Witch Cake
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The Devil Hath Been Raised in Salem: The Baking of the Witch Cake
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The Witch Cake That Sparked Salem’s PanicWe revisit the crisis in Reverend Samuel Parris’s Salem Village household in February 1692, when his daughter Betty and niece Abigail Williams suffered violent fits and a doctor declared they were under an “evil hand.” With no natural cure, neighbor Mary Sibley intervened while the Parrises were away, directing Tituba and John Indian to make a traditional witch cake using rye flour and the girls’ urine, then feed it to the family dog as a form of sympathetic counter-magic. We discuss the folk beliefs behind this practice and why it failed to help the girls, who soon began naming alleged tormenters. We also cover Parris’s furious reaction and his condemnation of using folk magic as sinful in the Puritan worldview.00:00 Fits in Salem Village00:35 Witch Cake Countermagic01:16 How the Cake Was Supposed to Work01:54 Accusations Ignite02:07 Parris Condemns Folk MagicLinks
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