Magic in the Courtroom: The Story of Candy, A Woman Accused of Witchcraft in 1692
FEB 15, 202610 MIN
Magic in the Courtroom: The Story of Candy, A Woman Accused of Witchcraft in 1692
FEB 15, 202610 MIN
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<p>History remembers Tituba—but she wasn’t the only enslaved woman caught in Salem’s 1692 witch hunt. Meet Candy of Barbados, whose courtroom testimony turned Puritan assumptions upside down.</p><p>When magistrates asked if she was a witch, Candy gave an answer that indicted the entire colony: “Candy no witch, Barbados. This country, mistress give Candy witch.” Then she brought cheese and grass into the courtroom as proof.</p><p>What followed was one of the strangest examinations of the summer—complete with burning rags, forced grass-eating, and an enslaved woman accusing the woman who held her in bondage of witchcraft. Discover the story of resistance, strategy, and survival that the history books rarely tell.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIz3vKHO9eBqIfjWd4e0mZpuXlrxzaE-3"><strong>Salem Witch Trials Daily Videos & Course</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://aboutsalem.com"><u>The Thing About Salem Website</u></a><u></u></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@witchhuntshow"><u>The Thing About Witch Hunts YouTube</u></a><u></u></p><p><a href="https://aboutwitchhunts.com"><u>The Thing About Witch Hunts Website</u></a></p><p><a href="http://www.change.org/witchtrials"><u>Sign the Petition: MA Witch Hunt Justice Project</u></a> </p><p><a href="https://massachusettswitchtrials.org/"><u>www.massachusettswitchtrials.org</u> </a></p><p><a href="https://endwitchhunts.org/donate/"><u>Support the nonprofit End Witch Hunts Podcasts and Projects</u></a> </p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/90227/9781107689619"><u>Bernard Rosenthal, ed., </u><em>Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt</em></a></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/90227/9780190627805"><u>Emerson W. Baker, </u><em>A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience</em></a></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/90227/9781589791329"><u>Marilynne K. Roach, </u><em>The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege</em></a></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/90227/9780375706905"><u>Mary Beth Norton, </u><em>In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692</em></a></p><p><a href="https://pem.quartexcollections.com/collections/salem-witch-trials-collection"><u>Peabody Essex Museum Salem Witch Trials Collection</u></a></p>