The Real Witches of New England
My special guest tonight is Ellen Evert Hopman who revels the origins and history of the New England witch hysteria, its continuing repercussions, and the multilayered practices of today’s modern witches Her book is called The Real Witches of New England.
Reveals the origins and history of the New England witch hysteria, its continuing repercussions, and the multilayered practices of today’s modern witches
• Shares the stories of 13 accused witches from the New England colonies through interviews with their living descendants
• Explores the positive role witches played in rural communities until the dawn of the industrial age, despite ongoing persecution
• Includes in-depth interviews with 25 modern witchcraft practitioners, interwoven with practical information on the sacred calendar, herb lore, spells, and magical practices
New England has long been associated with witches. And while the Salem witch trials happened long ago, the prejudices and fears engendered by the witchcraft hysteria still live on in our culture. What forces were at work that brought the witch hysteria quickly from Europe to the new American colony, a place of religious freedom--and what caused these prejudices to linger centuries after the fact?
Weaving together history, sacred lore, modern practice, and the voices of today’s witches, Ellen Evert Hopman offers a new, deeper perspective on American witchcraft and its ancient pagan origins. Beginning with the “witch hysteria” that started in Europe and spread to the New World, Hopman explores the witch hunts, persecutions, mass hysteria, and killings, concluding that between forty and sixty thousand women and men were executed as witches. Combining records of known events with moving interviews with their descendants, she shares the stories of 13 New England witches persecuted during the witch trials, including Tituba and Mary Bliss Parsons, the Witch of Northhampton. Despite the number of false accusations during the witch hysteria in the New England colonies, Hopman reveals how there were practicing witches during that time and describes the positive role witches played in rural communities until the dawn of the industrial age.
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the dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me to anger and that's Yahweh complaining because they're because of goddess worship
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and Jeremiah also and said the women when we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and were pouring out libations to her was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out libations to her and that's a question but
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one way to understand the old pagan practices is to look at those kinds of passages and also writings of the church fathers complaining about all the terrible heresies that the pagans were doing and they talk about oh it's Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting mysteriousradio.com.
