Witch Trial Weekly

Week 1 / Business As Usual

Week 2 / What Tituba Saw

Week 3 / Tituba Signs

Week 4 / Sarah Good’s Mistake

Week 5 / Church Control

Week 6 / Diagnosis, Witch Cake and the Spread of the Evil Hand

Week 7 / The First Examinations

Week 8 / A New Specter, Confessions, and Chains

Week 9 / Ann Putnam Jr. Names Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse

Week 10 / Martha, Rebecca and the Little Girl

Week 11 / Doubts of Afflication

Week 12 / The “White Man” and Merry Warren

Week 13 / Sarah Cloyse and the Proctors

Week 14 / Confessions True and False

Week 15 / Guilt by Association

Week 16 / Uneasiness and Laughter

Week 17 / Rev. Burroughs, the Jacobs Family, and More Examinations

Week 18 / Bewitched to Death

Week 19 / Mercy Lewis’ Near Death Experience

Week 20 / The Court of Oyer and Terminer is Assembled

Week 21 / Can one be a “witch and not know it?”

Week 22 / The Hanging of Bridget Bishop

Week 23 / Prison Transfers and Susanna Sheldon’s Guilt

Week 24 / Five “Guilty” Women

Week 25 / Excommunication and Mounting Turmoil

Week 26 / Afflictions Spread

Week 27 / “God will give you blood to drink.”

Week 28 / Confessions & Petitions

Week 29 / Accusations, Condemnations, & Prison Breaks

Week 30 / 3 Men, 3 Children, and 3 Poppets

Week 31 / Advice & Forgiveness

Week 32 / Hangings & Escapes

Week 33 / The Devil’s Snare of False Confession

Week 34 / Neighbor Against Neighbor

Week 35 / Petitioning for Innocence

Week 36 / “More Weight”

Week 37 / The Wardwell Family and Lady Mary Phips

Week 38 / Increase Mather Puts His Foot Down

Week 39 / Escape, Petitions, and a Halt in Proceedings

Week 40 / Taking Back Their Confessions

Week 41 / The Fall of the Court of Oyer & Terminer

Week 42 / Goods, a Ghost, and Gossip

Week 43 / Still Ailing Mercy Short & Reestablishment of the Judicial System

Week 44 / Reprieve and Release

Week 45 / The Witchcraft Act & Other Preparations for the Future

Week 46 / Gloriously Delivered?