Season 1 · Episode 30
Elizabeth Howe's Past Comes Back to Haunt Her
The Salem Witch Trials Podcast
December 18, 202423m 37s
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Show Notes
Elizabeth Howe seemed just like any other hard-working Puritan in seventeenth-century New England, but her past came back to haunt her once the witch crisis exploded in the spring of 1692. Her tragic story highlights the fear and scapegoating that fueled the witch hysteria.
- Learn more about host Greg Houle's new novel: The Putnams of Salem: A Novel of Power and Betrayal During the Salem Witch Trials.