Aug. 25, 2025

I'm Just a Bride of Satan: Mary Osgood

I'm Just a Bride of Satan: Mary Osgood
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What would you confess to if your life depended on it? In 1692, Mary Clements Osgood faced this impossible choice when she was blindfolded, led before a Salem courtroom, and accused of witchcraft after afflicted girls stopped convulsing at her touch.

Mary's story reveals the twisted logic of the Salem Witch Trials, where respected community members could be transformed into "brides of Satan" overnight. As the wife of a prominent Andover citizen and mother to thirteen children, Mary seemed untouchable – until political instability and religious paranoia created the perfect storm for scapegoating. Under relentless questioning, she eventually confessed to meeting "the devil as a black man" with a book, flying through the air, and attending witch gatherings.

But what makes Mary's case extraordinary is what happened next. Unlike many accused, she publicly recanted her confession, declaring it "wholly false" and a product of "violent urging and unreasonable pressings." Her brave testimony, published by Increase Mather, helped turn the tide against spectral evidence and forced confessions, ultimately contributing to the end of the witch hunt hysteria.

The podcast also uncovers a surprising literary connection – Mary Clements Osgood was a direct ancestor of Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Her story demonstrates how easily justice can be perverted when fear overrides reason, and how a single person's courage can help restore sanity even in the darkest moments.

Have you ever stood up against mass hysteria, even when it was dangerous to do so? Share your thoughts and join the conversation about modern witch hunts and scapegoating. Subscribe and follow @HistoryBuffoonsPodcast for more untold stories that changed the course of history.

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00:00 - Episode Introduction and Catching Up

04:02 - Introducing Mary Clements Osgood

08:16 - Massachusetts Bay Colony Political Context

11:42 - Salem Witch Trials and Spectral Evidence

17:17 - Mary's Accusation and Forced Confession

27:15 - Mary's Recantation and Legal Battle

44:48 - Legacy and Mark Twain Connection

53:19 - Episode Wrap-Up

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One of the drivers had three feet of water in his basement.

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One of Sarah's coworkers had a finished basement and they have to take out the drywall up to a certain point because it was just so much water.

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I had to redo it all and everything.

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However, she is really excited she gets a new washer and dryer.

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She's never actually had a brand new washer and dryer, so she's really excited about that.

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It's little things.

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It's still little things she's always inherited.

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They bought a house that came with a washer, dryer kind of thing or whatever right.

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So she's actually kind of excited that, um, they've all been grandfathered in.

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There we go I felt like my chair was making me go that way.

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That was weird.

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Um so uh, we just saw my parents and took them to a brewer's game and and they fabulous game.

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By the way, it was a good game.

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They brought us some beers.

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Yeah.

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So this is the Bottle Rocket Brewing Company in Seward Nebraska.

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Which has come up in a previous story.

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Seward.

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Yes, the blizzard of 1888.

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Yeah, the children's blizzard.

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Look at me remembering shit.

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That's not gonna get carried away, though, but this is the Juicy Burst IPA.

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Super cute little packaging.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, apparently it's the 4th of July city.

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I don't understand the 4th of July.

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It's a town nationally recognized for its 4th of July celebrations.

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I didn't realize that.

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Very cool, I didn't know that either.

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This is a 6.5 ABV.

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That's interesting.

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It's a hazy.

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Let's go ahead and crack that open.

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Go nebraska, go nebraska, delish.

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Not only do they make nice co-hosts, they make nice beer.

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Hey, I don't know.

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On my last origin of I had a pretty cool little co-host.

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That was pretty great, that was pretty great.

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He ended up getting stitches the day after oh my God, I know, the day after.

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They recorded that.

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In an unfortunate rock incident.

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Yeah, they were throwing rocks and a kid just pommeled his head, his little head, my poor little buddy.

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I know it was an accident.

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Well, it was an accident, well it was, but I felt so bad okay, so we are going to talk about someone from the salem witch trials nice, yeah, massachusetts, yeah, um this person is mary clements osgood.

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Okay, yeah, and uh, she isn't like super known, um, she obviously is one of the accused um, but, um, she actually had a recanted statement that made, I mean it.

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It made, uh, newspaper headings and okay and pamphlets.

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At the time the pamphlets were a big thing anyway.

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Well, because they didn't have internet or news channels or radio or anything.

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Maybe they didn't even have newspapers and they just made that up.

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I'm pretty sure their newspapers were around back then, weren't they 1600s?

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There were definitely pamphlets.

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There's definitely pamphlets, but I don't guess, maybe not, I don't know.

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Anyway, so Mary Clemens Osgood was born around 1637.

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Okay, in England actually.

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Yeah, she was the youngest child of Robert Clemens, who was an early settler in Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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All right, and because I'm getting old, I need to increase my screen font, because I can't see it, my screen is font, because I can't see it um so she stayed in england until she was about 15 years old and then she went to massachusetts.

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So her dad, had already gone over?

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Yeah, okay, so she what?

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stayed back with her mom, I guess okay so in november 1653 she was about 16 years old when she married captain john osgood, senior of Andover.

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I say senior because they end up having kids.

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That's fine.

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It's just she was 16 and got married.

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She sure did, wow, she sure did.

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How old was he Not pertinent to the story?

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He was born in 1916, not 19, 1635.

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Oh, so he was only 18, yeah okay, so thank you for the math.

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Yeah, no problem.

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Um, so she was 16, he was 18 and he is from andover massachusetts.

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Okay, okay, now, based on the map that I, when I looked up the andover versus where sal is, it was about like a 45 minute drive give or take, depending on traffic.

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Like in a carriage, or are you talking about a car?

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A car Okay.

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How long would it be in horse and buggy?

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I don't know, that was not pertinent.

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That wasn't pertinent to your research.

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It wasn't.

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Part of your pertinent that wasn't pertinent to your research.

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It wasn't part of your pertinent okay.

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So, um yeah, john was a prophet, prosperous farmer, a respected leader in the community, he owned substantial land and he served as andover selectman and as deputy to the general court in the 1660s and 1680s All at 18?

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He owned all that Eventually yes, oh, okay, I'm like wow, that's a go-getter.

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Yes, good fucking kid there.

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So the Osgoods as a whole.

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Their whole family was influential in their area.

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Okay, Okay, so Mary's social standing was fairly high.

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She and John had 13 children.

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holy fuck some of them did not make it past infancy, sure, but um but between 1654 and 1680 they had 13 children.

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No wonder they can call her a witch.

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13, I mean, that's right.

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I mean, am I right?

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am I right um?

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So they were also very heavily into, like the puritan beliefs okay um.

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So they emphasize like piety and hard work and really close family ties and close community ties and like they were just very um strict, I guess, in their beliefs and their and what they followed whenever I think ofiety, I just think of different pies, not like righteousness or whatever.

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What's a good pie for you?

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Well, I mean around Thanksgiving.

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I like pumpkin pie, but I don't know banana cream pie.

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Okay, I have no idea.

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Have you not had pie?

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I have.

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I just haven't had one in a long time besides pumpkin.

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That's literally, I think, the last pie I've had over the last I don't know 10 years.

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So by the 1690s Massachusetts Bay Colony was kind of in like a political flux.

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The original Puritan charter was revoked in 1684.

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Now this charter gave Puritan leaders pretty broad self-governing powers.

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They could elect their own governor, make local laws and enforce their religious code without much interference from England.

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And after the charter was revoked King James II consolidated several of the northern colonies, including Massachusetts, into like a single royal province called dominion of new england ah, gotcha, so is.

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Is the king the one who revoked the charter?

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I don't know oh, okay, carry on.

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Okay, carry on.

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After the charter.

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So the Dominion of New England was run by a royal governor, Sir Edmund Andros.

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Okay, he had no elected assembly and he greatly reduced local control.

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Hey, it's raining Very briefly Cool.

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Yeah, all all right, that was a good interlude andros was pretty unpopular in enforcing um different um acts and he challenged land titles and he just wasn't like a popular character well, no, because he's fucking shit up.

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So the Dominion of New England collapsed in 1689 after a revolution in England, and when colonists arrested Andros, they temporarily restored some of their old local governments.

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So now their new chapter is under crown authority with Sir William Phipps as governor in 1692.

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Okay, essentially there's a whole lot of back and forth between England.

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Nothing is like secure.

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There's no.

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Well, yeah, because especially at that time, obviously word took a long time to get over there.

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Mm-hmm.

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I think we talked about it almost before, like 30-odd days, 40 days or something like that for them to sail from England to the States.

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So I mean, there's a lot of disconnect with that too, obviously being you know you can't get word right away, kind of thing.

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So then they come over and like what the fuck are you guys doing over here?

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And there's just, there's no governance.

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No.

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So, like everyone is just, we don't know what's happening.

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It's raining really good.

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So Massachusetts remained very staunchly Puritan.

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Okay.

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Okay, so church attendance was high.

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Belief in the devil's activity was common.

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Witchcraft was seen as like an actual pact with Satan and that demanded some harsh punishments.

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The Puritans like read the Bible as like a literal interpretation.

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Yeah, so it depicts Satan as a real active being seeking to corrupt humanity.

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There's verses about the devil's power and political instability, which is what they're facing right now.

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So they think Satan was a part of that.

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Mm-hmm Community strains and it fueled a lot of scapegoating, Just a whole lot of they're dumb okay, they're just dumb.

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Okay.

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In Andover, reverend Francis Dane, he was the minister for years and he was 76.

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Okay.

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And he rejected spectral evidence to essentially blame witchcraft on somebody.

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So if somebody was like, I saw this person as a spectral being punishing this other person.

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They're a witch, Automatically.

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Spectral evidence.

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So it's funny, because it's not really evidence at all.

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No, it's just, I don't like that person hearsay.

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I saw him doing something he shouldn't have been doing yeah, and then they're like all right, well, you're fucked now so um, spectral evidence was was evidence that someone's specter or spirit was harming someone else essentially, and he was against that.

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He was like that's not really a thing.

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Oh, so he was against doing that he was against that.

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Oh, okay, good.

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Yeah, but then his colleague, reverend Thomas Bernard, who had been hired in 1682 due to Dane's age, his illnesses.

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I mean old age comes illness apparently but, dane refused to retire, so the two would minister together oh, how cute I know, but there was some subtle tension there well, yeah, because back then, especially in the 1600s, they had some power.

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Yeah, per se.

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And you know other guys like no dude.

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It's my time, man yeah, so by the end of the witch trials, 28 of dane's relatives were accused of witchcraft.

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How convenient.

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Yes.

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Interesting.

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Historians think that Dane, since he openly opposed the trials and rejected the spectral evidence, that it made him a target.

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A target, yeah.

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That's kind of shitty.

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Yeah, I mean, that's really shitty.

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Yeah.

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But all right.

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So a lot of local governance fell to select men like John Osgood and at first officials issued warrants for suspected witches and Justice of the Peace.

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Dudley Bradstreet admitted to signing 48 arrest warrants before finally realizing this is stupid.

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This is stupid.

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There's no evidence.

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I'm going to stop writing these arrest warrants, but here's 48.

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But after 49, no but immediately after he refused to sign anymore, he and his wife were accused of witchcraft.

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Weird how that worked.

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That's bullshit.

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Under governor Phipps he created the special court of Oyer and Terminer.

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Oyer.

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Oyer and Terminer, which I'm sure I'm not pronouncing that right because I'm american, but it means to hear and to determine.

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Okay, and it was heavily influenced by puritan minister cotton mather I know that name cotton mather and I think it's his father increased mather.

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They were like really deep into the trials.

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They were, like some, of the front runners of that whole thing, right yeah.

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But together they accepted the spectral evidence and forced confessions, creating these ideal conditions for the witch.

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You know, the witch crusades, essentially.

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The witch hunt.

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Yeah, so it's.

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I still find it funny.

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It's like, um, I'm gonna put this big pile of rocks on you and start crushing you until you tell us, and the only way that we're gonna accept it is if you pretty much confess.

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So of course they confess because it's fucking killing them, yep, and then you're fucked anyways, because you just confess to something that's not real and that's what what happens to Mary Hosgood.

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Yeah, I kind of figured that's where we were headed.

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But it's just funny how basically it's a forced confession and you just said they accepted those.

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It's like really Yep, all right, you just got what you wanted and then you're just running with that.

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So that's just fucking stupid, that's bad yeah.

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In May of 1692 in Andover, a woman named Martha Carrier was accused.

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Okay, salem authorities already disliked her.

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They actually blamed her for a 1690 smallpox outbreak.

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How was it her fault?

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They probably just pointed fingers.

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She liked to argue with neighbors and she had a strong voice.

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She had an opinion.

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Yes, she had an opinion.

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Oh my God.

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They didn't like her, which she was arrested, taken to Salem for examination oh good Lord and convicted on spectral evidence.

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And who is the one that said that?

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Because someone has to blame her.

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Basically, right, okay so at at some point there is a couple of like teenage girls who kind of started this whole like I'm a witch kind of a thing, and they were playing ouija-style shit.

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Ouija boards weren't a thing back then.

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But they were doing tarot cards and, oh my God, what are you doing?

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You're now a witch.

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So they would bring these girls in to different towns and they would have accused women, touch them and if they stopped convulsing or whatever, they were a witch.

00:17:23.075 --> 00:17:24.617
That's the problem with all that it was just a bunch of bullshit.

00:17:24.617 --> 00:17:35.806
It was just a bunch of bullshit, yeah, because they would just then stop convulsing, because it would prove in their eyes and it would probably save them because they're needed to prove of other women.

00:17:36.346 --> 00:17:37.798
Yeah, so it's possible.

00:17:37.798 --> 00:17:41.755
This martha carrier was kind of a victim of one of those situations For sure.

00:17:41.755 --> 00:17:50.450
So she was arrested, taken to Salem convicted and hung on August 19, 1692.

00:17:50.450 --> 00:17:59.569
So in July of that year, Joseph Ballard of Andover sought help for his mysteriously ill wife elizabeth.

00:17:59.569 --> 00:18:05.845
No, no idea what she was sick of or sick sick from.

00:18:05.845 --> 00:18:16.906
I'm sick of this witch bullshit yeah so these two affected girls from salem came in and elizabeth touched.

00:18:16.906 --> 00:18:18.730
They stopped convulsing.

00:18:18.730 --> 00:18:20.240
She was arrested.

00:18:20.934 --> 00:18:22.740
That's just so.

00:18:22.740 --> 00:18:23.805
Wait, she's sick.

00:18:23.805 --> 00:18:28.807
So they brought douchebags in and they stopped convulsing.

00:18:28.807 --> 00:18:30.662
So then it's like you're not sick, you're just a witch.

00:18:30.662 --> 00:18:32.421
Yeah, what if she's actually just sick?

00:18:32.421 --> 00:18:34.579
Where did that go?

00:18:34.579 --> 00:18:37.203
She's like oh, I'm right now, you're right, I'm a witch.

00:18:37.545 --> 00:18:38.469
My bad, my bad.

00:18:38.628 --> 00:18:40.115
My, bad, I'm not really sick.

00:18:40.115 --> 00:18:43.499
I'm not just vomiting, because I'm yeah, I'm just a bride of Satan.

00:18:43.499 --> 00:18:45.284
I mean, what the fuck?

00:18:45.304 --> 00:18:46.346
The bride of Satan.

00:18:48.336 --> 00:18:49.020
Is that our title?

00:18:49.714 --> 00:18:58.630
So 45 women, including Mary Osgood, were based on this like touch theory.

00:19:00.757 --> 00:19:05.388
I feel like the people, those kids or whoever would, who would stop convulsing?

00:19:05.388 --> 00:19:06.711
They should have been fucking hung.

00:19:07.693 --> 00:19:11.064
Yeah, I don't actually know what happened to them, as that's not part of my story.

00:19:11.263 --> 00:19:15.040
No, I get that, and I didn't expect it to and that wasn't really my question.

00:19:15.040 --> 00:19:19.663
I didn't even have a question, I just had a statement that those fuckers should have been hung I know I don't.

00:19:19.703 --> 00:19:21.007
I honestly don't know what happened.

00:19:21.276 --> 00:19:22.881
I wonder if we could ever figure that out.

00:19:22.881 --> 00:19:25.896
That'd be interesting if we could, because what the fuck?

00:19:26.117 --> 00:19:31.748
yeah, I mean, I could like see if or you could, you know, keep talking.

00:19:31.748 --> 00:19:42.029
You could keep going on with our current story so the afflicted salem girls fell into violent fits and complained they sensed evil.

00:19:42.029 --> 00:19:50.409
Mary osgood was blinded and led in and made to touch these girls she was blinded.

00:19:50.409 --> 00:19:57.866
She was blindfolded my bad, she was blindfolded wow and she touched them, they stopped convulsing.

00:19:57.946 --> 00:19:59.630
It was proof that she was a witch.

00:19:59.630 --> 00:20:16.204
So this spectacle branded Mary, this high society, well-respected woman, as a witch in front of all of her neighbors and there was also a couple other people that I said 45.

00:20:16.204 --> 00:20:23.884
One of them was deliverance dane, who was the minister, dane's daughter-in-law her name is deliverance deliverance.

00:20:23.964 --> 00:20:41.130
I thought that was kind of cool that's a unique name yeah, deliverance dane bring me deliverance so they were sent to the salem village for examination by the magistrates and, thanks to the girls, more people were accused in andover than any other town.

00:20:41.130 --> 00:20:49.107
Wow, really, they were all just kind of taken to salem taken to salem.

00:20:49.528 --> 00:20:54.339
That's not a good thing back then yeah okay, so did you have a?

00:20:54.339 --> 00:20:57.984
Did you have a total number of how many were in Andover that were accused?

00:20:58.905 --> 00:21:00.127
45 were accused.

00:21:00.167 --> 00:21:00.688
Oh, that's the number.

00:21:00.688 --> 00:21:01.169
Yeah, okay.

00:21:01.288 --> 00:21:02.550
Yeah, 45 were accused.

00:21:02.550 --> 00:21:12.345
So out of the whole area, the New England area, there were about 200 that were accused Okay, and about 19 or 20 were hung, not sure.

00:21:13.067 --> 00:21:25.570
Yeah, because I heard something I don't remember exactly what, so I'm probably going to get it wrong, but not that terribly long ago that not as many people died during the Salem Witch Trials as it's led to believe kind of thing.

00:21:25.570 --> 00:21:29.934
Some did die, obviously, but not as many as you would assume.

00:21:31.997 --> 00:21:34.079
I don't know like 20?

00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:43.490
Number, but a lot more were accused and just nothing ever really happened with it until they finally came to their sanity and be like you know what?

00:21:43.490 --> 00:21:44.759
I don't think we're really doing any.

00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:54.726
We're not doing the Lord's work here, yeah, so I mean right, they were just idiots, yeah, anyways.

00:21:55.455 --> 00:21:57.383
So Mary's case moves fairly quickly.

00:21:57.383 --> 00:22:13.433
Well, I always do when they just know you're, you're, you're a witch the formal complaint named her as wife of captain john osgood of andover and accused her of committing diverse acts of witchcraft on neighbors all right.

00:22:13.493 --> 00:22:14.276
So what did she do?

00:22:15.097 --> 00:22:20.833
she and the others arrested that day appeared before Justice John Hawthorne, one of the Salem magistrates.

00:22:20.833 --> 00:22:37.708
All right, he was actually fairly notorious for harsh interrogations, but on September 8th 1692, she had a preliminary hearing with him, and Salem's proceedings kind of thrived on drama.

00:22:38.996 --> 00:22:39.700
That's all this was.

00:22:39.700 --> 00:22:45.366
This is like, basically, the Real Housewives of Salem Massachusetts.

00:22:45.426 --> 00:22:46.127
Yeah, pretty much.

00:22:46.875 --> 00:22:49.704
Because and I don't I've never watched that show.

00:22:50.635 --> 00:22:51.759
Do we need to, though, to?

00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:52.703
understand what's happening.

00:22:52.703 --> 00:22:59.325
I understand the concept of what that is which is all fucking bullshit, because to call them the real is just not true.

00:22:59.325 --> 00:23:06.105
They're acting it up, but in essence, that's what this is 1690s style.

00:23:06.327 --> 00:23:08.117
basically, there was a camera in front of their face.

00:23:08.117 --> 00:23:08.882
That's what they would be.

00:23:09.434 --> 00:23:14.575
Oh, 100% yeah, and they would have fucking even more whooped it up and like, yeah, witches everywhere.

00:23:14.877 --> 00:23:15.201
Yeah.

00:23:15.201 --> 00:23:23.169
So when Mary Osgood entered the examination room, affected girls from Salem collapsed into fits.

00:23:27.977 --> 00:23:29.181
So they just played it up.

00:23:29.461 --> 00:23:31.621
Yeah, that's so fucking dumb.

00:23:31.621 --> 00:23:33.244
It saves their own ass, though.

00:23:33.849 --> 00:23:34.515
Well, obviously.

00:23:35.117 --> 00:23:35.439
Mm-hmm.

00:23:36.778 --> 00:23:37.903
Or potentially.

00:23:38.174 --> 00:23:38.315
Mm-hmm.

00:23:38.315 --> 00:23:39.298
Well, obviously, or potentially so.

00:23:39.298 --> 00:23:48.069
Court records note that when mistress osgood was first called, mistress osgood martha sprague and rose foster.

00:23:48.069 --> 00:23:49.615
I think these are the two teenagers.

00:23:49.615 --> 00:23:55.807
They fell into convulsions at the mere glance of her eyes so wait.

00:23:56.146 --> 00:23:58.955
These are the two that then stopped convulsing when she touched them, Yep.

00:23:58.996 --> 00:24:01.183
So when Mary came up and touched them, they stopped.

00:24:02.438 --> 00:24:04.624
But yet when she sees them, they start.

00:24:05.065 --> 00:24:07.978
Yeah, because they looked at her in the eye.

00:24:09.461 --> 00:24:09.961
Just the one.

00:24:09.961 --> 00:24:11.285
Which one Was it the right eye?

00:24:12.728 --> 00:24:13.088
Bradley.

00:24:13.695 --> 00:24:15.423
Was it her mind's eye, bradley?

00:24:17.516 --> 00:24:19.441
This was taken as proof of guilt.

00:24:21.467 --> 00:24:24.382
Okay, I know, times are different.

00:24:24.895 --> 00:24:26.221
Times are very different.

00:24:26.876 --> 00:24:30.214
We're a little bit more advanced than we were back in 1692.

00:24:30.414 --> 00:24:31.297
I'd like to think so.

00:24:31.557 --> 00:24:36.044
Well, some of us, anyways, no wait.

00:24:36.044 --> 00:24:39.048
Okay, I'm sorry, I'm going to use your words.

00:24:39.048 --> 00:24:48.964
They blinded her to bring her in there blindfolded stop it to touch them, and then they stopped, and it's all because they couldn't look in her eyes.

00:24:48.964 --> 00:24:50.063
That I mean.

00:24:50.385 --> 00:24:51.595
I don't know what was there.

00:24:53.045 --> 00:24:56.282
I'm not saying it's a whole bunch of bullshit that they just made up on the spot.

00:24:56.282 --> 00:24:57.026
That's my point.

00:24:57.026 --> 00:24:58.757
A person it's a whole bunch of bullshit that they just made up on the spot.

00:24:58.757 --> 00:24:59.096
That's my point.

00:24:59.096 --> 00:25:00.337
A person from the outside looking at this.

00:25:00.337 --> 00:25:12.671
Unless they had a vested interest in being righteous and doing the Lord's work which, unfortunately, is a lot of the problems with this is they thought they were doing something noble and holy.

00:25:12.671 --> 00:25:24.343
Yeah, that it's like wait a minute, let's put two brain cells together on this one yeah, because clearly no one's even doing that much yeah I don't know.

00:25:24.383 --> 00:25:27.640
It's just like to me right away, knowing that they just started convulsing when they saw her.

00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:36.517
Yeah, I'd call them bullshit man, that's all I'm saying so there were witnesses, quote-unquote witnesses there.

00:25:36.517 --> 00:25:37.777
The thing is, there wasn't.

00:25:38.477 --> 00:25:42.499
They claimed they saw Mary Spector tormenting the inflicted.

00:25:43.318 --> 00:25:44.739
The two girls, mm-hmm.

00:25:45.138 --> 00:25:46.500
But they weren't even from there.

00:25:46.500 --> 00:25:48.340
That's enough to brand her as a witch.

00:25:48.500 --> 00:25:53.162
But wait, they brought those kids in to Andover, right Andover, but this is now in the examination room.

00:25:53.182 --> 00:25:54.502
This is in Salem, though this is in Salem.

00:25:54.502 --> 00:25:56.363
But this is now in the examination room.

00:25:56.363 --> 00:25:58.203
This is in Salem, though this is in Salem.

00:25:58.203 --> 00:25:59.003
But that's my point.

00:25:59.003 --> 00:26:03.806
It's just evidence stacked upon evidence, that's what that means.

00:26:03.826 --> 00:26:06.007
No, this is bullshit stacked upon bullshit.

00:26:06.027 --> 00:26:06.967
I was quoting quote.

00:26:07.346 --> 00:26:08.667
Quote unquote.

00:26:08.667 --> 00:26:09.928
You were quote unquote.

00:26:10.748 --> 00:26:18.911
Mary's prominence in her community pretty much gave her no protection, but it probably made her one of the more vulnerable.

00:26:19.111 --> 00:26:22.652
Because she was, if you will, upper class in her society.

00:26:22.652 --> 00:26:24.913
Yeah, Because they were.

00:26:24.913 --> 00:26:28.239
I don't know if they were well off, but they had the land and all that.

00:26:28.259 --> 00:26:28.921
They were re-respected.

00:26:28.921 --> 00:26:30.224
At least they were respected and whatever.

00:26:30.674 --> 00:26:34.540
So she was a prime target because, well, how did she get to such heights?

00:26:34.721 --> 00:26:37.602
Yeah, satan she was also.

00:26:37.602 --> 00:26:47.663
She was also like kind of friends with Reverend Dane who rejected the spectral evidence, and they think that that additionally raised suspicion.

00:26:47.663 --> 00:26:57.104
Okay, others think that maybe it was possible jealousy of Osgood's influence and that's what made her like more of a victim, right?

00:26:57.104 --> 00:26:57.705
I don't know.

00:26:59.259 --> 00:27:00.403
It's just a crazy story.

00:27:00.403 --> 00:27:01.903
It's just all fucking nonsense.

00:27:01.903 --> 00:27:03.555
Yeah, and a crazy story.

00:27:03.674 --> 00:27:10.255
So in just one day Marion went from housewife to jailed witch, essentially Witch.

00:27:10.255 --> 00:27:16.185
She was arrested on September 7th, she was interrogated on the 8th and quickly forced into confession.

00:27:19.075 --> 00:27:21.324
Did you come across how they forced her with some of the insane things they did?

00:27:22.082 --> 00:27:22.424
back then.

00:27:22.424 --> 00:27:29.261
No, I didn't come across how, but she did say that she was under immense pressure.

00:27:29.261 --> 00:27:39.281
So basically, it's what you said earlier If they're accusing you of a witch, the only way to get out of the situation is to say I'm a witch.

00:27:39.281 --> 00:27:41.903
That's how to save your own neck, essentially.

00:27:42.315 --> 00:27:57.436
Or, just like I always love that, one of the and I'll probably butcher this a little bit One of the ways to prove witches back in the day was to submerge them in water, basically, and then if they drown, they were pure of heart, if they didn't, they're a witch, it's like?

00:27:57.436 --> 00:27:58.378
Of course they're going to fucking drown.

00:27:58.378 --> 00:27:59.580
You're underwater you idiots.

00:27:59.580 --> 00:28:02.645
I know, I mean, I know, I mean science.

00:28:02.645 --> 00:28:04.288
Ooh, boogity, boogity.

00:28:05.856 --> 00:28:09.884
But it reminds me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

00:28:09.884 --> 00:28:15.759
When they're trying to accuse the witch who has a carrot nose, I'm like she's a witch, witch.

00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:19.820
She turned me into a newt and they're all like what I got better?

00:28:19.820 --> 00:28:32.359
That's so great oh man anyways so she pretty much caved, certainly like out of fear of her own life.

00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:43.846
So in her September 8th, 1692 examination she claimed that about 11 years earlier, while depressed and walking in her orchard, she saw an apparition of a cat.

00:28:43.846 --> 00:28:48.623
Okay, so this distracted her from prayer.

00:28:49.345 --> 00:28:49.747
Oh Lord.

00:28:50.075 --> 00:28:52.182
After which the devil as a black man.

00:28:52.182 --> 00:28:54.279
That's what it says.

00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:57.684
The devil, as a black man appeared with a book.

00:28:58.394 --> 00:28:58.643
What kind of book.

00:28:58.643 --> 00:28:59.296
She said she touched it.

00:28:59.296 --> 00:28:59.502
The book as a black man appeared with a book.

00:28:59.502 --> 00:28:59.593
What kind of book?

00:28:59.674 --> 00:29:00.921
She said she touched it.

00:29:01.255 --> 00:29:03.063
The book, or the black man the book.

00:29:03.817 --> 00:29:04.800
It left a red mark.

00:29:05.242 --> 00:29:05.463
Where.

00:29:05.996 --> 00:29:07.141
And she agreed to serve him.

00:29:07.141 --> 00:29:12.464
This is all just based off of the pamphlet that is being circulated.

00:29:12.575 --> 00:29:14.461
So this is her confession.

00:29:14.482 --> 00:29:14.663
Yeah.

00:29:16.096 --> 00:29:17.220
I mean, that's pretty specific.

00:29:17.220 --> 00:29:21.057
I don't know, I'm starting to turn and think this might be real.

00:29:21.076 --> 00:29:28.428
It left a mark as she agreed to serve him and renounced her baptism and effectively admitted that she entered his service.

00:29:28.428 --> 00:29:29.830
Essentially, yeah, okay.

00:29:29.830 --> 00:29:42.488
So Mary claimed that two years earlier the devil carried her through the air with other witches Okay, the devil carried her through the air with other witches, okay, where he baptized her in a pond, renouncing her Christian baptism.

00:29:42.488 --> 00:29:51.549
She did name other companions that were also accused in this story, saying that they rolled a poll together.

00:29:51.549 --> 00:30:09.532
Four persons quote four persons and no more end quote In a parody of witches, sabbath kind of a thing, okay, but the imagery that she said matched the narrative that the examiners were looking for.

00:30:10.555 --> 00:30:12.500
Okay, the key words that she was saying.

00:30:12.500 --> 00:30:14.263
They're like that's what we want to hear.

00:30:14.263 --> 00:30:19.286
That's what we want to hear which kind of further proves that she was confessing under duress.

00:30:19.286 --> 00:30:21.700
Right, she was being force fed a confession.

00:30:22.363 --> 00:30:23.204
Basically yeah, yeah.

00:30:23.204 --> 00:30:25.240
They would be like did this happen to you?

00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:27.346
Say it is so Exactly, you know, or whatever.

00:30:27.346 --> 00:30:27.767
Yeah.

00:30:29.215 --> 00:30:31.824
She added that the devil could not do.

00:30:31.824 --> 00:30:35.155
Okay, my bad Rewind, rewind, my bad rewind.

00:30:35.155 --> 00:30:48.924
Mary admitted to harming the two girls that saw her eyes, and they went into fits by quote pinching her bedclothes, end quote.

00:30:49.695 --> 00:30:50.500
Whose bedclothes.

00:30:52.255 --> 00:30:53.441
Mary's bedclothes.

00:30:53.441 --> 00:30:57.741
So I had to look up this phrase pinching her bedclothes because I didn't really understand it.

00:30:57.741 --> 00:31:06.430
But basically it's a symbolic way of granting of the devil being granted permission to torment them in her shape.

00:31:08.936 --> 00:31:10.573
Wow, they really came up with a lot of stupid shit.

00:31:10.914 --> 00:31:13.584
I was like I don't know what pinching the bedclothes means.

00:31:13.584 --> 00:31:15.218
But maybe it was like a.

00:31:15.218 --> 00:31:15.800
I never heard that before.

00:31:15.800 --> 00:31:16.163
I haven't either.

00:31:16.182 --> 00:31:16.505
That's weird.

00:31:16.505 --> 00:31:17.269
Okay, so she added that before.

00:31:17.269 --> 00:31:17.932
I haven't either.

00:31:17.932 --> 00:31:18.375
That's weird.

00:31:19.157 --> 00:31:27.558
So she added that the devil could not do it without her consent, and even agreed that the afflicted's courtroom fits were caused by the glance of her eyes.

00:31:27.558 --> 00:31:30.118
So she, like quote unquote, admitted all that.

00:31:30.118 --> 00:31:31.040
She winked at me.

00:31:31.040 --> 00:31:32.766
Now's the time.

00:31:33.435 --> 00:31:34.419
Now's the time for fits.

00:31:34.419 --> 00:31:35.742
Go ahead, Convulse for me.

00:31:35.742 --> 00:31:36.886
Huh yeah exactly.

00:31:36.886 --> 00:31:41.516
Get in there nice and deep, like Okay.

00:31:41.656 --> 00:31:53.143
She also claimed that Deliverance Dane, the daughter-in-law of Reverend Dane, carried the specter of Reverend Francis Dane to make others believe he was the afflictor.

00:31:53.663 --> 00:31:55.763
Oh cool, hmm, yes.

00:31:56.805 --> 00:31:58.286
Scandalous, so scandalous.

00:31:58.286 --> 00:32:06.470
So when asked why the witch's plan failed, Mary replied the Lord would not suffer it to be that the devil should afflict in any.

00:32:06.470 --> 00:32:11.613
This English is backwards.

00:32:11.613 --> 00:32:18.946
The Lord would not suffer it to be that the devil should afflict in an innocent person's shape.

00:32:21.455 --> 00:32:27.678
Yeah, so witches, am I right?

00:32:27.979 --> 00:32:29.086
Witches, am I right?

00:32:29.086 --> 00:32:42.008
So the effectively cleared Reverend Francis Dane, as even hostiles kind of examined him because he was arrested with his wife.

00:32:42.008 --> 00:32:50.289
She basically said that the Lord could not do anything without my or, excuse me, the devil could not do anything without my permission.

00:32:50.289 --> 00:32:58.307
So her coerced confession basically contained a truth that likely saved Francis Dane's life.

00:32:59.347 --> 00:32:59.548
Oh.

00:33:00.329 --> 00:33:00.529
Yes.

00:33:01.976 --> 00:33:08.680
Isn't it kind of funny that if Satan is so powerful and corruptible, why does he need permission from Mary?

00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:09.864
Osgood, exactly.

00:33:09.864 --> 00:33:12.119
Flaw in the system.

00:33:13.256 --> 00:33:14.441
Because they're using her shape.

00:33:14.441 --> 00:33:18.480
I don't know.

00:33:19.237 --> 00:33:22.461
Why do you say they Is there multiple Satans?

00:33:22.875 --> 00:33:24.583
No, he was using their shape.

00:33:24.583 --> 00:33:25.980
Their as in women.

00:33:25.980 --> 00:33:27.104
The accused.

00:33:27.795 --> 00:33:34.064
Oh, using the women's shape, see, never mind, I'm not going to say that.

00:33:34.974 --> 00:33:49.515
So her confession, like I said, kind of followed that formula of what the examiners wanted to hear Yep, yep yep, so a pact baptism flying hexing, coven meetings, whatever Coven meetings.

00:33:49.515 --> 00:33:53.306
The black man suggested that they fed her this narrative.

00:33:53.306 --> 00:33:58.387
Yeah, so during questioning they asked if the devil could take an innocent shape.

00:33:58.387 --> 00:34:03.271
Okay, reverend Dane, right Her answer.

00:34:03.271 --> 00:34:08.563
I believe he cannot, which supported their case.

00:34:08.563 --> 00:34:15.800
If people saw her shape, if they saw her shape afflicting them, it must have been her.

00:34:16.822 --> 00:34:17.204
Okay.

00:34:17.483 --> 00:34:21.418
Okay, it's so backwards.

00:34:21.670 --> 00:34:23.909
And confusing and stupid.

00:34:24.371 --> 00:34:27.159
They said who taught you all this?

00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:28.972
And she said Satan.

00:34:30.175 --> 00:34:30.536
Duh.

00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:32.481
Satan did.

00:34:32.882 --> 00:34:33.844
My teacher Satan.

00:34:35.411 --> 00:34:41.099
So, Larry, later Mary revealed how details were forced from her.

00:34:41.099 --> 00:34:52.742
So when told she must give a date for her covenant, she actually linked it to an illness that she had 11 or 12 years prior.

00:34:52.742 --> 00:34:55.938
Like just association.

00:34:55.938 --> 00:34:59.661
I guess I'm just going to pick this day because I was ill during that time.

00:34:59.701 --> 00:35:00.302
Give us a date.

00:35:00.302 --> 00:35:03.027
Give us a date and it's like, well, I was sick 12 years ago or 11 years ago, whatever it was, yeah, so, yeah, here's a date.

00:35:03.027 --> 00:35:04.364
Give us a date and it's like, well, I was sick 12 years ago or 11 years ago, whatever it was.

00:35:04.670 --> 00:35:05.875
Yeah, so here's a date.

00:35:06.175 --> 00:35:06.858
March 13th.

00:35:07.010 --> 00:35:17.277
And then when they pressed on the devil's form and she finally said to Kat it was because she recalled once seeing one at her door, like it was just something that popped up into her head.

00:35:19.150 --> 00:35:20.956
Again, full-on coercion.

00:35:20.956 --> 00:35:25.128
Forced bullshit from her mouth.

00:35:25.128 --> 00:35:25.730
All right, cool.

00:35:26.110 --> 00:35:28.193
So she admitted that she had been told.

00:35:28.193 --> 00:35:31.219
We know you are a witch and you know it.

00:35:31.219 --> 00:35:33.384
Until her answers fit the pattern.

00:35:33.764 --> 00:35:43.605
Yeah, but good thing they allow forced confessions because they've got to be correct.

00:35:45.311 --> 00:35:48.981
So John Osgood attended her examination, her husband yeah.

00:35:48.981 --> 00:35:55.509
But when asked if she was discomposed or agitated, disturbed, I had to look that word up.

00:35:55.590 --> 00:35:57.856
Yeah, thank you for doing that, because I was lost, discomposed.

00:35:57.898 --> 00:35:58.438
Never heard of it.

00:35:58.438 --> 00:36:10.985
When asked if she was discomposed, he affirmed her statements, likely out of fear that he might be accused or she might have a more harsh punishment.

00:36:11.565 --> 00:36:12.206
Oh, okay.

00:36:12.206 --> 00:36:19.057
So he threw her under the bus, kind of it's hard to say Adjacent.

00:36:19.730 --> 00:36:30.762
Yeah, because it's like she's going to get hurt no matter what, and if I can save my own skin and hopefully not make it worse for her, like maybe I'll say it.

00:36:30.762 --> 00:36:37.601
But his agreement did give like additional, like credibility, credibility.

00:36:37.661 --> 00:36:38.403
That she's a witch.

00:36:38.403 --> 00:36:40.335
Yes See, that's kind of shitty.

00:36:40.414 --> 00:36:41.318
It is kind of shitty.

00:36:41.570 --> 00:36:44.518
What I would do is I would pick up my family and leave.

00:36:45.541 --> 00:36:48.114
You know what we're going to get out of here.

00:36:48.315 --> 00:36:49.639
Yes, don't worry, I got this.

00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:51.121
I'm going to go kill her myself.

00:36:51.121 --> 00:36:55.019
Let's go, honey, I'm taking you to the gallows that I built.

00:36:55.750 --> 00:36:57.474
Have you seen the show Salem?

00:36:57.474 --> 00:36:58.557
I think it was Salem.

00:36:58.739 --> 00:36:59.561
I like that show.

00:36:59.561 --> 00:37:09.210
Who was?

00:37:09.231 --> 00:37:09.411
in that.

00:37:09.411 --> 00:37:10.373
Uh crap, the kid from a walk to remember shane.

00:37:10.373 --> 00:37:11.135
I don't remember his last name.

00:37:11.155 --> 00:37:12.117
I always forget his last name.

00:37:12.117 --> 00:37:12.757
Oh, man, the I.

00:37:12.757 --> 00:37:15.003
I was a big fan of the main chick in there.

00:37:15.202 --> 00:37:20.228
She's rather pretty the, the, the witch, yeah, I don't remember her name though I don't either.

00:37:20.228 --> 00:37:27.503
But yeah, that whole the series was really good and then it just kind of like it kind of got weird and fizzled and it just didn't get any backing.

00:37:27.724 --> 00:37:30.909
Yeah, but like the first, I think there's maybe three seasons.

00:37:31.090 --> 00:37:32.376
I don't know if that's right.

00:37:32.690 --> 00:37:33.152
But I remember the.

00:37:33.152 --> 00:37:34.657
I really liked the first season.

00:37:34.677 --> 00:37:35.500
I thought it was great.

00:37:36.050 --> 00:37:39.478
Second one was like it was okay, and then I kind of just like lost.

00:37:39.478 --> 00:37:47.610
I think it was on something that I might not have had for streaming anymore or something, but I actually really liked that show it was really good it was.

00:37:48.072 --> 00:37:48.936
I really liked it.

00:37:48.936 --> 00:37:55.143
There were three seasons starting in 2013, sorry, 2014.

00:37:55.143 --> 00:37:57.576
Yeah, and Shane West.

00:37:57.735 --> 00:37:59.041
That's it, shane West yeah.

00:37:59.190 --> 00:38:01.538
He plays John Alden.

00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:01.898
Yep.

00:38:02.670 --> 00:38:06.480
And then Janet Montgomery played Mary Sibley.

00:38:07.001 --> 00:38:07.742
Janet Montgomery.

00:38:08.190 --> 00:38:10.155
And then Ashley Madaqui.

00:38:10.155 --> 00:38:11.659
She played Tichuba.

00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:12.802
Tichuba.

00:38:12.969 --> 00:38:20.818
She was like another witch, yeah, but they also have like the character Cotton Mather in here, so I thought it was pretty good.

00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:21.461
No, I enjoyed it.

00:38:21.461 --> 00:38:27.039
Supposedly it's on Hulu, yeah, and I think was that where I watched it.

00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:27.641
I don't know.

00:38:27.641 --> 00:38:30.157
It might have been on Netflix, I don't fucking remember, it doesn't matter.

00:38:30.157 --> 00:38:34.938
But no, I actually rather enjoyed it and I'm a big fan of Janet Montgomery.

00:38:35.358 --> 00:38:37.516
Yeah, I've never seen her in anything else, though.

00:38:38.469 --> 00:38:40.431
I don't recall if I have.

00:38:40.431 --> 00:38:45.438
I remember looking her up once, not recalling other things she's been in, but I know she's been in a few things.

00:38:45.878 --> 00:38:46.818
Yeah, she was good.

00:38:47.298 --> 00:38:47.480
Yeah.

00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:48.681
Okay so.

00:38:49.300 --> 00:38:49.722
I'm a dude.

00:38:49.981 --> 00:38:51.623
Mary signed her confession.

00:38:51.784 --> 00:38:52.023
Yeah.

00:38:52.184 --> 00:38:54.327
In January 1693.

00:38:54.327 --> 00:39:05.735
In blood Sorry, it described flying poles, devil's books and eye-glancing causing fits.

00:39:05.735 --> 00:39:11.184
When the panic subsided, she admitted that was wholly false.

00:39:11.949 --> 00:39:13.978
Yeah, because it's all bullshit.

00:39:15.110 --> 00:39:18.940
It was a product of violent urging and unreasonable pressings.

00:39:18.940 --> 00:39:20.103
That's what she said.

00:39:20.170 --> 00:39:20.862
I hate unreasonable pressings.

00:39:20.862 --> 00:39:21.289
That's what she said.

00:39:22.070 --> 00:39:23.331
I hate unreasonable pressings.

00:39:23.331 --> 00:39:33.565
Her case is a textbook example of how pressure, spectacle and leading questions can manufacture proof of this witchcraft.

00:39:33.565 --> 00:39:33.965
Correct.

00:39:34.250 --> 00:39:38.976
That's 100% what that was I mean, and the sad thing is that.

00:39:38.976 --> 00:39:52.918
The sad thing is that's I mean not witch witchcraft, but forced confessions still happen today and they fucking they again you're you're gonna say what they want to hear.

00:39:52.918 --> 00:40:02.135
So they stop not because it's true, yeah, and they won't take any other thing for an answer until you or they say we'll get you out of here if you confess or whatever.

00:40:02.155 --> 00:40:02.436
Blah, blah, blah.

00:40:02.436 --> 00:40:03.039
You're like oh okay, I confess.

00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:04.405
Okay, we'll get you out of here If you confess, or whatever.

00:40:04.405 --> 00:40:04.746
Blah, blah, blah.

00:40:04.746 --> 00:40:05.510
I'd be like, oh okay, I confess.

00:40:05.769 --> 00:40:07.556
Okay, we'll get you out of here to jail.

00:40:07.929 --> 00:40:10.599
Yeah, I did take the candy bar, whatever.

00:40:10.659 --> 00:40:10.840
Yeah.

00:40:12.190 --> 00:40:13.556
But it's just, it's horse shit.

00:40:14.630 --> 00:40:17.981
So Mary Osgood avoided execution, think what?

00:40:17.981 --> 00:40:34.313
Because the legal climate that I had mentioned earlier was shifting and like it was just kind of they didn't know what was happening with with the governance and um on october 19th of 1692, while still in prison.

00:40:34.373 --> 00:40:39.282
This is when mary publicly recanted, saying that it was wholly false.

00:40:39.282 --> 00:40:45.543
Yeah, she denied signing the devil's book, being being baptized by the devil or afflicting anyone.

00:40:45.543 --> 00:40:57.824
She explained how examiners pressed her for dates and details until she invented a timeline tied to past illness and claimed the devil appeared as a cat.

00:40:58.306 --> 00:40:58.585
Right.

00:40:58.829 --> 00:41:02.061
So she admitted this was fabricated under pressure.

00:41:02.389 --> 00:41:04.697
This was fabricated to get them off me basically.

00:41:04.878 --> 00:41:05.039
Yep.

00:41:05.431 --> 00:41:06.394
Or to stop, or whatever.

00:41:06.590 --> 00:41:08.094
Reverend Increase Mather.

00:41:08.094 --> 00:41:10.338
So Cotton Mather, I think it's father.

00:41:10.418 --> 00:41:10.920
I think so.

00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:13.096
Yeah, that sounds right, but I'm not a hundred percent.

00:41:13.195 --> 00:41:14.791
Yeah, increase Mather, which I kind of.

00:41:14.791 --> 00:41:15.612
I love that name.

00:41:15.612 --> 00:41:17.112
Increase in Cotton, I love it.

00:41:17.112 --> 00:41:25.800
He recorded and later published the pamphlet called Cases of Conscious Concerning.

00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:34.248
Evil Spirits Personating Men I don't know why men, but Well, because that was how it was back then I guess yeah.

00:41:34.409 --> 00:41:35.635
You weren't even people back then.

00:41:36.010 --> 00:41:38.275
But this pamphlet well in Canada.

00:41:39.659 --> 00:41:40.280
Not until.

00:41:40.300 --> 00:41:40.762
We're not.

00:41:40.762 --> 00:41:46.375
Yeah, I don't remember what year that was, but in Canada, look up the people's case, wasn't that in like the 1930s?

00:41:47.297 --> 00:41:48.199
I don't remember.

00:41:48.199 --> 00:41:51.815
Anyways, good thing we have it recorded.

00:41:51.815 --> 00:41:52.739
We can go back and listen.

00:41:53.710 --> 00:42:01.476
The pamphlet argued against the use of spectral evidence and cited Mary's testimony as proof that Coerce's confessions were unreliable.

00:42:01.476 --> 00:42:03.016
Well yeah, that Coerce confessions were unreliable.

00:42:03.016 --> 00:42:17.487
Well yeah, the account also reprinted in later recollections, such as the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, which was happened in the 19th century, which is why her words have kind of survived on Sure, Okay.

00:42:17.487 --> 00:42:30.242
So in October 1692, Governor Phipps reacted to growing chaos and increased Mather's criticism of spectral evidence and dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

00:42:30.262 --> 00:42:30.903
Okay.

00:42:31.889 --> 00:42:33.577
To hear and to determine yes.

00:42:33.577 --> 00:42:40.204
The new Superior Court of Judicature, judicature, judicature.

00:42:41.231 --> 00:42:41.773
Judicator.

00:42:42.456 --> 00:42:48.440
Judicator T-U-R-E is how it ends, judicature Judicator.

00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:48.840
Judicator.

00:42:48.860 --> 00:42:50.023
T-U-R-E is how it ends.

00:42:50.023 --> 00:42:52.130
Judicature Tour Judicator, judicator.

00:42:53.271 --> 00:42:54.074
Ha, ha ha.

00:42:54.175 --> 00:42:54.476
Ha ha.

00:42:55.110 --> 00:43:05.181
Anyway, this new superior court convened in January of 1693 and barred spectral evidence and discounted unreliable confessions.

00:43:05.181 --> 00:43:17.181
Okay, mary remained jail through the late 1692, but was released, likely on bond, before her trial.

00:43:17.181 --> 00:43:18.355
So she was at home.

00:43:18.355 --> 00:43:29.625
But Reverend Francis Dane and Reverend Thomas Barnard Barnard I think I called him Bernard earlier Either- way.

00:43:29.625 --> 00:43:32.039
Signed petitions supporting Mary.

00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:36.304
So those were the two reverends that were kind of tension.

00:43:36.505 --> 00:43:37.829
But we support Mary yeah.

00:43:38.811 --> 00:43:43.791
And well, she got Dane out of being a witch essentially yeah, pretty much.

00:43:43.791 --> 00:43:45.253
John Osgood Sr.

00:43:45.253 --> 00:43:51.644
Her husband and his sons worked to free her, posting bonds and signing petitions and rallying neighbors.

00:43:51.644 --> 00:44:04.144
A December 1692 bond of 200 pounds from John Osgood and Deacon John Fry secured Mary's temporary release.

00:44:04.425 --> 00:44:04.666
Yeah.

00:44:05.190 --> 00:44:10.480
And a petition from 50 townspeople declared her confession not to be trusted.

00:44:11.963 --> 00:44:12.443
Coerced.

00:44:13.371 --> 00:44:16.402
So I did like $200.

00:44:17.277 --> 00:44:18.050
Why didn't you do pounds To?

00:44:18.090 --> 00:44:22.222
today because it was just an additional step to do pounds to dollars and dollars.

00:44:22.222 --> 00:44:51.902
God forbid you do an extra step for the podcast approximately seventeen thousand dollars, that's great, okay, wow, that's a lot of money on january 12th 1693 her case came before chief justice will Staughton, with her confession recanted and petitions from Anover attesting to her integrity and no physical evidence.

00:44:51.902 --> 00:44:56.237
The prosecution collapsed and the jury found her not guilty.

00:44:56.577 --> 00:44:56.878
Weird.

00:44:56.878 --> 00:44:58.882
Yeah, how strange.

00:44:58.882 --> 00:45:01.938
How strange Because I don't know wasn't a witch.

00:45:02.730 --> 00:45:08.853
By May of 1693, governor phipps pardoned the rest of the accused.

00:45:08.853 --> 00:45:26.936
Oh wow, mary's story accused and pressured into confessing but freed a few months later was typical yeah of many survivors who first suffered under this mass hysteria and then regained freedom once reason prevailed.

00:45:27.936 --> 00:45:30.360
Don't you feel like the people who coerced those?

00:45:30.885 --> 00:45:32.353
confessions should be in trouble.

00:45:32.414 --> 00:45:36.434
I really do think so, Because that's kind of bullshit man, I really do think so.

00:45:36.434 --> 00:45:37.913
That ain't fucking cool.

00:45:37.913 --> 00:45:41.356
And the fact that they were just like ah well, you know.

00:45:41.356 --> 00:45:42.880
On to the next one.

00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:45.891
You're gonna get to your second beer.

00:45:45.891 --> 00:46:03.521
I was kind of hoping you weren't, because I need a third, it's mine now oh after acquittal, mary returned home, yeah, her family and and relatives and neighbors.

00:46:03.641 --> 00:46:06.405
they spent heavily on bonds, basically to free her.

00:46:06.405 --> 00:46:12.842
Yeah, but by March of 1693, all witchcraft prisoners were released.

00:46:13.490 --> 00:46:16.710
So this was the tail end of the Salem witch trials, basically.

00:46:16.829 --> 00:46:18.677
It actually didn't last for very long.

00:46:18.809 --> 00:46:20.177
No, it wasn't very, very long.

00:46:20.237 --> 00:46:20.844
No, but this is obviously the end of it.

00:46:20.844 --> 00:46:22.240
Yeah, okay, it wasn't very, very long, but this is obviously the end of it.

00:46:22.240 --> 00:46:30.206
Yeah, okay, mary was welcomed back and her husband, john, was reelected as selectman in March of 1693.

00:46:30.286 --> 00:46:34.076
So later that year, he wasn't coerced and he still said shit.

00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:35.699
Yeah, he did.

00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:39.115
What a dick that was Satan.

00:46:39.690 --> 00:46:41.255
He died that August.

00:46:41.697 --> 00:46:42.219
Oh man.

00:46:42.909 --> 00:46:44.976
Leaving her a widow after 40 years of marriage.

00:46:45.338 --> 00:46:46.119
Oh wow, that's pretty good.

00:46:46.911 --> 00:46:54.335
In 1702, her son Samuel married Hannah Dane, no Daughter of Deliverance Dane.

00:46:54.554 --> 00:46:58.242
Witch, sorry, I mean, I'm not wrong.

00:46:58.849 --> 00:47:03.942
By 1703, a decade had passed between the 1692 trials.

00:47:03.942 --> 00:47:09.278
Yes, many in Massachusetts had begun to acknowledge that the trials were bullshit.

00:47:09.338 --> 00:47:11.443
Bullshit, yeah, wow.

00:47:12.231 --> 00:47:15.581
But there was some stigma that still lingered on some of these women.

00:47:15.869 --> 00:47:18.757
Unfortunately, which is just people being stupid.

00:47:18.757 --> 00:47:19.922
Yeah, is all that is.

00:47:20.690 --> 00:47:28.735
In June 1703, yes, a group of Andover women oh no, who had confessed under pressure.

00:47:28.735 --> 00:47:32.400
Oh God, Including Mary Osgood oh no, and Deliverance Dane, yes.

00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:36.139
Submitted a petition to the Massachusetts government.

00:47:36.380 --> 00:47:36.701
Okay.

00:47:37.251 --> 00:47:57.409
Their goal was to have an official acknowledgement that their confessions had been coerced and that they were innocent oh sure the petition pointed out the original confessions had been made under duress, manipulation and sheer terror of execution yep, and that as soon as they were safe, they retracted those statements.

00:47:57.409 --> 00:48:04.568
Right, the 1703 petition was important but not fully effective.

00:48:04.568 --> 00:48:10.346
Okay, it was basically the accused and their family saying, hey, we confess under pressure, but it wasn't true.

00:48:10.346 --> 00:48:11.349
Please clear our names.

00:48:11.548 --> 00:48:11.690
Yeah.

00:48:12.851 --> 00:48:18.021
The government didn't immediately act on every petition, but they did some.

00:48:18.463 --> 00:48:18.724
Okay.

00:48:18.789 --> 00:48:25.902
So Mary Osgood died October 27th 1710, at about 73 years old.

00:48:25.902 --> 00:48:26.423
Yeah, wow.

00:48:26.423 --> 00:48:30.681
She spent her final 17 years free from accusation.

00:48:30.681 --> 00:48:32.976
She lived quietly in Andover.

00:48:32.976 --> 00:48:45.152
Her children honored their parents by passing on their names, and town records remembered her simply as the widow of Captain John, with no additional stain on her legacy as the widow of Captain John, with no additional stain on her legacy Right Now.

00:48:45.152 --> 00:48:50.458
A year after that, 1711, there was a new Massachusetts law.

00:48:50.911 --> 00:48:52.498
Oh, do tell.

00:48:52.670 --> 00:49:08.135
So, october 1711, the Massachusetts General Court passed quote an act to reverse the attainders attainders of George Burroughs and others for witchcraft.

00:49:08.135 --> 00:49:13.079
George Burroughs was a Harvard-educated minister that was accused.

00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:14.360
So he was.

00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:19.726
I think he was one of the more famous individuals that have been written about.

00:49:19.985 --> 00:49:22.389
Harvard was a thing back then.

00:49:22.389 --> 00:49:30.541
Mm-hmm, harvard, I think, is the oldest school university, university, yeah, states, yeah, oh, wow, I didn't realize it was that old.

00:49:30.541 --> 00:49:32.306
Yeah, okay um.

00:49:32.628 --> 00:49:47.699
He served as minister in in the salem village before samuel paris, who was the minister that was around during the trials yeah um, he was accused of witchcraft because he was kind of unpopular with some of the salem residents.

00:49:47.699 --> 00:49:49.827
It doesn't really matter much that he.

00:49:49.827 --> 00:49:57.552
I just wanted to tell you that he was also one of the accused and that he was part of this law, yeah I get it it was titled with his name in it.

00:49:57.552 --> 00:50:02.159
So right, yeah, um, he was executed um as well.

00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:03.221
Oh wow.

00:50:03.402 --> 00:50:06.065
Yeah, in August of 1692.

00:50:06.065 --> 00:50:06.585
Okay.

00:50:07.471 --> 00:50:21.021
But little fun fact, while he was being noosed up, he recited the Lord's Prayer flawlessly, which the Puritans didn't believe that witches could do that.

00:50:21.021 --> 00:50:23.096
So they're like oh, is he actually a witch?

00:50:23.096 --> 00:50:23.657
Okay, witches could do that.

00:50:23.657 --> 00:50:26.849
So they're like oh, is he actually a witch?

00:50:26.849 --> 00:50:31.514
Okay, so anyway the act to reverse the attainders of George Burroughs and others for witchcraft.

00:50:31.514 --> 00:50:38.195
This law formally annulled the convictions of 22 people who had been condemned in 1692.

00:50:38.195 --> 00:50:45.599
Wow, so it also extended relief to some of those who had only been accused but still carried that stigma.

00:50:46.150 --> 00:50:48.617
And that's really all they were just trying to do clear their name.

00:50:48.617 --> 00:50:49.199
Basically, yeah.

00:50:49.219 --> 00:50:53.820
Overall, but the focus was on those who were convicted or executed.

00:50:53.820 --> 00:50:58.346
Okay, okay, so the law included financial restitution.

00:50:58.728 --> 00:50:59.130
Oh really.

00:50:59.550 --> 00:51:08.980
The families of the accused were supposed to receive money as reparation for property seized, legal costs and reputational harm.

00:51:09.240 --> 00:51:09.422
Sure.

00:51:10.030 --> 00:51:17.322
The total compensation allocated was about 578 pounds and 12 shillings Okay, $50,000.

00:51:17.322 --> 00:51:20.697
I mean, it's pretty good, a decent sum at the time, at the time.

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Yeah, families had to petition individually to receive their share.

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Oh gotcha, some families did not receive payments.

00:51:29.300 --> 00:51:44.623
Others, however, struggled to prove claims and or were left out okay so not everyone who was accused or convicted were included in this act gotcha, some names were omitted entirely due to clerical mistakes.

00:51:44.623 --> 00:51:53.989
Sure um others, potential grudges, lack of lack of family advocacy or just dumb bullshit and mary osgood.

00:51:54.088 --> 00:52:01.931
Even though she was acquitted, she was not listed as a victim in this law oh see, that's dumb so this meant some victims.

00:52:01.931 --> 00:52:09.117
Reputations weren't officially cleared until much later, in some cases not until the 20th century that's crazy wow.

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Massachusetts issued additional acts of exoneration in 1957 and 2001 oh, jesus, okay, so not that long ago and the state cleared the last five names of the accused because they're, yeah, we kind of fucked that up.

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Mary Osgood was never fully exonerated by the law.

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That's bullshit, that sucks.

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That is the story of Mary Osgood.

00:52:34.458 --> 00:52:35.018
Very nice.

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The accused witch, who recanted her statement.

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Bride of Satan.

00:52:40.530 --> 00:52:42.177
But I would like to give you a fun fact.

00:52:42.510 --> 00:52:43.916
I would like to hear a fun fact.

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Yes, you know of Mark Twain, the author of Tom Sawyer.

00:52:47.538 --> 00:52:49.954
I do His name.

00:52:50.436 --> 00:52:51.197
Is not Mark Twain.

00:52:51.318 --> 00:52:54.818
No, his real name is Samuel Clemens.

00:52:55.139 --> 00:52:55.360
Yes.

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Mary Clemens Osgood.

00:52:59.539 --> 00:52:59.800
Yes.

00:53:00.411 --> 00:53:02.338
He is a direct descendant.

00:53:02.338 --> 00:53:15.061
That's wild so after I think one of mary's I think it was mary's brother's children eventually dropped the t and clements and became just clemens.

00:53:15.061 --> 00:53:18.733
Okay, so he is a great grand nephew.

00:53:18.733 --> 00:53:21.998
Wow of mary, that's wild yeah, that's kind of cool.

00:53:21.998 --> 00:53:23.061
Yeah, I thought so too.

00:53:23.081 --> 00:53:24.603
That's a neat little tidbit.

00:53:25.231 --> 00:53:28.916
A nice little tidbit, a neat little tidbit.

00:53:29.389 --> 00:53:31.914
Well, how did you enjoy your juicy?

00:53:32.215 --> 00:53:33.018
burst IPA.

00:53:33.018 --> 00:53:35.436
I really liked it and I want some more.

00:53:36.699 --> 00:53:37.521
We only have four of these.

00:53:37.521 --> 00:53:40.159
We have six of these.

00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:41.572
I'm having another.

00:53:41.572 --> 00:53:43.871
This was really fucking good.

00:53:43.952 --> 00:53:44.393
Good job.

00:53:44.393 --> 00:53:46.501
Bottle Rocket Brewing Company of Seward Nebraska.

00:53:46.630 --> 00:53:50.942
And thanks to your parents for hooking this up, because this was delicious it was.

00:53:50.942 --> 00:53:54.496
I really enjoyed this one, so I'm glad we have a couple more that.

00:53:54.617 --> 00:53:55.561
I can partake in.

00:53:55.561 --> 00:54:01.503
My brother, who was also here over that weekend, brought down some beers from Canada.

00:54:01.503 --> 00:54:02.672
They did not survive.

00:54:03.976 --> 00:54:04.378
What do you mean?

00:54:04.697 --> 00:54:05.179
I drank them.

00:54:05.179 --> 00:54:09.097
Oh, I wasn't the only one that partook.

00:54:09.097 --> 00:54:10.375
I think I only had one.

00:54:10.375 --> 00:54:14.612
I think he had maybe four beers, oh, and some of us had some.

00:54:14.612 --> 00:54:16.614
Sorry, bradley.

00:54:18.376 --> 00:54:22.242
Welp, I suppose.

00:54:22.242 --> 00:54:25.492
I suppose All right, buffoons.

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