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SALEM EPISODE 5: Satanic sabbaths and supernatural sins

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The Devil in Salem

By 16 92, cent ries of witchcraft believs had been integrated into the christian mind set. Salem can sometimes be seen as a model of how a irrational set of beliefs leads to something horrific. Witchcraft is not weird at all. We shouldn't think that we are more rational than the people in salem because we didn't live their lives. Next episode, we'll be looking at the huge failings in salem's justice system and asking what made so many people confessed to being in league with the devil.

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