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SALEM EPISODE 2: How events spiralled out of control

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The Mystery of Salem

The urine baked witch cake seemingly worked its magic when the girls did indeed identify three witches living among salem's unsuspecting villages. With tension of fever, pitch strange behaviours began to spread beyond the parsonage. Before long, elizabeth hubbard, the teen age great niece of the visiting physician griggs, and the 12 year old anne putnam were also claiming to be bewitched. And i should say that part of the mystery of salem is that the community gossip doesn't, it doesn't leave, i any indelible trace. So we're not privy to what actually is motivating a lot of these accusations and aA lot of these grievances among the villagers.

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