Interview with Stacy Schiff on her book, "The Witches: Salem, 1692"

MPR News' Kerri Miller talks with historian Stacy Schiff, author of "The Witches: Salem, 1692," about her book, and the themes that are relevant today on November 10, 2015 at The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.

[@marynarkiewicz9794]

Fascinating. I'm reading this book right now.. Thanks, Stacy Schiff!

[@zazuzazz5419]

Absolutely fascinating! We know it’s about CONTROL. It always is.

[@bretcantwell4921]

I'm descended from or closely related to over 60 people associated with the hysteria including 3 great-grandmothers, 2 great-gravdaunts and an aunt and uncle by marriage who were executed.

[@robertmueller2023]

MacBeth starring my Scottish ancestor King Duncan, descendant of the great St. Columba of Iona, who allegedly had fantastic witchlike talents.

[@robertmueller2023]

Soothsaying? The nature of our holographic world, including books (St. Columba's favored crystal ball). Psychokinesis? Possibly achieved through hyper-awareness, based on the quantum wavefunction.

[@markkavanagh7377]

5:00 I am reading the book at the moment and it's parallells with Woke hysteria are frightening. From page 71; ''To deny witchcraft was to deny religion, a small step from a more provocative assertion: to deny witchcraft was to advocate it.''

[@bretcantwell4921]

Woke hysteria? 🙄