Part One of this series focused on early 17th-century English witches and the “Ripped from the Headlines” play, The Late Lancashire Witches. In this episode, we fly across the ocean to the Americas. Matt, Monica, and Jenny – along with special guest and practicing Witch, Cassie Gibbs (also our amazing History Department Academic Coordinator) – discuss how ideas about witches were constructed by religious institutions and thinkers, and how that landed in the Americas from the colonial period to the present. We critically interrogate the binaries that are so bound up in ideas about witches: “science” vs. “magic;” “good” vs. “bad;” “healer” vs. one who “harms;” “curandera” vs. "bruja.” Especially, we question how gender and race operate in all of this witchy history. We had a blast recording this episode and hope you enj ...