The Forgotten South Carolina Witch Trials S01 E10

Philip Edward Pearson’s unpublished manuscript, The History of Fairfield District, South Carolina, which includes a section titled Superstition, Apparitions, Witchcraft, State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Keowee Courier, Pickens, SC, Saturday, July 30, 1859, Page 2, “Witchcraft in the Nineteenth Century”

Yorkville Enquirer, York, SC, Thursday, February 03, 1870, Page 1, “A Witch Story” and “Mosie Gabbie of York”

The State, Columbia, SC, Sunday, March 3, 1957, Page 31, “Witch Trial”

Columbia Record, SC, Saturday, December 6, 1969, Pages 9–10, “Salem? Heck, There Were Witches In Fairfield County, They Claim” by Eric Pearson

Greenville News, SC, Friday, September 24, 1971, Page 10, “Witchcraft Trial Reveals Strange Legal Case” by Mike Bowen

Dayton Daily News, OH, Friday, October 30, 2015, “Four women were tried as witches 100 years after Salem” by Amy Trainum.

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 45, №6, November/December 2021, “The Devil Went Down to South Carolina? A Secret History of Witchcraft in Fairfield County” by Kirk Mishrell

Smith, Brandon; Wimberly, Bobbie Jo; and McDonald, Courtney (2021) “Barbara Powers: Witch or Myth? The Last Case of Witchcraft in South Carolina,” University of South Carolina Upstate Student Research Journal: Vol. 14, Article 5.

The Fairfield County Witch Persecution of 1792 by Pelham Lyles

Mary Ingleman Oct 2022 by Pelham Lyles

Wikipedia: Salem Witch Trials

Wikipedia: Witch trials in Connecticut

Ergot: The Psychoactive Fungus That Changed History (US Forest Service)

History Channel: 7 Mysterious Mass Illnesses That Defied Explanation by Jessica Pearce Rotondi

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