Salem on the Olympic Peninsula: Spectral Evidence in the Witch-Trial of Julie Jaman

Performative trauma, misogyny, and history

During the Salem witchcraft trials, performative trauma got so out of hand that clerks struggled to understand the spectral testimony they were recording

Matthew Hopkins saw demons. His very first affidavit against Elizabeth Clarke attests that she summoned her “imps,” which then appeared one after another as spectral figures of two dogs, a polecat, and …