Outcasts of the Earth
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<p>This podcast explores the stories of history's outcasts from antiquity to the present day. With seasons built around a different topic, each episode aims to centre the often nameless and faceless individuals who were made to live on the fringe of society. Hosted by a trained historian, Kenyon Payne.</p><br><p>The second season of the show discusses one of the great outcasts of the past: the witch. In every episode, released every other week, Kenyon shares the story of a different person who experienced the pain of being accused of witchcraft firsthand, while also exploring the broader history of witchcraft during the early modern era.</p><br><p>Visit the Outcasts of the Earth website at: <a href="www.ootepod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.ootepod.com</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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May 17, 2026
Season Conclusions: Ending the Hunts
<p>Join Kenyon in this concluding episode for season two. This episode covers some examples of trials that continued into the eighteenth century, the end of the early modern witch hunts, as well as the legacies of this history today. Kenyon also briefly discusses how modern practitioners are again looking back to the ancient roots of magic, as well as parts of the world where witch hunts continue to occur. Thank you to all for tuning in to listen to this second season! The show will be back after a break for the summer. </p><br><p>Cheers!</p><br><p><strong>Visit the Outcasts of the Earth website at:</strong><a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/67f46be447643545ed866a50/shows/67f46d73f20dfdb29b4db4d6/episodes/www.ootepod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> www.ootepod.com</strong></a></p><p><strong>Outcasts of the Earth on Instagram: @ootepod</strong></p><br><p>Written and recorded by: Kenyon Payne</p><p>Theme music: "Southern Gothic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</p><p>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License</p><p>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</p><p>Outro music: “D´vil,” anrocomposer</p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
May 4, 2026
Salem Divided
<p>In this episode, Kenyon covers the complicated and deeply entrenched history of the Salem Witch Trials. This is part two of a two-part episode on this topic; if you have not listened to episode one ("Tituba's Confession"), please check it out! More of this episode will make sense.</p><br><p>Picking up the story with the downward spiral that followed Tituba's confession to witchcraft, the community across Salem began to pull itself apart, suspecting neighbors and other church members of being a witch. This episode covers the backstory to family conflicts, how the Putnams became so central to the witch trials, and the repercussions followed after the trials came to an end.</p><br><p>Next week is the final episode of season two. To vote on season three's topic, please head over to the show's Instagram page @ootepod!</p><br><p><strong>Visit the Outcasts of the Earth website at:</strong><a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/67f46be447643545ed866a50/shows/67f46d73f20dfdb29b4db4d6/episodes/www.ootepod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> www.ootepod.com</strong></a></p><p><strong>Outcasts of the Earth on Instagram: @ootepod</strong></p><br><p><strong>Sources:</strong></p><br><p><a href="https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n94.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SWP No. 094: Rebecca Nurse Executed July 19, 1692</a></p><br><p><a href="https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n22.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SWP No. 022: George Burroughs Executed, August 19, 1692</a></p><br><p><a href="https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n69.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SWP No. 069: Abigail Hobbs</a></p><br><p>Cotton Mather, The Trial of Susannah Martin, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 29, 1692.</p><p>—</p><br><p>Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1976)</p><br><p>Rebecca Brooks, <a href="https://historyofmassachusetts.org/ann-putnam-jr/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Ann Putnam, Jr: Villain or Victim?”</a> History of Massachusetts Blog (July 6, 2015). </p><br><p>Rebecca Brooks, <a href="https://historyofmassachusetts.org/betty-parris-first-afflicted-girl-of-the-salem-witch-trials/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Betty Parris: First Afflicted Girl of the Salem Witch Trials,”</a> History of Massachusetts Blog (June 10, 2013).</p><br><p>Marc Callis, “The Aftermath of the Salem Witch Trials in Colonial America” Historical Journal of Massachusetts Volume 33, No. 2 (Summer 2005).</p><br><p>Richard Francis, Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience (2016). </p><br><p><br></p><p>Carol Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft In Colonial New England (1998).</p><br><p>Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2003).</p><br><p>Jenni Tyler, <a href="https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/blogs/news/on-this-day-in-1692-the-final-day-of-salems-witch-trial-horror?srsltid=AfmBOoolo2sUOfTo8Zlq44SW6Rkmmb3hpRL3gUYHuHr4XddFT8F4SgAT" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“On this day in 1692: The Final Day of Salem's Witch Trial Horror,”</a> Arcadia Publishing, Sept. 22, 2025. </p><br><p><br></p><br><p><u>Written and recorded by</u>: Kenyon Payne</p><p><u>Theme music</u>: "Southern Gothic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</p><p>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License</p><p>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</p><p><u>Outro music</u>: “D´vil,” anrocomposer</p><br><p><br></p><p><u>Additional featured music</u>:</p><p>“Historias,” anrocomposer</p><p>“Piano & cello Beautiful Poetic Music,” Denis Pavlov Music</p><p>“Black Powder,” Shadows and Echoes</p><p>“Around Every Corner,” Dream Protocol</p><p>“Horror,” Litesaturation</p><p>“Tragedy and Grief,” Ashot Danielyan</p><p>“The Moon Got Tangled in the Branches," Lexin Music</p><p>“Gothic & Horror,” Pianocafe_Kumi</p><p>“Forgotten Waltz,” Grand Project</p><br><p>By Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com)</p><p>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License</p><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>:</p><br><p>“Gymnopedie No 3”</p><p>“Virtutes Instrumenti”</p><p>“Magic Escape Room”</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 17, 2026
When the Witches Came to Salem: Tituba's Confession
<p>In this episode, we take on the history of one of the most infamous witch hunts in popular memory; it is also the largest witch panic in American history. The research, analysis, and discussion of the Salem Witch Trials continues to attract widespread attention and fascination (with thanks to Arthur Miller). In this first episode of a two-part discussion of the Salem Witch Trials, we focus on the contextual background to the panic that began in 1692. Years of warfare, including King Philip's War and King William's War, plus the loss of Massachusetts' colonial charter hit the Puritan community of Salem hard. Then, in 1689, Salem Village gain their new minister, Samuel Parris, who brought with him an enslaved woman named Tituba, whose eventual confession to witchcraft sent the entire region into a destructive spiral. </p><br><p><strong>Visit the Outcasts of the Earth website at:</strong><a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/67f46be447643545ed866a50/shows/67f46d73f20dfdb29b4db4d6/episodes/www.ootepod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> www.ootepod.com</strong></a></p><p><strong>Outcasts of the Earth on Instagram: @ootepod</strong></p><br><p><strong>Sources:</strong></p><br><p><a href="https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n13.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SWP No. 013: Bridget Bishop Executed, June 10, 1692</a>.</p><br><p><a href="https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n125.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SWP No. 125: Tituba</a>.</p><br><p>Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953. </p><br><p>Edmund Randolph, “King Philip’s War,” 1675; available through the Digital History archive. </p><br><p>—</p><br><p>Carol Berkin, et al, Making America, Volume 1 To 1877, Cengage Learning, 2012.</p><br><p>Jess Blumberg, “A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials,” Smithsonian Magazine (October 24, 2022). </p><br><p>Elaine G. Breslaw, Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (NYU Press, 1995). </p><br><p>Elaine G. Breslaw, “Tituba's Confession: The Multicultural Dimensions of the 1692 Salem Witch-Hunt,” Ethnohistory 44:3 (Summer 1997). </p><br><p><br></p><p>Douglas O. Linder, “Bridget Bishop,” Famous Trials (1995). </p><br><p>Rachel McShane, Ph.D., “TAMUC History Professor Busts Myths About The Salem Witch Trials,” East Texas A&M Today (October 24, 2023). </p><br><p>Mike Messina, “America’s Most Devastating Conflict: King Philip’s War,” Your Public Media (August 12, 2014). </p><br><p>Marilynne K. Roach, Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials (Da Capo Press, 2013). </p><br><p><br></p><p>Written and recorded by: Kenyon Payne</p><p>Theme music: "Southern Gothic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</p><p>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License</p><p>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</p><p>Outro music: “D´vil,” anrocomposer</p><br><p>Opening clip from The Crucible (1996), produced by David V. Picker Productions and distributed by 20th Century Fox. </p><br><p>Additional featured music</p><br><p>“Dark Lullaby,” ShadowsAndEchoes</p><p>“Devotional Disorder,” Vincent-Santamaria</p><p>“Dark Piano,” BrunoMagic</p><p>“Dark Story,” Joel Fazhari</p><p>“Soul of Classic,” Monument_Music</p><br><p>By Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com)</p><p>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License</p><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>:</p><br><p>“Clash Defiant”</p><p>“Mourning Song”</p><p>“Lightless Dawn”</p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is Outcasts of the Earth?
<p>This podcast explores the stories of history's outcasts from antiquity to the present day. With seasons built around a different topic, each episode aims to centre the often nameless and faceless individuals who were made to live on the fringe of society. Hosted by a trained historian, Kenyon Payne.</p><br><p>The second season of the show discusses one of the great outcasts of the past: the witch. In every episode, released every other week, Kenyon shares the story of a different person who experienced the pain of being accused of witchcraft firsthand, while also exploring the broader history of witchcraft during the early modern era.</p><br><p>Visit the Outcasts of the Earth website at: <a href="www.ootepod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.ootepod.com</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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