Episode 1 - Tituba's Journey

https://www.patreon.com/Witch_Hunt This is the story of an Arawak woman called Tituba: how she was kidnapped by the English from South America when she was just a young girl and enslaved. Growing up on a plantation in Barbados, she absorbed multiple cultural influences from her fellow enslaved Africans and her English mistress. Her inner world becomes a confluence of Arawak, West African, and English myths and magic. We follow her as she is taken by a frustrated and angry young Puritan man named Samuel Parris to a new life in Massachusetts. They arrive first in Boston and then move to Salem Village, a small frontier community infested with jealousy and rivalry, and haunted by fear and suspicion. All music written by Brian O'Connell except "Old Oxford Tune (Psalm 4)" adapted from the Bay Psalm Book, 1698. Episode 1 Parts: Part I - Witch Hunt Theme Part II - Oxford Tune Part III - Captured and Enslaved Part IV - The Cunning Tradition Part V - Parris, Boston, and Salem Part VI - Witch Hunt Theme (reprise) Variation on the Oxford Tune (Music adapted from The Bay Psalm Book, published in Boston in 1698) Do you know of the coming storm? The people gone astray Their sins break free Satan from his chains Stars fall, moon turns to blood Fear, greed, and gossip rule the day Old rivalries reborn Blame cast upon thy neighbor’s home The Beast is free to roam Brian O'Connell - voice, bass guitar, fretless bass, touch guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, sintir, percussion Mike Harmon - drums, cymbals, percussion Recorded at Studio Vinniechops and Wachusett Recording https://www.patreon.com/Witch_Hunt History Book Sources "Tituba - Reluctant Witch of Salem - Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies" by Elaine G. Breslaw, New York University Press, 1996 "The Devil's Dominion - Magic and Religion in Early New England" by Richard Godbeer, Cambridge University Press, 1992                     Support the show