Episode two is here, and we’re going to Salem, Massachusetts. Specifically, to a three-story Greek Revival house on Summer Street with a curved staircase, a pink living room, and a maid named Sarah who never quite left.
But first: Sabrina the Teenage Witch, a Florida home for unwed mothers, a book called How to Be a Groovy Witch, and why the witch has always hit differently for girls in that particular window of being twelve.
Then some actual history. How a city determined to leave its sordid history in the past ironically became the Witch City. How the pagans arrived in the early seventies and the economics sorted out the moral question very quickly. How a living spiritual community built something real on Essex Street, long before the ghost tours and the skull-shaped whoopie pies.
