Goodwives & the Gallows

Between 1642 and 1693, at least 40 people in the colony of Connecticut were tried as witches, and at least 10 of them were hanged. Most of them were women.

Who were these women? How did they come to be accused of witchcraft? What was life like for them? Did they truly practice witchcraft? Who were their accusers, and why. How and why did the accusing of witches finally end…or has it?

Many records are lost or non-existent, but we can learn enough to begin to understand what life was like back then, and why witchcraft was such an all encompassing subject.  Travel back to the 17th century and hear what 5 women accused of witchcraft have to say. Actresses Debra Walsh and Virginia Wolf bring them to life, fully costumed, fully incensed, fully frightened.  Painstakingly researched, “ Goodwives and the Gallows: Tales from the Connecticut Witchcraft Panics” sheds light on the puritan society that condemned so-called witches to their death thirty years before the hysterics of Salem, MA