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Odd Anthropology

Odd Anthropology

By: Ivy Boyd and Taisha Koster
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 Taisha Koster (BA in anthropology) and Ivy Boyd (anthropology student) bring you fascinating stories of the stranger side of humanity. New episode every month. World
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  • 11: What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?

    11: What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
    Oct 6 2025
    IT'S THE BEST MONTH OF THE YEEEAAR! Let's celebrate with a subject most befitting: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Specifically, host Ivy talks about what events actually led to this deadly event. Was it all a land grab? Misogyny? Ergot poisoning? Let's find out!

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    Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay

    Resources used for this episode:

    Bolitho, Riley. The New England Puritans: History, Social Order, and Gender, Perspektywy Kultury, 2021;34(3):59-72

    Linder, Douglas O. The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: An Account, UMKC School of Law, famous-trials.com/salem/2078-sal-acct. Accessed 29 June 2025.

    Parker, Geoffrey. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, “The Little Ice Age”, 1st ed. 2013 Yale University Press

    Schiff, S. (2015) The Witches: Salem 1692, New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2015
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    47 mins
  • 10: Lilias Adie

    10: Lilias Adie
    Sep 2 2025
    Happy September! Or shall we say, “Cemtember”. This month, Taisha eases us further into spooky season with a story involving some of our favorite topics: Scotland, witches, archaeology, a grave, and a missing skull… Can we solve the mystery? Probably not. But Scotland, please hire us to at least give it a try!

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    Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay

    Resources used for this episode:

    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41928/41928-h/41928-h.htm
    https://fifecoastandcountrysidetrust.co.uk/witches-trail/
    https://www.differentia.co.uk/news/2020/10/2/fife-witches-trail
    https://engole.info/lilias-adie-witch/
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wanted-missing-bones-scottish-witch-180973033/
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-41775398
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29689688
    https://witches.hca.ed.ac.uk/faq/
    https://www.britannica.com/place/Fife-council-area-Scotland
    https://www.thenational.scot/news/17859215.bid-find-missing-bones-scottish-witch-feared-rise-dead/
    https://museumblog.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/09/15/witchcraft-and-mystery-or-the-object-that-never-was-in-our-collection/
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/A0457F3E3512CC1B3B342D118B9CE53E/S0009640700109655a.pdf/the-scottish-witchcraft-act.pdf
    Witches of Scotland Podcast – Episodes 21, 22, & 23
    Mill Dust and Dreaming Bread – Scott Richardson-Read
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    44 mins
  • 9: The Paris Catacombs Pt. 2 (The ghosts!)

    9: The Paris Catacombs Pt. 2 (The ghosts!)
    Aug 19 2025
    We are excited to announce our new collaboration with Bath & Body Works, featuring the highly anticipated Corpse Wax line! (Just kidding though, don't get mad Bath & Body Works!) Today, Ivy wraps up her two-part series on the Paris Catacombs with some of its most famous ghostly tales.

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    Email: oddanthropology@gmail.com

    Music by Joel Fazhari from Pixabay

    Resources used for this episode:

    The Unexplained The Haunted Catacombs of France for Medium
    https://medium.com/@TheUnexplained/the-haunted-catacombs-of-france-2ca1c5228169

    Leyla Alyanak 9 Eminently Haunted Places in Paris for Off Beat France
    https://www.offbeatfrance.com/most-haunted-places-in-paris.html
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    29 mins
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