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PotLuck Saturday: Salem Witches, Stingy Jack & Halloween Through the Decades
Happy Pot Luck Halloween Saturday! Salem witches, overturned outhouses, and razor blades in apples. We talk Salem in the early ’90s, Wiccans, warlocks, haunted houses, and a Fenway Park character named Bugsy who claimed to have become a vampire. We go back to Halloween’s Irish and Scottish roots, All Saints Day, carving turnips instead of pumpkins, and the legend of Stingy Jack, who managed to get himself banned from both heaven and hell. We travel through the decades, from apple-peeling courtship games and outhouse tipping to the trick-or-treating boom of the ’50s and ’60s. We talk the…
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