Episode 140 - Spellbound in the Southwest: The Witch Trials of Abiquiu with Rick Hendricks, PhD

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne are joined by Rick Hendricks, PhD to learn about a series of fascinating witch trials that took place not in New England, but in the border town Abiquiu, New Mexico beginning in 1756 and spanning over the course of ten years ending in 1766. Governor Tomás Vélez Cachupin had a plan to bring peace to the early settlers of New Mexico by granting land to the Genizaros, who ...