Episode 147 of Inciting A Riot brings back friend of the show Cory Hutcheson of New World Witchery for a look back at the social and folkloric history of pandemics. (Hey...you guys asked for this episode. I think the topic is kind of bleak, too, but... ??‍♂️) Our topics ranged from some that were actual medical pandemics to others that were more of a social plague to get a good feel for how society has reacted to widespread panic in the past.
 
We looked at the Black Plague, Salem, the Satanic Panic, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and the H1N1 epidemics of yore. 
 
My thanks to Cory Hutcheson. Please go support him at New World Witchery!
 
Some sources for further reading:
 
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/black-death
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2764425?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-bright-side-of-the-black-death
https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/humanities/sociology/the-black-death-turning-point-and-end-of-the-middle-ages/
https://daily.jstor.org/caused-salem-witch-trials/
https://blog.oup.com/2016/11/salem-witch-trials-significance/
https://www.vox.com/2016/10/30/13413864/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-explained
https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-satanic-panic-in-the-1980s-1679476373
https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/04/09/alexandre-white-how-pandemics-shape-society/
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-soc-071312-145621#_i4
 

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