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Glenn Beck

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The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

It's a frigid, bleak January day, 1692.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

Slate sky, sharp wind rattling the bare trees in the sleepy Puritan town of Salem Village, Massachusetts.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

Two girls, nine-year-old Betty Parris and her 11-year-old cousin, Abigail Williams, huddled together in the dim glow of a candle.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

They're just playing a game, something silly but secret.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

a fortune-telling game involving an egg dropped in a glass of water.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

You're supposed to watch the way the ghostly shapes form, how the egg white curls in the glass, and catch a glimpse of your future.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

Maybe great riches, maybe adventure, maybe a tall, handsome husband.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

It's a boredom-busting activity that would certainly be forbidden by Betty's father, the Reverend Samuel Parris.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

If he knew that they were doing it, that is.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

But when Betty and Abigail peer into their glass, they don't see husbands or homes or happy futures.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

They see a coffin.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

Then something goes wrong.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

Horribly, horribly wrong.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

The girls begin barking like dogs.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

They shriek without warning, speaking strange, unintelligible words.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

They clutch their heads in agony, convulsing, writhing on the floor, and curl themselves under the furniture as though trying to escape invisible claws.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

The town doctor, William Griggs, is quickly summoned.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

He examines them, his face growing more and more pale.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

He can't detect the obvious physical cause, and so he provides the only diagnosis a Puritan village would accept in New England in the late 1600s.

The Glenn Beck Program
Spiritual Firestorm: How the First Great Awakening Rewired America | The American Story | Ep 3

The girls have been bewitched.

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