Word: weather
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...University President Lawrence H. Summers, unbeknownst to Oster, mentioned her witch-weather theory in his Commencement speech...
...When economic times are bad, people look for someone to blame,” Oster explained. “The fact that there were more trials during worse weather means that witches were a scapegoat...
Oster’s theory was the result of months of research on temperature patterns and witch trial chronology. Oster said she first grew interested in witches and weather from a course she took as an undergraduate at Harvard...
...until later in her college career that she made a link between the trials and weather patterns...
...totally fascinated with all of that stuff,” she said. “The fact that I connected witchcraft to weather was only because I happened to be, at that time, reading for pleasure about the little...