140. WITCH: Kentucky’s Leah Smock

Today, learn all about Leah Smock, who had the misfortune of being beautiful AND intelligent AND female in the 1800s. Her death is the only recorded instance of an accused witch being burned alive in the United States.

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Sources:

https://weirdmeadecounty.com/the-battletown-witch/

http://media.iadsnetwork.com/edition/2018/2035/135500/d0591f3e-40f1-44ad-b580-0cda0bc97c28.pdf

https://visitmeadecounty.org/haunted-meade-county/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20830722/leah-smock

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