What's the history of (real) occultism in the US? Is it

>What's the history of (real) occultism in the US?
This kind of asking for a dissertation.

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>>18939832
dude we've been burning witches here since before the US was the US.

>>18939844
Salem witch trials =/= "real occultism"

Just some pilgrim niggers got too crazy. That's why they got sent across the ocean.

>>18939856
WE'RE STILL BURNING WITCHes?
WHERE
WHEN
I WANNA KNOW ABOUT THESE CRAZY FUCKS

Well, the native Americans had their traditions that were well integrated into society. Then they were stamped out by Puritan and Catholic whackjobs who are still fucking everything up to this day.

>>18939864
happens every day on this board, what are you talking about?

>>18939832
seeing as occult simply means study of things we can't measure (could say the mirror of science) and the puritans believed in angels, demons and witchery. natives had faiths involving supernatural, etc
then technically "The Occult" has been around... always

>>18939832

Occultism has been around as long as there have been people, but if you're talking about Western esotericism, probably as soon as the English and French arrived.

>>18939832
It was here when the colonists first landed.

>>18939858
>Salem witch trials =/= "real occultism"
I mean, we have done the historicity and have mapped the life of Tituba from the Carib islands as a girl to her death.

>>18939868
I'd be reluctant to call what the Amerinds were doing "occultism" unless we're talking about specifically complex societies, i.e. Mixtec, et al.

>>18939910
^^^
This.
People were hanged.
Treasure hunting was all the rage.
Syncretic occultists were being shipped to exile in South America and then wandering northward.