Shuffleboard: Nowadays, we may think of shuffleboard as a sport reserved for grandpas, but it has a rebellious, witchy history (plus it offers a pretty good shoulder workout). According to one of her descendants, Bridget Bishop, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, was an outspoken woman who spent a lot of time hanging out with sailors in her tavern. As if that weren’t bad enough, she had the audacity “to entertain people in her house at unseasonable hours in the night to keep drinking and playing at shuffleboard, whereby discord did arise in other families, and young people
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