OUR CONNECTION:
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Alison Holman discovered her ancestral connection to these events while researching her family history. What began as a personal journey soon revealed itself as something much larger -- a call to honor the women whose voices were threatened, whose truth was challenged, and whose story refused to disappear.
The Wise Women brings that story to life -- not as tragedy, but as testimony. A story of resilience, sisterhood, and truth carried forward.
REAL WOMEN. REAL COURAGE. REAL LEGACY.
The Wise Women is inspired by the true story of the Holman family -- accused of witchcraft in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the late 1650s, decades before the hysteria that would later grip Salem.
Their story stands as an early warning -- a glimpse of fear taking hold, and of truth standing its ground.
What makes their story remarkable is this: none of them lost their lives.
"They stood together. They told the truth. They walked free. And they changed everything."
In the late 1650s, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, members of the Holman family and their community were accused of witchcraft in one of the earliest known cases of such fear-driven suspicion in colonial New England.
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Though the accusations were serious and the pressure to confess was real, they did not break. They stood together. They held to the truth. And ultimately -- they walked free.
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Their story did not end in tragedy -- and that is what makes it extraordinary.
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A CHILLING PRECURSOR​
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Their story did not fade with time. It lingered -- whispered through generations, carried in myth and imagination.
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In ways both seen and unseen, their legacy helped shape one of the most beloved Halloween stories ever told - their spirit living on, hidden in plain sight...until now.