According to local historical researcher Marilynne K. Roach’s 2002 book, “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege,” some of the afflicted girls claimed that ...

Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...

The history of the Salem witch trials is well-known to individuals with a solid grasp of colonial-era history. (At least, it is to me. Having grown up about 35 miles from Salem, I read about the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen ...

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According to local historical researcher Marilynne K. Roach's 2002 book, "The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege," some of the afflicted girls claimed that a man ...

(THE CONVERSATION) I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...