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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men).
This is a list of people associated with the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between March 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were women.
April 30: Several girls accuse former Salem minister George Burroughs of witchcraft. May 2: Hathorne and Corwin examine Sarah Morey, Lyndia Dustin, Susannah Martin and Dorcas Hoar. May 4: George Burroughs is arrested in Maine and sent back to Salem three days later and subsequently jailed.
Mass hysteria and bloodbaths have left a stain on Salem, Massachusetts. Now, over three centuries later, the ramifications of the Salem Witch Trials can still be felt on the banks of Massachusetts ...
With the release of "Hocus Pocus 2," Salem is having a moment again, but its history is often misunderstood. The 3 Biggest Myths About the Salem Witch Trials Skip to main content
Memorial Stone for Sarah Good at Salem. Sarah Good (née Solart; July 21 [O.S. July 11], 1653 – July 29 [O.S. July 19], 1692) [Note 1] was one of the first three women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials, which occurred in 1692 in colonial Massachusetts.
The Devil Hath Been Raised: A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692; Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692: John Proctor—University of Missouri-Kansas City; Upham, Charles W. Salem Witchcraft; With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects
In the years since the witch trials, the unfairly-accused have been exonerated and, in 1957, Massachusetts issued a formal apology for the trials, stating that the proceedings were "shocking" and ...