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Mary Eastey was referred to as a witch in the 2013 horror movie The Conjuring, as was her supposed relative, Bathsheba, who possessed those who lived on her land. Mary Eastey was mentioned to be a witch in Season 1 Episode 2 of the TV series Charmed. In the 1985 PBS drama Three Sovereigns for Sarah she was played by Kim Hunter.
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).
About eighty people were accused of practicing witchcraft in a witch-hunt that lasted throughout New England from 1647 to 1663. Thirteen women and two men were executed. [ 4 ] The Salem witch trials followed in 1692–93, culminating in the executions of 20 people.
In the late 1700s, an unnamed woman known as the "Witch of Esperance," near Cobleskill, was a French woman residing in the town after her husband's death. [24] She was accused of witchcraft by local residents and blamed for causing failed crops and livestock deaths.
[25] [26] The Parsons family held a trial in which Betty was accused of "bad language striking" Mary’s grandson, in telling the boy that his grandmother was a witch and his mother was "half a witch.” [27] [28] Betty was sentenced to public lashes. “We find her very culpable for her base tongue and words as aforesaid,” the court record says.
John Hathorne (August 1641 – May 10, 1717) was a merchant and magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Salem, Massachusetts.He is best known for his early and vocal role as one of the leading judges in the Salem witch trials.
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Rebecca Nurse (née Towne; February 13, 1621 – July 19, 1692) was a woman who was accused of witchcraft and executed by hanging in New England during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was fully exonerated fewer than twenty years later. She was the wife of Francis Nurse, and had several children.