There were no real witches in salem.
Bridget Bishop
Stakes through the heart is how to kill VAMPIRES not witches, so no.
Witches could kill people, as well as livestock, which were very hard to replace in rural Massachusetts, making them very valuable. A witch could change the weather to ruin crops or sink ships. And farming and shipping were the life's blood of Salem.
To kill witches in the early days. Often belived in by pilgrims and coloneal woman.
Salem, Massachusetts.
No. None of the victims of Salem were witches, so none would float. And the floating test was not used in Salem.
they where basically people accusing other people of being witches
People who were pagans, wiccans or did witchcraft went underground, and that's why now days you come across people who don't even know what paganism or wicca is and also believe witches and witchcraft is not real. Whereas paganism was there in the VERY beginning so then shouldn't it be more out there? it isn't because of the burning times. Although now Salem is a place where a lot of wiccans, witches and pagans live, they've made it their home, since the burning times died out and more open minded, reasonable people came around.
19 people were executed
In Salem, none of the witches were burnt. Most of them were hung and two were crushed under stones. That is not true. over 150 people in Salem were convicted of witchcraft and almost all of them died. Many of them were burned, drowne or even stoned by the villagers.
Most witches where hanged others imprisoned for life
in salem and in 1692