They lasted for a pretty long time but I'm not sure exactly. I do know that alot of innocent people were killed and it was very horrible.
The last of the Salem Witch trials ended in may 1693
The trials lasted a year and four months.
The last trial was in may of 1693.
The accused in Salem were not subjected to European-style witch tests. That includes dunking.
They lasted almost a year, not six months.
Mary Phips, the wife of the governor.
The legal proceedings in the Salem witch panic last from March 1, 1692 to October 8, 1692. The actual trials began on June 2, 1692 and ended October 8.
The trials themselves lasted 9 months. The hysteria last 16 months.
The last Salem witch trial was in may of 1693. The last witch trial was in Germany in the earky 1800s.
They lasted for a pretty long time but I'm not sure exactly. I do know that alot of innocent people were killed and it was very horrible.
The last trial for witchcraft was in England in 1734. A trial that is considered the last took place in 1878 in Essex County, Massachusetts, like the Salem Trials. A Christian Scientist claimed someone had hurt him using "mesmeric" power. It was not really a witch trial, but some consider it to be.
The Christian Religion is the most infamous of the Witch Hunters, there certainly were others as well, but Christians were still burning women, children, and men, as few as a couple hundred years ago, and many Christian Zealots, who have murdered their own Children in the last few years, used such excuses as, the children were possessed by this or that, and Jesus told me to Kill them. Of Course if you're looking for the Main Sect Responsible, you must look to the Catholic Church.