Unlike most European witch hunts, the Salem panic did not convict the stereotypical witch evey time. In Europe, witch hunts began when someone died unexpectedaly or something close to that happened and a person who fit the traditional view of a witch was blamed and executed. In Salem, the girls called out on people that cannot all be connected by one trait.
The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem Massachusettes, in what is now the USA.
The Salem witchcraft trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. 140 were accused, 20 were killed.
The Salem Witch Trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts.
The Salem witch trials is not a movie you idiot. They were a series of witchcraft trials that were caused by a witch hysteria in Essex County, Massachusetts, centering in Salem. Bridget Bishop owned an inn and was accused during the hysteria. She was the first to be tried and the first to be executed.
They begin in the winter of 1692 when girls in Salem begun having epilepsy-like fits that were attributed to witchcraft.
THE Salem Witch TrialS were a series of witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 that occured when unexplained affliction affected several girls and women, which was interepted as witchcraft in Puritan times.
There were no actual, practicing witches invovled, accused or otherwise existing in Salem during the witch trials.
The Salem Witch Trials took place in Salem Massachusettes, in what is now the USA.
The Salem witchcraft trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. 140 were accused, 20 were killed.
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The Salem Witch Trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts.
The Salem witch trials is not a movie you idiot. They were a series of witchcraft trials that were caused by a witch hysteria in Essex County, Massachusetts, centering in Salem. Bridget Bishop owned an inn and was accused during the hysteria. She was the first to be tried and the first to be executed.
This questions stems from an assumption that there was actual witchcraft during the Salem panic. No witchcraft was practiced in Salem in the seventeenth century. It is very difficult for something that didn't exist to change.
They begin in the winter of 1692 when girls in Salem begun having epilepsy-like fits that were attributed to witchcraft.
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. Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village (now Danvers), Ipswich, Andover and Salem Town.
ann rinaldi EDIT: The Salem Witch Trials is not an effin' book! They were a series of trials for witchcraft in 1692 Salem that condemned 19 innocent people. Ann Rinaldi has written fiction about the witch panic in Salem. Worthwhile books about the trials include: The Enemy Within by John Demos In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton Witch Hunt by Marc Aronson A Fever in Salem by Laurie Carlson.
The American town famous for the Witch Trials (called the Salem Witch Trials) is Salem, Massachusetts.